Amber’s Blog
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Our First “Exit”: Selling WP Conference Schedule
The business decision behind why we decided to sell WP Conference Schedule rather than releasing the premium plugin ourself.
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Celebrating 15 years
Thoughts on our 15th anniversary and trip to Galveston without kids.
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To Nora, at Eleven
📍 TexasToday is Nora’s eleventh birthday. At times I feel like Nora’s birthdays are celebrations, but also tiny losses. They’re bittersweet moments to marvel at future possibilities and find joy in the past year’s accomplishments, but also moments when I mourn the loss of tiny, sticky fingers reaching for my hand or slow, warm breath as…
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Hello, Is Anyone Out There?
It has been 1 year, 9 months and 3 days since I last published a blog post on this website. At that time, we had just moved from Colorado to Texas and I thought that I was going to revive my blog. I wrote a handful for posts, but then life and business got in…
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What It’s Really Like Working Remotely From a Fully Remote Team
A note from Amber: This blog post was originally written by our content specialist, Emma Crowe-Fleming for the Road Warrior Creative blog. I moved it over here when we closed down that business and took the website offline because I think it’s a good window into what our team was like in March 2020, and…
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Summer 2019 Travel Schedule
Hello from Colorado! (Yes, I’m posting this a bit late.) Our Summer 2019 road trip is in full swing and this year we’re headed North and West. With a schedule packed full of partying with our clients, workshops, and some good old fashioned exploration, you’ll want to follow us @roadwarriorwp on all the socials so you don’t miss out. Questions?…
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Colorado House Renovation Before and After, Part 2
This is part two of my blog post about how we flipped our own house, doing a renovation and updating in 6 weeks, prior to listing it for sale. In Part One, I showed you the major changes upstairs when we took a wall between the dining, living room, and kitchen down to a half…
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Designed to Sell: Flipping Our House, Part 1
It’s officially been a year since I arrived in Texas. When we decided to list our house for sale during our spontaneous cross-country move, I somehow managed to talk Chris into taking a gamble on a full renovation and trying to “flip” our house. For a while now, the Fort Collins real estate market has…
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Logistics of a Cross-Country Move for a Family of 5 With One Week Notice
The last time I published a post, it was about why we spontaneously decided to move to Texas. This week I thought it might be interesting to share HOW we made that cross-country move happen in almost no time at all. Deciding to Move in 48 Hours We found out that the girls had gotten…
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If It’s Not Working, Fix It
Chris and I have been married for 11 years. In those 11 years, we have lived in 5 states all across the country – one, twice. That means we’ve moved a lot. In fact, for every state we’ve lived in, we’ve lived in twice as many houses: 11 houses (or apartments) in 11 years. Reflecting…
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Work-Life Balance Interview: Meg Appleby
Last July, as I was working figuring out how to better balance my life, I started interviewing other people who seemed like they have it all together. I always had the intent of sharing these interviews with you, so I recorded them for both video and audio sharing. Seven months later, I’ve finally made time…
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Spring on the Farm
It’s beginning to feel a lot like spring around here. As much as I think that I’ve enjoyed living places with 4 seasons, I’ll admit that I’ve also been enjoying living in a place where tank tops and dresses are possible during late February/early March. It’s been especially welcome since we’re living in such a…
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The Work/Life Balance Project
I’m writing this post as we drive down the highway in the middle of Tennessee. We’re headed back home from a visit to my mom’s house outside Detroit. This would seem like a normal Christmas voyage, except two things are different: “home” no longer means Colorado, and we’re currently towing a 38 foot travel trailer…
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Maternity Leave for Small Business Owners
📍 ColoradoOn May 9th, I gave birth to our third daughter, Adelaide, while running on just an hour of sleep, following a 10 hour work day into the wee hours of the morning. Adelaide was born at noon; I rested, ate food, worked to get our breastfeeding relationship started, and spent an hour responding to client…
