While other kids played with beanie babies I was hawking mine on eBay. I was always enamored with business and marketing. My family had a successful real estate business and at a young age I knew I wanted to go into business. I realized the importance of online marketing early on with my beanie baby…
I can talk myself out of anything: going to the gym, leaving town for the weekend, even putting down my phone. In fact, I almost talked myself out of the career move that would change my life. Good thing I didn’t. My Story I studied journalism in Montréal, Canada, where I currently live. After working…
When I first chatted with Topher about doing an article for HeroPress, I couldn’t quite think of how I would put the words together to describe my life, and what has gotten me to where I am now. Am I that interesting? This is exactly where imposter syndrome grabs you by the balls thinking you…
Tonya Mork describes her experience with death & how it refocused her life. Now she spends her time educating people in software engineering for WordPress.
For almost as long as I can remember, my path through life has been guided by fear. I was a nervous, shy child, though altogether happy for the first few years. I decided from an early age that I was going to be a writer (though as I was always quick to declare, “not a…
WordPress has played a role in saving my life, extending it beyond where things were headed in 2006. Yeah, I’m looking back at a decade of WordPress and how it has impacted me and hundreds of people connected to me and you’re invited to ride along. Origin story My introduction to WordPress happened because I…
Rebecca Gill talks about moving from being a social chameleon to a more open, vulnerable, and rewarding life in the WordPress community.
This is a story about how curiosity prevails over experience and why you should always encourage yourself to try new things. After all, no one can guarantee you success, but you can do everything you can to live a happy life. When I was growing up in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s having a…
Sometimes, what seems like a bad situation turns out to be the best thing that could happen to you… I was working in a retail management position. After graduating from college with a business degree, this seemed like a good place. I went through the corporate training program and got my own store to manage….
5 years ago I was sitting across a table from a kid 3 years younger than me begging him to hire me to sell coffee from a drive-through window. Yesterday I upgraded a client’s WordPress site to 4.4, and installed an SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt.org on his server, which I host for him. (he pays…
