Kris is the founder of Reminiscence by Kris LeDonne. She is a New Jersey-based legacy maker who focuses on memory preservation by assisting her clients in finding lost and current memories from videos and pictures and organizing and protecting printed and digital memories. She believes in preserving, managing, and enjoying photos on a new level. A former educator, Kris was working with photo albums on the side and has over 18 years of experience in memory preservation and still enjoys...

Sabrina St. Peter of Chicago is the owner of SmartSpark Business Solutions which provides bookkeeping services for service-based small businesses, especially those in the marketing industries like content creators, public relations, marketing, advertising, using a digital product to help people track their income and expenses throughout the year. Currently, Sabrina sets up her main workspace so that it all tucks into her hall closet and uses Focusmate for virtual coworking accountability. She...

Debbie Page, of Harrisville, New Hampshire, has worn several hats during 18 years of her work-from-home journey, starting as an RN and eventually also as a lactation consultant who met with clients in her front office. She started to work part time with her now late husband with the business he owned, downsizing a warehouse as they embraced drop-shipping and brought the offices home. Debbie eventually took over the Louis E. Page fencing supplies business after he passed away and is still...

Jubee Vilceus is a co-founder of Yellow Tail Tech, an EdTech company based out of Silver Spring, Maryland. His wife, Paloma, is his co-founder; and they started a training company for people with no technical background who are looking for a career change, teaching them either Linux operating system or AWS cloud computing. They work with their team to set up their students for success, including help preparing for interviews, so they can land jobs and make a great income out of the gate as...

Michelle Fernandez of Miami, Florida, runs a boutique marketing agency where she and her team of remote contractors work with Facebook and Instagram ads and funnels. Michelle came to the entrepreneurial side after working a long time in the mortgage industry and speaks about how she has handled the switch and which routines from that time she's retained and how she's traded the extremely long hours for more flexibility and freedom. In this episode, Michelle discusses creating boundaries at...

Caroline Wood is an introvert who supports other introverts to build successful businesses. She does this through helping introverts design business models and services that work with their introversion. She offers a service called the thoughtful business pause where she helps people take a step back from their current business and look at how it is and isn't servicing them. Most of her clients are people who work from home, often solopreneurs, many who are transitioning out of an office...

Sara Hudson is back for a follow-up interview after a job change where she’s now working on the benefits operations team at Google. She's still based out of her same home office just outside of Houston, Texas, but she made a leap and said goodbye to the company she had been at for 15 years. In the past couple of years, Sara has also gone from being relatively new to LinkedIn to seeing the power it has for job seekers and recruiters to find each other and attributes the connections she made...

Liam Martin is a Canadian remote-first expert who cofounded Time Doctor, a time and productivity tracking tool, as well as Staff.com, an outsourcing company. Liam is also a co-organizer of Running Remote, a conference for those who are building/scaling remote teams. Liam is passionate about using transparency in time management in companies from the top-down, building trust, and empowering teams to work whenever and wherever they want. He has worked remotely for about 20 years at this point...

Mark Williams is a controls engineer at Egan Company who is living in South Saint Paul, Minnesota with his family. He is working in a flex/hybrid role where he can work nearly all of the time from his home with the option to use a drop-in desk as needed on a location about 45 minutes away. Like many others, he and his coworkers at his previous job unexpectedly started working from home when the pandemic hit; however, his role was more hands-on there as he had to do measurements in person at...

Mark Degallier, owner and web developer at Little Light Media, appreciates the benefits and challenges of working from home. Being empty nesters and working from home, Mark and his wife, Elisabeth, moved from Wisconsin to sunny Arizona in 2018, specifically to Oro Valley, of the greater Tucson area, after researching the best place for them to settle down. Before entrepreneurship and working from home was "cool", they tried it when they were first married and having their first child back in...

Eric Warner is an IT compliance analyst for Kaplan, Inc, who currently lives in La Crosse, Wisconsin, a small city on the Mississippi River at the Minnesota border. Although he worked in the office in the past, his direct team was not in his local office but rather based all over the place, where there would sometimes be people in conference rooms meeting with people in other offices, including home offices. So, when everyone started working remotely, his direct team members were accustomed...

Emily Langr currently lives in Rochester, Minnesota, and works as an account executive for Metro Sales Inc, a local office supply company, specializing in photocopiers and the like. Although she works directly with clients and travels within her territory in her city, Emily was given the opportunity to work from home in a hybrid model about 2 days a week. She does meet with some of her clients virtually so schedules their Zoom appointments for the days she's working from home. In this...

Paul Glover is a performance improvement coach based out of Downers Grove, just out of Chicago, Illinois. He started working from home 20 years ago and has found that he can connect and listen well through voice calls with his clients. He focuses on empathetic listening and questions as a way to build relationships and connect with his clients. In this episode, Paul shares a message about the importance of self-care for those who work from home and feels that self-care requires discipline...

Andrew Jones is a data analyst who, prior to March 2020, was working from home just once a week as a way to help with his hour-long commute. Andrew is originally from San Diego, California; but he has lived in Arizona for 8 years. He's worked in various analyst roles since 2014. In 2016, he completed an MBA and started working as a senior quality analyst for an identity protection firm. He now works as a data analyst for a consulting firm and is part of a small team that is contracted to work...

Megan Burk is a certified feng shui consultant based out of Brooklyn, New York, who has taken a special interest in home offices and started WFH Feng Shui. She is passionate about helping her clients feel good in their work spaces and homes by using feng shui principles in ways that are easy to implement. She initially worked as a foot reflexologist all over NYC doing corporate health fairs, and this led to an interest in Chinese healing arts that focus on balancing the five elements in our...

Ellen Goodwin is a productivity consultant, TEDx speaker, and author who uses neuroscience-based principles to enable individuals and businesses to overcome all types of procrastination, be more focused and manage their energy instead of their time so they can be more efficient and effective with their lives. Ellen believes that there is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to productivity, which is why she advocates for experimentation to find the tools and techniques that will work...

Chris Addams is a digital transformation specialist, software architecture consultant, and podcast host of That Tech Show, the podcast that reveals the magicians behind "magic" in the technology industry. His background includes helping bring Amazon's Prime Video to the UK, and he's worked for other large corporations in the past as well. In this episode, Chris talks about how he's been renovating his home in London for 4 years. When he's not working from home; and recently he's been...

Katie Matthews works from her home in Portland, Oregon, as the leader of the Customer Success team at The Presentation Company, a women-owned consulting firm helping enterprise customers create a culture of storytelling within their teams. Katie has worked from home with TPC for nine years, but she's been working from home for 15 years altogether. She's been the director of Global Accounts & Training Operations, with rare onsite or work trips. In this episode, Katie shares how she...

Elissa Unton is the CEO at ArcVida, a modern career guidance company based out of Los Angeles, California. Elissa partnered with career happiness coach Anna Hunter, and together they've been able to take career coaching to the next level. ArcVida uses an online software platform that provides ambitious U.S. professionals with the structure, expert guidance, and community to find and land fulfilling work, faster. Prior to founding ArcVida, Elissa spent several years mentoring college...

Tina Sequeira recently left a full-time remote work position in order to focus on Trouvailles, her travel-themed subscription box business that she had been developing on the side. Tina is well-traveled and is currently located with her husband and daughter near Montreal in Quebec, Canada; however, she originally spent the first 15 years of her life in Dubai, UAE, which was an excellent launch point for her family to travel internationally each summer as they left to enjoy cooler weather...

Carol Delmonico of Bend, Oregon, is a life coach, mentor, and author with a background as an RN in health coaching. She enjoys helping people focus on their mental well-being and now works with people who are discouraged by the current status quo lifestyle and want to live in line with their deeper values and have more meaning and joy every day. Carol has been helping her clients transition through some of the changes the pandemic has brought into the lives of so many, and she is quick to say...

Jennie Whitt is a busy mother of two in Indianapolis, who has undergone a lot of changes in the past year or so, including buying and moving into her neighbor’s house, starting a doctorate program, leaving a role in a corporation to branch out as a consultant, and starting a pop-up craft store in a former dental office inside of her home. In addition, she's actively involved in her local community in more than one capacity as well as has created a couple of online communities, including one...

Elizabeth is a grant writer with a background in plant biology, dance, and public administration as well as education. She has worked remotely for VIPKID and Orange English as well as writing grants remotely.

Louise Hopkin is a professional organizer and owner of a business called The Space Reclaimers, based out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She's originally from New Zealand, so has made a few big moves in her lifetime; and, over the years, she has been on a quest looking for a job that suits her well and has done a mix match of full-time office work and some administrative assistant work. About 5 years ago, Louise was drawn to helping others reclaim their space by helping them downsize, declutter,...

Jan Heirtzler has been sewing ring slings for babywearing families for 20 years out of Durham, New Hampshire. She is well known among certain pockets of the babywearing community, and her company Sleeping Baby Productions was considered by many to be the gold standard for handcrafted ring slings. She was busy sewing 40+ hours a week for a few years; however, things have slowed down, and she's ready to consider her next adventure. Jan has announced that she will be changing gears and closing...