Welcome to the More Beach Meetings by Surf Office, a podcast about company culture, remote work, distributed companies and hiring. The podcast is produced by Surf Office, the remote work and company retreats gurus. In this podcast, they interview interesting people and unique distributed companies, talking about cool projects, remote working tips, the changing digital world, and more. Tune in every 1st and 3rd Wednesday for your regular dose of inspiration from companies and workers that are ...
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David Dawoud: Building a Fresh Approach to Remote Hiring
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Chase Warrington: Building a Culture of Remote Work
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Natalie Nagele from Wildbit: Planning a People-First Offsite Experience
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In today’s episode, we sit down with Natalie Nagale from Wildbit to discuss the importance of team retreats, how they use a people-first perspective to structure their offsite experiences, and the ways Wildbit is supporting workers in connecting with like-minded companies in other industries.By More Beach Meetings
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Dave Mastronardi from Gamestrong: A framework to master your brainstormings
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In today’s episode we sat down with Gamestorming CEO, Dave Mastronardi to learn more about how organizations can use gamestorming techniques to plan and structure their offsite experiences.By More Beach Meetings
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Linda Koenig from Cardiologs: How to Plan a Family-style Retreat
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Shane Metcalf from 15Five: Investing in People
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Laurel Farrer from Distribute Consulting: Remote Work for Economic Development
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Fred Perrotta from Tortuga Backpacks: Building a Remote Physical Product Company
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How do you manage a physical product while remote? That's what we get into here on this week’s episode of More Beach Meetings. Our guest this week is Fred Perrotta, co-founder and CEO of Tortuga, a remote company specializing in travel products like their award-winning Setout Backpack.By More Beach Meetings
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Monica Zeng from Aragon One: Leveraging Team Offsites
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Our guest is Monica Zeng, the human resources expert at Aragon One. In this podcast, we chatted with Monica about her approach to hiring, how she uses coaching to professionally develop the Aragon One team members, and some of the creative activities Monica’s dreamed up to make their offsite retreats a little more special.…
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Wences Garcia from MarketGoo: Culture is deliberate:
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We sat down with Wences Garcia, CEO and Head of Culture at MarketGoo, a SaaS SEO tool, to talk about managing and growing a fully remote team.In this podcast, we learned about Marketgoo’s culture, including transparency, ownership, and how they cultivate it with retreats. Please give it a listen or scroll down for the highlights!…
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Shane Pearlman from Modern Tribe: Team Retreats for Employee Retention and Reflection
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Shane Pearlman is the CEO at Modern Tribe Inc, a fully distributed design and development company. A few years ago while on a company retreat, the owners looked at their vision and realized what they wanted out of the business required scale. Five years later they've gone from 20-100 employees, and continue to ask the question how will this let me …
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Michelle Ardiel from Flytographer: Our Global Meetups Stimulate Collaboration and Community Loyalty
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Michelle Ardiel is the Director of Photographer Operations at Flytographer, the very first platform created for vacation photographers that now works with 500 photographers in 300 cities around the world.Passionate about seeing the connections between travelers and local photographers, Michelle fosters community with intentional global retreats tha…
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Melissa Ng: Company Culture Comes before Revenue
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Melissa Ng is a digital nomad, Product UX Designer and the CEO & founder of Melewi, a fully remote design company that’s worked with clients such as McDonalds, Visa, and Samsung.Melissa has been leading a remote and digital nomad lifestyle for 8+ years.We sat down with her (remotely, of course) to ask about her beginnings as a remote worker, the st…
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Kristi DePaul: The Remote Worker is the CEO of their own Career
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Today's guest is Kristi DePaul, the CEO of Founders Marketing, a company that creates bold content strategy for the future of learning and work. Kristi is a regular contributor on Remote.co's blog, where' she's contributed over 160 blog posts. I tried my best to get out of Kristi's way here, her view on remote work is one of empowerment and self-di…
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Darren Buckner from Workfrom: The Future of Work is Remote and On-Demand
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We sat down with Darren Buckner, CEO and founder of Workfrom, to discuss remote work, coworking spaces, how an idea was born out of his own need and how remote workers can find better coworking spaces in the future.Notes:- We talk about the isolation of remote work and how, even though most of us work from home the majority of the time, we crave th…
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Marie Richter from Billie: Fun Benefits and Perks Do Not Make a Culture
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There's an overwhelming agreement that culture impacts every corner of your business. 94% of executives and 88% of employees believe a distinct workplace culture is important to business success. But why is corporate culture so important?We invited Marie Richter, VP of People at the fintech startup Billie, to talk about company culture - not the fo…
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Liam Martin from Time Doctor: Remote Business is the Future
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We’re excited for today’s interview with Liam Martin, a man so dedicated to the remote lifestyle that he:⌛️ Built a tool called Time Doctor to help remote companies perform better🌴 Founded a conference for remote company leaders🌎 Worked remotely himself for over a decadeIn episode #11 on the More Beach Meetings Podcast by Surf Office, Liam talks ab…
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Mary Hartberg from Close.io: Building Culture in a Remote Team with Retreats
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Welcome back to another episode of More Beach Meetings, where we discuss team retreats, awesome remote and distributed companies and the stories behind them. Our guest today is Mary Hartberg from Close.io, where she works as the Director of People Operations. We talk about company retreats and what they do to build a culture as a fully remote compa…
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Ken Weary from Hotjar: Working Remotely While Traveling the World… With a Family!
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Leaving life as you know it to travel the world and become a digital nomad can be a pretty scary thought.What about doing the same, with your entire family?Some might think he’s crazy, but that’s exactly what Ken Weary does. Working as VP of Operations for Hotjar, Ken’s been traveling the world with his wife and children for the past 4 years.In tod…
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Stephanie Lee from Buffer: Company Culture is Created at Retreats
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Stephanie Lee is the Operation Manager in Buffer and we discussed their company culture, approach to transparency, core values, hiring process in a distributed company and company retreats.By More Beach Meetings
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Davide Folletto from Automattic: Why Every Big Company is Remote
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Davide is a Speaker, Coach, and Design Principal in Automattic's Design Operations team. Previously he designed various parts of the WordPress experience – across web and mobile – and the upcoming WooCommerce mobile apps. He's a polymath with a wide range of interests, all contributing to his perspective on design.…
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We talked with Leon Barnard, a designer and writer for Balsamiq. This distributed company has more than 30 employees spread across the world, and Leon told us how they work remotely, what their biggest challenges are and how their team collaborates across continents and time zones.By More Beach Meetings
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Sebastien Grosjean: Turning a passion into a high quality product
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Sebastien Grosjean founded BookingSync with a view of turning his passion for vacation rentals into a leading, high-quality product. As a totally distributed company, we spoke with Sebastien about what it’s like working fully remote, and also some of the difficulties he has faced with this process. You can find out more about them here: https://www…
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Noel Tock: Open source platforms and the life of a hardcore digital nomad
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Noel Tock is the Chief Product Officer at Human Made, one of thirteen WordPress VIP agencies. We had an incredibly interesting chat with Noel, discussing open source platforms, the problems that come with being a digital nomad working for a distributed company, and the benefits of company retreats. Covering a range of topics from mental health to t…
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Deborah Rippol: Leading the way with culture and the future of social media
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Deborah is a People Success Manager at Buffer, a company that is renowned for the way it’s revolutionised social media. But it’s also renowned for the culture that it’s fostered at the company, and so we spoke with Deborah on where the future of social media is heading, how Buffer hire remotely, and just what makes their culture so great.Join Buffe…
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Sissel Hansen: Building an entrepreneur's 'Lonely Planet' from the road
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Sissel has been an entrepreneur since a young age. We discussed her story in greater depth, and how it’s led to her current project; Startup Guides. Looking for some inspiration? Look no further.By More Beach Meetings
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Laïla von Alvensleben: Why we'll be seeing more companies go remote
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Laila is a designer at Hanno.co, a digital product design team all over the world. We spoke with Laila about remote work, where she sees the industry heading, and her awesome & growing ‘remote workshops’ project.By More Beach Meetings
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