Latest Powercouples Podcast Episodes
Ep. 185 - Vacations Are Good For The Health of Your Business
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - July 09, 2024 21:44 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTaking a vacation is a good thing. So why is it so hard for the typical entrepreneur to tear themselves away from the day to day grind of building a business to take a break with their family? We’ve heard and used these excuses. “I’m too busy to get away.” “It’s too stressful to take time off...
Ep. 184 - Managing Death and Business with Gary and Keely Van Vlack
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - July 01, 2024 17:16 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsImagine the doctor telling you that your spouse has 40 minutes to live. What do you do? How do you feel? How do you cope? Tune in to this week’s episode as entrepreneurs Gary and Keely Van Vlack share their story of how close Keely came to dying and how Gary coped. After Keely miraculously go...
Ep. 183 - How To Hire and Train Millenials with Robert and Kay Lee Fukui
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - June 18, 2024 20:29 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIf you’re like many business owners, it’s been hard to find good employees. It seems like the younger generation doesn’t want to work and are lazy. Or at least that’s what they say. But think about this, the baby boomers were also considered lazy when they were in their twenties and thirties. ...
Ep. 182- The Painful Journey of Entrepreneurship with Paul Hastings
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - May 28, 2024 20:43 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat would it be like to go from working 95 hours/week to 0 in an instant? This week’s guest Paul Hastings is here to tell us about it. The sudden change wasn’t by choice. A tragic health issue forced him to stop cold turkey. In the months of recovery he was able to reconnect with his wife, be p...
Ep. 181 - How to Avoid Disaster: Why Working with Your Spouse Can Spell Trouble for Your Business!
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - May 22, 2024 05:25 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAccording to the 2022 U.S. Census Bureau, a little more than 10% of businesses are run by husband and wife teams. And that number is continuing to grow as more and more couples are realizing they can make more money working together than in separate jobs or businesses. However, working with yo...
Ep. 180 - Entrepreneurs: Accomplishments Are Fleeting, Relationships Are Forever with Aaron Walker
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - May 07, 2024 16:43 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhen you start with nothing to starting, building, and selling off multiple businesses to Fortune 500 companies, you’ve got it made, right? That’s not what this week’s guest, Aaron Walker experienced. Before he reached the age of 30 he had already sold his first company to a Fortune 500 competit...
Ep. 179 - End Financial Arguments: Most Common Marital Conflicts
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - April 30, 2024 03:14 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe reasons why couples fight over money is due to the different attitudes and habits that were formed growing up. Whatever was modeled to us growing up is what we adopt as an adult. As you’re aware, those differences are what causes the conflict. Savers vs. spenders, investors for going into...
Ep. 178 - Get Your Life Back with Jerry Dugan
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - April 23, 2024 00:42 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAs 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 w...
Ep. 177 - Mastering Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Navigating The Pitfalls of Working With Your Spouse
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - April 16, 2024 18:34 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFor 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 mar...
Ep. 176 - Love, Labor, and Limits: Nurturing Balance in Entrepreneurial Marriages with Robert and Kay Lee Fukui
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - April 08, 2024 21:29 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOne 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 o...
Ep. 175 - Mindset Moguls: Conquering Life with Skiing Wisdom with Robert and Kay Lee Fukui
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - April 01, 2024 19:40 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhenever 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 meta...
Ep. 174 - Legacy Builders: Nurturing Family and Business for Future Generations
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - March 18, 2024 17:13 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe 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...
Ep. 173 - The Profitable Equation: Efficiency, Margins, Pricing, and Productivity
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - March 13, 2024 23:34 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsImproving 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 yo...
Ep.172 - Don’t Work For Your Wealth
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - March 01, 2024 18:33 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBecoming 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 ...
Ep. 171 - Find More Time to Grow Your Business
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - February 20, 2024 23:16 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTime 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 co...
Ep. 170 - Addicted to Success with Teresa McCloy
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - February 10, 2024 04:55 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat 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 o...
Ep. 169 - Marriage Over Business: The Key to Success
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - January 22, 2024 19:22 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsI 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...
Ep. 168 - Surviving The Miracle On The Hudson with Dave Sanderson
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - January 12, 2024 17:42 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt 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 throu...
Ep. 167 - Don’t Have The Entrepreneurs Regret
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - January 10, 2024 17:37 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhen 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...
Ep. 166 - What Pisses Us Off and Breaks Our Heart
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - January 08, 2024 18:15 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWelcome 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. ...
Ep. 165 Finding Good Employees with Dr. Joey Faucette
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - December 30, 2023 15:09 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNo 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 Jo...
Ep. 164 - Becoming A Better Husband, Father, and Business Leader with Chris Niemeyer and Michael McGreevy
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - December 28, 2023 14:40 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAre 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 en...
Ep. 163 - Us Factor: Keys To Success In Marriage and Business with Bobby and Michelle Schaffer
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - December 27, 2023 15:22 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow 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...
Ep. 162 - Four Day Work Week with Joe Sanok
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - December 11, 2023 22:52 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWork 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 inco...
Ep. 161 - Prioritizing Business Will Destroy Your Marriage with Krystal Parker
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - November 27, 2023 20:38 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsYou 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...
Ep. 160 - How Your Sales Price Effect Work-Life Balance
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - November 20, 2023 17:59 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe’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 busines...
Ep. 159 - 5 Hour Work Week with Billy Sticker
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - November 13, 2023 21:38 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAs 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 employ...
Ep. 158 - Patience: The Entrepreneur’s Weakness
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - November 06, 2023 06:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEntrepreneurs 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 caug...
Ep. 157 - Developing Your Employees Improves Your Bottom Line with Dr. Karen Wilson-Starks
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - November 01, 2023 22:08 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTraining 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 i...
Ep. 156 - Is Time Your Friend or Enemy?
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - October 09, 2023 21:51 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn 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. ...
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