The Work Talk Show

DJ Waldow and Nick Westergaard reunite on a very special episode of Nick's podcast On Brand. Tune in as we reminisce, share some laughs, and make a special announcement about the show. Subscribe to the Work Talk Show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you like to listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We made it! With 100 episodes of The Work Talk Show under our belts, we took another super-sized episode to reflect on the past, present, and future of this podcast. While this show has been an amazing experience that has allowed us to talk to some of the best from the world of work, for right now, we’re putting the show on hiatus. Listen to the episode for the whole story and check back for updates in the future. Thanks for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do we celebrate 100 episodes of The Work Talk Show? With another special super-sized episode! Our 100th show is nearly twice as long as our regular episodes and features not one but two crazy smart guests. This week, we mark this milestone with return appearances from Ann Handley and Chris Brogan. A lot has changed for both of our guests, and we couldn’t wait to catch up with them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With 99 shows under our belt, we are getting closer to celebrating that big milestone. This week, we welcomed back two previous Work Talk Show guests—Tom Webster and Tim Hayden. Tom has the distinction of being our very first guest here on the podcast and gave us several travel tips that we often reference. And the Tim Hayden? It doesn’t get much better than that! These two also just co-authored a book together—The Mobile Commerce Revolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Allen Nance has been an email entrepreneur for fifteen years. As the founder and CEO of email marketing software company, WhatCounts, he has led the company to three Inc. 500 designations and 700 clients sending billions of emails around the globe. He is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology, blogs at www.allennance.com and tweets from @AllenNance. How does Allen get it done? We couldn’t wait to find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ron Price is an internationally recognized business advisor, coach, speaker, and author. Known for his creative and systematic thinking, business versatility, and practical optimism, Ron has worked in 15 countries and served in almost every level of executive management. As the former CEO of a multi-million dollar international company, Ron understands the challenges and risks of running a business and building a dynamic team. We couldn’t wait to chat about collaboration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Gostick is a global thought leader on workplace strategy and the author of several successful books on employee engagement. The Carrot Principle by Simon & Schuster has been a regular New York Times bestseller, and 24-Carrot Manager has been called a “must read for modern-day managers” by Larry King of CNN. His latest book, The Orange Revolution, was a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have a very special episode of The Work Talk Show podcast! For the past year, Nick has been talking about his industry-leading digital marketing conference, the Social Brand Forum. This year, the event featured a live recording of this podcast with Nick, and Chief Technical Officer Jeff Ostroff joined onstage by guests Reid Travis of Pancheros and Kary Delaria of Allianz Life for a discussion of how social media works at their organizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julia Gifford manages content marketing for the tech incubator and accelerator, Draugiem Group in Latvia. That’s right! Julia is our first Latvian guest! A self-described “jack of all trades, master of none,” she spends most of her time helping start-ups create content, get publicity, and more. How does Julia manage her own time? Turns out that she helps with an app for that! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erik Fisher is a busy guy. He’s the Community Manager for Social Media Examiner as well as a productivity podcaster and author. We like to think of his podcast, Beyond the To-Do List, as a sibling of The Work Talk Show. His book, Hit the Mark!, is about focus. As you can imagine, we couldn’t wait to talk with Erik about focus and how he gets it all done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Davis’ 20-year career has taken him from local television to The Today Show. He’s worked for The Muppets in New York, written for Charles Kuralt and marketed for tiny start-ups as well as Fortune 500 brands. In 2001, Andrew Davis co-founded Tippingpoint Labs, where he changed the way publishers think and how brands market their products. We couldn’t wait to talk to the best-selling author of Brandscaping about how he gets it all done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stacia Pierce is a success coach, author, and entrepreneur who helps women start and grow businesses through her work at LifeCoach2Women. She’s a woman of faith and a mentor to thousands of women around the world. She is also the host of the annual International Women’s Success Conference in Orlando. In 2010, she was a finalist in the OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network My OWN Show contest. We couldn’t wait to talk with her about how she gets it all done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How excited are we about some new updates to The Work Talk Show? We’re so excited that we had to record a host-only bonus episode just to tell you about these three things. First, we are just 10 episodes away from our 100th episode! We couldn’t have reached this milestone without you, and we want to celebrate with you. Tell us who you’d like to hear on The Work Talk Show’s big 100th episode by contacting us now! Now for those other updates … Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mack is the Founder and CEO of Mack Web, an online community and brand building company. She is a proud blogger for Moz, Conductor, and has been a speaker at MozCon, SearchLove, and other top industry conferences. Mack’s passion is growing a remarkable company, an exceptional team, and making a difference in the businesses we serve. Mack has an M.A. in English, is crazy about her family, and may be an avid Justin Timberlake fan. We couldn’t wait to chat with Mack! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mat Atkinson is the founder and CEO of ProofHQ, a powerful SaaS application that helps marketing managers and designers manage the process of getting feedback and approval on creative projects. Mat was inspired to start ProofHQ when he saw how much time people were spending emailing PDFs back and forth. Today, Atkinson helps teams with productivity and leads a virtual team of his own. How does he get it all done? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rachelle Lucas is a writer, spokesperson, and videographer. A foodie with a zest for life and passion for travel, Rachelle has been blogging since 2007. As her wanderlust grew, she pursued travel writing full-time and has since been to over 34 countries in pursuit of the tastiest meal. In addition to her blog, The Travel Bite, she’s also the Food and Dining Insider for Visit Florida and was recently named by KRED as one of the Top 50 Travel Bloggers in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At age 24, Heyo CEO and Founder Nathan Latka may be our youngest Work Talk Show guest yet. However, Nathan has quite a few accomplishments under his belt. After studying architecture, he pivoted when the housing market dropped off and began helping companies market themselves on Facebook. And that’s how Heyo was born. Just a few years later, they’ve expanded to 25 employees and seen 147% year-on-year growth. How does he do it? We’re glad you asked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Forbes. Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press and Fortune, she is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future, which is being translated into Russian, Chinese, French, Polish, and Thai. She also consults for diverse clients and is an adjunct professor of business at Duke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liz Presson is an entrepreneur who uses community building, both internally and externally, to build better businesses. She was the founding employee of two digital media startups, including iConnect, a subsidiary of iContact, which was sold to Vocus for $169 million in 2012. She also co-founded a community management studio of her own. Now, Liz combines her work in community with her passion for changing the world’s perception of work as the creator of WorkingRemote.ly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Brechlin is the Digital/Inbound Marketing Manager at WhatCounts, an email marketing provider with a virtual team distributed nationwide. For his part, Tim is located in Madison, Wisconsin. On his site, Tim calls himself The Intelligent Fool, a label he says he “shamelessly cribbed” from Albert Einstein. This helps him remember that we can only learn so much of what there is out there in the world. Let’s learn more about Tim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eve Tahmincioglu is the director of communications and social media guru for the Families and Work Institute. She has written business stories for a host of publications, including the New York Times, Time, Salon.com, and BusinessWeek. She is also a contributor for MSNBC.com. Her specialties include workplace issues, the small business and entrepreneurial world, social networking, retail, autos, and women’s issues and leadership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Simon T. Bailey’s purpose is to inspire 10% of the world’s population to brilliant action by providing actionable takeaways that produce sustainable results. Directed by Mr. Bailey’s thought leadership honed by a decade of work with 1,000 organizations as part of the famed Disney Institute, his Brilliance Institute designs and delivers fresh insights on leadership, employee performance, and customer experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beverly D. Flaxington, two-time bestselling and Gold-award winning author, is an international speaker, an accomplished consultant, hypnotherapist, personal and career coach, college professor, corporate trainer, facilitator, behavioral expert, entrepreneur, and business development expert. Her knowledge of human behavior and the most effective ways to make change happen have helped thousands of people and hundreds of organizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week DJ & Nick take a break from the crazy-smart guests to point their microphones at each other for one of our almost-quarterly host-only extravaganzas. And did we have a lot to talk about! Recently, DJ announced that he was quitting his job. During the show, he shared where he’s at and what’s next. Nick also talked a bit about his writing process and new projects in the hopper. So kick back, relax, and enjoy this week’s host-only edition of The Work Talk Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Roam is the author of the international bestseller The Back of the Napkin, the most popular visual-thinking business book of all time. Fast Company, BusinessWeek, and The Times of London all named it the #1 creativity and innovation book of the year. Dan is the founder and president of Digital Roam Inc., a consulting firm that uses visual thinking to solve complex problems for such clients as Google, Boeing, eBay, Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Senate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CEO of Women’s Leadership Coaching, Inc., Jo Miller is creator of the Women’s Leadership Coaching® system, a roadmap for women who want to break into leadership positions in business. Used successfully by thousands of women worldwide, the system identifies the key steps women must take to advance into positions of influence and leadership — especially in industries long considered “a man’s world,” such as technology, finance, and energy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Simon Salt is CEO of IncSlingers. He is an Author, Keynote Speaker (Digital, Mobile, and Social Marketing), and Digital Strategist. His first book on Social Location Marketing was published by Que publications in February 2011. His second book, The Shorty Guide to Mobile Marketing, debuted at #3 on the Amazon bestseller list in its category and has remained in the top ten since. We couldn’t wait to chat about his newest book, Out of Office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Bowers serves as the District Director of the Ohio SBDC at Columbus State Community College. He brings 25 years of experience of working with entrepreneurs and small business owners. Michael is the founder of Ideas To Deals, a website committed to providing on-line support to those building small businesses. He is also the Founder/Director of the Ohio Growth Summit, a premier event committed to the support and growth of the small business owner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin Allen is a bestselling author, business growth consultant, and speaker. He has written two books, The Hidden Agenda: A Proven Way to Win Business and Create a Following (2012), which was a Wall Street Journal bestseller, and The Buoyant Leader: A Leadership Course for the Rising Star (2013). Kevin was also the pitchman behind MasterCard’s now iconic “Priceless” campaign and bestselling author of the new book, The Case of the Missing Cutlery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steven Kotler is a bestselling author, journalist, and entrepreneur. His articles have appeared in over 70 publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, Discover, Popular Science, Outside, Details, and National Geographic Adventure. He is best known for his non-fiction books, including the New York Times bestseller Abundance, A Small Furry Prayer, West of Jesus, and his latest, The Rise of Superman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Heinz is the founder of Heinz Marketing, a marketing agency that helps its clients all over the world to increase their sales pipelines and marketing strategies. He quit his job to start his own business right during the 2008 credit crunch without a specific blueprint for how he would chase success. The major factor he credits for his success is that he tries at all costs to avoid multitasking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carrie Mess is a cow, cheese, music, and beer lover from Southern Wisconsin. In addition to working with her husband and his family on their 100-cow dairy farm, she spends her time blogging and speaking professionally, where she’s known as Dairy Carrie. If you’ve thought we’ve talked through some interesting work scenarios before, we raised the bar this week with someone who’s literally in the fields. Curious on how she gets all this work done? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Taylor is the founder of Actionablebooks.com – a company dedicated to helping business leaders develop themselves and their teams through the application of lessons from leading business books. Through his work at Actionable Books, Chris Taylor reads, writes, and speaks. A lot. And here’s the best part. He does it all from a cave. In Spain. Curious to know more? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the VP, Strategy for Social Media Explorer and the agency behind it, SME Digital, Tamsen draws from a variety of tools and experiences to help brands make strategic change happen. While she began her career as a change management consultant, Tamsen found herself managing change recently when she switched from a physical office with co-workers to a home office with a virtual team. We couldn’t wait to discuss this and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nichole Kelly is the President of SME Digital, the digital marketing division of Social Media Explorer. Her team helps companies figure out where social media fits and then helps execute the recommended strategy across the “right” mix of social media channels. They use a scalable content approach and measure the results to your bottom line. But how does Nichole approach her work? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andy Craig has an interesting job. He teaches executives to talk more on the weekdays like they do on the weekends — when they are at their best as storytellers — and has hundreds of successful sessions to prove it. He also talks regularly to sales organizations and various associations about the power and importance of elevator speeches and meaningful presentations. With all of this talking about talking, we couldn’t wait to talk with Andy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Davyeon Ross is the quintessential tech entrepreneur making things happen in the Midwest’s Silicon Prairie. He’s also something of an anomaly for combining his personal passion of basketball in not one, but two winning ventures. The first, was Digital Sports Ventures, which went on to be acquired by Digital Broadcasting Group. ShotTracker, his newest start-up, helps players measure their performance. We couldn’t wait to chat about how he gets it all done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pamela Slim is a seasoned coach and writer who helps frustrated employees in corporate jobs break out and start their own businesses. Her blog, Escape from Cubicle Nation, is one of the top career blogs on the web. She is also the author of the books Escape from Cubicle Nation and the recently released Body of Work. A former corporate manager and entrepreneur herself, she understands the concerns faced by first-time entrepreneurs. We couldn’t wait to chat! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We had every intention of recording a “real,” “host-only holiday edition” episode this week. But, alas, time got away from us (and travel impeded technical logistics). So, well, we decided to each record a short greeting/thank you from our iPhones. We patched it together, and it turned into this! Oh, and in case you are wondering, we each took those selfies yesterday. Nick with his “Winter Beard” in cold Iowa and me with my fresh buzzcut in (always!) sunny California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kerry O’Shea Gorgone is a speaker, writer, attorney, and educator. She hosts the weekly Marketing Smarts podcast for MarketingProfs. She is also a contributing writer for numerous sites, including MarketingProfs, Huffington Post, Mark Schaefer’s {grow} blog, and Social Media Explorer. With all of these digital irons in the fire, we couldn’t wait to ask Kerry how she juggles all of this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bryan Kramer is a Social Business Strategist and CEO of PureMatter, where he’s led his agency to consistent growth over the last 10 years, earning a spot as one of Silicon Valley’s fastest growing private companies by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Bryan was recently listed globally as the 43rd most talked-about marketer by senior marketers in a report study via LeadTail. As such, we couldn’t wait to talk with him about how he gets it all done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Tobin is the founder and president of Ignite Social Media, one of the world’s leading social media marketing agencies. Ignite Social Media designs and executes social media marketing programs for many of the world’s largest brands, including Microsoft, Samsung, Chrysler, Nike, Disney, E&J Gallo, and Carlson-Rezidor Hotel Group. Jim is also the author of two books and a parent to three kids. How does Jim get it all done? We’re glad you asked. Let’s listen and learn! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As co-founders of online customer service community platform Get Satisfaction and co-authors of the New York Times Bestseller Get Lucky, Thor Muller and Lane Becker know a thing or two about working together. While they are both working on “solo projects” currently, this dynamic duo took a moment to sit down and chat with us about how they get stuff done together and apart. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mitch Matthews is a leading authority on innovative thinking, human performance, and goal achievement. But he’s probably best known simply as “The Big Dream Guy.” This is due in part to his passion for inspiring people to think about their big dreams and put a plan in place to achieve them. In 2006, Mitch and his wife started something called the BIG Dream Gatherings. We were excited for some time to chat with this big dreamer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How much fun can two hosts have on a podcast with no guest? It turns out, quite a bit. This week we took a break from our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a host-only discussion where we cover working from home versus working on-site, a couple of new podcasts we’re both working on, and our own favorite apps that we can’t live without. Let’s get started! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rand Fishkin is the CEO of Moz. He co-authored the Art of SEO from O’Reilly Media, co-founded Inbound.org, and was named on PSBJ’s 40 Under 40 List and BusinessWeek’s 30 Best Tech Entrepreneurs Under 30. Rand is an addict of all things content & social on the web, from his blog on entrepreneurship to Twitter, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Foursquare. We couldn’t wait to sit down with Rand and chat about how he gets it all done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon Miller leads strategy and execution for all aspects of Marketo’s communications, thought leadership, and content marketing programs. Before co-founding Marketo, Jon was VP of Product Marketing at Epiphany and held positions at Exchange Partners and Gemini Consulting. In 2010, The CMO Institute named Jon a Top 10 CMO for companies under $250 million in revenue. In addition to all of this, Miller is DJ’s boss! We couldn’t wait to hear how Jon gets it all done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marcus Nelson is a lot of things. A half-Kiwi/born-Texan and raised in the Midwest, Nelson now makes his home in the Bay Area. He’s the founder of the new social brand empowerment tool, Addvocate. He’s also a dad to three and an advisor to many start-ups, as well as an in-demand public speaker. Marcus gets a lot done while also working closely with how technology has impacted employees and brands. As such, we couldn’t wait to chat with him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Meerman Scott is a marketing strategist, advisor to emerging companies, bestselling author of eight books, including three international bestsellers, and a professional speaker on topics including marketing, leadership, and social media. As a recovering marketing VP who now earns his living by speaking and writing books, David has gotten work done in a variety of ways. He was kind enough to sit down with us and share a few of his secrets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark W. Schaefer is a globally-recognized blogger, speaker, educator, business consultant, and author who blogs at {grow} — one of the top marketing blogs in the world. Mark has worked in global sales, PR, and marketing positions for nearly 30 years and now provides consulting services as Executive Director of U.S.-based Schaefer Marketing Solutions. As you can imagine, we couldn’t wait to hear how he gets it all done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices