About this episode
Topher DeRosia chats with Russell Aaron about his journey in the WordPress community and the podcasting landscape.
Introducing Russell Aaron I didn’t learn WordPress at a fancy college or career academy. I graduated from the University of YouTube. My internship was the Las Vegas WordPress Meetup and WordCamp Vegas. The rest I learned building mortgage company platforms, working for casinos, inside managed WordPress hosts, and at some of the best WordPress development and support shops on the planet. Show Notes For more on Russell, check out his website: https://russellenvy.com Transcript: Topher DeRosia: All right. Here we go. Hey folks. Russell Aaron: And three, two, one. Topher DeRosia: Hey folks. Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Topher, and I’m here with Russell Aaron. I assume I pronounced that right, because it’s not that hard, but you never know. Russell Aaron: You know, so many people call me Aaron. They’ll tag me and they go, “Thanks, Aaron.” And I’m like, “You know, it’s Russell, but it’s cool.” Topher DeRosia: Yeah, nice. All right. Well, I saw a post on LinkedIn the other day from you talking about podcasts having the same people on episodes all the time. I thought, “Oh, I gotta have that guy on my podcast.”…
People in this episode
Host: Topher DeRosia
Guest: Russell Aaron
Topics covered
- WordPress
- podcasting
- careers
- networking
- technology
Keywords
- WordPress
- podcast
- Russell Aaron
- Topher DeRosia
- networking
- careers
- Las Vegas
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: University of YouTube, Las Vegas WordPress Meetup, WordCamp Vegas, mortgage company, casinos, managed WordPress hosts, WordPress, WordPress development and support shops
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