{"id":2382,"date":"2018-04-21T07:05:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T11:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2018-04-20T11:11:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T15:11:48","slug":"speaker-spotlight-kyle-laverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-kyle-laverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Kyle Laverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kyle is a freelance digital creative in Apex, NC. Originally from Pittsburgh, he served 4 years in the Air Force working on fighter jets before transitioning out and eventually finding an interest in web design and development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A self-taught developer, Kyle currently does freelance work for several different companies as part of his freelance business, Laverty Creative. In addition to this, he manages a veteran-focused website, Creative Vets, and also designs T-Shirts for Peak of Things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Outside of that he enjoys spending time with his fianc\u00e9, 5 kids and 2 dogs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Kyle will be presenting <strong>\u201c<\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"s3\">Freelancer\u2019s Guide to Survival with WordPress\u201d <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Surviving as a freelancer can be tough. I didn\u2019t have a guide when I started. I read some articles, looked at other freelancers, and still it wasn\u2019t a very straightforward process. I wish I would have had a guide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">In this presentation, I will go over what it takes to not just survive as a WordPress freelancer but hopefully thrive as well. I will provide useful tools, links, and info on how to find work, where to look for inspiration, mental health, and work\/life balance as a freelancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle is a freelance digital creative in Apex, NC. Originally from Pittsburgh, he served 4 years in the Air Force working on fighter jets before transitioning out and eventually finding an interest in web design and development. A self-taught developer, Kyle currently does freelance work for several different companies as part of his freelance business, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-kyle-laverty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaker Spotlight: Kyle Laverty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7973571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Speaker Spotlight: Learn about the \"Freelancer's Guide to Survival with WordPress\" with @lavekyl at this years #WCRaliegh","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9CHoB-Cq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7973571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}