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A collection of all Buffer Podcasts

PodcastsJul 25, 2016
Happy People Is The Goal: An Interview with Atlassian’s Head of Diversity

What if bringing more diversity into tech could be as simple as having a coffee with someone new? At Atlassian , where Aubrey Blanche is the global head of diversity and inclusion, one successful program is just that simple: Women of Atlassian opt in, are matched randomly with a new teammate, and grow their professional network through an occasional latte. It’s just one example of the way Aubrey makes the tech industry’s diversity cha

PodcastsJul 18, 2016
You Don’t Have to Code: An Interview with Ariel Lopez of 2020Shift

Sometimes it seems like everyone in the world is learning to code . Coding jobs are plentiful, and coding bootcamps have become their own cottage industry. But coding isn’t the path to workplace happiness for everyone, and there’s a growing realization of the limitations of the “everyone needs to code” mentality. That’s where Ariel Lopez comes in. The entrepreneur and career coach founded 2020Shift (of whic

PodcastsJul 11, 2016
Number One Sink Cleaner: An Interview with Serial Entrepreneur David Cancel

There’s only one shortcut in life, according to David Cancel . The serial entrepreneur (and sometimes Buffer advisor) is currently working on his fifth startup, Drift , which allows you to talk to your website visitors and customers in real-time, from anywhere. But his biggest passion—and his top secret to a great life—is continuous, voracious learning. It’s a topic he explores in his own podcast, Seeking Wisdom . (It’s

PodcastsJul 5, 2016
The Secret Recipe of Great Work Culture: An Interview with Jacob Shriar of OfficeVibe

When you think about your coworkers, ask yourself: How many of them are happy? Who’s frustrated? Unchallenged? Looking for another job on the side? How do you gauge employee happiness, anyway, or turn what you learn into action? At Buffer, we’ve had a lot of fun experimenting with the employee engagement tools from OfficeVibe. Our friendly Slack bot (more on him later) asks teammates 5 questions each week, right from Slack, about how things are going at work. For some reason, it’s surprising

PodcastsJun 27, 2016
How It Feels To Be ‘The Only:’ An Interview with Christina Morillo of Women of Color in Tech

Angers activates. That’s the quote a friend shared with Christina Morillo, and it stuck in her mind. So when she set out to find some stock photos for the side project she had started with her friend Stephanie Morillo, she recognized what she was feeling when she couldn’t find them: Anger. The project, Women of Color in Tech Chat , is a community for women of color and non-binary people of color in tech. The goal was to build a simple splash page. “When we we

PodcastsJun 20, 2016
The Give Hugs Rule: Work Culture Tips From Ai Ching Goh of Piktochart

Ai Ching Goh didn’t know what kind of company she wanted to start. She just knew she wanted to stop having the “Monday blues.” So together with her husband, the experimental psychology student and former Procter & Gamble corporate exec founded Piktochart , a web app that helps non-designers tell visual stories through images and infographics. Today, Piktochart has grown from 4 people working in a small Penang-based warehouse to more t

PodcastsJun 13, 2016
Confess Your Password Sins: CultureLab Episode 7 with Clef

The CEO and founder of Clef is trying to get rid of passwords forever. But Brennen Byrne, better know simply as B, still found a few hundred extra hours to build Clef’s company handbook from scratch—even though the company is currently a team of 7. “We take building a company really seriously,” he told CultureLab. “Even as a small team, so much of what gets done at Clef isn’t me. It’s important to us to build a great company at the same time as a great product.” Clef pro

PodcastsJun 6, 2016
CultureLab Episode 6: We’re Biased (with Natalie Johnson)

“Unconscious bias” is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot these days. What does it actually mean? Who has it, and can we even fix it if we do? In this episode of Buffer CultureLab, I got the chance to chat with Natalie Johnson, who answers all our burning questions about bias. Natalie is an expert in unconscious bias, from analyzing potential bias in companies’ people processes to training employees and managers on how to manage and mitigate bias. As a former People Analyst at Google, Nat

PodcastsMay 27, 2016
Buffer CultureLab Episode 5: Skinny Jeans and Snake People (with Kanyi Maqubela)

I can’t believe we’re on Episode 5 of the podcast! Every time we get together for Buffer CultureLab it is both fun and educational, and this week is no exception. On this episode Carolyn and I talk about Millennials at work, and then welcome Buffer investor Kanyi Maqubela, who is a partner at Collaborative Fund. It’s a very different kind of investment fund that looks beyond traditional investing criteria to think about things like creativity, values and culture. Language alert! Things get a l

PodcastsMay 20, 2016
Buffer CultureLab Episode 4: Hello, I Know Your Salary (with Maurice Cherry)

(Editor’s Note: Hi there! We’re experimenting with sharing the transcripts of our new podcast, Buffer CultureLab , on the Open blog. Would love to hear how this feels for you!) This is Buffer CultureLab, a podcast by Buffer – where we’re slightly obsessed with creating happier more human work. Here are your hosts, Courtney Seiter and Carolyn Kopprasch. Carolyn Kopprasch: Welcome to the show, this is episode 4. Courtney Seiter: Woohoo! Courtn

PodcastsMay 16, 2016
Introducing Our New Podcast: Buffer CultureLab

Whenever I’m working on a new challenge and keep getting stuck, there’s one post that I seem to return to again and again. It’s by our CEO, Joel, and it’s called “I Have No Idea What I Am Doing.” We’ve likely uttered that exact sentence 30 times over the course of the last month as we worked to figure out the ins and outs of launching our new podcast today. Despite talking a lot about podcasts at Buffer—sharing the podcasts we love [https://buffer.com/resources/p