Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs
182 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHelping married entrepreneurs reach their business goals while living a better-balanced life with their spouse and family
The biggest challenge for married entrepreneurs isn’t simply succeeding in business, it’s succeeding in all areas of life.
This show will take you behind closed doors to share with you the real stories, conversations, and hard moments that happen in every married couple’s life, especially when it’s amplified by the stress of building a business.
Join your hosts Robert and Kay Lee Fukui each week as they take you into the boardroom and bedroom where you will hear encouraging stories from married entrepreneurs thriving in tandem.
Robert has over 25 years of working with Fortune 100 companies in marketing and sales before developing a consulting business to help privately held, family businesses become more profitable.
Kay Lee grew up and worked in her family business and understands the power struggles that can bring.
Together they spent two years in relationship counseling BEFORE they got married and have over 17 years of real-life marriage and business experience implementing what they've learned.
Stay connected with them on Facebook and Instagram @thrivingintandem or visit them at https://www.marriedentrepreneur.co for some great resources for your marriage and business.
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Ep. 178 - Get Your Life Back with Jerry Dugan
April 23, 2024 00:42 - 43 minutes - 49.9 MBAs you go through the daily grind of building your business, does it sometime feel like Groundhog Day? Same thing over and over. If you stop and think, do you feel like you and your spouse are growing together or feeling more like roommates? Meet this week’s guest, Jerry Dugan. One day as he was building his career, his wife and kids gave him a shot in the arm with one statement and one question. It hit him between the eyes and made him assess what he was doing. He was sacrificing his pers...
Ep. 177 - Mastering Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Navigating The Pitfalls of Working With Your Spouse
April 16, 2024 18:34 - 30 minutes - 58.6 MBFor some groups of married entrepreneurs, working with your spouse is the greatest thing since sliced bread. For others, it’s a disaster. The third group is getting by and the last group doesn’t even want to go there. Regardless of which camp you sit in, this episode is dedicated to you. The married entrepreneur who works with your spouse or is wondering whether it’s a good idea or not. Working with your spouse has its challenges for sure. But if you avoid these 5 common pitfalls, you will...
Ep. 176 - Love, Labor, and Limits: Nurturing Balance in Entrepreneurial Marriages with Robert and Kay Lee Fukui
April 08, 2024 21:29 - 30 minutes - 34.4 MBOne of the reasons for the lack of work-life balance is working a lot of hours and taking on too many responsibilities. Whether it’s business or personal related, we tend to say yes to more things than we realize which steals time away from your spouse and kids. So how do we keep from taking on too much so we can maintain a healthy relationship with our family? Our spouses can keep us accountable but it can also create conflict. Because the truth can hurt. In this episode, we’ll discuss wa...
Ep. 175 - Mindset Moguls: Conquering Life with Skiing Wisdom with Robert and Kay Lee Fukui
April 01, 2024 19:40 - 33 minutes - 38.7 MBWhenever we face challenges like recessions, COVID-19, business competition, or market crashes, fear tends to rear its ugly head. How we deal with fear determines how well we get through those challenging times. Kay Lee and I recently went on a ski vacation and I noticed a lot of skiing metaphors that applied to how we deal with life and business challenges. If you’re a skier, you may pick up a pointer or two. If not, you should still understand the application this will have in your lif...
Ep. 174 - Legacy Builders: Nurturing Family and Business for Future Generations
March 18, 2024 17:13 - 33 minutes - 38.3 MBThe term family legacy gets thrown around a lot. We want it but do we really know what it means, how to build it, and know when you have it? In this episode, we’ll share what we’ve learned, how we’ve built it, and share some stories of others who’ve done it. NOTE: It doesn’t matter how much or little your assets are worth. Nor does age have anything to do with it. You haeBuilding a family legacy starts with taking the first step. Take a listen. Want to live a better balanced life and wi...
Ep. 173 - The Profitable Equation: Efficiency, Margins, Pricing, and Productivity
March 13, 2024 23:34 - 32 minutes - 37.5 MBImproving the businesses bottom line is always a nice thing to do. Usually, the strategy to do so is increase sales. But when you’re already working hard and long hours, more sales means more work. More work means more hours and less time at home with your spouse and family. How much more can you handle? What if we can show you how to find more money within your business without you having to go chase more sales? No, it’s not magic or accounting fraud, it’s just basic practical process man...
Ep.172 - Don’t Work For Your Wealth
March 01, 2024 18:33 - 34 minutes - 39.1 MBBecoming financially wealthy is a desire many have but most don’t achieve. Is it really that difficult? Actually not as difficult as many think. The difference between the people that achieve financial wealth vs those that simply talk about is based on their mindset on money and the habits they form around it. In this episode, we will talk about how we created our wealth and the multiple streams of income. You will be surprised to see how simple it was and that it wasn’t due to some major ...
Ep. 171 - Find More Time to Grow Your Business
February 20, 2024 23:16 - 33 minutes - 38 MBTime seems to be that asset that entrepreneurs don’t have a lot of. If you’re feeling like you’re so busy you don’t have enough time to get everything done than this episode is for you. While no one can gain more time in the day, you can gain more margin. That takes doing less busy work and concentrate on more productive work. This can be hard as the less productive work are things that we face at the moment like emails, texts, and phone calls. Things that are right in front of us that we...
Ep. 170 - Addicted to Success with Teresa McCloy
February 10, 2024 04:55 - 35 minutes - 40.6 MBWhat drives you? What’s important to you? If relationships wasn’t an answer to at least one of those questions, you definitely need to listen to this episode. We live in a success driven world. Which wouldn’t be a problem if success was defined in a holistic way. But for most entrepreneurs, we often forget to mention our relationships. Even if we say relationships are our priority it isn’t lived out on a day to day basis. Not spending enough time with important relationships like spouse an...
Ep. 169 - Marriage Over Business: The Key to Success
January 22, 2024 19:22 - 32 minutes - 37.3 MBI know you want to prioritize your marriage over the business but there is a tension that pulls you to prioritize the business first. After all, it’s the main source of income for you and your family. If the business struggles you will financially as well. But what if I told you that they key to business success is to prioritize your marriage? There’s plenty of research around this topic that Kay Lee and I will share in this episode. We’ll also help you answer the question, “how much time...
Ep. 168 - Surviving The Miracle On The Hudson with Dave Sanderson
January 12, 2024 17:42 - 43 minutes - 49.8 MBIt typically takes a significant (near) life tragedy to change someone’s perspective. Many of us entrepreneurs are wired to achieve while neglecting our most important relationships. Imagine being in a commercial jet that is about to go crashing into the Hudson River. What would be going through your mind and how would your perspective on life change after surviving? Meet this week’s guest, Dave Sanderson, who was one of those passengers on U.S Flight 1549 that successfully landed on the H...
Ep. 167 - Don’t Have The Entrepreneurs Regret
January 10, 2024 17:37 - 32 minutes - 37.4 MBWhen successful entrepreneurs start reaching their golden years, they often talk about some of their regrets in life. It’s not usually about missed business opportunities or investments, it’s about relationships. The most common regrets among the successful are around not taking care of themself and their close relationships like spouse and kids. Why does this happen? Because they were raised a lot like you and I. Raised with the mindset that your work is your worth. That your success is b...
Ep. 166 - What Pisses Us Off and Breaks Our Heart
January 08, 2024 18:15 - 13 minutes - 15.3 MBWelcome to Thriving in Tandem. It’s a podcast for you the married entrepreneur that wants to win in business and marriage at the same time. The biggest challenge for the married entrepreneur isn’t just succeeding in business, it’s succeeding in all areas of your life including your marriage. What if we could take you behind closed doors to share with you the real stories, conversations, and hard moments that happen in every married entrepreneur’s life. Each week, we take you into the b...
Ep. 165 Finding Good Employees with Dr. Joey Faucette
December 30, 2023 15:09 - 37 minutes - 43.5 MBNo matter what business owner we speak to anywhere in the country, the top concern is finding good employees. The same thing seems to be happening all over the U.S.A., no one wants to work. And the ones that do want to be paid a lot of money and with a lot of perks. Sound familiar? Well, Dr Joey Faucette is going to help us develop a plan to attract and retain great talent. Beware, finding good talent might not be as difficult as you might think. Or maybe it will. Click this episode to fin...
Ep. 164 - Becoming A Better Husband, Father, and Business Leader with Chris Niemeyer and Michael McGreevy
December 28, 2023 14:40 - 42 minutes - 48.7 MBAre you a man? Are you a husband? Are you a father? Are you a business owner? Than this show is for you! Or any wife that wants to hear what guys talk about. Ha ha! But this isn’t going to be a mancave show. It’s going to be three guys sharing what it takes to be a superstar husband, dad, and entrepreneur. As you know, trying to do it all can be difficult. It’s like spinning plates sometimes. But the concepts to doing it all successfully is surprisingly simple but difficult to execute. So ...
Ep. 163 - Us Factor: Keys To Success In Marriage and Business with Bobby and Michelle Schaffer
December 27, 2023 15:22 - 42 minutes - 49 MBHow would you and your spouse deal with losing, not one but, two businesses? Losing one business is bad enough. The stress that your relationship goes through can send many straight to divorce court. Fortunately, that did not happen to this week’s guest Bobby and Michelle Schaffer. They only got stronger together. Almost immediatly after being ousted from the very company they started, they set course on their next venture. Tune in to this week’s episode as you’ll learn how they were able ...
Ep. 162 - Four Day Work Week with Joe Sanok
December 11, 2023 22:52 - 37 minutes - 43 MBWork 4 days a week? What entrepreneur doesn’t want that? Ok, so maybe I can adjust my schedule to do this but wouldn’t my business suffer? These are great questions that this week’s guest Joe Sanok is going to answer. As a counselor and therapist, he effectively grew and sold his practice incorporating the 4 day work week principle. Now he helps other private practice therapists do the same through his coaching programs and top rated podcast, Practice of the Practice. And you can too. F...
Ep. 161 - Prioritizing Business Will Destroy Your Marriage with Krystal Parker
November 27, 2023 20:38 - 37 minutes - 42.9 MBYou hear us and others warning that if you prioritize succeeding in business over the relationship, it CAN harm your marriage. This week’s guest, Krystal Parker, shows it WILL destroy your marriage. She found out the hard way how focusing so hard on achieving professional success can lead to two divorces. You’d think she would learn the first time, right? Well, she did. What happened the second time you’ll have to listen. Tune in as we hear an amazing story of how she broke through the gla...
Ep. 160 - How Your Sales Price Effect Work-Life Balance
November 20, 2023 17:59 - 35 minutes - 40.4 MBWe’re all about helping the married entrepreneur create greater work-life balance. A lot of our discussion is around setting boundaries and being more efficient with our time. This week, we want to talk about an often overlooked aspect of the business that largely determines how hard the business has to work to make a profit. PRICE. Price setting is the most important financial decision you make for your business yet it’s the least amount of time spent on it. Think about it, at the point o...
Ep. 159 - 5 Hour Work Week with Billy Sticker
November 13, 2023 21:38 - 42 minutes - 48.3 MBAs a business owner, you need to be more lazy. No, it’s not that we don’t believe in hard work. But too many entrepreneurs are working so hard that they are slave to the business and it stunts the growth of the business. If you find a way to do less of the work by delegating more of it to employees that are better at certain tasks then you, then you’re a step closer to scaling and growing a business for more freedom. Join us and this week’s guest, Billy Sticker, as he shares us the concept...
Ep. 158 - Patience: The Entrepreneur’s Weakness
November 06, 2023 06:30 - 37 minutes - 43.2 MBEntrepreneurs are great visionaries, starters, doers, but often lack patience. In one sense that is a strength because many people just think about doing stuff but the entrepreneur makes it happen. There is a downside though. Impatience can cause the entrepreneur to pivot too quickly or get caught up in the shiny object. This can cause the business to lose any momentum it has created. Want to live a better balanced life and win in marriage AND business at the same time? Purchase our book T...
Ep. 157 - Developing Your Employees Improves Your Bottom Line with Dr. Karen Wilson-Starks
November 01, 2023 22:08 - 38 minutes - 44.2 MBTraining and developing employees seems like common sense but many small businesses do an inadequate job of doing so. Lack of time and resources seems to be the primary excuse. But if you knew that creating a culture that constantly develops its people would increase your profits, you would do it in a heartbeat, right? Join us in this important discussion with leadership consultant Dr. Karen Wilson-Starks as she shares her experience in this area. Reduced turnover and increased productivit...
Ep. 156 - Is Time Your Friend or Enemy?
October 09, 2023 21:51 - 37 minutes - 43.2 MBIn this world of busyness it seems like time is our enemy more than our friend. But who’s fault is that? There are so many things coming at us in our business and personal lives that some of the more important aspects are being neglected. At home, spouses feel ignored and kids feel neglected. In business, many of the high level projects that would grow our business are being put off time and time again. We can blame other people and circumstance all we want but for the most part, this negl...
Ep. 155 - Becoming The Entrepreneur God Created You To Be with Kelly Baader
October 04, 2023 01:50 - 38 minutes - 44 MBOvercoming childhood trauma is significant in itself. But how about being criticized, passed over, and looked down upon every step of your career? To top it off, one of the leaders you admire tells you, you’re not good enough. That is a lot to overcome and still be successful. Meet this week’s guest, Kelly Baader. She survived all of this to be an entrepreneur helping other leaders be successful in spite of their obstacles. Kelly is also the host of the top rated podcast, Christian CEO. Th...
Ep. 154 - Grow Your Business Into Bankruptcy
September 26, 2023 15:28 - 34 minutes - 39.5 MBBusiness growth is on the minds of most entrepreneurs. Unfortunately for many, they approach growth in the reverse order that it should be done. Most will focus on driving sales and then play catch up with any operational needs that is sure to appear when the workload increases. Similar to building a housing development. The infrastructure like sewage, water, and electrical is installed in the neighborhood before you start building homes. Without it, there will be a lot of unhappy homeown...
Ep. 153 - When Your Wife is the C.E.O. with Craig and Allison Guido
September 11, 2023 14:57 - 42 minutes - 48.1 MBWhat do you do when your wife is the boss? Is she the same at work and home? And what about if her dad is the owner of the company and you’re coming in as the son-in-law? Lastly, how do you handle succession when you and your spouse have one idea of where to take the company that differs from dad? We tackle these issues and more as we interview Craig and Allison Guido. A husband and wife team that run a third generation remodeling business in the northeast. They share their successes and c...
Ep. 152 - Get Your Spouse On Board With The Vision
September 09, 2023 04:52 - 32 minutes - 37.4 MBWhy is it so hard to get your spouse on board with establishing a long term vision for your life and/or business? Is it just us? Yes, we’ve struggled with it at times and so have our clients. So in this episode, we’ll dive into why creating vision is a struggle and how to do it better.
Ep. 151 - More Intimacy Equals Greater Revenue In Your Business with Monica Tanner
August 21, 2023 19:19 - 40 minutes - 46.7 MBIf you’re married, you want more intimacy. As a business owner, you want more revenue. But somehow getting both at the same time is elusive. Why? Because as you’re going all-in on the business, your marriage tends to take a back seat and the relationship suffers. With it, goes intimacy. How would like to ignite the intimacy in your marriage while growing your business? Meet Monica Tanner, entrepreneur and relationship expert. She’s will point out some of the things we’re doing that is bloc...
Ep. 150 - Dream Big, Start Small
August 07, 2023 22:01 - 30 minutes - 34.8 MBDreaming big for your business is wonderful but trying to start big is detrimental. It stretches your time and resources thin which creates additional stress on you and your relationships. And if you need capital like a loan of investor, to finance the dream, “fo getta bout it.” That’s additional stress you don’t need. By starting smaller, you move forward much quicker and do so with less risk. In fact, the odds of success are greater when you start small. This episode was inspired by a...
Ep. 149 - Are You A Better Leader At Work or Home? With Jesus Sampedro
July 31, 2023 22:19 - 43 minutes - 49.7 MBMany business owners are great leaders at work but not so much at home. I may or may not have been one of those. The question is, why? Why can we be great at building teams, creating healthy cultures, and keep our customers happy but not do the same thing at home? This question and more we ask this week’s guest, Jesus Sampedro. He’s a leadership consultant, college professor, author, husband and father. We dig deep into why we as business leaders often fail to build up our most important o...
Ep. 148 - Dealing With Saver vs. Spender In Marriage and Business
July 24, 2023 12:54 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBWe hope to save some marriages with this episode. Since money issues is the number one reason for conflict and divorce in a marriage, we would be remiss if we didn’t address it. The conflict boils down to this difference. One spouse is a saver while the other is a spender. It’s the same in our marriage. I (Robert) am the spender and Kay Lee is the saver. In this episode, we will share our story and how we’ve been able to reconcile these two extremes. You don’t have to choose one over the ...
Ep. 147 - Unconventional Employee Retention Strategy with Danica Dedmon
July 10, 2023 22:51 - 41 minutes - 47.7 MBYou may have been experiencing or hearing business owners grumble about how hard it is to find good workers. Or that the ones they have don’t put in max effort. According to Gallup, only 33% of employees in the U.S. are considered engaged in their job. That means there are a lot of “slackers” out there, right? Before you start bringing out the axe to chop off part of your workforce, you need to start identifying “why” employees are disengaged. There are multiple reasons this can be happeni...
Ep. 146 - The Business of Marriage
June 26, 2023 17:06 - 33 minutes - 37.8 MBIf you’re wondering what it takes to build a successful marriage it’s very business like. Take communication for example. In a business, good communication is a key to great marketing but also to foster better teamwork. In other words, the key elements that make a business successful can also be used in marriage. Take vision, planning, rewarding success, delegation of tasks, vacation days, and logistics. Imagine if you implemented all of this into your marriage? You will be happier, effici...
Ep. 145 - Dealing With Difficult Customers with Sheila Wilkinson
June 19, 2023 19:23 - 50 minutes - 57.2 MBOwning a business can be awesome. But it can also come with some challenges. Like dealing with difficult customers/clients. The demanding few can eat into your personal time. Unfortunately, you can’t blame everything on your customer. We always have a choice as to how much we work, how available we are to customers, and how fast we feel we need to respond to every “emergency.” Meet this week’s guest, Sheila Wilkinson esq. She knows firsthand what it’s like to put in 120 hour work weeks an...
Ep.144 - Intentional Steps To Realize Your Marriage and Business Dreams
June 12, 2023 14:15 - 34 minutes - 39.8 MBIntentional is a keyword that will help you create greater work-life balance and realize your dreams in marriage and business. Most couples we talk to have the mentality that if you just work hard enough your life will fall into place. There’s some truth to that but if you don’t have a clear direction of what you’re trying to accomplish how will you know when you’ve reached your destination? Even for our own lives, we’ve found that the more specific we make our goals, the more likely we ac...
Ep. 143 - Communication Keys In Business and Marriage with Steve Reiter
June 05, 2023 13:00 - 52 minutes - 59.9 MBWe all know communication is key when it comes to marriage. It’s also the foundation for great marketing. So we decided to bring in an expert in communication. Hall of Fame radio producer Steve Reiter. He knows great communication and communicators. Steve has produced some national and internationally syndicated radio shows. One of which edged out the “King of Radio” Howard Stern, to be inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. Tune in to this episode as Steve shares the fundament...
Ep. 142 - Anniversary Special: What We’ve Learned About Marriage and Doing Business Together
May 29, 2023 23:06 - 37 minutes - 42.9 MBWe just celebrated 17 years of marriage and we thought we’d record an episode during our getaway while the thoughts are fresh in our mind. What have we learned about marriage and doing business together? Being married brings along it’s own set of rewards and challenges but working together can make very interesting. What we’ve learned through counseling and working at our relationship is as long as you have the right tools, you can do anything together. And there aren’t any challenges you...
Ep. 141 - Prioritize Your Marriage and Your Business Will Prosper
May 15, 2023 15:00 - 36 minutes - 42.3 MB“Show me the money!” If you remember that phrase then you’re probably as old as I am. HaHa! That’s a quote from the movie, Jerry Maguire. The movie was about a fledgling sports agent played by Tom Cruise, who was trying to land a big name football star to kick start his career. Money and fame was the end goal for the athlete. Simply money was the end game for Cruise’s character. This week’s guest, David Meltzer, was the CEO for the Leigh Steinberg Sports Marketing Agency the movie was ba...
Ep. 140 - Becoming The Everyday “Boring” Millionaire
May 08, 2023 16:05 - 39 minutes - 45.2 MBMany people think becoming a millionaire think you need to inherit it, take some big risks, invest into the next Amazon, win the lottery, or build a business that blows up. That does happen. But the average millionaire does it like we did. The boring way. No huge risks but what we did was invest early and often. The amount of money you invest is not as much of the issue as the fact that you do invest. In this episode you will hear our story, mistakes, successes, and 5 keys to become a bor...
Ep. 139 - From Trailer Park to Mountain Top: Keys to Living a Rich Life
April 25, 2023 00:32 - 56 minutes - 65.1 MBI’m sure you’ve heard the term, “money can’t buy you happiness.” If you’re like many, you may be one of those that say, “try me.” But if you’ve been around enough rich people like this week’s guest, Marissa Nehlsen has, you’ll know it’s true. Not that money can’t help, but it takes more than money to live a happy and fulfilled life. So tune into this week’s episode to lay out some keys to living a life rich in the fullness of the word. Marissa came from a dysfunctional background and lived...
Ep. 138 - Rest is Productive For Your Marriage and Business
April 10, 2023 16:44 - 34 minutes - 39.1 MBThe reason many entrepreneurs struggle with resting is that it feels unproductive. If you rest, you’re not getting things done, right? The opposite is true. Rest is very productive for your business and marriage. First, you need to understand that rest is not simply sleeping or lounging around watching TV. It’s disengaging from work to allow your body and mind to recover. And it doesn’t take long either. Taking periodic, 5 minute breaks from the work at hand will rejuvenate your body and ...
Ep. 137- Focus On What You Want In Marriage and Business
March 27, 2023 13:58 - 30 minutes - 34.6 MBYou may have been told to focus on what you want, not what you don’t want. Your mind focuses on what you talk about so when you say, “don’t touch the fire,” you’re going touch the fire. As a golfer, if I tell myself, “don’t hit it in the lake, inevitably, I hit it in the lake.” So, yes, mindset is a real thing and it will affect your marriage and business. We were just on a ski vacation in Park City, Utah and had an interesting mindset conversation on the ski slope. It wasn’t planned but w...
Ep. 136 - Retirement Benefits Every Small Business Can Provide
March 14, 2023 01:48 - 40 minutes - 46.9 MBMost, if not all, employees want retirement benefits and I know most employers want to provide them. But many small business owners don’t think they can afford to provide them. So we sought out financial and retirement plan expert Pete Walkey, who dispels the myth that small businesses can’t afford to provide retirement benefits. You will find that you can and there are no-cost to low-cost options to provide this benefit that will help you attract and retain great talent. And these days, ...
Ep. 135 - Finding True Happiness In Business with Dr. Ellen Wong
March 06, 2023 13:52 - 47 minutes - 53.9 MBAre you the high achiever, organized, hard working, and calm under pressure type of entrepreneur? Do you suffer from negative self-talk, perfectionism, struggle to relax, fear of failure/success, and have difficulty saying “no?” If you look like the pillar of strength from the outside but deal with some internal struggles (who doesn’t?), then you may not be truly happy. Join us for a great conversation with Dr. Ellen Wong. She’s a naturopathic doctor who is also the Chief Happiness Officer...
Ep. 134 - 3 Keys To Working With Your Spouse
February 20, 2023 16:41 - 34 minutes - 39.5 MBWorking with your spouse is always a hot topic. We typically get three reactions. Either, “It’s amazing,” “never,” or “we’re doing the best we can.” Regardless of which camp you lie, this episode is going to help your marriage whether you work with your spouse or not. According to the Kaufman Foundation, 71% of business owners are married and about half of them work with their spouse. That means at least half of our audience already works with their spouse. The rest of you either will ne...
Ep. 133 - Surf, Business, Marriage, and Ministry with Bear & Cindy Woznick
February 13, 2023 20:28 - 52 minutes - 60.4 MBIf you’ve never tried tandem surfing before, it’s not as easy as it looks. It takes a lot of skill, determination, coordination and teamwork. It’s two people moving as one on a surfboard. And if you don’t, you could fall and get hurt. Kinda like a marriage. Meet this week’s guest, Bear and Cindy Woznick. Tandem surf champion, author, entrepreneur, speaker, and TV host. They provide some great insight into working well as a team inside and out of the business. But more importantly, how to b...
Ep. 132 - Business Growth Mindset
February 07, 2023 06:15 - 32 minutes - 36.9 MBBusiness strategy is good but your mindset is the most important place to start. It doesn’t matter how good or how sound the strategy is, if you’re not comfortable with the change you’re not likely to execute well. Why? Because change is not comfortable no matter how big or small it is. But whenever you’re trying to improve your situation, it is going to force you to change. And that’s where the mindset comes in. It’s really getting you comfortable to make the change. You would think if a...
Ep. 131 - A Family That Entertains Together Stays Together
January 30, 2023 22:12 - 50 minutes - 57.7 MBImagine working with your spouse and living in an RV the majority of the time. Now add four kids and a dog. That’s a recipe for…(fill in the blank) Meet this week’s guest, David and Teesha Laflin. They are a magician family that travels the country doing corporate, church and school events around the world. Yes, David does saw his wife in half. They share their story of how they got started doing magic for a purpose and getting the kids involved with the family business. Lots of great insi...
Ep. 130 - Grow Your Business for Freedom
January 17, 2023 00:13 - 33 minutes - 38.8 MBIf you’re like us, you started the business for greater freedom. Freedom to do what you want, when you want. Freedom to take time off to have fun and be with family when you want. Freedom to be as busy as you want. Call the shots, answer to no one, be the man (or woman). Sure you know that you need to sacrifice your personal time in the beginning to start and grow the business. That’s fine. After a few years, your business would be highly profitable and you can do all the things outside of...
Ep. 129 - Could Your Marriage Survive This?
January 10, 2023 01:59 - 52 minutes - 60.5 MBUnfortunately, we’ve seen many marriages end in divorce because one or both spouses couldn’t deal with some type of long term health issues, infertility, or miscarriage to name a few. You would think the spouse on the sideline would have great empathy for their partner who is going through any one of these traumatic experiences. Just one issue like a miscarriage has ended many marriages. But this week’s guest Kevin and Steph Mason have dealt with an electrocution (really serious kind), twi...