Hallway Chats

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. The post Episode 55: Morgan Estes appeared first on Hallway Chats.

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. The post Episode 54: Lauren Pittenger appeared first on Hallway Chats.

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. The post Episode 53: Michele Butcher-Jones appeared first on Hallway Chats.

Co-hosts Liam Dempsey and Tara Claeys discuss the first year of the Hallway Chats podcast, and their own definitions of success. The post Episode 52: Liam Dempsey & Tara Claeys appeared first on Hallway Chats.

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. The post Episode 51: Norma Miller appeared first on Hallway Chats.

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.  The post Episode 50: Nadia Williams appeared first on Hallway Chats.

Russell Aaron is a new father, blogger, racing enthusiast, and back-end developer meet support technician. Based out of Las Vegas, Nevada, Russell works at WebDevStudios. The post Episode 49: Russell Aaron appeared first on Hallway Chats.

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. The post Episode 48: Jeff Matson appeared first on Hallway Chats.

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. The post Episode 47: Pam Aungst appeared first on Hallway Chats.

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. The post Episode 46: Ebonie Butler appeared first on Hallway Chats.

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. The post Episode 45: Lindsay Halsey & Lori Calcott appeared first on Hallway Chats.

Simon Ateba 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. The post Episode 44: Simon Ateba appeared first on Hallway Chats.

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. The post Episode 43: Yvette Sonneveld appeared first on Hallway Chats.

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. The post Episode 42: Birgit Pauli Haack appeared first on Hallway Chats.

Mark Wahl 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. The post Episode 41: Mark Wahl appeared first on Hallway Chats.

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. The post Episode 40: Dale Reardon appeared first on Hallway Chats.

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. The post Episode 39: Cory Webb appeared first on Hallway Chats.

Patte Shetler started her WordPress business, Unique Site Helper, three years ago. She loves to figure things out and she loves the WordPress community. The post Episode 38: Patte Shetler appeared first on Hallway Chats.

Jeff Large is an agency owner, teacher, and podcaster. He leads his team at Come Alive Creative in producing podcasts for businesses and brands. The post Episode 37: Jeff Large appeared first on Hallway Chats.

Miriam Goldman 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. The post Episode 36: Miriam Goldman appeared first on Hallway Chats.