DistantJob Podcast

Think about taking your company remote? Stefania Chiorboli shares some insights to help your company transition to a remote or hybrid environment without losing part of your culture. Stefania is the founder at The Hoxby Collective, a consulting business helping people and companies build and manage remote teams. In this podcast episode, Luis and Stefania talk about how remote work can make the wor...

Kimberly Harden is the Founder and CEO of Harden Consulting Group and an Instructor at Seattle University. She's taught Communication Studies at the Seattle Central College, the Highline College, and the Regis University College for Professional Studies. She founded and directed JAGWILL, a company to help people improve their communication skills. She also advocates for diversity in educational in...

Tom Libelt is the Co-Founder of We Create Online Courses, the Founder of WeMarketOnlineCourses.com and CEO of Libelty SEO. In this episode, our guest Tom Libelt shares his experience creating systems that have allowed him to lead several enterprises simultaneously. Tom and Luis talk about the pros of recruiting full-time remote employees vs hiring digital nomad employees. For Tom, who is more a se...

Clodagh Higgins is an Agency Coach and Consultant at the Growit Group, she's a Performance Coach at Valor Performance, author of the book "A Happy and Healthy Digital Agency". She's also a Powerlifting World Record Holder and host of her own podcast "Agency Life." After traveling and working in big cities, she returned to her hometown in the west coast of Ireland and has been coaching marketing ag...

In this episode, Luis talks to Mentor  Coach Steve Hamilton, CEO & Founder of the 18th Camel. Steve shares some of his key points to create an appropriate climate when you meet someone online for the first time and what you can do to bond effectively. He believes some of the key aspects to bonding with someone come from creating trust and empathy. They also share some strategies to be more product...

Ken Weary balances his life between being the VP of Operations at Hotjar (a product that reveals the online behavior and voice of a website's users) and being a father and husband in a digital nomad family. Six years ago, he took a sabbatical which really changed his perspective about how we wanted to live his life and decided to start working remotely, house sitting for people around the world. C...

Todd Werth is the CEO and Co-Founder of Infinite Red, a remote design and creative studio creating beautiful and functional mobile apps and websites. Todd has been creating software for 20 years and has founded three companies. He still codes and designs but not as often as he'd like. In this podcast episode, Todd shares his experience leading a remote company and explains how big decisions are ma...

We've all heard about the numerous benefits of company retreats. But, how can your company make the most of it? Elisa Rueda, host and founder of The CoWork Experience shares some insights and advice for leaders looking to take their team on a retreat. There's a difference between a cowork experience retreat and a cowork experience vacation. When you take a large group out the goal is to celebrate,...

A big part of building a successful remote team relies on effective leadership management. In this episode, Luis talks to Sabina Nawaz about one of the many benefits of working remotely. She mentions how managing a remote team really broadens your perspective and helps you become a more comprehensive leader. Having a diverse team helps you have a global point of view in your virtual office. Sabina...

Angelique believes your company's culture should really reflect your purpose and values but how do you establish and implement that? Writing down where you want to be or where you are right now, might be a good place to start. This could help you have a clear vision of your company. There are different ways to build your company's culture but is always important to remember that as a founder, you...

3dar is a creative hybrid team, their core people are on-site but they also work with artists from Brazil, Chile and other parts of South America. As part of their vision, the team at 3dar knew from the beginning that they wanted to work with creative people in Latin America but offer their services in Europe and the US. In this podcast episode, German shares how working remotely with artists has...

In this podcast episode, Bhagyashree shares how she's able to successfully manage a hybrid team across different time zones and shares the basics of equality in remote hiring practices. One step her company decided to implement was to pay their remote employees equally, regardless of their country of residence. Whether they're in India, Hawai or Portugal, their employees' salary is calculated on t...

There are a bunch of reasons why managers are reluctant to work remotely and June Bolneo surely knows about them. In this chapter, we go deep into learning the ins and outs of remote work and how your company can (or should) make the leap.  She's found that most of the problems that arise when working remotely are very psychological and rely around social barriers. So, what can we do about it? Lis...

A lot of people talk about communication being a challenging factor in successfully running a remote team, but Matteo Grassi explains how one of the main issues they've encountered as a remote company is managing projects. In this podcast episode, he shares how they have built their processes, improved them and made sure the whole company is following them. They've implemented a goal-oriented stra...

Elise Keith is the Founder & CEO at Lucid Meetings , an app that makes it easy for teams to run successful meeting every day. Their software embeds basic best practices and automates the administrative work involved in scaling a great meeting habit. She's also an author of the book Where the Action is: The Meetings That Make or Break your Organization.  In this episode, Elise shares what she's fou...

Ingrid Odegaard is the Co-founder & CPTO (formerly CEO) of Appear.in, a tool to bring your team and clients together with flexible video meetings so you can have a more productive remote team collaboration. In this episode, we talk about the benefits of remote teams and the importance of trust and work-life balance to achieve a good company's culture.  Ingrid explains how transitioning to a fully...

Sharon Koifman believes every company, from the biggest enterprise to the newly-launched garage startup, should have access to the world's top talent. That's why he used over 10 years of experience in tech industry recruitment & HR to create DistantJob.  This episode is all about explaining how having a Virtual Assistant impacted Sharon's work and life, allowing him to get more things done while a...

Shauna Moran is the Founder at Operate Remote, a consulting firm where she helps individuals and organizations overcome the challenges when it comes to remote working. Her remote journey started about 6 years ago when she started working remotely for Shopify, an e-commerce platform for online stores. She got so passionate about remote working and decided to go back to school to get her Ph. D in In...

Craig Brown is a veteran of software product development that has experience leading and managing global software product development teams spanning four continents, 8 cities and hundreds of team members. His new baby is the Everest Engineering team, a modern software product development consultancy that delivers innovation capability out of India to the Australian tech industry. In this episode,...

Adii Pienaar is the founder of  Conversio   and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Prior to Conversio, Adii was the co-founder of WooThemes /  WooCommerce . Today Adii is a family man (which is why Conversio is a life- and family-first company) who enjoys running, reading and wine. In this episode, we talk about the philosophy of leading from first principles. We explore how to act in order to prev...

Is the remote work world biased against older and more experienced professionals? Or is it a problem with startup culture? DistantJob founder Sharon Koifman and podcast host Luis discuss how to fight ageism and embrace the wisdom that comes with experience in this special episode. Sharon Koifman believes every company, from the biggest enterprise to the newly-launched garage startup, should have a...

In this episode, we talk about how he works from home while managing several facets of a tech company spread across three countries and timezones while simultaneously dealing with US clients. We explore the importance of getting FaceTime when hiring and why it's important to find a time in the day for the whole company to sync, even if only briefly. And, among other things, we speculate on how AI...

Maya MiddleMiss is the CEO of BlockSparks, a startup focused on creating creative communications for the blockchain world . She's also a freelance writer and creator, obsessed with crypto, blockchain, and technology. She gets fascinated with the technological changes influencing our society and impacting our future.  In this episode, Maya shares how she got started in the world of cryptocurrencies...

Jamon Holmgren is the Co-Founder and CTO at Infinite Red, a consultancy where they design, develop, launch, and support mobile and web apps. He's a software developer, husband, and father of four. His life-long obsession with coding has taken him from running large excavation equipment to framing houses to 3D CAD design, until he eventually landed on a career in software.  In this episode, we talk...

Welcome to StaffITRight, a Podcast by DistantJob! This Podcast aims to be a treasure trove of tools and resources for people who are on the quest to learn about how to build and manage remote teams. That's right, this podcast is about people working together on great projects, through the magic of the internet – no office required. Here, we interview people who've built and managed remote teams an...