 This is also very exciting and also a little nerve-wracking. The more times I do it, it seems like the room is a little bit more crowded. So it's a good sign, but all the beautiful people aren't scaring me a little bit. So I'm going to start the presentation off. Five weeks of WordPress can change your life. As my friend Rich kind of mentioned, I'm Shayna Terabi. I work for WP Engine and I've been to a lot of word camps. And the things that I've learned, the people that I've met, the stories that I've seen and been a part of have really helped shape and change my life. And so I thought that I would package it up, create a little presentation, and share some of the wisdom and insights that I've learned from being involved in the WordPress community myself. So this is a really fun picture. I don't know if you guys are familiar with WordCamp US. Has anybody heard of it? Who knows what it is? So word camps happen all over the world in multiple different cities. And WordCamp US is kind of the pinnacle one. It happens once a year. It used to happen in San Francisco. And last year it started rotating. So it was in Philadelphia for the first time. But this was a picture taken of just some of the people. There were 200 people who were a part of the community summit. So it was a chance for developers, bloggers, influencers, people who are part of the WordPress community who have made an impact to it to be invited to help discuss ways in which we can help make it better for this year. And I just love it. I've been so impacted by all the people in this picture, in this room, and all the cities that I've been to. I actually want to share that with you guys. So I kind of want to start off today by setting the tone. This is a guy who's kind of staring out at a beautiful scene, kind of overlooking some water. I love to travel. So I thought that for me this would be reflecting of the things that I like to aspire to have. I aspire to have flexibility in my life. I aspire to be able to do the things that I love to do. I aspire to have good relationships and people who care about me and want to help me succeed. And truthfully, I've been able to find a little bit of all of that with WordPress. So whether it's being able to travel to another city, like for example right now I'm from Austin, Texas and I was invited to speak at this work camp by the great organizers of Work Camp Atlanta and getting the opportunity to be here is something that helps me further along my goal of passion of being able to travel. So I want you guys to think about what some of your priorities are. What makes you get out of bed in the morning? Are you a small business owner and you want to look how to make more clients? Are you a blogger and you're here looking to understand WordPress a little bit better and further your skills? Or are you somebody who has no idea what WordPress is? This is your first introduction into the community and so you kind of wanted to come get a little bit of history of what WordPress is. The bottom line is you're all welcome and you all have a place here in this community and it's something that again over my experience with WordPress and Word Camps has sincerely changed my life. I mean, I found WordPress about eight years ago. It's been my platform of choice ever since. But it wasn't until I started working at WPM June four years ago that I really found what the WordPress community was. I'm talking about Word Camps, meetup groups, things like that. And so for me, being a part of WordPress was always really cool. It was a great platform and had great tools. But I didn't know that there was this whole other gate of amazing people with backgrounds and stories and experiences that I had never experienced for myself. So being able to put myself in a position to just soak up everything that quite honestly everyone of you brings something really unique and special to the table. And if I can do one thing that is to champion and cheer you guys on to do what you do best, like that is my end goal today. I've literally not met a single person in the WordPress community who has not been friendly or open or wanting to tell their story. So talk to people, this is your first time. Go introduce yourself to a stranger. This is your fifth or your tenth or your 20th time. I still encourage you to talk to somebody and get out of your comfort zones. So we're going to take you guys back because some of you might know, some of you might not know. WordPress was founded in 2003, sorry, making it 13 years old. And it was founded by Matt Moldweg and Mike Little. So there was a platform called Cafe Log B2 and it was forked and basically WordPress was created at the time. Of course they didn't know that it was going to be this popular with this many people who were going to have businesses, sites and blogs that were going to happen as a result of it. But they took a chance and they started something new. And then in 2005, Automatic, the parent company behind WordPress.com was founded. Automatic has been brought into, basically, act as a governor over word camps, for example, the WordPress Foundation. They create great plugins like Jetapack, Gravatar, things like that, basically helping empower and fuel WordPress to continue to grow. And then in 2006, the first word camp happened. So word camps have really been around for only 10 years. And there are events like this, which some of you have maybe already found the joy of. But they're $40, they're two days generally, lots of great content, all for you guys taking advantage of. So I know that you've got your agenda, you want to go see certain sessions, you want to go introduce yourself to certain people. Some of the best experiences that I've had have been me just standing in the hallway and catching somebody who looks a little lost and being able to guide them to the room or stop them and see what they're up to and always, always, always ask them what they do. I love to just start the conversation with, what are you doing with WordPress? What that does for me is it opens up the dialogue for me to be able to share with them people that I can introduce them to or meet up groups that they should be attending or a session that I think they might benefit from. So just being aware of the opportunity that exists within WordPress is how you yourself are going to have your life impacted as a result of it. So some more facts. 15 years ago, only 7% of the world was on the internet. And now there's over 30% growth over 40% of the world having access to the internet today. Kind of translated into WordPress. And WordPress today is worth over 26% of the internet which some history a little bit more for you guys. Just two years ago it was only 24% of the internet. So while it's been around for 10 years it's literally uptick such a lot of growth in the past year and a half. And we're seeing that growth happening in enterprise companies and more bloggers joining on the platform, more business owners moving there, you know, creating a freelance business on WordPress. WordPress has just become this amazing hub of opportunity for people to take advantage of. And so, like all good storytellers I thought I would tell stories of my friends of the people that I've been impacted by from the WordPress community just by allowing them to change my life by saying hello to them, by going up to them after a talk that they've done and asking them questions about it. I think something that I have really appreciated that I like to share when I give these talks is everybody started basically where you are. Everybody was sitting in a chair at a talk or listening to somebody talk and thinking how do I get my business to be that successful or how do I get the courage to go up on stage and talk about something that I'm passionate about or how do I go and I, you know, insert whatever it is that you want to do with your life, whatever is passionate to you. We all started from zero basically and so I've worked really hard to vote my connections and my network and the people that I'm going to talk to today but you have that power too, you have that ability and I've literally never seen such a more dynamic, caring, passionate, friendly concerned community than the WordPress community and I really believe that it can be life changing. So some of the personas that I've kind of popped these friendly faces into are your business owner. You were able to quit your job and you were able to be able to run your own business as a result of WordPress. You're a distributed worker. You enjoy being able to work wherever you want whenever you want and because of WordPress you're able to do that. The developer, you love code and you love being able to communicate at a technical level like that and being able to do what you love to do every day of your life is empowering. The business person, being able to see an opportunity in WordPress and create opportunities for others out of it and so creating a business for yourself and the teacher. WordPress always comes back to education. Again, we're sitting here in a room and you're learning for me hopefully some great things that will resonate with you and carry you out through your days but being a teacher is something that is a part of every one of us. We all have something unique and special that makes us who we are and being able to share that with other people is that special connection. So again, hopefully you guys have learned something unique from this talk today that helps empower you and push you forward to living the best life that you can live. So I believe these are the five ways that WordPress can change your life. You can feel more connected. You have a more supportive community than any other one that exists in the world. You have the opportunity to take chances to dream big and the empowerment to do the best work of your life on cutting edge open source technology which is WordPress. So the first line that I'm going to talk about is connectedness. I'm going to put up here. I'll read it. WordPress is accessible worldwide. There are over 40 plus translations of WordPress with 89 word camps happening last year with 21,000 attendees in 34 countries. That's a lot. To give you guys some perspective, this type of setting is happening not just in Nashville and in Austin, Texas but in Pakistan and South Africa and all these places all over the world there's people who are curious like you and me who have found value in WordPress who want to learn more, who want to give back, who want to be a part of something bigger. And because WordPress is so connected globally you can have this experience in Atlanta and have clients who are in another country you can have customers who are in another country you can learn from somebody who's in another country. Just the opportunities are endless and because this community has a foundation of openness and a passion to be able to feel connected to what they're feeling that I really truly believe that if you just open up to what already exists you'll find success in it. For me I'm going to kind of get a little real talk with you guys. I've been nervous of getting up here and giving this talk. I've been to so many word camps I've literally sat in their seats I'm looking at some of my friends who have been cheerleaders for me to get up here to do the things that I'm passionate about which is truly the WordPress community I cannot begin to think of what my life would be like without WordPress I mean kind of going back to my story I didn't really know that I wanted to go work for a WordPress company I mean I was using WordPress but I didn't really know what WordPress could be for me in the terms of like a business opportunity having financial stability to have the ability to travel to go meet people so I kind of got thrown into it to be honest I didn't willingly go to a word camp and then by being in the community and sitting in the same seats as you guys I started feeling that hey this is really cool I'm getting a lot out of this I learned a new plugin for my site or I learned how to improve the SEO with my site or I made a new friend who is now going to help promote my food blog to their friends you just never know what you're going to find and so by being open to the power of the people who are sitting next to you in front of you in the hallways you begin to start feeling more connected and understanding that WordPress has the ability to connect you to more people than just the people in your local cities so this is my friend Patrick Patrick works at Woothing which is acquired by Automatic both companies basically have the platform stand that they want their workers to be distributed so they work from all over the world so while Woothing is headquartered in South Africa and Automatic is headquartered in San Francisco literally work all over the world so Patrick for example lives in Denver I just think it's really cool to touch on this story of being able to do the best work of your life from wherever that is I know a lot of you probably are freelancers or small business owners and that's a dream of yours is to be able to supply you know food and shelter and love to your children and to your people in your direct family and you might be able to do that by the power of WordPress and I'm kind of here to help champion to tell you that whatever it is that you want to do you can do with WordPress so for my friend Patrick he wanted flexibility he wanted to be able to work on his own schedule and how he wanted to work and where he wanted to work and because of this company empowering this type of lifestyle this type of community he's able to do the best work of his life thanks to WordPress last year I think there was a really big shift in digital nomads for those of you who don't really know digital nomads it's the same concept of being able to live and work wherever you want and I think that as technology grows as WordPress continues to take market ownership more and more people are finding the success of being able to quit their traditional jobs or shift from a traditional lifestyle to a more digital lifestyle meaning do me work when it's convenient for you and if that's something that you're really excited and passionate about trying to pursue there's a lot of people in this room I'm more than happy to help connect you to who those people are to help you be able to do that type of work in your life the next thing and one of the pillars of my talk is the community being able to find people who you can relate to who share your passions who share your concerns and the first hard part is you guys did it you showed up to word camp so let's do a little share of hands like whose first word camp is this I'd say that's a third of the room this is your first time, thank you for being in my talk that you were able to read and be part of other people's experiences but you came here and thank you for that and for everybody else who didn't raise your hand I hope that you will continue to help me champion the goodwill of WordPress by being a good community steward of being friendly and welcoming and open and so this is another kind of little fun fact WordPress is mobile too with over 2,000 meetups happening across the country and 40,000 people attending those meetups so those of you that this is your first word camp meetups happen pretty much in the same scale you know they happen in every city all over the world and there's not a meetup where you're living I'm sure there's one close that you can drive too and if there's not a meetup where you're living I challenge you to start the meetup yourself they're great resources you get great experience if you want maybe start speaking at word camps to get your talks and your ideas out there they're resources of people who want to just help you solve your problems a great kind of plug right now for those of you who don't know what the happiness bar is it is people who volunteer their time to just be available to you to answer questions whether it's technical, design you just want to understand when and where your next meetup meets there are people who want to help you solve those problems and that is the heartbeat of the community it's these people who just want to open up and be available to you guys with resources and knowledge and maybe there are people who want to talk about WordPress maybe there are people who want to talk about WordPress people who are awesome people who want to be your friends and they're going to be there for you for life and one of those people for me is Bob Dunn Bob Dunn is also known by Bob WP he's based in Seattle and he to me is the epitome of the WordPress community he is kind he is knowledgeable he is there for you when you need him to be there for you and again we don't live in the same city so Bob and I rarely see each other except when we're happening to be in the same city at the same time what Bob does is Bob is a teacher so he basically teaches online WordPress courses so accessible again in any city in any part of the world where ever you are but he's also local to Seattle too so he's part of his local Seattle WordPress meetup group he's speaking, he's educating he's doing one-on-ones he's somebody who because of my openness to the community, because of my openness to having these long lasting relationships he's somebody that I now call a really dear friend to the point where I'll publish a picture of me at dinner with my boyfriend and he's like I'm so happy for you guys that you're celebrating your anniversary just the thoughtfulness that somebody who doesn't live in my city somebody who is clearly not my age is caring about me who wants to see me succeed in whatever level that means seriously I'm getting goosebumps it's real and the community can do that if you just let it so Bob is somebody again who's really near and dear to my heart a great evangelist of the community and somebody that I encourage you guys to go check out and follow because he's giving a lot of great education on WordPress and how you can further your WordPress expertise the next thing I want to talk about is the opportunity the opportunity that WordPress creates again going back to there is 26% of the internet is on WordPress I think a lot of people wonder naturally well what's the other 70% of the internet if it's not WordPress actually the breakdown if anybody wants you can go look up W3TEP they have the actual breakdown of it everything else is such a small sliver WordPress just takes the cake for the adoption the amount of people who are using the platform the amount of things that are being done with WordPress again from single site owners who are just bloggers the Fortune 500 companies are putting their businesses on WordPress because they see the power of it they see the innovation of it they see the security they see the growth opportunity that's happening with WordPress and so again boiling back down to the opportunity exists Americans are diversifying their work juggling different kinds of projects more actively pursuing a career path that doesn't follow the traditional one I think that is so cool that in 2016 you have the power the ability and the opportunity to literally not work a 95 job you do not have to go into an office I understand that there are certain things that we do because we have to put it on the table we have to take care of our family or it's a means to an end but if you really get down to what excites you what makes you passionate what would you love to wake up every day and do I think WordPress can help you find that passion and happiness and success in life if you let it you're at work camps and meeting your meetups and having conversations with people who you think can help you get to the next level and so one of those people is one of my friends Kiko Doran so Kiko formally was a consultant who ran a small business and he had a lot of questions how do I grow my business how do I handle accounting and him and one of his friends got together and said there's not a conference that exists how do we create this conference so three years ago created a WordPress business conference called Prestige Conference plug for Prestige Conference it's a really great small scale but really intimate business conference that gives you up close and personal time with these people who have kind of come before you and done it and so for me I look at people like this and I'm saying wow what a great opportunity that somebody no longer has to ask how do I solve this question I'm going to go find the answer I'm going to create a conference so other people can find the answers these questions that we're all sharing and so I'm inspired daily by these people who are able to quit their jobs work remotely, work distributedly work on things that are challenging the innovation of technology really and do the best work of their lives the next one is empowerment so I feel empowered by WordPress I feel empowered to do whatever I want to do how I want to do it goes back to the open source nature of WordPress meaning if I want to get up and give a talk at a word camp all I have to do is stop me you know nobody is saying you can't speak this is only reserved for people who have been here for five years or longer and have all this wealth of knowledge no, when I give my first word can't talk yes I've been to some word camps so I had some experience with that but I don't public speak very often you know I saw one guy who was suspecting his public speaker for his job he gets up here and does this all the time you don't have to have a degree in marketing or be the most technical person to be able to get up here and communicate ideas to other people it starts by you just saying I have an idea and I've got some skills and some passions and how do I do that and so for me it was talking to my circle of influence talking to these people who I admire and have been inspired by and saying give a word can't talk and you know what they did, they said you do it girl you do it because you've been through something I've been through so that you guys haven't been through and y'all have been through something I haven't been through and together we communicate to each other and we can learn from each other and I'm really going to say the most beautiful thing that word press can do and can teach us is that we can come from different lifestyles, different backgrounds different demographics, different pages genres, whatever you name it we still have something to teach each other and still have something that ties together and empower us so with over 53 million freelancers in the U.S. alone and more and more creative professionals are opting to leave the daily grind work for themselves again I think that's so empowering that people can do that that we live in a day and age where that's not taboo to quit your job to go work on this digital internet thing called word press people are doing it, how many of you in the room have heard of word press is it always easy no, you work really really hard at it and you have people working hard at it but kind of driving it back to the word press community you're here hopefully to network with people to learn some new skills to help you do your business a little bit better learn some marketing skills learn some new technical skills whatever it is, know that word press can meet you where you are at some really sweet actually I was talking to a lady who was upstairs who was sitting in the speaker room and I was a little bit nervous and she was telling me about her mother how she invited her mother to come to word camp it's her mother's first time it's this lady's third time and she was saying how her mother you know, it doesn't know what word press is isn't really comfortable with technology and I don't blame them, you know as technology continues to rapidly grow there's always a new this or a new that every other week and I know that I'm victim to it too sometimes these new social platforms I don't know how to use them that's just not to say that you shouldn't do something that scares you is to say that you should feel empowered to do something new and so this woman was telling me how her mother is coming to word camp to word press to learn something new to find a new hobby and passion of hers to fill the time no, she's not trying to run a business and no, she's not trying to build the next word camp ever on your website but for her word press is a means to feeling empowered to having a voice online to being able to be in community with people who share her passions and I can relate to that because for me, I love word press I love my day job working with WP Engine but I'm a foodie, I love to eat food like mission number one is where is the best place to get you know, insert whatever for that city and so being able to tell my story and my passions online with my readers is what jazzes me like I love coming to word camp and learning about a new plugin that helps me make my site more personal for my readers and connect with people and oh, you're from this city or you're from that city where do you eat or where should I eat and it's just taken this whole concept of word press to a whole new level for me, became personal it's become part of my life I literally couldn't imagine my life without it and so one of those people is Jennifer Gorn she's one of my friends, she lives in SoCal her and her husband started a word press agency she was working back in, let's see if I don't butcher her time, so she quit her job in 2005 started her own agency, found word press in 2008 and in 2009 she was like, word press is it, we're going to do everything on word press. Jennifer not only quit her job, her husband quit his job they now both are employed by their small business, they now have more time with their kids. One of the things that I love about Jennifer is that she is so motivated and excited that I'm spending time with her kids and I've been able to see her flexibility through being able to be empowered to do best work of her life because of word press comes down to her spending more time with her family her kids, I think that matter again work is great, money is great all these wonderful things that word press can afford us is great, but the people going back to feeling loved and in a community with people that matter, that's what's important being able to do something with your life that empowers you and gives you the opportunity to be flexible so you can spend more time with your children or your spouse or traveling the world you can do that and so these people that every day are showing me the opportunities that I just put in word press and that you can do it too, you have the power it's literally, it's here the last one is open source word press is based on the open source GPL v2 license which is general public license which there's a lot of fancy words you can google what GPL means it's a digital version but my version is it's free and open so what that means is you can take apart a code and if it's not doing what you want it to do you can build on it to make it better so you see a lot of this happening with themes with plugins, people are taking one idea and adapting it to another idea it's this open community of if you can dream it you can build it, they will come I think somebody else is sorry it's clear that word press community has a lot of people who are creating opportunities for themselves or creating the lives that they want they're able to do all this because word press is open source and because it's this new cutting edge innovative technology is constantly growing because of the people who are building it which is all of you guys so word press is the most dominant content management system on the web today it has a diverse user base comprising personal comprising personal bloggers and all types of businesses in between word press's flexibility makes the platform capable of meeting almost any business's needs it's pretty cool for me because I work for a word press company that I get to see a lot of times some of the cool businesses who are on word press so one of the kind of fun ones I've seen recently are Snoop Dogg and Katy Perry have put their websites on word press also you have companies like Asana and AMD so really large is a project management tool for Facebook so kind of like say Facebook's on word press a little bit too but you're seeing some of these big brands big people personalities big businesses choosing this platform why? why are they choosing word press? because it's open source because it's innovative because there are people who are working to build it to make it better so for me that just is more empowerment opportunity to make it better the things that you're working on do affect other people and it's attracting other people to the platform that I'm really hopeful that by the next time this word came in and it comes around we're at 28% we're at 30% market share and word press keeps growing it's because of people who are here working to build to make it better and one of those people for me is my friend Joe Casabona so Joe lives in Pennsylvania he works for a distributed company distributed agency actually called crowd favorite they're one of our friends also and they are doing some really innovative stuff they're working with a lot of bigger clients trying to help build and develop word press to you know the next level and for me being able to tie all these things together is really like the magic sauce it's like he gets to work from wherever he wants he gets to build new cool things for word press really cool clients who are saying you know what maybe we should start business on word press and he's really fulfilled because he's tapped into this community just thinks a lot of word camps he's an educator it's not one-sided it's not you know well I'm just going to go have my job and work here and then not give back to the community it's you can't just show up and not do something so I'm hoping you guys feel compelled to do something to talk to a stranger to start a meet up to you know the volunteers even in this room volunteers who are getting up who are introducing speakers who are helping open the doors that's giving back that's helping get back to word press so when he invites all these people it's giving them their ability to define their own path find happiness and success in doing something they love and by contributing back to making word press great for the next generation with word press you can't change the world I hope you guys acknowledge too that every one of these stories there was some overlap I kind of referenced it in my initial slide with all of them where you're not just a business owner you're also an educator and you're not just involved in the community you're also you know trying to run your own business trying to live the life that allows you to be distributed and work from wherever you want to work from I really I mean I wouldn't get up here and just tell you a lot of like pizazz about word press like word press isn't paying you it's like oh word press word press is the best it's like my life literally is different I will go tell you guys a little personal story really quick so I was in an accident about six months ago it might be a little emotional because it still hasn't healed I was hit by a car as a pedestrian it was really bad I was like out I couldn't walk for three weeks and you know who the people were who came by my side I mean guess my friends at home in Austin and my family were there for me but it was the people in this room it was the people on those screens it was the people who I made relationships with at a word camp who were there trying to find me dinner or send me flowers or ask how I was doing I mean these are it's more than just a platform that you log into and you go apply in sites or you make your financial living off of it it's if you allow it it really can move it can really change your life I mean I was not a believer the community was the thing that you should really buy into until it changed me it's almost like it happened when I wasn't paying attention to it sometimes bad things happen and you get a perspective shift but it does as it really it gave me that perspective of there are people who want to just help me succeed I want to help you succeed I want to empower you I really want to just let you guys know that you can do the best work of your life and wordpress can empower you to do that so also I believe in giving back giving back to the community it doesn't have to be big it can be small some examples for me I'm not super technical I like to speak at word camps I've also organized a word camp before and make.wordpress.org is really important to me it's basically a page that lists out all the ways in which you can help give back to wordpress whether you're technical maybe you speak multiple languages they've got a polyglots team which is helping translate wordpress into more and more languages if you get anything out of wordpress I hope you feel compelled to give a little bit of yourself back to the project it goes back to the open sourceness of it all you know if we all decided we didn't want to work on wordpress today and everybody at every other city that had a word camp decided the same thing would wordpress build itself I personally don't think so it literally takes every one of us waking up in the morning saying I'm going to insert whatever it is that you're doing so you guys are really helping build road shape wordpress you're impacting people that are sitting next to you that are sitting around you and so I just I hope you guys realize that you don't have to be technical because for me for the longest time I thought how do I get back to wordpress I'm not a developer I can't go up and give a technical talk I've even shared some comments from my friends like did community talks really work you know people get anything out of them do they really understand how important it is to make sure that you're connected as you're learning about the next plugin is that your site could benefit from so I really thank you guys for showing up to this talk today because it is important to me and I hope that it's a little bit important to you that the power to change your life exists within and I fully believe that wordpress has all the pillars of being able to find that success so these are my three simple rules for life if you do not go after what you want you will never have it if you do not ask the answer will always be no and if you do not move forward you will be in the same place it's something that I tell myself every day of my life before I walk in this room I'm scared I don't want to do what I'm supposed to do if I do not go through this experience if I do not put myself up here and be vulnerable and fumble a couple of times and you know not say the right word or say the right word I'm never going to know how to do it better next time and if you don't ask people for help for advice, for opportunities how do I know that you needed to develop a free new project I don't know unless you tell me well I've got this person who is in your area or this type of project that you're working maybe I should connect you with that person I mean let people help you let me help you let the people in this room help you you have to open yourself up you have to be a little bit vulnerable it's a little hard sometimes I will admit but I really believe that that's the key to how you you change your life with WordPress and so that's all I have my name is Shader Trabi I'm at Shaktura on the internet I like food and want to see where I eat some fun things about me are I'm a world traveler I like to hike, I like to blog I'm a lifelong learner I think education is really important and for me I'm a doc connector so I love meeting new people I love hearing what excites you and kind of putting it in my portfolio of how can I help connect you to the person that's going to help change your life so thank you guys for being here I hope you've heard a question so I've been with WPNJ for four years when I joined the company there were 12 other people and so I did a little bit of everything I joined the marketing team and I primarily did our events program and I recently transitioned out of events and now I'm proud of marketing and I love WordPress I'm grateful to the company for giving me the opportunity to find something that I literally couldn't imagine my life without like it's thanks and it's great What is the good place to be eating later? I'm so glad you asked because I've already been eating so last night I I'm going to tell you guys a secret you can't tell anybody outside of this room I ate dinner three times last night so first one was great it was the juke the juke point sweet Georgia juke joint the juke point sweet Georgia juke joint we did the speaker dinner there it was really great I would recommend it if you're in the area then we progressed with another group of friends to flip burger we purely went just for milkshakes and then had to have burgers also because they looked and smelled so good and then my favorite meal of the night was I went to Holman and Finch if you have not gone there if you're local to Atlanta it was recommended to me by some 30 friends who formerly had lived here it did not disappoint it is a gastropub so what they're known for is their burger although they probably wouldn't like me telling you that because when we asked her about the burger she's like yeah we're not in a burger place I'm like yeah we have a burger that everybody talks about so get the cheeseburger there and then I got what is it called the crunchy lady I was calling it the crazy lady all night the crunchy lady it's like a croque madame it was a fried egg on top it was perfect it was so good so if you guys have recommendations for where I should eat tonight we have a really good Mexican place called the Weville Laredo it's over near Ikea okay good Weville Laredo see if I didn't ask you didn't ask where I was eating and then I didn't know see I love it full circle all the time what? well I only do it when I travel which is only so often so are you going to vlog with that last night? do what what? are you going to vlog all these full circles? oh absolutely I'm going to be a little bit late about it because I'll eat it yes that's always the hard thing it's like only I've got so many places that I need to vlog but I've also got to go eat so many places it's been fun passion hobby of mine that is like working in WordPress and like using WordPress or a little different sometimes and going back to kind of how I got started which is how I found the company I was a music blogger and WordPress was my platform of course all those years and then when I started doing WordPress I'm a WordPress and then you get thrown into a job and like all good things, your passions sometimes fall to the side and so I didn't vlog for a long time about a year and a half ago I actually had a friend who told me I'm going to challenge you a year from now you're going to have food while you're going to do it and I was so proud to shake her hand last Milwaukee when I was speaking and tell her that I had been vlogging for a year and it's just been fun it's been joy and I love I love everything about it it's not cheap but it's very good it's a good turn great thank you guys I'll be around you guys want to swag, you want to talk you want to hang out, talk food, talk WordPress whatever it is, connect you to somebody happy to help you guys whatever way it makes sense thank you guys