Remoter Podcast

Recorded on 02/2020 in London, UK at Frequency Coffee. Kate Nafisi, a product design consultant who works remotely, is this episode’s guest. Kate also runs Nafisi Studios, a wood workshop alongside her husband. Being a fluent remote team player, she’s here to share her anecdotes and do’s and don'ts when considering timezone etiquette for colleagues who aren’t physically beside you.

Recorded on 02/20 in Lisbon, Portugal at Time to Cowork Lisbon. Founder of Remote Work Movement and remote work consultant Goncalo Hall met up with Remoter at Time to Cowork Lisbon to re-cap the motivations behind his event Remote Shift, and the overall importance of physical events for remote workers. Remote Work Movement aims to help companies go remote. Goncalo’s drive for connecting people and building communities is very apparent and him being entrenched in all things remote definitely helps his position, learning on the go and pulling off big ideas.

Recorded on 01/2020 in Dublin, Ireland at Typetec’s offices. Director of Business Development Ken Tormey and Director of Finance and Operations Mark Fitzgerald sits down with Remoter at Typetec’s offices (which will be explained in this episode!) to talk about keeping up with the times. Typetec is a cloud solutions provider - they enable businesses to move to the cloud, take advantage of all of the economics, ergonomics, and everything else that goes with the cloud. Being remote-friendly has played a part in improving their staff retention and work-life integrations, and they continue to learn how to improve their remote work structure.

Recorded on 01/20 in Dublin, Ireland at Jonny’s house. CEO of meetingRoom Jonny Cosgrove invited Remoter to his house to talk about innovation management and his journey of working remotely. meetingRoom is a virtual space-as-a-service, using virtual reality tools to help distributed teams hold better, engaging meetings. Being a remote-first company has allowed for innovative ideas to take off, this one specifically addressing the life-long question of how to hold better virtual meetings.

Recorded on 01/20 in Galway, Ireland at Matteo’s home. Matteo Grassi, COO of Eli Z Group, invited Remoter into his home to chat about Eli Z’s growth as a company and his learnings as a leader managing globally distributed teams. Eli Z is an eCommerce accelerator helping small businesses scale up with the help of AI solutions. Leading a remote-first company has helped him understand the benefits of today’s interconnected societies and networks to get things done.

Recorded on 01/20 in Galway, Ireland, at Portershed. Founder of Operate Remote Shauna Moran was a really accommodating companion when Remoter first arrived in Galway. Operate Remote offers consultancy and coaching practices, helping remote/distributed teams with engagement, performance, communication, and overall effectiveness with emotional intelligence and her background on psychology. Being a remote worker herself, she’s lived, researched, and now helps remote teams solve problems to develop effective teams and leaders by helping them reach their full potential.

Recorded on 01/20 in Toronto, Canada at Ryerson University’s Sheldon & Tracy Levy Student Learning Centre. Director of People & Operations Mari Moreshead and Communications Manager Victoria Heath spent some time with Remoter to talk about Creative Commons’ dedication to remote work since they’ve transitioned to fully remote 5 years ago. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a globally-accessible public commons of knowledge and culture. Being a remote-first company has made them more aware of the little details in upholding an inclusive remote workplace, down to the verbiage used when communicating as a team.

Recorded on 12/19 in CDMX, Mexico, at Colmena Creativa. CEO of HelloGuru Felipe Abello met up with Remoter and helped kickstart season 2 of the Remoter Podcast. HelloGuru is a no-code academy- an online university teaching people alternative solutions to build products without the need of learning how to code. Being a remote-first company has allowed HelloGuru to first, exist, and second, contribute to the conversations of accessibility and digital inclusion.

Hello! Josephine here to give you context for season 2 of the Remoter Podcast. Stay tuned for a stacked season of guests and various topics surrounding remote work!

This is the final episode for season 1! As Andres says in the episode, "This is where you plant your flag.This is where you can say, hooray, we've done it. It's time to onboard members of your

team, new members of your team, to your company."