Hey there and welcome to the season 3 finale of the Teammate Apart Podcast. I just want to quickly thank everyone who participated in the show this season, both guests, and listeners who have been willing to share the good work we’re doing here with their friends, families, professional networks, and hopefully anyone who could benefit from the perspectives and knowledge shared by our contributors. Hot off the heels of COVID, I think this show, and others like it, and the individuals who have joined us here to share their great wealths of knowledge have done a real service to a world experiencing drastic change, and I am thrilled to add the voice of today’s guest to the soapbox from which we’ve been shouting.

Today’s special guest is the incredible John Riordan. John is the director of support at Shopify, chairman at Grow Remote, and a figure with a well-documented history of making impactful contributions to the world of remote work.

John’s prior employers are a veritable whose-who of progressive companies with whom he has been wildly influential in their integration of remote work strategies. From US Airways to Virgin Atlantic, to Apple, and now Shopify his experience as a results-oriented international customer service leader has proven invaluable in showing how remote work works at scale.


John joins us today for a much needed — and much anticipated — conversation about intentionality and how it can make or break a company’s approach to remote work, developing a culture of trust on distributed teams, how the role of remote-team leaders have evolved, rapidly in recent years, and so much more, please join me in welcoming to the show, John Riordan. 

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John Riordan
Director of Support at Shopify
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncriordan/
https://twitter.com/johncriordan

About John
• Results-oriented International Customer Services leader with a track record of increasing responsibility.
• Extensive experience in creating, implementing and running Home Based Agent solutions and running large multi-disciplinary departments.
• Proven record of conceptualizing and executing fundamental organizational changes, to reduce cost and increase customer satisfaction.
• Proven strengths in relating to customer issues and resolving delivery problems.
• Skilled communicator, disciplined and eager to absorb new information.

Specialties:
• Virtual Customer Solutions
• International Market Experience
• Executive Relationship Building
• Contract Negotiator
• Business Process Outsourcing
• Strategic Change Agent
• Financial Planning
• Brand Marketing
• Public Relations
• Team Building.

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Hey there, and welcome back to the Teammate Apart Podcast. This week’s special guest is Head of Business Development at Doist and host of the About Abroad podcast, Chase Warrington.

After calling a half-a-dozen countries “home”, Chase, an American ex-pat now living in Spain, is well-known for his passion for making location independence the new norm — and helping others step into a life beyond their borders. He is a major contributor to nearly every major remote-centric publication, podcast, and blog, and can often be seen collaborating with some of the most prominent companies in the remote work space.


Joining us today for a discussion about the role remote leaders play in protecting the mental health of their teams, how distributed team members can set themselves up for success when working from home — or anywhere — now and as we move beyond the pandemic, making a case for remote as the world “returns to the office,” and so much more, please welcome to the show, Chase Warrington. 

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Chase Warrington
Head of Business Development at Doist | Remote-Work Advocate & Speaker | Host of About Abroad Podcast

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chase-warrington
https://www.aboutabroad.com
https://doist.com

About Chase
Business Development professional with 12 years of experience working remotely in the US, Europe, Asia, and South America, and conversational skills in Spanish. Head of Business Development at Doist, the creators of Todoist & Twist, and a leading remote-first organization with 90 employees spread across 30+ countries.

My team focuses on project management related to international expansion, strategic partnerships, revenue generation, sponsorships & remote work advancement.

I'm passionate about the movement towards distributed teams, and the positive impact it is having on income equality, the environment, and emerging markets. I contribute as an instructor and speaker on remote teamwork, culture, project management, and communication, for many of the major platforms empowering location-independent professionals and teams. As a US-expat living in Spain, I recently launched About Abroad, a podcast dedicated to exploring all elements of life beyond your borders. Learn more at aboutabroad.com.

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Hey there and welcome back to the Teammate Apart Podcast. Today’s special guest is Daphnée Laforest. Daphnée is a Distributed Workplace Consultant and host of the Remote First Podcast, who is on a mission to help executives, people ops, and team leaders drive company-wide shifts toward remote-first ways of working.

In more than 10 years of working with fully distributed companies, she has a long history of playing key roles in establishing scalable workflows for growth, facilitating business decisions remotely, and building internal products dedicated to supporting remote-first teams. Daphnée believes that understanding that the way we work plays an essential role in creating successful, distributed-by-design, workplaces and is a key element in creating memorable employee experiences.

For an exciting conversation about how we can most effectively support our teams in their return to the office, in a hybrid-way; improving employee wellbeing through flexibility, empowerment, and trust; asynchronous and transparent communication; and how we can coach and educate our teams to be better facilitators, please join me in welcoming to the show, our guest, Daphnée Laforest.

Daphnée Laforest
Distributed Workplace Strategist | Digital-First SME & Enterprise Transformation | Product & Business Strategy | 🎙 Remote First Podcast
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daphneelaforest/
https://daphneelaforest.com/

About Daphnée
Daphnée is a Distributed Workplace Consultant who is on a mission to help executives, people ops, and team leaders drive a company-wide shift toward remote-first ways of working.

Within 10 years of experience in fully distributed companies, she played key roles in establishing scalable workflows for growth, facilitating business decisions remotely, and building internal products dedicated to digital-first teams.

Understanding that the way we work plays an essential part of a successful distributed-by-design workplace and is a key element of a memorable employee experience, Daphnée focuses on enhanced org design & workflows; improve employee wellbeing through flexibility, empowerment, & trust; Async and transparent communication practices; coach & educate leaders in scaling their department, becoming better facilitators.

As an early advocate of remote work, she previously led the first online conference about remote work as a business strategy with over 1500 live attendees. Recently, She launched the Remote First Podcast where every week she chats with leaders from large companies (Shopify, Slack, Elastic ) about their experience at scaling a digital-first culture.

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