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Can you "Find Balance in Entrepreneurship"?
Charly takes some time today to discuss the challenges of balancing entrepreneurship with personal life.
Learn strategies for setting boundaries, managing priorities, and maintaining well-being.
Life is busy and there's just so many things to remember. What tools do you use to help you keep on top of ALL the things?
It's easy to react or respond quickly to messages and the like. It's better to do that mindfully. That's why I try to Practice The Pause.
The WordPress plugin market has gone through a wave of acquisitions. Financial buyers replaced founders, and the products changed – ads in your dashboard, price hikes, admin panels you can’t remove, and lock-in to ecosystems you didn’t choose. Now that you understand why that happened, the next step is simple: audit what you’re running and know who owns and supports every tool your business depends on.
In this episode, Charly covers:
✔️ How the WordPress plugin ecosystem works and why people in the community built tools like LearnDash, The Events Calendar, Cadence WP, and GiveWP
➡️ What happened when private equity started acquiring these plugins during the COVID era
⚡ Why the founders left after the acquisitions
✨ What changed for users – dashboard ads, forced rebranding, workforce cuts, and websites now redirecting to Liquid Web
❗ Why this pattern isn’t just a WordPress story – it’s what happens when financial buyers enter any ecosystem built on trust
⭐ Why you should audit your ...
If you’re using Microsoft Edge’s built-in password manager, your saved credentials may not be as safe as you think. A researcher has confirmed that Edge decrypts all saved passwords at startup and stores them in plain text in your computer’s memory – for the entire browser session. Unlike other Chromium-based browsers like Brave and Chrome, Edge is the only one tested that decrypts and loads every credential into RAM at startup, whether you visit those sites or not.
In this episode, Charly covers:
✅ How Edge handles saved passwords differently from other browsers
➡️ Why storing credentials in clear text in process memory is a serious risk
⚡ What an attacker with admin access or malware can do with a simple memory dump
⭐ Microsoft’s response – and why calling it a “design choice” is not reassuring
❗ Why you should switch to a dedicated password manager like Zoho Vault
Your browser’s convenience should never come at the cost of your security.
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Your X account is a target, and without two-factor authentication, it’s only a matter of time before someone tries to compromise it. A recent case saw a large account stolen by a crypto scammer who changed the name, description and started exploiting the followers.
In this episode, Charly covers:
✅ Why two-factor authentication matters more than ever for your social accounts
➡️ The three authentication options X offers and which one Charly recommends
⚡ Step-by-step walkthrough of enabling an authentication app on your X account
⭐ How to scan the QR code and link your authenticator
❗ Why you must save your single-use backup code and where to keep it safely
Two-factor authentication might not be 100% bulletproof, but it makes you significantly harder to hack than the next person. Take a few minutes and lock your account down today.
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