About Working From Home ... And Living To Tell About It!
Working from home presents an entirely different set of challenges than the traditional 9-5 office routine. Hosted by Marcel Brown, Nationally Recognized Technology Expert and long-time working from home professional, Working From Home … And Living To Tell About It! is where you will hear real stories of struggles and successes from those who live the work from home lifestyle. And of course, get great tips, advice, and life hacks to make working from home both fun and productive. Whether you are an old pro with a custom home office, a newbie working from your couch, or thinking about taking the leap to working from home this is THE podcast for you!
In this episode, your host Marcel Brown interviews Geoffrey Kent, a serial entrepreneur, mentor, author, and coach who has launched 20+ ventures over the last 5 decades and is currently the founder and CEO of Think Big with Geoffrey Kent, where he helps businesses scale exponentially. Geoffrey graduated from the University of Oklahoma and earned an MBA from The Wharton School before starting his career at Deloitte Consulting, AT&T, and Xerox.
Marcel and Geoffrey discuss some work from home technology and Geoffrey's journey in transitioning from never having worked from home to starting a new business where he started the work from home lifestyle, sharing some tips on how to manage your home office and working from home lifestyle. Additionally Geoffrey shares some fascinating insights on entrepreneurship and how it can positively change the world in addition to how businesses can effectively look for and receive funding from investors.
15 Aug 2023
Melissa Smith Interview
In this episode your host Marcel Brown interviews Melissa Smith, the Founder & CEO of the Association of Virtual Assistants and The PVA, a firm that matches clients with the right virtual assistants. She is also the best-selling author of two books, Hire The Right Virtual Assistant and Become a Successful Virtual Assistant. Additionally, Melissa also mentors for Remote-how Academy, the first global, online education and individual certification program.
Marcel talks with Melissa about her working from home experience, specifically her journey from how she got started working from home for an employer to starting her own work from home business matching clients with the right virtual assistants (who often work from home themselves). She shares valuable tips on how to work with and negotiate with employers to begin a working from home arrangement as well as many other insights on the working from home lifestyle.
21 Feb 2023
Kandas Rodarte Interview
In this fun episode, your host Marcel Brown banters with Kandas Rodarte, digital marketing pioneer, award-winning speaker, metastatic breast cancer thriver, and a 25-year veteran of working from home!
Kandas and Marcel discuss her extensive experience of her working from home career while raising a child from baby to empty nest. She also discusses battling the challenge of loneliness by reaching out and creating community online.
11 Oct 2022
Suzanne Overstreet Interview
In this episode, your host Marcel Brown interviews Suzanne Overstreet, an independent certified health coach who works from home and helps others who work from home create healthy habits around eating and hydration, sleep and energy, mindset, movement, and supportive surroundings.
Suzanne and Marcel discuss the positive impact of the flexibility of working from home on kids and family, the challenge of time management and ideas on how to be better at it, balancing family time with work time, and using business and health coaches to help keep ourselves accountable while working from home. Suzanne then shares 6 good health habits for people working from home.
4 Oct 2022
Corey Piper Interview
In this episode, your host Marcel Brown interviews Corey Piper of Piper Media Group, an award wining video production company based in St. Louis, MO. Corey tells the story of starting a working from home business during the pandemic, how he and his wife handled unexpectedly getting thrown together into working from home at the same time, the differences in working from home as an employee vs working from home in your own business, the blessing and curse of the flexibility of working from home, the importance of networking with other professionals to get human interaction, the value of doing certain tasks first to create routine and structure your day. Corey also shares 5 tips for improving the quality of videos people shoot from home and the importance of video in social media promotion.
27 Sept 2022
Mary and Amadeus Nunaley Interview
In this episode, your host Marcel Brown does his first interview with two people: Mary and Amadeus Nunaley, online course creation experts who are the co-founders of The Lavender Dragon Team and also a mother and son business duo.
Mary and Amadeus, who live by the motto that "home is where the heart is," talk not only about their experience of working from home as a family business and its unique challenges including setting the boundaries and expectations of work/family relationships and balance, but also the experience of home schooling children while working from home. Additionally, some interesting stories about the challenges of home repairs while trying to work from home, a discussion of having the option of a co-working space or backup location to work in case of issues at home, and the importance of creating structure and setting boundaries for working from home professionals.
20 Sept 2022
Anja Riemer-Grobe Interview
In this episode, your host Marcel Brown interviews his first international guest: Anja Riemer-Grobe, Online Business Manager, CEO of Management Made Easy, and the creator of Delegation Nation!
Anja and Marcel discuss her 7 plus years of working from home and the challenges of working with the early days of Zoom, the struggles being an international user of technology in a US-centric world, and keeping work and personal time structured. As a skillful project manager, Anja also shares a variety of tips for those of us living the work from home lifestyle such as structuring your work day by setting boundaries for ourselves, ideas for handling our kids, establishing good organizational habits, effective time blocking, the importance of taking breaks, and setting the right expectations for ourselves when making the transition to working from home.
20 Jun 2022
Jennie Bellinger Interview
In this episode, your host Marcel Brown interviews Jennie Bellinger, Certified Professional Coach and host of the award winning Badass Direct Sales Mastery Podcast - which was recently featured in Podcast Magazine!
Those of us who work from home still need to network professionally. However, the skillset for networking while working from home can be different than in-person networking. Marcel and Jennie discuss the proper mindset for networking from home and Jennie shares 4 tips for networking while working from home.
3 Sept 2021
Kimberly Weitkamp Interview
In this episode, your host Marcel Brown interviews Kimberly Weitkamp, creator of the Audience Conversion Method, podcaster, marketing strategist, copywriter and founder of her company, The Audience Converter.
Marcel and Kimberly discuss the challenges of working at home with roommates: setting boundaries and expectations, creating a conducive workspace or office, and holding oneself accountable for work time and free time. Additionally, they discuss the creative use of a mobile desk for a work from home office in a smaller living space.
24 Aug 2021
Dean Newlund Interview
In this episode Marcel interviews Dean Newlund, the founder and CEO of Mission Facilitators International, a boutique training and development firm based out of Phoenix, Arizona, with the sole purpose of helping organizations become more connected to their purpose and their people. Dean also hosts his own successful podcast, The Business of Intuition.
Dean and Marcel talk about Dean's 28 years of working from home experience, including managing kids and family, structuring work and personal time, plus forward looking thoughts about how working from home will impact the post-pandemic world. Dean also shares his insights on full employee engagement and how to embrace mistakes and failure in order to maximize our own or our employee's productivity while working from home. Finally, taking concepts from his own podcast, Dean discusses how business leaders should tap into the intuition of themselves and those they lead in order to access the highest and best potential of their teams.
17 Aug 2021
Zoom Meeting Etiquette
Online video meetings using platforms like Zoom were becoming increasingly popular prior to the pandemic of 2020, but they exploded into our social consciousness during the spring of 2020 and have become an integral part of not only our work lives, but even social activities. Virtual meetings will continue to be a "new normal" even as the pandemic subsides so it is helpful to know some good etiquette tips, including what to do about "Resting Zoom Face."
13 Aug 2021
Dr. Greg Judice Interview - Ergonomics in a Work From Home Office
In this episode, Marcel interviews Dr. Greg Judice PT, DPT, OCS, the owner of Judice Sports & Rehab, an orthopedic, evidence-based physical therapy practice focused on hands-on therapy and corrective exercise. Dr. Judice and Marcel discuss common ergonomic issues related to working from home, including proper monitor positioning, healthy habits to develop while working from home, and what the heck is up with keyboard feet?
13 Jul 2021
Giselle Mascarenhas Interview
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In this episode, host Marcel Brown interviews branding coach Giselle Mascarenhas, named by Yahoo.Finance as one of the Top 10 Branding Coaches to Watch in 2020. Giselle shares her experience pivoting her business from in-person workshops to virtual events during the global pandemic. Hear how she used her social media influence (that she coaches her clients how to leverage) to reach those who needed her help and how working from home allowed her to make better use of her time to master her craft, scale her business, and become a global brand. Giselle also shares how building your tribe on social platforms is crucial for growing a business that can withstand any circumstance.
18 Aug 2020
Bonus - Interview with Dawn Mushill
In this bonus episode, hear local chamber of commerce cirector, public speaker, and customer service expert Dawn Mushill interview podcast host Marcel Brown as part of a series of interviews of industry experts done during early 2020. The interview is centered on Marcel's technology expertise as it relates to working from home and remote technologies, making this a perfect bonus episode of Working From Home ... And Living to Tell About It!
18 Aug 2020
Workspace Setup, Flexibility, and Balance
Wrapping up a 3 episode arc on basic working from home challenges and how to manage them, host Marcel Brown discusses some core workspace setup concepts and then how to use the flexibility of working from home to create work/life balance, which helps make working from home fun and productive.
18 Aug 2020
Working From Home With Kids and Family
One of the biggest challenges that working from home professionals must contend with are cohabiting with kids and family while trying to stay productive in their work. Hear some great advice from the experience of the host, Marcel Brown, and his special guest co-host Jennie Bellinger, both long-time working from home professionals who have children.
18 Aug 2020
Working From Home Attitude and Mindset
In this episode, learn about some basic attitude and mindset adjustments you can use to help you make working from home as fun and productive as possible. Special guest co-host Jennie Bellinger gives her own perspective given her background in psychology, business coaching, and expertise in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).
18 Aug 2020
Welcome Episode
An introduction to the Working From Home ... And Living to Tell About It podcast – and your host, Marcel Brown. You'll hear all about what to expect from this podcast and what you can learn by listening to future episodes.
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