Episode 130: Tara Claeys & Liam Dempsey

Year 2 In Review

Show Notes

Liam and Tara review the past year of the Hallway Chats podcast, discuss their views about success, share advice and announce plans for year 4.

Tara on Twitter | @taraclaeys

Tara’s pronouns | She/Her

Liam on Twitter | @liamdempsey

Liam’s pronouns | He/Him

Episode Transcript

Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress.

Liam: We ask questions, and our guests share their stories, ideas, and perspectives.

Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 130.

Tara: Welcome to Hallway Chat. I’m Tara Claeys.

Liam: And I’m Liam Dempsey. Today, we’re joined by Tara and me. It’s our anniversary of podcasting on this show.

Tara: Yay. Yay. Yay

Liam: Yay. As we’ve done in years past, Tara and I are going to effectively interview ourselves, and we’ll review the past year. We’ll ask ourselves our signature questions of what’s our definition of success and what’s the best advice that we’ve ever received and implemented. We really like this opportunity because we get to go back and either listen to previous years answers or read those transcripts, or depending on how the past two weeks have gone in the run up to this recording, do absolutely neither of those and just see how we feel this year. And then subsequently after we record this, we check to see if it’s similar to last year.

Tara: That would be me. I don’t know about you, but I’ve not looked back at last year.

Liam: I did listen to last year’s show early this morning. I got up and I put it…

Tara: Oh, okay.

Liam: I can share with you that you did not listen last year, to the year before that either.

Tara: I think that’s a good honest way to approach it. Maybe.

Liam: No, I like that. I like that. I read the transcript last year of the previous year. But this year, I did not read the transcript, but I did listen to the show. We’ve known for a couple of weeks that we were going to record this today. We’ve planned this out a little bit. So I’ve spent a fair amount of time thinking about success and advice as it relates to this show.

Tara: I think about that all the time. Anyway. I’m a pretty introspective person so it’s on my mind a lot. My answers will probably be the same or very similar. So sorry to bore people, but we’ll see. Maybe not.

Liam: Well, no, it’s a good thing that you’ve got a podcast about this topic.

Tara: That’s true.

Liam: And you’re interested in it.

Tara: Yeah. Well, given our current quarantine situation, that might impact our answers a little bit, what we talked about, right?

Liam: I think so. I think so. Do we want to dive into those or should we start maybe with sharing a little bit about what our plans are for the show for the future, for the coming days?

Tara: Yeah, we can do that. We just had a little chat offline before we started this. So we can maybe summarize that a little bit.

Liam: The reason I share that is because you didn’t listen to previous year’s episodes. But we talked about it in the previous two years episodes.

Tara: I do recall that actually.

Liam: I’m sure you do. I’m not trying to put you on the spot or be mean to you. What did we talk about? What did we agree, Tara?

Tara: We agreed we’re going to keep going.

Liam: Yay.

Tara: I think we both discussed the fact that this podcast is something that’s out of the realm of our ordinary day to day tasks and that we value that. That as much as we might begrudge sometimes, the extra effort that’s involved,