Member Spotlight: Rachel McFadden
Before Rachel McFadden was building websites, she was a civil engineer and construction project manager (which ...
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Member Spotlight: Brian Johnson
Before Brian Johnson was building websites, he was an aspiring musician (and even made it pretty ...
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Member Spotlight: Barbora Ruzickova
Barbora Ruzickova’s path into web design is a fun one. She started out as a translator ...
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Member Spotlight: Jenifer Miller
Jenifer has been working with WordPress for a lot longer than she’s been running an agency. ...
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Member Spotlight: Pat Williams
Pat has been building websites since the days of FrontPage and Dreamweaver, but what really stood ...
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Member Spotlight: Tia Wood
Tia Wood has been working with WordPress for about 15 years, but she’s seen the ecosystem ...
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Member Spotlight: Dan Barrett
Most agency owners stay agency owners. The work pulls you in, the clients keep coming, and ...
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Member Spotlight: Craig Caruso
Craig Caruso has one of those career paths that only makes sense in the web world. ...
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Member Spotlight: Markus Chvojka
Markus Chvojka has one of those backgrounds that makes a lot of sense once you hear ...
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Member Spotlight: Mayank Majeji
Mayank Majeji’s story feels a lot like the way many of us got into this industry: ...
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Member Spotlight: Mark Westguard
Mark Westguard has been building things with computers since before many of us even knew what ...
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Member Spotlight: John Serbell
John Serbell didn’t exactly take the traditional route into web design. Film degree in 2008 (brutal ...
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Member Spotlight: London Box
London’s path to web design isn’t the straight-line… She studied oil painting. Worked front-of-house in restaurants. ...
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Member Spotlight: Holly Neumann
Holly Neumann has been doing this work long enough to know the difference between something that ...
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Member Spotlight: Annie Middleton
Annie Middleton didn’t set out to start a hosting company — she just wanted websites to ...
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Member Spotlight: Tabitha DeSeranno
Before Tabitha DeSeranno was designing websites, she was a server — the kind of job where ...
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Member Spotlight: Patrick Whitson
Patrick Whitson didn’t stumble into WordPress last year — he’s been working in tech since long ...
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Member Spotlight: Marc Hyde
Marc Hyde’s path into web work didn’t start with code or plugins — it started with ...
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Member Spotlight: Brad Nault
Brad didn’t set out to build an agency empire. He set out to build a life ...
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Member Spotlight: Sam Sayer
Sam’s path into web started long before WordPress entered the picture — in print studios, brand ...
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Member Spotlight: Erika Dickstein
Erika Dickstein doesn’t just build websites — she helps businesses find their spark and translate it ...
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Member Spotlight: Cody Clifton
Before launching Squeak Media in 2019, Cody Clifton spent a decade as an EMT — which, ...
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Member Profile: Elsie Gilmore
Elsie Gilmore has been at this game for over two decades — long before WordPress was ...
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Member Profile: BJ Bowen
BJ Bowen’s path into web design and SEO has been anything but linear. From her early ...
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Member Spotlight: Melodie Moore
Melodie Moore didn’t start in tech—she started with hula hoops. What began as a professional hoop ...
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Member Spotlight: Kristie Parker
Kristie Parker has been an entrepreneur since her early 20s — first as the co-owner of ...
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Member Spotlight: Alex Florescu
Alex’s journey into the WordPress world started back in 2012 with a simple observation: most website ...
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Member Spotlight: Jaiden Navarrete
Jaiden’s journey into web design started with a curious moment — overhearing a friend talk about ...
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Member Spotlight: Michael MacGinty
Michael’s journey into web design came after a lifetime of entrepreneurship — from running his family’s ...
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Member Spotlight: Greg Dietrich
Greg didn’t set out to start an agency — it found him when a sudden layoff ...
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Member Spotlight: Ryan McCain
From running a BBS out of his bedroom in the ‘80s to diving deep into SEO ...
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Member Spotlight: Marcus Ohanesian
Marcus started out designing band flyers and coding websites in Notepad — and turned that DIY ...
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Member Spotlight: Christian Van ‘t Hof
Christian isn’t just a sharp designer and strategist — he’s one of my good friends and ...
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Member Spotlight: Leanne Mitton
Leanne has been part of The Admin Bar from the very beginning — one of our ...
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Member Spotlight: Garrett Nafzinger
Garrett didn’t just stumble into digital strategy — he spent over 15 years deep in the ...
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Member Spotlight: Lee Drozak
If you know Lee, you know she’s the kind of person who builds with both heart ...
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Member Spotlight: Bobby Broughton
Bobby’s journey into WordPress started with a favor for his mom — and snowballed into a ...
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Member Spotlight: Cheryl Microutsicos
Cheryl has been in the design world since the days of listservs and HTML hand-coding — ...
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Member Spotlight: Stéphane Menet
Stéphane’s been in the WordPress space since the early 2000s, alternating between being an employee and ...
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Member Spotlight: Taylor Drayson
Taylor Drayson got his start in WordPress by helping with product data entry as a teenager ...
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Member Spotlight: Howard Spaeth
Howard didn’t take the typical path into web design—he was fresh out of college, working at ...
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Member Spotlight: Alisha Thomas
Alisha’s journey into web design started way back in her teen years, when she built her ...
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Member Spotlight: Nirmal Desai
When Nirmal Desai entered the WordPress world in 2013, he didn’t have a plan—just a deep ...
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Member Spotlight: Jessie Jenkins
Jessie has been running her own creative business since 1995. What started in print design eventually ...
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Member Spotlight: Jeff Mankini
Jeff’s agency started in 2020, but before that, Jeff spent years in enterprise IT, which has ...
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Member Spotlight: Danielle Zarcaro
Danielle never planned on running their own business… In fact, they started out studying to be ...
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Member Spotlight: Sandy Wiles
Sandy Wiles didn’t set out to be a web designer — she started as a virtual ...
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Member Spotlight: Ron Johnson
When Ron started CyberOptik back in 2002, the web looked very different — and the idea ...
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