The Nearshore Cafe
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.
The Nearshore Cafe
Latest Episodes
You Cannot Lead Globally Without Changing How You Speak
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...
Matt Hines Built a 110-Person Law Firm with Latin American Talent. Here's How.
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 ...
Brian Samson Breaks Down the 2026 Playbook for Hiring Top Talent in Latin America
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 i...
Brian Samson Shares Real Nearshore Hiring Stories from Brazil and Mexico
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 recruit...
Building Sales Teams in Mexico: Mario Oliveros Figueroa on LATAM Talent & Cross-Border Selling
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 conversatio...