In this episode, Jolle Lahr-Eigen talks about how she found a career in SEO.

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Jolle Lahr-Eigen opens up about the glass ceiling and discrimination as a female SEO

This episode is a follow on from another interview with Morgan Petrov - 'How to advance your SEO career' by Katherine Ong. It covers her origin story and I highly recommend that you give this a listen before this one.

Morgan Petrov explains what she looks for in candidates and why when hiring for an SEO position

In this episode of #DreadingSundays, Travis Tallent, VP of SEO at Brainlabs describes each rung of the ladder and their corresponding pay bracket. Hear how he started at USD38K all the way to USD180K.

Travis Tallent on SEO salaries, career growth, and people management mindset

In this episode of #DreadingSundays, Momina Asif shares the challenges she has overcome as a freelance writer in Pakistan. In particular, she dispels excuses employers use to delay paying freelancers in the Asian continent.

How freelance writer Momina Asif went from 1 Pakistani Rupee per word to charging 450USD per blog post within 6 years

In this episode, Gisele Navarro answers the following questions: What did you do before joining NeoMam and how did you become CEO? What makes you an effective mentor or champion of your team? What is your advice on how to prepare for a one-on-one meeting? What does being burnt out feel like? How did you manage the stress of being a freelancer? Do you remember the day you understood your value and what was the turning point for this realisation? 

How Gisele Navarro went from freelancer to CEO of NeoMam Studios and how their role and day-to-day has evolved

We're shifting gears a bit because in this episode I have Chi, a very experienced social media manager come share her experience, especially when a post goes viral but perhaps for the wrong reasons. Those of you who work in social may already know that being immersed in the channel 24/7 can be very toxic and negative. For those of you who don't, you'll have to tune in. Follow and connect with Chi on Twitter.

Chi recounts what is like representing a social media account with 1M followers

Amanda King is has been in digital marketing and SEO since 2010. With extensive years of experience agency-side, startup, in-house, and now as a growth consultant and strategic advisor, I’m excited to share Amanda’s professional journey with you today.Follow and connect with Amanda on LinkedIn and her consulting website FLOQ.

Amanda King reveals the number one mistake agency-side SEOs make when consulting for enterprise clients

Nikki is a Technical SEO Specialist at Journey Further and continues to have a small portfolio of clients she consults for.Nikki has a bunch of useful resources on her website that all SEOs should check out.Follow and connect with Nikki on LinkedIn.

Nikki Halliwell encourages you to have a play, break things, learn, test and repeat

"If you enjoy something, you learn how do it."Helen is the Head of SEO at Car & Classic and has extensive hiring experience. In this episode, I ask Helen to describe how she developed her soft skills and explain how you can use soft skills to further your career progression in SEO.Follow and connect with Helen on Twitter.

Helen Pollitt explains why (SEO) job titles matter and why she hated running her own business

In the previous episode, Bibi Raven talked about hiring offshore talent in an ethical manner. In this episode, I am delighted to bring one of her employees, Jun, a creative VA who plays an integral role in finding link prospects and landing those link placements all of you SEOs desire.Being from The Philippines, Jun describes his experience being a gay freelancer from a region of the world that typically gets underpaid and mistreated.

Jun Arellano describes his experience as a freelancer in The Philippines as a link-builder

This episode is for my south-east Asian people.Bibi the Link Builder runs an agency that specialises in only link-building (link). But instead of talking about links, Bibi shares her approach to hiring overseas talent.This is a topic close to my heart because most agencies and companies tend to hire offshore to save costs and treat their hires as cheap labor so when Bibi agreed to come onto the show and be very open about her hiring process.Follow and connect with Bibi Raven on LinkedIn.

Bibi the Link Builder explains what "throw-away labor" is and how to avoid being treated as cheap labor

Chloe Smith is a SEO Manager at UK agency Blue Array. In this episode, Chloe talks about her fear and concern that her career progression would be negatively impacted due to her disability and having to take significant time off.Chloe walks us through a very vulnerable time and how her conversation when with her line manager, in particular, her anxiety prior to the conversation and how the business responded.I ask Chloe for her guidance and advice re: menstrual health (25-min mark).FYI, Chloe presented on this exact topic at BrightonSEO and you can grab the slide deck on Slideshare.Follow and connect with Chloe on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Chloe Smith championed menstrual health day at her workplace and opens up about having a disability and career progression in an agency setting

Carving out a career in content that is financially stable is difficult and this is why George Nguyen shares his insights and tips based on his professional experience.

George Nguyen explains what an 'Editor' actually does

Moving countries and finding employment is never easy, especially when you don't look like and sound like everyone else.

What it is like being a Hong Kong national moving to Ireland working as an SEO?

"SEO is super approachable and you can transfer a lot of the skills you learned previously."Hear how Dhriti used her background in English and American literature landed her an internship with MindShare and thus launched her career in SEO.Dhriti is a member of the Women in Tech SEO community run by Areej Abu Ali.

Dhriti Shashikanth recounts how an internship launched her SEO career

Hosted by Daniel K Cheung, Dreading Sundays explores the careers of people in organic growth (SEO). Featuring seasoned in-house professionals, agency-side experts, freelancers, affiliate marketers, and niche website builders and flippers, the goal of Dreading Sundays is to break through salary secrecy so that YOU may feel empowered to ask for a promotion, change careers, or start that side hustle.

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