{"id":1117,"date":"2015-02-23T09:22:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.atlanta.wordcamp.org\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2015-03-09T12:26:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T16:26:34","slug":"keynote-speaker-nathalie-lussier-will-talk-about-how-your-path-can-look-like-a-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/keynote-speaker-nathalie-lussier-will-talk-about-how-your-path-can-look-like-a-spiral\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speaker Nathalie Lussier will talk about <em>&#8216;How your path can look like a spiral&#8217;<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1118 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.atlanta.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/02\/nathalie-lussier-large.jpg\" alt=\"nathalie-lussier-large\" width=\"624\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/02\/nathalie-lussier-large.jpg 624w, https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/02\/nathalie-lussier-large-350x223.jpg 350w, https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/02\/nathalie-lussier-large-472x300.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She started making websites when she was 12, but never imagined she\u2019d end up in the digital strategy business. Says Nathalie, \u201cI was blogging online before \u2018blogs\u2019 or WordPress were even on the scene. As soon as WordPress was available I loved it and have built all of my sites on it ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nathalie Lussier is an award-winning entrepreneur. She graduated with a degree in Software Engineering and a job offer from Wall Street. In a gutsy move, she turned down this job to start her own business right out of college. Now running a highly profitable software and training company, Nathalie helps thousands of people all over the world get techy with it. She\u2019s been featured in Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Venture Beat, Mashable, Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance, and Under 30 CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Nathalie says she went down the corporate path and turned back, and sometimes felt like going back to square one. But now she knows she\u2019s exactly where she was meant to be.<\/p>\n<p>Nathalie has been blogging for over 14 years, and really \u2018gets\u2019 the online marketing landscape. She recently partnered with her husband to launch AmbitionAlly, which creates WordPress tools for driven and design-oriented entrepreneurs. They include the polite PopupAlly plugin for WordPress with exit intent options.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t wait to hear Nathalie\u2019s perspectives on how our career paths can take us in fascinating and unexpected directions, as they spiral ever upward.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Nathalie on <a title=\"Nathalie on twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathlussier\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a title=\"Nathalie on Pinterest\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/nathlussier\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a>, <a title=\"Nathalie Lussier on Google Plus\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+NathalieLussierMedia\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a>, <a title=\"Nathalie Lussier on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/nathalielussier\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, <a title=\"Nathalie Lussier on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nathalielussierpage\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and her <a title=\"Nathalie Lussier website\" href=\"http:\/\/nathalielussier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She started making websites when she was 12, but never imagined she\u2019d end up in the digital strategy business. Says Nathalie, \u201cI was blogging online before \u2018blogs\u2019 or WordPress were even on the scene. As soon as WordPress was available I loved it and have built all of my sites on it ever since.\u201d Nathalie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13652457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6846],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-feature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qmLu-i1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13652457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}