{"id":216,"date":"2018-04-09T17:54:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=216"},"modified":"2018-04-09T17:55:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:55:16","slug":"how-running-a-wordpress-design-agency-allowed-me-to-follow-my-dreams-of-becoming-a-musician","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/session\/how-running-a-wordpress-design-agency-allowed-me-to-follow-my-dreams-of-becoming-a-musician\/","title":{"rendered":"How Running a WordPress Design Agency Allowed Me to Follow My Dreams of Becoming a Musician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2010, I made the mistake of reading Tim Ferriss\u2019 The 4-Hour Workweek, while sipping tropical drinks on a beach vacation, and it ruined my life. Or rather, it encouraged me to rearrange my life to make more time for my passion for music and achieve location-independence. My husband and I founded Rabell Creative, a WordPress web design and digital marketing agency in 2012. After six years of experience building WordPress websites for clients full time, I will share with you our top tips and tricks for building beautiful websites efficiently, making your clients happy, and having time leftover to pursue your passions. I will outline the exact procedures and plugins that help simplify this process and discuss some of our most frequent pitfalls in dealing with clients, and how we avoid them.<\/p>\n<p>Since we can work from anywhere with just our laptops and the Internet, we moved to Nashville in 2016, so I could pursue my dream of becoming a musician and songwriter. Running a fully remote WordPress web design agency is allowing me to travel, play music, and live out my dreams, and I am so grateful for the awesome and supportive WordPress community that helps make it all possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2010, I made the mistake of reading Tim Ferriss\u2019 The 4-Hour Workweek, while sipping tropical drinks on a beach vacation, and it ruined my life. Or rather, it encouraged me to rearrange my life to make more time for my passion for music and achieve location-independence. My husband and I founded &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/session\/how-running-a-wordpress-design-agency-allowed-me-to-follow-my-dreams-of-becoming-a-musician\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Running a WordPress Design Agency Allowed Me to Follow My Dreams of Becoming a Musician&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10107779,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1525020000,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[215],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[13412],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-216","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-track-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9CHoB-3u","session_date_time":{"date":"April 29, 2018","time":"12:40 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"215","slug":"laura-rabell","name":"Laura Rabell","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker\/laura-rabell\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/216\/revisions\/2066"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/215"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/withacause"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}