Podcasts by More Beach Meetings
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 doing it right!
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Natalie Nagele from Wildbit: Planning a People-First Offsite Experience from 2020-06-05T17:11:13
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 ...
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Dave Mastronardi from Gamestrong: A framework to master your brainstormings from 2020-05-21T13:09:35
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.
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Linda Koenig from Cardiologs: How to Plan a Family-style Retreat from 2020-02-06T05:42:06
Cardiologs is a medical technology company that uses AI to improve cardiac diagnostics. The team is largely based in Paris, although some members work remotely in Boston. Linda Koenig organizes the...
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Shane Metcalf from 15Five: Investing in People from 2020-02-06T05:37:30
Remote companies know that culture is important. But few companies spend as much time investing in culture as 15Five. Shane Metcalf, the company’s Co-Founder and Chief Culture Officer, believes tha...
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Laurel Farrer from Distribute Consulting: Remote Work for Economic Development from 2020-02-04T18:28:13
On this week’s episode of More Beach Meetings, we spoke to Laurel Farrer, a Remote Work Strategist and Consultant. Laurel works with some of the top remote-friendly companies in the world. She help...
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Fred Perrotta from Tortuga Backpacks: Building a Remote Physical Product Company from 2019-10-31T12:40:55
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...
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Monica Zeng from Aragon One: Leveraging Team Offsites from 2019-09-12T13:18:15
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 ...
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Wences Garcia from MarketGoo: Culture is deliberate: from 2019-08-23T09:04:12
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...
Shane Pearlman from Modern Tribe: Team Retreats for Employee Retention and Reflection from 2019-06-12T10:00:05
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 th...
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Michelle Ardiel from Flytographer: Our Global Meetups Stimulate Collaboration and Community Loyalty from 2019-05-31T13:58:25
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...
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Melissa Ng: Company Culture Comes before Revenue from 2019-05-15T23:27:33
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 h...
Kristi DePaul: The Remote Worker is the CEO of their own Career from 2019-05-01T19:05:24
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 ...
Darren Buckner from Workfrom: The Future of Work is Remote and On-Demand from 2019-04-17T14:13:55
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 spa...
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Marie Richter from Billie: Fun Benefits and Perks Do Not Make a Culture from 2019-04-03T10:04:10
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. <...
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Liam Martin from Time Doctor: Remote Business is the Future from 2019-03-20T10:22:27
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
? F...
Mary Hartberg from Close.io: Building Culture in a Remote Team with Retreats from 2019-03-06T14:35:15
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 C...
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Ken Weary from Hotjar: Working Remotely While Traveling the World… With a Family! from 2019-02-20T10:38:30
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...
Stephanie Lee from Buffer: Company Culture is Created at Retreats from 2019-02-04T14:55:26
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.
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Davide Folletto from Automattic: Why Every Big Company is Remote from 2019-01-28T17:25:14
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 ...
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Leon Barnard: The Story of Balsamiq from 2018-09-16T13:56:09
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 big...
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Sebastien Grosjean: Turning a passion into a high quality product from 2017-11-27T20:10:40
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 ...
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Noel Tock: Open source platforms and the life of a hardcore digital nomad from 2017-07-10T12:15:46
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 co...
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Deborah Rippol: Leading the way with culture and the future of social media from 2017-06-19T10:20:50
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...
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Sissel Hansen: Building an entrepreneur's 'Lonely Planet' from the road from 2017-02-20T21:46:24
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.
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Laïla von Alvensleben: Why we'll be seeing more companies go remote from 2017-02-20T21:04:58
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 work...
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