Ep. 122 - Relationships Over Revenue: Learning from Our Book Tour

We’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.  

It was meant to be part business, part travel, part networking, and all fun. Isn’t this how life should be? All work and no play leads to a dull life. And after all, our book is all about balancing it all. So we needed to show it could be done and still love each other afterwards. 

In this episode, we do a recap on our trip to talk about our many adventures and some of the life and business lessons we came across. There is probably another book in there! Take a listen to this fun episode.

Get your copy of our new book, Tandem: The married entrepreneurs’ guide for greater work-life balance. Click the link to learn more. You can also download the first chapter for free. https://www.thetandembook.com/

Key Takeaways:

• The typical book tour is focused on sales

• Ours was focused on relationship

• Planning is good but leave space for the unexpected

• We walked out the door with anticipation and questions

• Give up control 

• Don’t get so caught up on checking the boxes on your journey that you wear out your spouse

• A dinner with only 4 people was amazing

• The event in Philadelphia was unexpected

• Lunch with 2 was unbelievable

• One person connected us with the who’s who in business

• Relationships have been the gift that keeps on giving

• The most amazing moments were unplanned or with people we just met

• Focusing on sales is short term. Focusing on relationship is long term and has exponential results

• Our first tandem bike ride (see it live on our IG and FB @powercouplesbydesign