Have 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.

This 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.

Being 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’s that?

Most 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.

Happy 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.

When 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?

Imagine 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.

Many businesses have the perception about marketing that it’s about trying to convince someone to purchase a product or service. Hopefully, you’re being ethical about your marketing but many toe the line if not cross it.

Whether you realize it or not or want to admit it or not we all have fears. And those fears can be an impediment to business success. Many people say they channel those fears as motivation to be successful. That does work for many people but…

Whenever we enter a new year, start a new project, or launch a new brand, we tend to set goals. But many times we don’t reach our goals. And if you look at the research by the University of Scranton, only 8% of people that set goals…

Many businesses are constantly concerned about what their competition is doing in order to stay relevant to their customers. Many entrepreneur programs, consultants, and coaches recommend doing a competitive analysis at startup and anytime…

Starting a business or any new venture is the easy part. Making it a success is the hard part. Because rarely do all plans succeed the way you initially draw it up. As Mike Tyson famously said, “a plan is great until you get punched in…

You may be working harder than ever this year yet the profits just don’t seem to be there. In fact, your total revenue may even be up but the profits aren’t. Why is that? It may be a simple fact that you aren’t charging…

How many of you business owners want to grow your business by working less? Of course you do but it seems a little far fetched doesn’t it? Not exactly. You see, the average business owner spends 65% of their working day on activities…

If you’ve been struggling with finding a better balance between marriage and business. Trying to find more time to spend with your spouse and family. The solution may be to scale your business. What? How can growing the business be the

Branding is such an important aspect of marketing but because of it’s misunderstanding and misconceptions, it’s not done well by most businesses. And that is why many struggle with their marketing because they can’t…

You want to grow your business or at least get it to a level of sustainability yet you just haven’t been able to get over the hump. Certainly, last year didn’t help but even pre-COVID, your business may have been as busy as ever…

One of our roles as Christians is to represent God to the world around us. Well, God is anything but average and ordinary so we shouldn't settle for average and ordinary either. If we really want to represent our God, we should believe for…

Join bestselling authors, and Co-Directors of Love-Wise, Bill and Pam Farrel who have been married and in ministry (and business) together nearly all of their 41 years of marriage. Bill and Pam will share tips on how rhythms and habits…

We often think of a mistress as that other woman. The reason behind the wife’s husband coming home late every night, leaving on surprise business trips, late-night phone calls or texts, unexplained credit card charges. The reason your