Latest Powercouples Podcast Episodes
Ep. 125 - Great Things Happen Within The Margins
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - November 29, 2022 04:24 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAre you a perfectionist like me (Robert)? Do you plan everything to a “T” or pack your schedule so tight that you have no room to breathe? Have you heard some guru say, “You have a book in you”? These are some of the things we explore in this week’s episode. It’s a bunch of life and business l...
Ep. 124 - Writing Marketing Messages That Sell
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - November 01, 2022 23:34 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m not sure if you realize but we all buy based on what we read. Sure, what we see, feel and taste are part of the sales process but ultimately, we need to read what we are buying, how to buy it and what it costs. But it’s not quite that easy. Writing compelling marketing messages that compe...
Ep. 123 - Secrets to Business Leadership, Succession and Work-Life Balance
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - October 27, 2022 06:35 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSuccession in business isn’t often done or done well. If you look at the statistics, only 30% of first generation businesses transition to the second. Why is the success rate so low? There are a number of factors but one of the top reasons is the fear of letting go. You’ve created this baby so t...
Ep. 122 - Relationships Over Revenue: Learning from Our Book Tour
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - October 19, 2022 01:12 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe’re back from six weeks on the road. We saw the country, spacious skies, fruited plains, purple mountains majesty and went from sea to shining sea. As you know, we launched out on a daring road trip to promote our new book Tandem: The married entrepreneurs’ guide for greater work-life balance....
Ep. 121 - Customer Driven Leadership with Daniel Hammond
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - October 10, 2022 21:55 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsYou’ve heard of Servant Leadership. Well, now pay attention to Customer Driven Leadership (CDL). It’s not necessarily better than Servant Leadership, it is an addition to. Why should you pay attention to this method? For starters, it has turned million dollar companies into billion dollar earner...
Ep. 120 - Boundaries: One Key to Achieving Greater Work-Life Balance
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - October 04, 2022 00:24 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe hit week five of our book tour and we’ve heard you loud and clear. Boundaries, or lack thereof, is the number one issue that is keeping the married entrepreneur from achieving greater work-life balance. As we’ve toured the country with our dog Pippa, all of the concepts of the book have reson...
Ep. 119 - Crazy Times In Marriage and Business
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - September 26, 2022 20:36 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsImagine being told to leave the 9th grade and being kicked out of the house all at the same time. Then your 16 year old girlfriend tells you she’s pregnant. What do you do? Well, this week’s guest, Sean Osborn, decided it was time to grow up. He learned as much as he could about technology and e...
Ep. 118 - Tandem: The Married Entrepreneurs’ Guide for Greater Work-Life Balance
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - September 19, 2022 05:35 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe did a thing! Our first book is released today on Amazon. What’s it about? Work-life balance and how to win in marriage and business at the same time. Is this even possible? It is. Not only are we doing it (not perfectly) but we know other married entrepreneurs’ who are as well. And do you kno...
Ep. 117 - Build Your Business While Being Happy and Strong
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - September 12, 2022 18:36 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt’s so easy to complain about your life and blame people and circumstances for your situation. But a wise man once told me, “no matter how bad your life is, someone else has it worse.” It’s no use complaining about things outside of your control. If you want a better life, a more fulfilled life...
Ep. 116 - Marriage and Business Lessons: On the Road with Robert and Kay Lee
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - August 29, 2022 22:35 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWould you be willing to be “stuck” on a road trip with your spouse for 6 weeks? Well, that’s exactly what we’re doing. With a dog in tow, we’re driving around the country to promote our book Tandem. (link to the download the first chapter is below) So in the next several episodes where it’s just...
Ep. 115 - The Mergers and Acquisition of Marriage and Business
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - August 22, 2022 21:36 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt’s one thing to be married and another to work together in business. And for a man, it can be tough on the ego to lay down a successful corporate career to join your wife in her business and not be the “boss.” Meet Phil Cheng and Elizabeth Yang. Two power houses in their own right who recently...
Ep. 114 - Want To Win In Business and Marriage?
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - August 15, 2022 16:12 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIf you want to win in business and marriage one of the things that will accelerate your success is to get help. As marriage and business coaches this may sound self-serving but we have our own coaches as well. In fact the top executives, entrepreneurs and athletes have coaches. But if you’re lik...
Ep. 113 - “Building” The Entrepreneur’s Dream Job with Jim Adams
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - August 09, 2022 14:48 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsI often hear budding entrepreneurs tell me they’re going to start a business so they can have other people manage it while they go off and do something fun or significant in their life. My response is usually an internal “eye roll” because it’s not as easy as it sounds. In fact, most business ow...
Ep. 112 - Marriage is Not a Competition
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - August 01, 2022 23:13 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDo you treat your arguments like a competition? You need to be right and your spouse has to be wrong? Think about this. If you feel the intimacy may be eroding in your marriage, it may be due to the years of beating each other in one argument or another. Treating your spouse like a competitor as...
Ep. 111 - Top 4 Financial Mistakes Business Owners Make
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - July 25, 2022 18:54 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe top reason for business failure is lack of money, pure and simple. No money, you can’t pay the bills, right? Sure, there are many reasons for that lack of money like low demand, poor marketing, or too high of overhead. Another and more common reason for lack of money is poor cash management....
Ep. 110 - The Most Profitable Business To Own
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - July 19, 2022 20:21 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBecause of our experience consulting with businesses from a variety of industries, we often get asked “what the most profitable business to own” is. From a profit margin standpoint, my usual answer has been most service type businesses like accounting, law, financial services and life insurance....
Ep. 109 - You Are Uniquely and Wonderfully Made
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - July 12, 2022 01:58 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIf you were like me growing up, I often felt like I didn’t fit in. Especially when we moved from Hawaii to San Jose, Ca. I was the only asian kid in my class. So I got picked on, not so much because of my ethnicity but my height. Or lack thereof. I’m sure this is a common scenario but the goo...
Ep. 108 - Avoiding the Entrepreneurs’…Squirrel…Trap
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - June 28, 2022 01:44 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOne of the strong suits of the entrepreneur is their vision. They see the possibility even when others think it’s impossible. Tons of ideas are constantly racing through their…Squirrel!...heads. Unfortunately, that can also be the trap that keeps them from building a great business. Vision and c...
Ep. 107 - Mindhacks For Higher Performance and Work-Life Balance
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - June 06, 2022 05:50 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAs an entrepreneur, you want to perform at the highest level to be able to grow a killer business. As a married entrepreneur, you also want to be able to balance work and home because your spouse wants it and your kids demand it. With all the competing issues, how do you do all that? Some of the...
Ep. 106 - Prepare Or Die In Business and Life
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - May 30, 2022 10:18 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHave you ever had a good business opportunity pass you by because you weren’t prepared? Or what about a killer deal on a house but didn’t have everything together to pull the financing together? I’ve certainly had some opportunities slip by because I wasn’t prepared. I often hear, “when the oppo...
Ep. 105 - Finding Purpose In Your Business - Lisa MacGuire
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - May 23, 2022 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFinding out your purpose in your business sounds like a lot of fluff. That’s something a non-profit needs to know, not a serious business like yours, right? Well, you’d be surprised to learn how understanding your God given purpose for your life and how it can positively impact your business can...
Ep. 104 - Get A Life - Make Marriage and Business Simple Again
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - May 16, 2022 16:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis topic has been recommended by Kay Lee. She tells me that one of my gifts is making the complex simple. It’s true. I can’t stand complexity. Plus, from a practical level, the more complicated things are the more chances things can go wrong and the harder it is to be successful. And when i...
Ep. 103 - Turning (Sewer) Water Into Wine with Ric and Michelle Campos
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - May 09, 2022 21:47 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhen you have a business maintaining storm drain systems the natural progression is to make wine, right? That’s what this week’s guest Ric and Michelle Campos of Campos Family Vineyard in Contra Costa County did. While they had no previous experience in agriculture and wine making, Michelle did h...
Ep. 102 - Make Marriage and Business Fun Again
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - May 04, 2022 03:16 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBeing married and running a business can keep you very busy. We get it. But because of this busyness, the one of thing that gets put on the back burner is having fun. When you stop having fun, life can become a grind. Vacations are non-existent, good luck doing a weekender, and date night, what’...
Ep. 101 - Get Into the Owner's Box
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - April 25, 2022 15:28 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMost business owners I know start their business so they can have other people run the business while they take frequent vacations, go on missions trips, and be home with the family. But something interesting happens along the way. Instead of the owner running the business, the business runs them...
Ep. 100 - What We’ve Learned About Marriage and Business
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - April 18, 2022 09:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHappy 100 episodes to us and you for listening for the past two years. In this episode, we want to talk about what we’ve learned about marriage and business from doing this show, and the wisdom from our guests. Just getting to agreement to do this podcast with each other was a conversation in it...
Ep. 99 - Why You Should Bring Your Business Home
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - April 11, 2022 22:19 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMarriage isn’t a business, right? Or isn’t it. Think about this, you have to bring in income, you have expenses, there are operational needs, leadership challenges and disgruntled employees on occasion. In principle your marriage has everything a business has. So would it be out of the question t...
Ep. 98 - Winning On and Off The Field with Coach Clyde Christensen
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - April 05, 2022 17:37 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsYou definitely need to listen to this interview with Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback coach Clyde Christensen to the end. An amazing interview on leadership and have a winning attitude on and off the field. As an NFL coach, life is busy. Lots of travel, late nights, and working on weekends. S...
Ep. 97 - 3 Commonly Overlooked Marketing Issues You Can Fix
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - March 28, 2022 15:47 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhen you talk about marketing, what comes to mind? Digital ads, SEO, websites, and sales funnels to name a few? It’s all about customer acquisition and finding new customers, right? While these are important aspects of marketing for sure, there are 3 commonly overlooked areas that cost little to ...
Ep. 96 - Leadership Lessons From a Cup of Coffee with Howard Behar
Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs - March 22, 2022 00:07 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsImagine going from 28 locations to expanding globally? That was the task this week’s guest Howard Behar was given. He is the former president of Starbucks International, Starbucks North America and board chair. Not only does he know what it takes to be successful in business but who it takes. If ...
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