The Work Talk Show

DJ Waldow and Nick Westergaard reunite on a very special episode of Nick's podcast On Brand. Tune in as we reminisce, share some laughs, and make a special announcement about the show. Subscribe to the Work Talk Show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you like to listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We made it! With 100 episodes of The Work Talk Show under our belts, we took another super-sized episode to reflect on the past, present, and future of this podcast. While this show has been an amazing experience that has allowed us to talk to some of the best from the world of work, for right now, we’re putting the show on hiatus. Listen to the episode for the whole story and check back for updat...

How do we celebrate 100 episodes of The Work Talk Show? With another special super-sized episode! Our 100th show is nearly twice as long as our regular episodes and features not one but two crazy smart guests. This week, we mark this milestone with return appearances from Ann Handley and Chris Brogan. A lot has changed for both of our guests, and we couldn’t wait to catch up with them. Learn more...

With 99 shows under our belt, we are getting closer to celebrating that big milestone. This week, we welcomed back two previous Work Talk Show guests—Tom Webster and Tim Hayden. Tom has the distinction of being our very first guest here on the podcast and gave us several travel tips that we often reference. And the Tim Hayden? It doesn’t get much better than that! These two also just co-authored a...

Allen Nance has been an email entrepreneur for fifteen years. As the founder and CEO of email marketing software company, WhatCounts, he has led the company to three Inc. 500 designations and 700 clients sending billions of emails around the globe. He is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology, blogs at www.allennance.com and tweets from @AllenNance. How does Allen get it done? We couldn’t w...

Ron Price is an internationally recognized business advisor, coach, speaker, and author. Known for his creative and systematic thinking, business versatility, and practical optimism, Ron has worked in 15 countries and served in almost every level of executive management. As the former CEO of a multi-million dollar international company, Ron understands the challenges and risks of running a busines...

Adrian Gostick is a global thought leader on workplace strategy and the author of several successful books on employee engagement. The Carrot Principle by Simon & Schuster has been a regular New York Times bestseller, and 24-Carrot Manager has been called a “must read for modern-day managers” by Larry King of CNN. His latest book, The Orange Revolution, was a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.” Le...

This week we have a very special episode of The Work Talk Show podcast! For the past year, Nick has been talking about his industry-leading digital marketing conference, the Social Brand Forum. This year, the event featured a live recording of this podcast with Nick, and Chief Technical Officer Jeff Ostroff joined onstage by guests Reid Travis of Pancheros and Kary Delaria of Allianz Life for a di...

Julia Gifford manages content marketing for the tech incubator and accelerator, Draugiem Group in Latvia. That’s right! Julia is our first Latvian guest! A self-described “jack of all trades, master of none,” she spends most of her time helping start-ups create content, get publicity, and more. How does Julia manage her own time? Turns out that she helps with an app for that! Learn more about your...

Erik Fisher is a busy guy. He’s the Community Manager for Social Media Examiner as well as a productivity podcaster and author. We like to think of his podcast, Beyond the To-Do List, as a sibling of The Work Talk Show. His book, Hit the Mark!, is about focus. As you can imagine, we couldn’t wait to talk with Erik about focus and how he gets it all done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

Andrew Davis’ 20-year career has taken him from local television to The Today Show. He’s worked for The Muppets in New York, written for Charles Kuralt and marketed for tiny start-ups as well as Fortune 500 brands. In 2001, Andrew Davis co-founded Tippingpoint Labs, where he changed the way publishers think and how brands market their products. We couldn’t wait to talk to the best-selling author o...

Stacia Pierce is a success coach, author, and entrepreneur who helps women start and grow businesses through her work at LifeCoach2Women. She’s a woman of faith and a mentor to thousands of women around the world. She is also the host of the annual International Women’s Success Conference in Orlando. In 2010, she was a finalist in the OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network My OWN Show contest. We couldn’t...

How excited are we about some new updates to The Work Talk Show? We’re so excited that we had to record a host-only bonus episode just to tell you about these three things. First, we are just 10 episodes away from our 100th episode! We couldn’t have reached this milestone without you, and we want to celebrate with you. Tell us who you’d like to hear on The Work Talk Show’s big 100th episode by con...

Mack is the Founder and CEO of Mack Web, an online community and brand building company. She is a proud blogger for Moz, Conductor, and has been a speaker at MozCon, SearchLove, and other top industry conferences. Mack’s passion is growing a remarkable company, an exceptional team, and making a difference in the businesses we serve. Mack has an M.A. in English, is crazy about her family, and may b...

Mat Atkinson is the founder and CEO of ProofHQ, a powerful SaaS application that helps marketing managers and designers manage the process of getting feedback and approval on creative projects. Mat was inspired to start ProofHQ when he saw how much time people were spending emailing PDFs back and forth. Today, Atkinson helps teams with productivity and leads a virtual team of his own. How does he...

Rachelle Lucas is a writer, spokesperson, and videographer. A foodie with a zest for life and passion for travel, Rachelle has been blogging since 2007. As her wanderlust grew, she pursued travel writing full-time and has since been to over 34 countries in pursuit of the tastiest meal. In addition to her blog, The Travel Bite, she’s also the Food and Dining Insider for Visit Florida and was recent...

At age 24, Heyo CEO and Founder Nathan Latka may be our youngest Work Talk Show guest yet. However, Nathan has quite a few accomplishments under his belt. After studying architecture, he pivoted when the housing market dropped off and began helping companies market themselves on Facebook. And that’s how Heyo was born. Just a few years later, they’ve expanded to 25 employees and seen 147% year-on-y...

Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Forbes. Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press and Fortune, she is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future, which is being translated into Russian, Chinese, French, Polish, and Thai. She also consults for diverse clients...

Liz Presson is an entrepreneur who uses community building, both internally and externally, to build better businesses. She was the founding employee of two digital media startups, including iConnect, a subsidiary of iContact, which was sold to Vocus for $169 million in 2012. She also co-founded a community management studio of her own. Now, Liz combines her work in community with her passion for...

Tim Brechlin is the Digital/Inbound Marketing Manager at WhatCounts, an email marketing provider with a virtual team distributed nationwide. For his part, Tim is located in Madison, Wisconsin. On his site, Tim calls himself The Intelligent Fool, a label he says he “shamelessly cribbed” from Albert Einstein. This helps him remember that we can only learn so much of what there is out there in the wo...

Eve Tahmincioglu is the director of communications and social media guru for the Families and Work Institute. She has written business stories for a host of publications, including the New York Times, Time, Salon.com, and BusinessWeek. She is also a contributor for MSNBC.com. Her specialties include workplace issues, the small business and entrepreneurial world, social networking, retail, autos, a...

Simon T. Bailey’s purpose is to inspire 10% of the world’s population to brilliant action by providing actionable takeaways that produce sustainable results. Directed by Mr. Bailey’s thought leadership honed by a decade of work with 1,000 organizations as part of the famed Disney Institute, his Brilliance Institute designs and delivers fresh insights on leadership, employee performance, and custom...

Beverly D. Flaxington, two-time bestselling and Gold-award winning author, is an international speaker, an accomplished consultant, hypnotherapist, personal and career coach, college professor, corporate trainer, facilitator, behavioral expert, entrepreneur, and business development expert. Her knowledge of human behavior and the most effective ways to make change happen have helped thousands of p...

This week DJ & Nick take a break from the crazy-smart guests to point their microphones at each other for one of our almost-quarterly host-only extravaganzas. And did we have a lot to talk about! Recently, DJ announced that he was quitting his job. During the show, he shared where he’s at and what’s next. Nick also talked a bit about his writing process and new projects in the hopper. So kick back...

Dan Roam is the author of the international bestseller The Back of the Napkin, the most popular visual-thinking business book of all time. Fast Company, BusinessWeek, and The Times of London all named it the #1 creativity and innovation book of the year. Dan is the founder and president of Digital Roam Inc., a consulting firm that uses visual thinking to solve complex problems for such clients as...