Modern Work: a podcast about how we work today
Welcome to the Modern Work podcast. I’m Katherine Conaway, and I talk to people around the world about the work they do & how they got there. Our interview topics include careers, childhood hobbies, education, entrepreneurship, office culture, work-life balance, remote work, digital nomads, apps, tools, processes, workflow, strategy, and more.
- Update frequency
- every 44 days
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 16
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2021
Dustin Johnson, Software Engineer + Chief Software Architect
Dustin Johnson is a software engineer and cofounder who started his career working at the Space & Missile Systems Center in California, Boeing, a drone company & the government, and then his startup …
Jessica DeWitt, Art Director + Designer
Jessica is a brand alchemist, working to advance the goals and vision of companies through brand stories that resonates both internally and externally. Jessica has worked with nonprofits and design a…
Martin Smith, Principal Engineer
Martin Smith is a Site Reliability Engineer for HashiCorp, a remote-first company that solves development, operations, and security challenges in Cloud infrastructure. Martin previously worked in sof…
Maya Yette, Operations & Project Manager
Maya Yette is a recovering lawyer turned operations and strategy professional. She grew up in a suburb of Washington DC, studied communications and journalism, and has a law degree from Harvard Unive…
Jono Lee, Product Designer + Founder
Jono Lee is a product designer and engineer who enjoys building products people love. Jono has been working with computers since he was a teenager, founded 2 startups after college, was a product des…
Tarryn Marcus, Director of Demand Generation
In this episode, I talk to Tarryn about her work in digital marketing. She’s been interested in business, marketing, and entrepreneurship since high school — and she’s really good at it.
I first inter…
Rebecca Rubin, Marketing Coach
Rebecca Rubin is a feel-good marketing coach for women entrepreneurs and runs her own business, The Pursuit of Fabulous. In this interview, we discuss what a marketing coach is, how Rebecca built her…
Spring 2018 Update
Hello from Medellin, Colombia! A brief update about the podcast and what I've been up to for the past few months.
First, a story about how this podcast helped change someone's life. And a request for…
Arestia Rosenberg, Director + Executive Producer + Writer
Arestia Rosenberg is a filmmaker and writer with 10+ years experience in major motion pictures/television, advertising, and creative direction in media. She was a member of Remote Year’s third group,…
Katy Fowler, Freelance Translator
Katy Fowler is a freelance translator, working from German and Italian into English. She was a member of Remote Year’s second group, Battuta, and lives in Hampshire, England. She studied languages an…
Oh, The 52 Places You Could Go With The New York Times
The New York Times released a job posting: a writer to visit the destinations listed in their 52 Places to Go in 2017. Their Facebook post announcing it went viral, and thousands of people must have …
Laura Hansen, Graphic Designer
Laura Hansen is a freelance graphic designer & owner of LaHa Design. She was a member of Remote Year’s second group, Battuta, and now lives in Columbus, Ohio. In this interview, we discuss her educat…
Chrissy Barnum, Management Consultant at Accenture
Chrissy Barnum is a consultant at Accenture, where she's focused on strategy consulting for large nonprofit organizations. Outside of Accenture, Chrissy writes about social entrepreneurship on her bl…
