Recorded on 03/2020 in Frankfurt, Germany at Design Offices Frankfurt. Remoter met up with Nadine Soyez, founder of Virtual Team Heroes, who’s also a remote work consultant veteran. Virtual Team Heroes helps organizations manage their distributed teams, finding solutions to make digital collaborations successful. Simply being a remote work expert herself, she walks the talk and advises based on years of experience - listen to this episode to soak in some of that knowledge too.

Recorded on 03/2020 in Stuttgart, Germany at Tobias’s house. Tobias Günther, CEO of fournova, will be one of the stories that ‘goes against the grain.’ fournova is the company behind Tower, a Gitclient tool for developers all around the world. You have to listen further to find out what makes them ‘unconventional’ but being remote-first has allowed fournova to continually assess their needs AND decide to ‘go against the grain’ because that’s what they need to do their best work.

Recorded on 03/2020 in Stuttgart, Germany at STYG. Head of Product Maël Frize sat down with Remoter in Stuttgart, connecting with CEO Niklas Dorn in Strasbourg, France, to do a hybrid podcast. Filestage is a content review platform with a mission of fixing broken workflows that poison teams with miscommunication, friction, and frustration. Being remote-first for over 5 years has left them to not only witness the benefits but also address the present challenges that are less tangible; more so keeping the relationships healthy within a remote team.

Recorded on 03/2020 in Linz, Austria at Neue Werft. CTO Wolfgang Damm & HR Lead Tanja Weidinger of Fretello spent the day with Remoter at their coworking space Neue Werft. Fretello is an AI-based music education app empowering people to express themselves through music by learning to play guitar. Being a remote company has allowed them to retain their best talents and better integrate work with personal lives, flexing their schedules as they see fit - something that’s very important for those at the company with young families.

Recorded on 02/2020 in Amsterdam, Netherlands at Tribes Coworking. Joseph Vito DeLuca is the Marketing Executive at Kambr and the founder of Yellow Cat Five, Kambr’s upcoming in-house branding agency. Kambr is focused on lifting the airline model and creating harmony between traveling and the traveler. He welcomed Remoter into their coworking space and spoke to us one rainy February morning. Being a team lead in a remote company has taught Joe the importance of questioning the status quo and implementing changes in his workforce that he wants to see being normalized by the masses down the road, and the first step is by sharing his and Kambr’s story, mission and values.

Recorded on 02/2020 in Breda, Netherlands. Mandy’s home. Remoter visited Mandy, founder of Make the Leap Digital, and documented her story from the beginning (while eating stroopwafels). Make the Leap Digital helps companies worldwide with LinkedIn branding, marketing, and sales. She helps small business owners, freelancers and other solopreneurs create profit-driven businesses that allow them to work from anywhere.

Recorded on 02/2020 in London, UK at Launch22. Remoter caught up with Rebecca Males, Head of Content at coliving and coworking company Outsite. Outsite is also a remote-first company committed to providing value found within face-to-face connections and community building. Being remote has allowed Outsite to focus on opening more physical locations to serve their community members, making this part of the new normal and contributing towards shaping the future of work.

Recorded on 02/2020 in London, UK. Tyk’s offices. COO James Hirst sat down with Remoter to share his message for leaders embarking remote/distributed team management. Tyk is an API (application program interface) management platform. As an open-source gateway, Tyk’s proprietary piece of software allows people to manage the gateway easily and at scale. Being remote out of necessity since day 1 meant they had to build the company with a remote ethos from the get-go and have only been working towards improvements ever since.

Recorded (remotely!) on 02/20 between UK & Scotland, at Mainyard Studios (London) and Gary’s house (Glasgow). We had done this remotely (true to its nature), Remoter in the UK and founder of Ready for Remote Gary Walker in Scotland. Ready for Remote is an educational platform providing content and resources to help people, you guessed it, get ‘ready for remote.’ Stumbling and embracing remote work over the years has allowed Ready for Remote to grow while allowing Gary to better integrate his work with life as a parent of 2 young children.

Recorded on 02/2020 in London, UK at Second Home. Rob Minford, Head of Engineering at CyberSmart met up with Remoter at their coworking space Second Home London. CyberSmart is a SAAS-based, automated compliance product helping small to medium-sized businesses maintain compliance standards, currently with a focus within the UK. Being a remote-first team lead had also taught him to be cautious when talking about his experience; he makes sure to mention the hardships of working in a hybrid setting so it doesn’t get swept under the rug.