Hallway Chats

Introducing Josh Gellock Josh Gellock is the SEO consultant at Expander Digital, an SEO studio he founded in 2014. Through his business, Josh helps other businesses improve their search visibility. When he’s not meeting with clients, you can find him biking on trails or fishing on the lake. Show Notes Company Website |  expanderdigital.com Twitter | @expanderdigital Episode Transcript Tara :...

Introducing Mary Job Mary Job lives outside Lagos, Nigeria. She is a philosopher by birth. She runs How Do You Tech for work. She loves to travel, take photos, write, meet awesome people, and experience cultures. She loves doing 22 and experimenting with food and listening to great music, and great wine. Show Notes Personal Website | Ask Mary Job – Your Personal Tech Consultant Personal Blog...

Introducing Morgan Estes Morgan Estes is a Christian, a husband, a father, a WordPress developer, a veteran, and a nerd. He has been working with WordPress since 2009 and first learned PHP by reading the WordPress source code. Show Notes Website | Morgan Estes Website | Big Wing Twitter | @morganestes Episode Transcript Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in a...

Introducing Lauren Pittenger Lauren Pittenger is a front-end WordPress designer and developer. Her college degree is in English, but she’s always had a strong interest in design – and she has also earned a web design certificate. She is obsessed with her cat. Show Notes Website | Lauren Pittenger Website | Mindful Creative Life Twitter | @laurenpittenger Twitter | @_mindfulcreativ Life Coach...

Introducing Michele Butcher-Jones Michele Butcher-Jones is the WordPress technical specialist for Thrive Agency. She also teaches beginners WordPress and freelances with her own shop 13 Core. In her free time, she blogs at Can’t Speak Geek. She’s a lead organizer for the Southern Illinois WP Meetup and runs WP Kids, a Slack group for people interested in organizing WordCamps for kids....

Reflecting on the first year of Hallway Chats Co-hosts Liam Dempsey and Tara Claeys discuss the first year of the Hallway Chats podcast, and their own definitions of success. Episode Transcript Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in and around WordPress. Tara: Together, we meet and chat with folks you may not know about in our community. Liam: With our guests,...

Introducing Norma Miller Norma Miller is an international captioner and as such is the owner of the captioning firm White Coat Captioning. Through her company, Norma and her team caption live conferences, seminars, classes, events, and more around the world including more WordCamps than we can count. Norma calls Vermont her home where she lives with her husband and her Yorkie, Mr. Jefferies. Show...

Introducing Nadia Williams Nadia Williams is a Jane of all trades. An educator by profession, she has always enjoyed technology tools, stumbling into the world of ed tech and WordPress around the same time. Nadia is a teacher, a polyglot, a yogi, a travel addict, and a lifelong learner. Show Notes Website | MsWillipedia Instagram | MsWillipedia Twitter | @mswillipedia Episode Transcript Liam: This...

Introducing Russell Aaron Russell is a new father, blogger, racing enthusiast, and back-end developer meet support technician. Based out of Las Vegas, Nevada, Russell works at WebDevStudios. Show Notes Website | russellenvy.com Website | WebDev Studios Website | Maintainn Website | WordPress Vegas Meetup Twitter | @enqueue_russ Episode Transcript Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with som...

Introducing Jeff Matson Jeff Matson is the head marketing guy for Gravity Forms and he looks after everything marketing and sales related. Jeff is married to Jamie and they have two dogs. When not working at Gravity Forms or on his own side-projects, Jeff likes to hang out in his own garage arcade. Show Notes Website | jeffmatson.net Twitter | @thejeffmatson Work Twitter | @gravityforms Work Faceb...

Introducing Pam Aungst Pam Aungst is owner of Pam Ann Marketing, and Stealth Search and Analytics. Both offer SEO, PPC, and Analytics services. Pam loves the outdoors. She lives in Northern New Jersey with her boyfriend and 18 year old daughter. Show Notes Website | Pam Ann Marketing Website |  Stealth Search and Analytics Twitter | @PamAnnMarketing Episode Transcript Liam: This is Hallway Chats,...

Introducing Ebonie Butler Ebonie Butler has her BS degree in information technology from Drexel University. And in 2015, she became interested in WordPress as a platform to start blogging about metal music. She recently started her first developer position with YIKES, Inc. as a WordPress developer. Show Notes Website | Ebonie.me Podcast website |  http://metalandcoffee.com/ Twitter | @metalandcoff...

Introducing Lindsay Halsey & Lori Calcott Lindsay Halsey and Lori Calcott are co-founders of WP SEO Hub and partners at webShine, a search engine marketing agency in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. They focus on running profitable campaigns for their clients and teaching business owners about holistic SEO practices. Show Notes Website | WP SEO Hub Website | Webshine Twitter | @wpseohub Twitte...

Introducing Simon Ateba Simon is a journalist and editor and publisher of Today News Africa on Todaynewsafrica.com. A digital newspaper publishing from Washington DC but focusing on Africa. He was forced to master and to love WordPress in order to thrive. Show Notes Website | Todaynewsafrica.com Twitter | @simonateba Episode Transcript Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the un...

Introducing Yvette Sonneveld Yvette is a WordPress enthusiast living in The Netherlands. She attended and volunteered at her first WordCamp in Miami in 2014. Yvette has been on the WordPress Marketing Team since WordCamp Europe in 2017. Show Notes Website | Inbound Marketing Bliss Twitter | @yvettesonneveld Episode Transcript Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique peopl...

Introducing Birgit Pauli Haack Birgit Pauli Haack has been a web builder for the last 22 years and is still fascinated by it. Right now, she is learning JavaScript for the third time and evangelizes for the upcoming release of Gutenberg in WordPress core. By day, she runs her own web agency Pauli Systems. Show Notes Website | Pauli Systems Website |  Gutenberg Times Website | WP4Good Twitter | @bp...

Introducing Mark Wahl Mark helps build teams and manage processes to create digital products and services, often using WordPress! He is Technical Director at the Jake Group, a DC-based digital agency. Show Notes Website | Jake Group Twitter | @markawahl LinkedIn | Mark Wahl Episode Transcript Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in and around WordPress. Tara: T...

Introducing Dale Reardon Dale Reardon is from Australia and is the founder of My Disability Matters. An online community for the disability sector. Dale is qualified as a lawyer but he asks that we not hold that against him. He loves everything to do with France. Wine, food, and champagne. Dale is legally blind and uses a guide dog, Charlie. Show Notes Website | My Disability Matters News Site/Blo...

Introducing Cory Webb Cory is a full-stack web developer from Waco, Texas. He’s the author of Beginning Joomla! Website Development. He’s a relative newcomer to WordPress after transitioning from Joomla work. Cory’s married, with three children. He loves public speaking and has given more than 15 talks at Joomla conferences and has now even given one WordCamp talk. Show Notes Web...

Introducing Patte Shetler Patte started her WordPress business, Unique Site Helper, three years ago. She loves to figure things out and she loves the WordPress community. Show Notes Website | Unique Site Helper Twitter | @pshetler1 Episode Transcript Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in and around WordPress. Tara: Together, we meet and chat with folks you ma...

Introducing Jeff Large Jeff is an agency owner, teacher, and podcaster. He leads his team at Come Alive Creative in producing podcasts for businesses and brands. Show Notes Website | JeffLarge.com Website | Come Alive Creative Website | Come Alive Academy Website | Equipment For Podcasting Twitter |  @realjefflarge Episode Transcript Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the uniq...

Introducing Miriam Goldman Miriam is a lead web developer at Pondstone Digital Marketing, a digital marketing agency in Ottawa, Canada. She’s been a web developer for over 12 years, has been working with WordPress since 2008. Show Notes Website | MiriamGoldman.ca Twitter |  @mirigoldman Episode Transcript Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in and around...

Introducing Matt Whiteley Matt is the creator and owner of Whiteley Designs, a one-man WordPress development hosting and maintenance agency specializing in the Genesis Framework. He’s married, with a three-year-old daughter and another child on the way in May 2018. Show Notes Website | Whiteley Designs Twitter | @whiteleydesigns Episode Transcript Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk w...

Introducing Jean Roth Jean Roth thinks of herself as a creative alchemist because she brings a multifaceted background in marketing, design, writing, and intercultural aesthetics to her design work. Show Notes Website | Rotem Studio Facebook | Rotem Studio Linked In | jeanroth Twitter |  @rotemstudio Episode Transcript Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in an...

Introducing Tessa Kriesel Tessa Kriesel is an agency and community engineer at Pantheon and she’s been a web developer for over 10 years. She’s the founder of Outspoken Women, she’s passionate about diversity initiatives and teaching people to code and mentoring new developers. Show Notes Website | tessak22.com Website | Outspoken Women Twitter | @tessak22 Website |  Girl Develop...