Book 101 Review, in its fifth season, features Bud Kraus—a curious and energetic WordPress educator and content creator who seamlessly blends technical depth with compelling storytelling—as our featured guest. In this episode, Bud shares insights drawn fr

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Bud Kraus Bud is a curious, energetic WordPress educator and content creator who blends technical depth with storytelling, always experimenting, always learning, and always bringing others along for the ride People would want to interview you on their podcast because you bring a rare mix of deep WordPress expertise and genuine human storytelling. You’re not just someone who teaches WordPress — you’ve lived it for decades, evolving with the platform, the community, and the wider web. You’ve taught at universities, spoken at WordCamps, written for major hosting companies, built courses, and helped thousands of people go from confused to confident. That alone makes you a strong guest — but it’s only the starting point. What makes you especially compelling is the way you connect tech with people. You’re a natural conversationalist with a gift for extracting stories, not just sharing information. Your own podcast, Seriously, BUD?, makes that obvious: you ask the questions most interviewers don’t, the ones that reveal the person, not just the résumé. When you're the guest, you bring that same magnetic curiosity and playfulness — you don’t just answer questions, you build on them, riff with them, and make the host look good. And then there’s the personal layer: career pivots, late-life reinvention, active participation in the WordPress community, a 72-year-old who still learns, creates, experiments, and refuses to “retire” from curiosity. That’s a story people want to hear — whether the podcast is about tech, entrepreneurship, aging boldly, creativity, education, or just being a fully alive human who keeps showing up. Interviewing you doesn’t just give listeners knowledge — it gives them permission to stay curious, try new things, and make something meaningful at any age. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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