Summary

Guest C. Jason Clark, El Conquistador of VIA Studio, joins Ivan for a wide-ranging chat that includes talking about his love of mysteries in the world, the enigma of Banksy, his work with refugees in Kentucky, and his side gig dropping sweet jams DJ-ing.

Guest

C. Jason Clark of VIA Studio

Highlights

• What VIA means
• Electronic music doesn’t make money for Jason, but it feeds his creative juices
• Collecting art and the mystery of Banksy
• Jason’s “mild protest” work in Kentucky, and his company's work with refugees
• Have we gotten soft since WWII?

Links

• Pest Control (Banksy authentication company)
• Dismaland (a faux amusement park installation by Banksy)
• Kentucky Refugee Ministries
• Fund for the Arts (Louisville)

Summary

How many companies have you worked for that have gone to the trouble of figuring out your personal “love language” to be sure you’re getting appreciated in the manner most meaningful to YOU? We’re going to guess NONE. But one exists, and it’s called Parisleaf, a branding and design agency run by our delightful podcast guests Alison and Chad Paris. Alison and Chad discuss their guiding principles in running their agency, including the wonder that is G-RICE.

Guests

Alison and Chad Paris of  Parisleaf

Highlights

• The origin of Parisleaf name, and how they designed a process to give back to the environment for every order
• Their values acronym: G-RICE: gratitude, responsibility, integrity, candor and excellence. Also, there is no G-RICE police.
• How they try to find out each employee’s “love language” at the office, so they can give them gratitude in the way they can feel it best
• The challenges of being a couple running a company together

Links

• Parisleaf
• Built to Sell

Summary

Jeff Archibald, CEO of Paper Leaf, a specialized website and app agency, talks shop with Ivan about many agency owner issues, like how important it is to define your niche (without being too narrow), when to bring in the suits (middle management), and the False Hustle. 

Guest

Jeff Archibald of Paper Leaf

Highlights

• How important it is to get clear on your business niche (but not to get TOO niche-ed!)
• Another mention of having imposter syndrome! It really is a thing that everyone has!
• How Jeff is trying to make his role useless at Paper Leaf
• How it's important to install the "middle management layer" at a company to enable its growth

Links

• Owner Camp 
• The False Hustle, by Jeff Archibald
• "Your 60-Hour Workweek is Not a Badge of Honor"
• Lynn Winter talking about burnout in Episode 65

Summary

Lynn Winter, content strategist, digital project manager and founder of the recent Minneapolis Manage Digital conference, recaps this year's conference, gives us a peek behind the scenes of organizing a conference, tells us how meetup group formats are changing, and how to know if a Minnesota conference is a success (answer: it isn’t snowing).

Guest

Lynn Winter of Manage Digital

Highlights

• The challenge of making one PM conference work for everyone, if they're all in different career places
• How the effort in extending conferences uses the same math as having more kids, or why conferences are getting shorter
• PM burnout, and how it's not about lack of career advancement
• Why it's a sweet deal to be a sponsor at one of Lynn's conferences

Links

• Twin Cities Interactive Project Management Meetup
• American Swedish Institute (venue)
• DrupalCon 2020 in Minneapolis
• Sign up for the Manage Digital newsletter (don't worry, Lynn won't spam you!)

Summary

When Hans Bjordahl, CEO of Culture Foundry attended a talk on conscious capitalism at SXSW, little did he know it would make him question everything he’d been taught about doing business. Hans shares how this paradigm has shaped his career and his company.

Guest

Hans Bjordahl of Culture Foundry

Highlights

• A talk at SXSW about conscious capitalism made Hans realize everything he’d been taught about doing business was wrong, and how he used conscious capitalism tenets to structure his company, Culture Foundry
• Conscious capitalism must not be tacked on to a company; it must be baked into the leadership, planning and culture. But it’s risky!
• Culture is the universal binder, over design, tech and media. So much so that Culture Foundry seeks to know a company’s culture before they will even design a website for them.
• Culture Foundry’s attitude: “work” and “home” buckets are antiquated notions, and you shouldn’t have to ask permission from your employer to have a life

Links

• Culture Foundry
• Where the Buffalo Roam, the internet's first web comic
• Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey
• The four pillars of conscious capitalism

Summary

Carl Smith, passionate people connector and owner of Bureau of Digital, is our guest on Episode 63 of the TEN7 podcast. It's Carl's mission to keep brainstorming myriad opportunities for people to meet and help each other. If you haven't signed up for a Bureau of Digital event by the end of this podcast, we haven't done our job. 

Guest

Carl Smith of Bureau of Digital

Highlights

• How Owner Camp began
• How Carl leans on his community to get ideas for both what a new event should be and who can share info
• How his daughter prompted him to think about his life path
• How Carl went from Bureau of Digital attendee to owner

Links

• Bureau of Digital
• All Bureau of Digital Events
• Manage + Digital
• Summit CPA

Summary

Our frequent DrupalCamp attender and speaker, DevOps Tess Flynn, returns to the podcast to recap her recent experience at Flyover Camp, a brand new Drupal camp in Kansas City, Missouri.

Guest

Tess Flynn, DevOps Engineer at TEN7

Highlights

• The continuing diversity in camp talks (business, self-care, human focus tracks)
• Tess reviews both her talks (Return of the Clustering: Kubernetes for Drupal, and Health Check Your Site)
• How you should stretch your mind to prepare for all the rapid-fire information you get in the Kubernetes talk!
• Location, location, location is as important for conference talks as it is for real estate

Links

• "CloudWatch-ing" (Rhia Dixon)
• "Return of the Clustering Kubernetes for Drupal" (Tess Flynn)
• "Dr. Upal Is In - Healthcheck your Site” (Tess Flynn)
• FlyoverCamp

Summary

Our friend and colleague Eric Zakovich is our podcast guest this week. Eric and Ivan discuss his new venture, Long Run Leadership Consulting, share small business stories and nerd out over their shared love of Hamilton! 

Guest

Eric Zakovich, Founder of Long Run Leadership Consulting

Highlights

• What inspired Eric to start Long Run Leadership and the reasons he chose the name
• Short-term vs. long-term mindsets (and growth vs. fixed mindsets)
• How do you know when it’s time to hire people?
• The life-changing magic of Hamilton and how it relates to entrepreneurship (and to Eric starting his company)

Links

• Long Run Leadership Consulting
• Mindset by Carol Dweck
• Jason Fried of 37 Signals
• The Hamilton soundtrack

Summary

TEN7’s DevOps Tess Flynn aka @socketwench gives us her observations of the Drupaldelphia 2019 conference she recently attended, as well as a summary of her helpful session, “Return of the Clustering: Kubernetes for Drupal.”

Guest

Tess Flynn, TEN7 DevOps

Highlights

• Tess’s Trilogy of Talks
• Summary of Tess’s Kubernetes session
• How camps are not just about Drupal and not just about developers anymore
• Help desks at the conference - what a great idea!

Links

• Avoid Deep Hurting! Deployments beyond Git (Episode 2 of the Tess Trilogy)
• Return of the Clustering, Kubernetes for Drupal: slide deck
• Return of the Clustering, Kubernetes for Drupal: recording of the actual session at Drupaldelphia
• Kubernetes
• Docker Swarm