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Hear from Nearshoring veterans about what it's like living and doing business in LATAM. Join our hosts and numerous guests from LATAM & the U.S. with interesting real life experiences. This podcast is full of great stories and useful advice on how to navigate the world's most untapped talent market along with travel tips.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 12 days
Average audio length:
30 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
Video podcast
English
United States
96 episodes
since April 21, 2023
episodic
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You can have the perfect project plan and still fail if you speak to every culture the same way. I sit down with Anna Martins, a Brazil-based project manager whose career jumps from hotel management to IBM, then into 14 years at British Telecom before shifting into Asia-focused work through SingTel…
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A law firm is a business, and pretending otherwise is how a lot of talented professionals stall out. Brian Sampson talks with attorney and entrepreneur Matt Heinz about the messy reality of building a company: the first painful years, the 2008 collapse and restart, and the decisions that eventually…
Hiring top tech talent in Latin America is reshaping how U.S. companies build engineering teams in 2026. Brian Samson, founder of Plugg Technologies, breaks down exactly how to hire in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and Nicaragua — what it costs, where to look, and the mistakes that sink near…
Real nearshore recruiting stories straight from the front lines of Latin America tech hiring — no theory, just placements that actually happened. Host Brian Samson sits down solo to unpack seven real case studies sourced by senior Plugg recruiter Xiomara "Xio" Santana, one of the top perf…
Mario Oliveros Figueroa has spent his career doing one thing: building sales teams across Latin America. Today he's the Global Director of Latin America at Niyamo, one of the largest payroll services companies in the region. In this conversation, we get into the "sales triangle" of M…
The H1B conversation is loud, political, and often full of half-truths, so we wanted a clean, practical breakdown from someone who has lived it from the staffing side. We sit down with Robert Richard, Chief Digital Officer at Tier 4 Group and the creator behind the H1B Guy, to talk about what is ac…
Victor Fernandes is a data platform engineer from Fortaleza, Brazil — and his path to get there is unlike anything I've heard before. Seven and a half years automating power plants and steel factories, then a single phone call in 2021 that pulled him into the data world. We talk about what it&…
In this episode of the Nearshore Cafe Podcast, Brian Samson sits down with Jen from Expatsi to explore what it really looks like to leave the U.S. and build a life abroad. From growing up in Alabama to relocating to Mérida, Mexico, Jen shares how she and her husband “nearshored themselves” by lever…
What does it take to grow an IT staffing firm to $28M in revenue while competing against giants like Tech Systems? For Doug Firestone, the answer was found in the jungles of Costa Rica.
In this episode, Doug shares his transition from a Pennsylvania-based founder to a nearshoring pioneer. We explo…
How do you handle a land deal with a duffel bag of cash? Brendan Quirk, Founder of LACPA, joins Brian Samson to share the wild, "boots-on-the-ground" reality of doing business in Latin America for over two decades.
What started as a backpacking trip to Patagonia turned into a 20-year care…
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