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In this episode, I'm chatting with Carrie Dils. Carrie is pure awesome. She shares her thoughts on this past year, and what she has planned for 2017 including an upcoming book, Real World Freelancing with Diane Kinney. She is the host of one of my favorite WordPress business podcasts, OfficeHours.fm and is a huge Genesis fan. Let's get started. Meet Carrie Dils Carrie Dils is a WordPress developer, consultant, speaker and teacher based in Fort Worth, Texas. She loves sharing what she's learned with others to help them be more successful in their business. She hosts a weekly WordPress podcast at OfficeHours.fm and is a course instructor for Lynda.com. Show Notes Carrie's site: CarrieDils.com Podcast: OfficeHours.fm Twitter: @cdils Courses: Carrie's Courses on Lynda.com A Few Valuable Links & Resources : DIY SEO Course by Rebecca Gill Smart Passive Income - Pat Flynn Erin E Flynn - Courses, Templates & Tools for Web Designers Utility Pro theme by Carrie Dils Courses from Carrie on Lynda.com Of

In this episode, I'm chatting with Cathi Bosco. Cathi is the creative genius that powers her web studio in Madison CT USA. We're talking all about collaboration on projects, lessons learned and some of our favorite design elements. She shares her industry knowledge and experience to help us forge a way forward in this ever changing digital age. Let's get started. Meet Cathi Bosco Creative Director, Digital Consultant, Web Designer, Artist, Illustrator, Children's Book Author, trail runner, dog lover & free thinker... My specialty is creating beautiful and cohesive web presence packages for clients that can convert audiences and present content elegantly (think modern and clean presentation). Our sites are built on The Genesis Framework and they function exceptionally well for a wide range of programs, communities, organizations and companies. If you have an unusual challenge – we are all ears… tell us about your project and ideas! We don’t take on each and every proposal that comes along, but if we fee

In this episode, I'm chatting with Matt Pritchett. He is a UX developer and lives in Tennessee. We're talking the good, the bad and the ugly about local development environments. What's out there now and why Matt plans to build one of his own called AnchorWP. Matt is a super smart guy and I've had the pleasure of being in a weekly mastermind group with him this year. Let's get started. Meet Matt Pritchett Matt is known for transformational WordPress development and bringing integrity to each relationship, sale, project, and interaction. He's a developer, blogger, business owner, product maker and proud husband and father of three. Show Notes Matt's Website: Pritchett Media Matt's Blog: Matt's Blog AnchorWP link: AnchorWP Helpful Links: Desktop Server MAMP & MAMP PRO Vagrant Varying Vagrant Vagrants Docker Local by Flywheel (formerly Pressmatic) VersionPress Migrate DB Pro (Awesome!) Special Offer for listeners Receive 15% off Version 1 of AnchorWP when it launches. Use code RETHIN

In this episode, I'm chatting with Kim Doyal. She runs Kim Doyal, The WordPress Chick podcast, and several other internet businesses. We're talking about Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell. It's a story Kim shared with me about finding gems right in your own backyard. Many of us have been looking for success, thinking the grass is always greener elsewhere. Is there an opportunity right in front of you that you have not seen? Something you're good at that you are not leveraging? That is the basis of the story and why we sometimes see the success of others as a goal to pursue, when there might be diamonds buried in our own backyard. Let's get started. Meet Kim Doyal Kim Doyal runs the W Chick – podcaster, is a coach, WordPress wizard, proud Genesis junkie and co-founder of the #FtheHustle movement. According to Kim, when you commit to fully showing up as YOU, everything shifts in your business. That advice might sound simple, but it took me almost 5 years as an entrepreneur to truly understand

In this episode, I'm chatting with Diane Kinney. She is a web designer and developer with over 17 years of experience running her own boutique agency. We're talking all about design and how it is evolving, responsive vs adaptive, clients, SVGs and so much more. Diane shares a wealth of knowledge and experience in this episode, that will be sure to have you rethinking something. A complete transcript of this podcast is available. Let's get started. Meet Diane Kinney Yes, I’m a mega WordPress nerd and I’d love to share the things I’ve learned in the last 17 years of building both simple and complex sites in WordPress. Born and raised in Wisconsin (#gopackgo), my adult life has been spent on the gulf coast of Florida in sunny Sarasota. I delight in the sunshine and weirdly wonderful things that regularly happen in this state. I live with my husband, college student daughter, five cats and three dogs. All of the cats were rescued from certain death by my animal loving daughter and our first dog was a ref

In this episode, I'm chatting with Rian Rietveld. She is a Web Accessibility expert and leads the WordPress Accessibility Team. She is my first international guest, and lives in the Netherlands. This is a topic I'm passionate about. I finally get to ask Rian all those questions that have been floating around in my head about Web Accessibility. Rian explains why it's important, and what we need to know. A complete transcript of this podcast is now available. Meet Rian Rietveld Rian is a WordPress engineer. She has been developing for the web for over 17 years and focuses on web accessibility and usability. She works at Human Made and leads the WordPress Accessibility Team to improve WordPress core. Show Notes Rian's Website: http://www.rianrietveld.com Rian's Twitter link: Rian Rietveld Helpful Links: Accessible Ready Themes from WordPress.org W3C Accessibility Standards The A11Y Project - A community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier. WordPress Accessibility Team - Useful Accessibi

In this episode, I'm chatting with Joe Casabona of WP in One Month and How I Built It. We're chatting about front end development, having empathy and stepping into the WP education space. Joe shares a wealth of knowledge on how he's helping others learn WordPress and why he started his new podcast, How I Built It. There is one common thread in everything Joe does, and it is helping others. He truly has the heart of a teacher. Meet Joe Casabona Joe Casabona is a Front End Developer that works in WordPress…a lot. In 2014, he authored a book called Responsive Design with WordPress and 2 other books on web development. He also develops courses on WP in One Month and hosts the How I Built It podcast. Show Notes Personal Site WP in One Month How I Built It Pigments for Atom LearnDash Better Click to Tweet Revive Old Post Duplicate Post Unsplash WP This Episode is sponsored by LearnDash - WordPress LMS… Made EASY! Check out LearnDash. Easily transform your WordPress site into a powerful learning m

In this episode, I'm chatting with Shawn Hesketh of WP101 on how his growing business is helping designers and developers provide highly effective WordPress training for clients. Shawn is the Voice of WordPress for so many of us. His company, WP101 produces high quality, professional videos and offers them through the WP101 plugin and at WP101.com. Shawn shares his wealth of knowledge on producing WordPress training courses and even shares helpful tips on how to create your own screencasts. Meet Shawn Hesketh Kay and Shawn Kesketh My name is Shawn Hesketh, and for 26 years, I enjoyed a rewarding career as a freelance designer. Over the years, I built countless WordPress sites for my clients. To get my clients up to speed as quickly as possible, I also provided one-on-one WordPress training. But one-on-one training just isn’t feasible for everyone. So in 2008, I created a WordPress 101 video “crash course” to help beginners learn how to use WordPress in as little time as possible. Show Notes Adv

In this episode, I'm chatting with Chris Ford who is leveraging her talents as a successful web designer to empower others. We discuss how her 20 years of web design experience is creating new opportunities in her career evolution. Meet Chris Ford There's one common thread in Chris Ford's 20 year web design career: learning new web design tools, techniques and processes, then teaching them to others. She passionately believes that education is one of the most overlooked and underused ways to improve the user experience of a website or product. Chris is currently in the process of rebooting Creativity Included, her design and branding company, to focus on education for both designers and product businesses. Show Notes Chris mentioned Webflow during the podcast as the tool she uses for wire-framing and mockups. This episode is available on Youtube: Rethinkfm Episode 4.

In this episode, I'm chatting with Erin E Flynn about mastering client communications. To be successful in your freelance business it is crucial that you develop solid communication skills for managing clients and projects. Erin shares tips on how to avoid nightmare clients, and become efficient and effective with your client communications. It is a skill that everyone will benefit from. Meet Erin E Flynn Erin has been making websites since 1999, and started her own web design and development company in 2012. After a few years creating websites for clients, Erin shifted her business. Now, her primary business is helping other designers and developers navigate the difficult waters of entrepreneurship by providing courses and guides to teach everything from how to start a web design business to how to deal with nightmare clients. When she's not teaching designers or working with her own design/development clients, Erin can be found exploring the mountains near her home in Aspen, Colorado. Keep an e

In this episode, I'm chatting with Sallie Goetsch about Content Audits and how they can save you development time. If you've every had a project with a lot of existing content, performing an audit of that content BEFORE you begin any design or development work, will save you time. We'll talk about what it is and how to go about performing one. It is a valuable service to offer that benefits both you and your client. Meet Sallie Goetsch Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with ‘sketch’) first got online in 1985, via the mainframe at Brown University. She founded an online journal in 1993 and built her first HTML website in 1994. Since discovering WordPress in 2005, she hasn’t looked back. Sallie became the organizer of the East Bay WordPress Meetup in Oakland, California, in 2009. Sallie has produced WordPress videos for Peachpit Press, taught introductory WordPress classes for Mediabistro, and acted as Technical Reviewer for O’Reilly’s WordPress: The Missing Manual. She runs her WP Fangirl consulting and devel

This episode is all about content. My guest John Locke and I talk about developing a content first strategy when working on client projects. Meet John Locke Since 2012, John has been helping business owners in Sacramento and across the country. His WordPress consultancy, Lockedown Design, helps businesses improve their SEO, launch and improve their e-commerce stores, and solves business critical problems on their WordPress websites. John also serves the WordPress community as a co-organizer the Sacramento WordPress Meetup and as the co-host of the WP-Tonic podcast.

In this episode, I'm talking about how the idea for Rethink.fm came to be. Tonya Mork shares her thoughts on WordPress, code, and workflow. Meet Tonya Mork Tonya teaches programming, how to think about code, and how to build WordPress products (themes and plugins) at Know the Code. She is always examining the way we do things to find a better path, one that is more efficient, effective, that moves us forward, and is balanced with the intent. She loves sharing ideas, planting seeds, and inspiring others to consider a different approach. She is an engineer, innovator and a forward-thinker.