This week’s guest is Zach Moreno, Co-Founder and CEO of SquadCast. SquadCast is a cloud recording studio that allows remote recording without sacrificing quality so people can create without need for a physical studio. In fact, this podcast is created with Squadcast.

Zach grew up in Central Valley and is now in the East Bay in Oakland, CA. Before founding the company with co-founder Rock Felder, he went to art school and also studied software engineering. He was an intern at Google on Chrome team and worked in the government.

After seeking to make his own sci-fi podcast with his brother and best friend and realising how difficult it was to record remotely at the time, the idea for SquadCast came to him.

We chat more about founding the company and it’s objectives. Squadcast is fully remote as a workplace and we also talk about how they decided to stand up the culture they did both with their user community and internally. Also, Zach’s brother and father work with him so we got into a discussion about working with family and boundaries. He took paternity leave recently too so new parents may be interested to hear about how he prepared for that as the co-founder of a company. Congratulations, Zach!

As he has design experience, Zach shared how empathy plays into user experience and design.

It wasn’t all shop talk. We also got into how podcasting can actually be appealing to introverts as well as mental health. Zach shared how meditation and yoga have been helpful to him in dealing with depression and anxiety. Also, as a Latinx founder of a company, we discussed the importance of having different voices in the room.

Note from Rabiah (Host): This was a unique episode for me because I am a user of the guest’s product. I love recording on SquadCast and really respect his team and the business they have built. I embrace any guest who is willing to openly talk about the tough stuff too and Zach was willing to do so. I hope that listeners do walk away with a better feeling about how they might deal with work-life balance, their own mental health or maybe even be inspired to work on the idea they’ve been putting off whether it be a new product, a podcast or something else!

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Find Zach Squadcast: https://www.twitter.com/SquadCastFM

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Zach__Moreno

Between Two Mics: https://pod.link/between2mics

Crypto Art Show: https://pod.link/1558711509

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Mentioned in this episode:

ars PARADOXICA - https://arsparadoxica.com/

The Bright Sessons - https://www.thebrightsessions.com/

Harry Duran. - https://squadcast.fm/between-2-mics/building-relationships-harry-duran/

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