Conversations with Quuu

In the season finale of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, Lucia chats to founder of Time Doctor and Running Remote, Liam Martin. They discuss:

- Liam's career path: from Olympic level figure skater to tech entrepreneur

- Why the real route to success is (constant!) failure

- Liam's thoughts on 'the distraction economy' and the longterm effects of social media on our psyches 

- The story behind Time Doctor and how it's trying to give everyone on planet earth the opportunity to work remotely 

- Running Remote's mission and why digital nomadism shouldn't be the only face of remote work

- The sociological implications of the remote working movement 

- Which qualities to look for in remote employees 

- Why YouTube is the best social media platform for marketers and content creators right now

Where to follow Liam: https://www.youtube.com/runningremote

Running Remote: https://runningremote.com

Time Doctor: https://timedoctor.com

In the ninth episode of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, Lucia chats to entrepreneur and leading podcast host, Dan Murray-Serter. We discuss:

- Whether doing an English degree is a waste of time

- Dan's career path so far, which includes founding a series of successful (and not so successful!) startups, from a QR code advertising platform targeted at student drinking games to multi-award-winning fashion app, Grabble

- How the downsides of becoming vegan led him to start his current venture, Dawn

- The three simple habits that help Dan function better as an entrepreneur

- What he's learned from creating his chart-topping podcast, Secret Leaders

- The fetishisation of stress and why he lets his interns have a lie in

- How to address gender imbalance in the tech industry 

Where to follow Dan:

Instagram, Twitter & LinkedIn: @danmurrayserter
Podcast: https://www.secretleaders.com 

Dawn: https://www.trydawn.co

In the eighth episode of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, B2B SaaS Consultant Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré returns to the show for a special episode on diversity and inclusion in tech. We discuss:

- Key statistics that highlight issues with diversity and inclusion in the tech industry

- What organisations can do to create more inclusive workplaces

- What we can all do on an individual level to improve the tech industry

- Responses to different types of prejudice 

- How to approach socially conscious marketing campaigns

Resources, communities and people to follow:

• Teen Vogue article: We need to talk about digital blackface in reaction GIFs
• Vessy’s new Diversity report
• To learn about disability, follow Imani on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Imani_Barbarin 
• https://twitter.com/EricaJoy
• https://twitter.com/ekp 
• Black Girls Code
• Hack the Hood
• Bitch Media
• The Body is Not an Apology
• The Establishment
  

Where to follow Nichole:

• Twitter: @NikkiElizDemere
• Website: https://nicholeelizabethdemere.com
  

In the seventh episode of Conversations with Quuu, we're switching up the usual format to celebrate the release of our shiny new app update! Quuu's co-founders, Daniel Kempe and Matthew Spurr, join Lucia to discuss what went wrong for Quuu in 2018 and how we're bouncing back in 2019.

Quuu's blog: https://blog.quuu.co
Lucia's Medium: https://medium.com/@luciafontaina
Dan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/danielkempe
Matt's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewSpurr

In the sixth episode of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, Lucia Fontaina-Powell chats to SaaS Marketing & Growth Advisor and Founder Georgiana Laudi about:

- How Twitter introduced her to a career in SaaS marketing

- What it’s really like to work at an early stage tech startup

- The mistakes she sees tech founders making time and time again in their marketing

- Why and how early or mid career marketers should make space for strategic thinking

- Her personal relationship with work-life balance

- Why she’s excited about the state of diversity in tech

Where to follow Georgiana:

Twitter: @ggiiaa 

Forget The Funnel: https://forgetthefunnel.com 

A Better CX: https://abettercx.com 

In the fifth episode of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, Lucia chats to Digital Marketing Strategist and founder of Foundation Marketing, Ross Simmonds, about:

- Why he’s always wanted to work for himself and how he made that dream possible

- His advice for budding marketers looking to build a successful career

- The reason he doesn’t track his employees’ hours

- The inspiration behind the content he creates

- His approach to establishing a healthy work-life balance

- How he thinks brands should handle creating socially conscious marketing campaigns

Where to follow Ross's work:

Personal blog: https://rosssimmonds.com 

Twitter: @TheCoolestCool

Foundation Inc blog: https://foundationinc.co 

In the fourth episode of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, Lucia chats to Louis Grenier, host of the Everyone Hates Marketers podcast and Content Lead at Hotjar, about:

- Why he disagrees with the idea that marketers are ‘creatives'

- The ‘aha’ moment that made him choose a career in marketing

- The side hustle that saved him when his first business resulted in burnout 

- The number one lesson he’s learned from interviewing over 100 leading marketers and founders 

- Why he thinks his podcast, Everyone Hates Marketers, has been so successful

- His advice on whether you should prioritise content promotion over content creation

- The reason he thinks it’s worth investing in outsourcing as an entrepreneur 

- His views on the relationship between remote working and productivity 

Where to follow Louis:

Podcast: https://everyonehatesmarketers.com 

Hotjar blog: https://www.hotjar.com/blog 

Email: [email protected] 

In the third episode of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, Lucia chats to blogger, content marketer and side hustle specialist Ryan Robinson about:

- What he learned from starting a business with nothing to fall back on when he invented the iStash in college
- How he's build up a monthly readership of 250k+ on his blog and his SEO strategies for ranking 1st page on Google
- His advice for freelancers on everything from personal branding to charging the rates you deserve
- The pros and cons of working remotely
- How to address unacceptable behaviour in the tech industry

Where to follow Ryan's work:
Blog: https://www.ryrob.com
Twitter: @TheRyanRobinson

In the second episode of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, Lucia chatted to LinkedIn Top Voice and Forbes contributor, Goldie Chan. Have a listen to find out:

- The story of Goldie’s career and how she bounced back from rock bottom when her first business failed

- What Goldie loves and hates about working in social media (including how she deals with trolls!)

- How she got to 4 million views on LinkedIn Video (and counting!)

- Her tips for creating video content and overcoming shyness 

- Her approach to self-care as an entrepreneur 

Where to follow Goldie’s work:

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/goldiechan/#22b22fdf7baa 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/goldie/ 

Welcome back to the Conversations with Quuu podcast! To kick off season two, host Lucia Fontaina-Powell had a fascinating chat with entrepreneur and content marketer, Nat Eliason. Have a listen to find out:

- How Nat got into the martech space

- Why he was able to grow his content marketing agency Growth Machine to $100K in MRR in a year

- The one thing he says sets apart startups that succeed from those that fail

- His honest opinions on the state of social media and content marketing in 2019

- Why Nat and Lucia both hate ‘struggle porn’

Here are a couple of Nat's blog posts that we discuss:

https://www.nateliason.com/blog/delete-facebook

https://www.nateliason.com/blog/struggle-porn

And here's where you can follow Nat's work:

Twitter: @nateliason

Blog: https://www.nateliason.com 

Podcast: https://madeyouthinkpodcast.com 

Growth Machine: https://www.yourgrowthmachine.com

Cup and Leaf: https://www.cupandleaf.com