Remotely One - A remote work podcast

Send us Fan Mail We sat down with Nikhil Paul, Founder and Leadership Team Coach at We R Human. Through coaching & training workshops, Nikhil helps senior executive teams & leaders strengthen their focus, culture, and execution. Nikhil works with teams to help them determine prioritization of goals, de-cluttering  To-Do lists & staying focused everyday when trying to grow a company rem...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, Rick and Kaleem have a fun talk with Mitko Karshovski, Founder and Host of That Remote Life Podcast.   Mitko has interviewed almost two hundred professional remote workers on his show, and he pulls out all the stops in sharing what he has learned from them. His insights are both concise and uplifting, and you can hear our amazement when he says things like...

Send us Fan Mail We chatted face to face with People Leadership Advisor Shelby Wolpa.  With the rise of remote work, Shelby uses her expertise to help companies rethink their benefits & perks strategy to support their remote employees. She guides them to determine what perks are no longer serving them, and works closely with their team to craft benefits strategies that appeal to all employees....

Send us Fan Mail Rick and Kaleem have a conversation with Amina Moreau, Founder and CEO of Radious, an online marketplace for residential workspaces. Having founded five previous companies, Amina is a chronic entrepreneur. She is a storyteller who sees opportunity where many people see roadblocks. Amina has amazing insights (her eyeglasses game is on point!) regarding proximity bias, which serves...

Send us Fan Mail As Chief Revenue Officer at Qatalog, Ryan Burke has seen some things. He once owned an oyster farm. He had a book club so legendary it was featured in Playboy magazine. And he was also named Top Remote Work Influencer by Remote.com.  As if that weren't enough, Ryan also specializes in scaling early stage companies and driving enterprise level sales. While VP at Invision, he g...

Send us Fan Mail Well it's been a year since production began at Remotely We Are One, so Rick and Kaleem dusted off their favorite whiskey bottles and had themselves a toast to the year that was. They reflect on some of the most memorable moments - from poignant to downright hilarious - and recognized the talented people behind the scenes, without whom none of this would have been possible. ...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, the fellas chat with Zach Dunn, VP of Customer Experience & Co-Founder at Robin. Robin is the first workplace platform that puts people before places, and empowers people to choose how and where they work while providing organizations the tools and insights needed to succeed. A fellow New Englander, Zach and his team help companies enable people to do...

Send us Fan Mail We're joined by Jennifer Dennard, Co-Founder at Range Labs, a place for remote & hybrid teams to check in with each other, in both async and real-time. With extensive experience as  People Operations at Medium, Jennifer saw the potential of combining education and understanding with software as a reinforcing factor.  The pandemic may have forced many companies into a sudd...

Send us Fan Mail Rick and Kaleem shoot the breeze with John Howard, Founder and CEO of Slingshot,  a swag and merchandise company with clients such as Adobe, Charity Water, and YAC.  John brings a unique perspective on workplace flexibility as Slingshot is a hybrid-remote company with dedicated warehouse employees mixed with designers, marketers, and sales professionals.  John's message is ve...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features not one, but TWO new voices, as Rick had a last minute scheduling conflict. So Kaleem pulled in the legendary Freddie Cojaxx, rapper and longtime friend since they were four years old!   Today's guest  is Ilma Tiki, CEO and co-founder of The Remote Company, the organization that invests in online businesses with remote teams. Its portfolio includes compa...

Send us Fan Mail Today the fellas had a great time chatting with Justin Mitchell, CEO and Founder of YAC, an audio-first messaging platform that helps people talk faster and build stronger relationships with their remote team.  If anyone knows the remote work industry, it's Justin. In fact, he's the only guest we've interviewed who's NEVER worked in an office. Introduced to the...

Send us Fan Mail This episode finds the fellas chatting with Kristi DePaul, Founder and CEO of Founders, a remote content agency. Founders is well known for helping educational experts and entrepreneurs to become thought leaders, organizations to attract more visibility to their brands, and more effectively tell their stories to global audiences.  Kristi not only wowed us with her experience, she...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Ronzio is a guy who gets things done. Energized by progress, and driven by process, Chris and his team developed Trainual, a software tool to help organize small and growing businesses. As Founder and CEO, Chris believes there is a better way to organize  "how you do, what you do." He is the host of two podcasts, "The Fastest Growing Companies” and “Organize C...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Rick and Kaleem reconnect with their Maine roots by having an informative discussion with fellow Maine native and Workforce Transformation Strategist Mika Cross. Mika's achievements are impressive, to say the least.  An Army veteran, she once worked for the U.S. Department of Labor. She not only created an award-winning telework program for the Department of...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when three pals from high school reunite for a podcast twenty five years later? You get lots of laughs, a few inside jokes, and tons of life experiences that leave you entertained,  perhaps even inspired. Rick and Kaleem were so excited to host their longtime friend Josh Morse, Senior Vice President at Layr, a 100% online insurtech that empowers brokers and agents to...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Rick and Kaleem have an enlightening discussion with Maryellen Stockton, Founder of Work Well Wherever, a remote work coaching and consultancy for small businesses.   Maryellen offers fascinating insight on  transparency, and the importance of setting expectations immediately. This goes for both aspiring new employees, as well as the leader of the team who is hiri...

Send us Fan Mail Rick and Kaleem had the absolute pleasure of chatting with and learning from Nathan Risser, London-based freelance writer who previously worked at Schroders and Goldman Sachs in wealth management and hedge fund advisory roles. Nathan is an outspoken life-quality advocate, and fully understands the dangers of today's grind and hustle work culture.  Nathan's article, &quot...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, Rick and Kaleem have a chat with Ali Greene, Co-Author and Co-Founder of Remote Works, a business consulting service that assists managers and teams in embracing remote work frameworks, thereby helping them become more efficient, effective, and engaged. Ali is a digital nomad, and is highly knowledgeable in the areas of remote work and remote leadership. S...

Send us Fan Mail Rick and Kaleem trade laughs with Liam Martin, co-organizer of Running Remote, the world's largest remote work conference. Liam is also co-founder of Time Doctor, a time tracking and productivity software for businesses and individuals. One of the golden nuggets of this episode is Liam's knowledge surrounding the bureaucracy of remote work. He is able to explain it in a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Rick and Kaleem have a fun and educational discussion with the wise and wonderful Mine Dedekoca. Mine is the Founder of Happy Works Studio, where she guides organizations to create a “Happy Workspace” with happy, fulfilled, and self-aware employees by blending her own remote working experience with global practices.  Mine is the first and only Turkish person to ta...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is a fun one. Rick and Kaleem share some quality chuckles with Jordan Carroll, Founder of The Remote Job Coach and The Remote Job Club. He is a brilliant mentor and also the author of Remote For Life, a book currently in production and slated for publication in mid 2022.  Jordan is a former Digital Nomad and now considers himself a Slowmad - a working professi...

Send us Fan Mail Rick and Kaleem have a fun chat with Nadia Harris, founder of remoteworkadvocate.com.  Nadia has been very successful in her approach to finding remote work solutions for companies as well as individuals.  She is an educator first, providing world-class coaching to employees, managers and senior leadership to drive culture and overall business success. She has also implemented &qu...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Kaleem and Rick talk with Ben Whitter, the number one employee experience thinker in the world. That's no typo. Ben is widely acknowledged as the leading authority on employee experience (EX) globally. Neither Rick nor Kaleem can believe they got to spend an hour with him. Ben and his team help colleagues, companies, and audiences to develop their holistic, h...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Rick and Kaleem have a great chat with Caro Griffin, Founder of Opsy, a community for operations professionals. Calling Mexico City home, Caro has worked remotely from 30 countries. When she was starting out, she wasn't completely convinced on the benefits of remote work.  But over time, travelling the world and meeting people from all walks of life, Caro soo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Rick and Kaleem have an in-depth conversation with Paul Chason, Digital Consultant and Open Source Business Leader. As an exited Founder and Partner at Mediacurrent, a multi-million dollar open-source digital agency, Paul was kind enough to share some of his experiences and sharp insights surrounding remote work.  With so many companies struggling with the ongoing...