In this episode, I'm chatting with Carrie Dils. Carrie is pure awesome. She shares her thoughts on this past year, and what she has planned for 2017 including an upcoming book, Real World Freelancing with Diane Kinney. She is the host of one of my favorite WordPress business podcasts, OfficeHours.fm and is a huge Genesis fan.

Let's get started.

Meet Carrie Dils
Carrie Dils is a WordPress developer, consultant, speaker and teacher based in Fort Worth, Texas.

She loves sharing what she's learned with others to help them be more successful in their business.

She hosts a weekly WordPress podcast at OfficeHours.fm and is a course instructor for Lynda.com.

Show Notes
Carrie's site: CarrieDils.com
Podcast: OfficeHours.fm
Twitter: @cdils
Courses: Carrie's Courses on Lynda.com
A Few Valuable Links & Resources :

DIY SEO Course by Rebecca Gill
Smart Passive Income - Pat Flynn
Erin E Flynn - Courses, Templates & Tools for Web Designers
Utility Pro theme by Carrie Dils
Courses from Carrie on Lynda.com
Office Hours Episode 122 with Chris Coyier

Complete Transcript:
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Jackie:
Hey everybody, it's Jackie D'Elia with another episode of rethink.fm, and I have my very, very special guest, Carrie Dils, on the show. Hi, Carrie.


Carrie:
Hey, Jackie. You're my very, very special host, so I'm glad to be on the show.


Jackie:
Thank you. This is the final episode for season one, it's episode 12, and I thought it would be really fitting to have a conversation with you. You were a big inspiration for me starting my podcast, and just to have you here is awesome. I know everybody else is going to enjoy it as well.


Carrie:
Cool, let's do it.


Jackie:
For the one or two people in the WordPress community that don't know who you are, would you introduce yourself and tell us what you do?


Carrie:
Sure. I'm Carrie Dills, based out of Fort Worth, TX. I, historically, have done front end development and years and years of client services and, over the past year or two, have transitioned into teaching WordPress and front end development, some of that on my own and some of that over at lynda.com. That's where I spend most of my time.


Jackie:
All right. I've got questions for you, like I normally do.


Carrie:
I love it. I love that you had so many questions you had to start your own podcast just to get questions answered.


Jackie:
Just to get questions out, or just to say, "I have got a couple more to ask this person." Yes, it's been a great experience so far. I just did a recorded podcast episode with Joe Casabona from How I Built It. We did a podcast recording that ended up taking too long so we had to split it into two episodes, but we were both talking about ... We both started our podcast right around the same time and we're in a mastermind group together and did a lot of chatting back and forth about what the experience was like. I think one of the biggest things for me was just trying to figure out all the mechanics of getting everything to work in a podcast. So, hats off to you for being the one out on the pioneer frontier with that.


Carrie:
Thank you.


Jackie:
The first question I've got for you is: I love your year end posts that you do on your blog and I was wondering if we could talk about this one that you just published.