Running Remote Podcast

Running Remote is a podcast about remote work and building – scaling effective, remote teams.

Join us as we dive inside the minds and processes of CEOs, managers, nomads, and dynamic entrepreneurs who are building impactful remote businesses and organizations through this new and innovative movement.

Theyā€™ve thrown out the traditional rules and business textbooks, and are actively finding new ways of organizing their remote teams, driving productivity, and scaling their growth.

Steve Hoffman, CEO of Founders Space

This week, we are talking to Nacho Rodriguez, the Founder of the repeople coliving and NomadCity conference. Nacho is a well-known innovator in digital nomad space and the ambassador of remote work on Gran Canaria islands. In this episode Nacho talks…

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Karen Mangia, VP MarketĀ Insights @ Salesforce

This week, our guest is Karen Mangia, vice president of Customer and Market Insights at Salesforce. Karen published two books in 2020, ā€œListen Up: How to Tune in to Customersā€ and ā€œWorking from Home: Making the New Normal work for you.ā€   In this podcast, Karen discusses various factors in determining

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Till Pieper, Co-founder and CEO, CoScreen

A well-known name in Running Remote circles and a star from our Running Remote event in November 2020, our guest today is co-founder and CEO of CoScreen, Till Pieper. The winner of the 2020 Hottest Remote Startup contest, CoScreen helps coworkers be more efficient, reduce misunderstandings, and, most importantly, get

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Ho Yin Cheung, Founder & CEO, Remo

This week, weā€™re happy to have one of the more reputable names in the remote work world as our guest. Ho Yin Cheung is the founder and CEO of Remo, the virtual event platform. In this episode, we talk about Remoā€™s past, how it came to pivot to what it

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Rahul Aggarwal, Founder & CEO, Designhill

Our guest this week, talking to us all the way from India, is Rahul Aggarwal, the founder and CEO of the freelance design platform, Designhill. If the future is freelance, Designhill is a company at the forefront of understanding what the future of work is like. In this episode, we

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Carlos Escutia, Founder and CEO, GroWrk Remote

With hundreds of millions of people working remotely for the first time, companies want to know if theyā€™re doing this right. Our guest this week, will help you find out if you are. Carlos Escutia joins us from San Diego, California. Heā€™s the CEO and founder of Growrk Remote, which

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Sondre Rasch, Co-founder and CEO, SafetyWing (YC W18)

Our guest this week is Sondre Rasch, co-founder and CEO of SafetyWing. SafetyWing offers travel, medical, and health insurance to nomads and remote companies around the world. Sondre and his team are innovators in the digital nomad space, offering global insurance to remote workers. In this episode, we talk about

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Wayne Richard, Partner and COO, Bean Ninjas

On the Running Remote podcast, weā€™ve talked to individuals from so many different areas of business. But, this is our first conversation with a finance nerd. Our guest this week is Wayne Richard, COO of Bean Ninjas, a Xero bookkeeping business for online businesses based in Tucson, Arizona. He jumped

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Aydin Y Mirzaee, CEO & Co-Founder, Fellow.app

This week, our guest is a worthy adversary, if you will, and a podcast host himself, Aydin Mirzaee, the host of the Supermanagers Podcast. More importantly, heā€™s focused on changing how companies conduct meetings worldwide via his company, Fellow.app, where heā€™s the CEO and co-founder. In this episode, we talk

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Sahin Boydas, CEO & Founder, Remote Team

We have a returning guest on our show today – Sahin Boydas, CEO & Founder of Remote Team – an all-in-one Remote OS that powers remote teams operations. This time, Sahin shares his own fascinating story – from selling a massive technology business in Turkey to arriving in Silicon valley

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Daniel Ramsey, CEO, MyOutDesk

Daniel Ramsey is the founder and CEO of MyOutDesk, a company with more than 13 years of experience helping CEOs and entrepreneurs around the world grow virtually. In this podcast, he discusses how a blended model can allow you to grow your business, save time, and lower operating costs through

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Sharon Koifman, Founder, DistantJob

Sharon Koifman is the founder of DistantJob with more than 15 years of experience in the tech, recruitment, & HR world. In this podcast, this interesting thinker will discuss the talent side of remote work and how to promote worker creativity and a better quality of life.

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Raj Singh, Co-founder and CEO, Loop Team

Raj Singh is the co-founder and CEO of Loop Team and has more than 20 years of experience building products. This Silicon Valley veteran sold his last company, Tempo AI, to Salesforce. This podcast focuses on how to create a remote work environment that facilitates the type of in-person interactions that

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Darren Murph

Darren Murph, Head of Remote, GitLab

With over a decade of experience, Darren Murph joined GitLab to head up all things remote. With over 1200 people and no offices, Darren follows a “handbook first” approach to manage it all. Listen in as Darren dives deep into how GitLab manages their distributed team. 

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Kean Graham, Founder of Monetize More

Kean Graham, founder of Monetize More shares his insights in creating a very large distributed team all over the globe. Starting his career as a growth hacker, he eventually created a way to help companies monetize their web traffic. On a hike up Mt. Machu Picchu, Kean realized he wanted

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Sahin Boydas, Founder of RemoteTeam

Sahin Boydas, the founder of RemoteTeam.com has a unique way of looking at all things remote and business. RemoteTeam is a backend software to help manage your remote team and Sahin has a great story. From hiring a comedian to write their website content to how they build culture, you

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Amir Salihefendic

Amir Salihefendic, Founder and CEO of Doist

Amir Salihefendic, founder of Doist, started Doist to as a remote first company. Not only does Doist have a remote team, but they support remote teams. Amir details how important hiring is for their team and why trust is the most important aspect of their hiring process.  Listen in as

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Jon VerLee, Founder of Breeze

When Jon VerLee created Breeze Church Management Software, he didn’t realize the thrill he would get when watching his first remote employee succeed. Now with 70 employees, Jon feels tremendous honor stewarding his remote team.  Listen in as Jon describes how he on-boards his team, the strategies he deployed to

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Alex Kistenev, Founder of Standuply

Alex Kistenev, CEO and co-founder of Standuply, has a fully distributed team to run his business. Based in Siberia, Alex describes how he collaborates with his team through multiple timezones as well as creating better communication amongst everyone. Download the episode now and learn more at www.runningremote.com

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Shauna Moran, Founder of Operate Remote

Shauna Moran started her career at Shopify and noticed that the landscape of remote work was changing. A curious person, Shauna is very passionate about how emotional intelligence plays a big role in remote work teams.  Now, Shauna works with companies to execute on their values, creating effective company cultures

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Al Chen, Solutions Architect, Coda

Al Chen was a superfan of Coda before he came onboard as a solutions architect for the company. As a founder, now a remote team member of Coda, Al tell us how remote work is helping him work for the company he loves and how the company he loves helps

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Hiten Shah, Co-Founder of fyi

Serial entrepreneur, Hiten Shah, is the co-founder of several SaaS companies including FYI, Crazy Egg, QuickSprout and KISSmetrics. Listen in as Hiten describes how his 16 years of managing a remote team lends itself to some brilliant ways he’s navigating the changing landscape of remote work. From setting expectations to

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Karla Singson, founder of Proximity Placements

Karla Singson started college at age 15 and graduated at 19. Building several businesses, Karla has perfected her skills in hiring a remote team. Her hands off approach is what she attributes to high trust within her team. Her company helps entrepreneurs and business owners find the best remote workers

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Cyle Patnode, founder of Your Online Advisors

Cyle comes from generations of entrepreneurs in his family – and he knew he’d follow in the same footsteps. As the founder of Your Online Advisors, Cyle is running his distributed team in a process driven way. By spending the time to create the right processes, Cyle has saved his

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Aimee Tariq, Founder of Life With Health

Aimee Tariq is the best selling author of the book A Life With Health. Battling a debilitating illness, Aimee had to become her own doctor to heal herself. From there, Aimee has dedicated her life to helping others with their health. With a particular love of helping entrepreneurs, Aimee and

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Josh Forti, founder of The Think Different Theory

Josh Forti created The Think Different Theory to help understand the mind and how it plays into our success or failure. With a focus on asking fresh and interesting questions – Josh shares his insights with his audience. Implementing his think different theory with his audience was natural, but he

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Brianna Carney, Founder of CrewBloom

Brianna Carney was traveling through the Philippines when she noticed that the workforce there was incredible. Her first hire became her co-founder after she realized that there were top performers all over the world. CrewBloom was created to shine a spotlight on the top outsourced talent all over the world

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Imran Tariq, Founder of Webmetrix

Immy came to the United States from the UK and had to start over. Becoming a mentee of Bob Proctor, Immy started a career in marketing. Webmetrix is an SEO company that uses remote workers all over the world.  Listen in as Immy talks about the number one reason he

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Allyn Reid, Founder of Woomanity

Allyn Reid founded a publishing house, a conference for entrepreneurs, a leadership development company and just launched a documentary film – all while having a remote team.  Listen in as Allyn talks leading with our souls rather than our brains and how we can engage others to move our businesses

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Cody McLain

Cody McLain, Founder of Support Ninja

At the age of 14, Cody and a friend decided to start a hosting company. After losing his parents, going into foster care, starting and selling companies and authoring a book – Cody now has Support Ninja offering backend support for startups.  Based in the Philippines, Cody tells us how

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Kyle Sulerud, Founder of AdLeg

From Junk Removal to Adwords – Kyle realized he was actually doing more marketing than junk removal and decided to help others with their marketing. That’s how AdLeg was born. With his fully remote team, Kyle gives us a behind the scenes look at how he services clients while his

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Ho Yin Cheung, Founder of Remo.co

Ho Yin Cheung started a social media growth company Riotly, and after attending the Running Remote Conference, was inspired to create Remo.co. Through having a distributed team, Ho Yin talks about the importance of empathy and connection with his remote workers so that company culture remains strong.

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Partner EOFire, Kate Erickson

EOFire is a daily podcast hosted by John Lee Dumas, online courses and masterminds. Kate Erickson is the backbone of the business for all things systems, processes and organization. Running a multi-million dollar business with a team of 5 distributed all over the world is a big task – one

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Co-Founder of Hope*Writers, Brian Dixon

Brian Dixon, along with two other remote co-founders, run Hope*Writers, a membership community for authors. Brian tells us the interesting ways they work with their founding teams as well as the employees.  With a focus on collaboration rather than competition, Brian and team are hyper-focused on culture. Brian’s team works

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CEO of Eventual Millionaire, Jaime Masters

Jamie Masters has perfected the processes needed to create an efficient remote team. Her approach to leading a remote team is very much about personal responsibility. Every challenge she’s faced with remote workers has been solved by taking responsibility for it and then creating creative solutions.  Listen in to hear

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Doist Head of Marketing, Brenna Loury

With team members distributed throughout 25 different countries, Doist has an innovative approach to their remote work teams. From 40 holiday days to an involved hiring process, Brenna gives us a glimpse of how things are done inside the culture of Todoist. 

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CEO of DevriX: Mario Peshev

Based in Bulgaria, DevriX is a WordPress Development Agency whose team is 3/4 remote. Mario started his company with a fully remote team and brought on more employees locally. Listen in as Mario describes the challenges of having a remote team as well as the surprising advantages he’s noticed. 

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CEO of Beutler Ink: William Beutler

William Beutler started his business with a fully remote team. As they grew and started to hire more team members, they embraced the remote aspect and found better talent as a result. With online tools and a yearly team summit – William and his team are able to have a

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Co-Founder of ScrapingHub: Pablo Hoffman

“Data is the new oil.” Pablo Hoffman is the co-founder of Scraping Hub, a data scraping tool for developers.  Scraping Hub is so distributed, that Pablo and his business partner live in totally different countries and have only met in person a handful of times. Pablo outlines how he and his

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She Works Abroad: Founder, Lynze Ballay

Lynze Ballay helps workers transform their current role into a remote position. This is a very insightful interview, as her approach is to help workers go abroad, but to also help companies with global mobility.  Lynze has a lot of amazing insights on shifts in the market and what companies

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CEO of FMTC, Brook Schaaf

Brook Schaaf started his career at a very young Zappos as an affiliate manager. Now, he owns and runs FMTC (For Me To Compete) a company that streamlines affiliate marketing.  Brook is very data-driven and takes a fresh approach to distributed teams. Listen in as he describes how he builds culture

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Sara Sutton

CEO of Flexjobs: Sara Sutton

Flexjobs is arguably one of the largest job portals for remote workers. Sara Sutton, CEO of Flexjobs brings us through the evolution of Flexjobs and the insights and trends she’s seen through the evolution of distributed teams.  

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CEO of Balsamiq, Peldi Guilizzoni

When Peldi Guilizzoni decided he wanted to be a solopreneur, he didn’t realize he was about to build something that was going to be so successful. Scaling to 3000 customers on his own, he decided he needed to build a team.  Once he realized he needed to bring on team

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CEO of AnswerConnect: Natalie Fung

When Natalie was just a temp, she literally “ran into” the founder of the company in the hall. In a quick conversation, she relayed the inefficiencies she saw within the company. He enlisted her to help fix these issues and now she’s CEO.  Natalie is a champion of “Anywhere” work

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CEO of Wifi Tribe: Diego Bejarano,

Diego Bejarano is the co-founder of Wifi Tribe, a community of driven creatives and entrepreneurs who travel the world and work from anywhere! In this episode, weā€™ll dive into what itā€™s like building a remote company that enables other nomads and remote workers to travel the world while building their

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iOS Platform Lead at Trov: Ben Sarrazin

Ben Sarrazin is the iOS Platform Lead at Trov, a platform that is revolutionizing the way people protect the things they care about. Trov has raised over $87M dollars over several rounds and has many of its team members working remotely as they expand operations internationally. Ben heads up the

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Wade Foster

Co-founder & CEO of Zapier: Wade Foster

Wade Foster is the co-founder & CEO of Zapier, a simple automation platform. In this episode, Wade shares how Zapier was remote from the beginning since it started as a side project and then became a small startup that was short on access to talent and other resources – so

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Director of People at Buffer: Courtney Seiter

Courtney Seiter is the Director of People at Buffer, a social media management platform. In this episode, Courtney shares with us how a culture of experimentation is driving the future of work at Buffer. Peek inside this very transparent company, from salaries to hiring practices, to the frameworks that drive

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