hello everyone it is your old pal mike i guess i'm i don't know i feel i i guess i'm old
i'm sort of old i'm 42 is that old sounds old right hey what's up um
it's been a great week with you here you know martha's recovering she's gonna come back out
into the wild on sunday and um i'm finishing out the week with the series we've been uh
we've been doing here talking about how you can work with your husband in your business
uh so that's what we're doing today folks we are going to talk about three ways to get your husband
involved in your business we're getting granular with it okay and we have today
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again today we're talking about three ways to get your husband involved in your business so
this week is all about getting your husband involved in your business um it was uh today
this week's content really was about the question i'm always asked of how i can fix your husband
um but the best thing i can do is i can share with you what martha and i and i have done for 10 years
to be able to work together in harmony and grace so we're finishing out friday strong
the end of the week we're finishing out strong with something very granular which
something you can implement today okay if you see a need for this
let's see here so you know like we talked about the three this week we talked about the three
keys of what martha and i have followed for 10 years on how we can work together well
and then yesterday we did a q a and this topic today actually came from that q a
with questions that sherry ryden asked about you know if you go back into that video and watch so
let's get a rolling the first way to get your husband involved in your business
and this is something martha and i have done since the beginning is utilize his skill set
i put leverages skill set originally but i think leverage is kind of like a i don't know
leverage is kind of like an icky word sometimes so i say utilize his skill set okay and this is
this is exactly what martha and i did years and years ago so uh if you know about my story i i
always wanted to be a when i was a kid i wanted to be a graphic designer right but i was told
hey you're not a good artist you can't draw well or you can't do this so you you can't be a graphic
designer but later on i learned that you don't have to be that so i started to teach myself
graphic design years and years and years ago and when martha uh broke away from corporate america
to start our digital marketing agency uh six or seven years ago um this number one utilizes skill
set was exactly what we did with me okay because at that point i was walking dogs for eight hours a
day as our different business which we both owned and when i first came into our digital marketing
agency i was like i did all of the graphic design work i built the brand visually and everything so
this is a great example of how martha brought me into that to utilize my skill set so that's really
as i talk about we're getting very granular with these concepts i'm giving you a specific example
of what we did and now i want to share with you two people we love very dearly
they're like our best friends they're almost kind of like our mom and dad in a way and that's pete
and denelle fowler there they are my favorite picture of them they're on the back of this
sweet sea foam green mint green pickup truck pete and danelle fowler you've probably uh
interacted if you if you're one of martha's students you probably interacted with danelle
she's wonderful uh danelle's essentially our ceo our chief operating officer
and the interesting thing is pete is basically like our cto or chief technology officer and
that happened because of this number one point of utilize his skill set so dannell
came on took over operations for uh essentially for martha creachy company and worked with us
but the thing is is pete was a software engineer and he worked for a a major aerospace
uh company but then it came to the point with uh with everything that's going on in the world that
he basically had to do early retirement well pete dinell lived and breathed this concept of
utilizing his skill set because pete came on and became
started developing using his knowledge that he had years and years and years and years and years
and years and years and years and years and years and years of knowledge on software engineering and
was able to implement that into what we're doing okay so i want to give you these specific examples
to know that this is possible this is one of the great ways that you can get your
husband involved is analyze his skill set see what value he can bring to your company okay
it's there you know like i i would challenge you to to do that today if you're looking for
these specific ways do that today okay so that's number one that's our first way to uh get your
husband involved in your business is utilize his skill set number two have him tell his story yes
or your story tell have him tell your story from his point of view let me give you an example
um or i guess a philosophy is that your story is great okay especially if you you've listened
to martha and then some of our coaches like the great pat quinn um tell you how to craft your
story okay because it can become an incredible tool for you especially an incredible marketing
tool for you and your company but the thing is is that us your story is even more powerful
through someone else's words especially someone who is very close to you and i've seen this i've
seen this concept work in martha and i's life as you know martha and i are always committed
to educating ourselves so we can turn around and reciprocate that and give you that education
so we're always going to to market events and and business conferences and things like that
to learn new stuff so we went to an actual speaking conference on basically how you can
become a better public speaker for your business and um we had to do a speak off
right and we had to keyword had we didn't have a choice and this was like a room of 100 people
and uh i you essentially had to give a signature talk and uh i ended up just telling martha's story
through my perspective and i got like we did a speak off where you got like there was a winner
and uh it was crazy because like usually when we go to these uh these events i'm
kind of i'm an introverted kind of guy i don't really i don't really i'm not very social i'm
not a social butterfly right i am with dogs i'm very social butterfly with cookie here
i speak dog better than i speak person sometimes but and i see everyone talking here on the side
we'll we'll get to some of these comments at the end if we have time but uh i ended up
getting second place in the required speak off that we didn't have a choice because
um yeah i don't know and then it was crazy because like i always find that in these events
and these you know these are rooms with like multi-millionaires and powerful business people
right and uh i i really felt and it was vindicated to me that telling your wife's story
is more almost more powerful than her telling it okay so if you have your husband tell his story or
his version of your story from his point of view it can be an incredible tool and he essentially
becomes like a spokesperson for you and your company okay so that's my second point i really
really encourage you to get some coaching as far as how you develop that story and everything
if you if you went to martha's mastermind we actually had pat quinn at it
and he gave a little coaching on that but uh all right so the third point and this is going to be
the most controversial one but this is something i definitely had to step up and do um i did it of
my own volition mind you but uh that is the third way to get your husband involved in your business
is for him to come in and manage the home that's right you might say well managing the home is not
business but here's the thing is if you're going through martha's program or her programs if you're
going through hbr if you're going through any of stuff like go for gold is like this we're teaching
you how to do all of this from home we're teaching you family business right we're teaching you uh
i mean we're teaching you a legacy how to leave a legacy for your family and um this is the thing is
i didn't understand this until i was a parent but i believe husbands want the opportunity
to be able to raise their kids to be a stay-at-home dad to manage the home because like
i did it at first because it needed to be done but i found that you know i love taking care of my
daughter i i love taking care of the home you know like if if uh there's that old question is like
if you were a billionaire and you never had to work another day in your life what would you do
i would i would raise my daughter right and the thing is is when you're building these businesses
from home uh our philosophy is there really isn't a separation between your home and your family
or i mean between your business and your family okay so you know
start asking questions to your husband about this you might be surprised he may want to step up
and essentially it's like being a life manager for you because there's there's not a way to separate
that at the level we're at separating family from business is not really something that we do or
teach okay so there you have it that's what we got um you know we want you to be able to build build
a legacy that you can leave for your kids uh that they'll be able to leave for your grandchildren
um as you know martha and i are on a mission to co-create one million invincible families
by 2026 what is an invincible family you may ask that is a family that is not dependent
on corporate america for a paycheck to be able to provide for their family
that is a family that can do what they want when they want with who they want
when they want with who they want that's that family
our road map to that is with hbr our flagship program
home-based revolution many of you may be in it you may know it you love it um even though martha
is currently still resting she comes out sunday so she's coming back we're still
having these conversations okay we want to we want you to be able to transform your life
and the life of your family and leave a legacy for your family for generations to come
that's done through hbr
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so yeah we're still doing that we're still here for you if you want to have the conversation
we're going to be here for you message martha's business page let's see what you guys are saying
oh also uh i have time to to tell you this so when we were in san diego we got a chance to do a home
interview with greg reed uh the famous greg reed he's uh he's uh with the papillion hill foundation
look him up google him guy is world famous he's behind some of some amazing books like
three feet from gold and he was like the napoleon hill foundation's he's able to interview anyone
he wants in the world through that um that we the video we're gonna premiere saturday night
i believe but check out uh stay posted on martha's facebook we'll tell you exactly the time but it's
an awesome interview we go right in his house we take our shoes off and walk around his house and
follow him and then i think it becomes a podcast later on after that but hey good morning cindy
good morning devry you're just here every day aren't you debris uh hey hey heather
good morning mike you should do a weekly or monthly series such great stuff this
week my biggest struggle is talking to my boyfriend about my business he doesn't under
quite understand what i'm doing right i mean this whole week has really been about that um
if you haven't yet i would just encourage you to start uh with with part one of what did i call
that series the how to work with your husband in business it's uh it should be on it's on the
youtube channel um but i would start there and i think that really gives you good good tips
on how to get them on board that's really what it's about uh judith good stuff mike thanks for
filling in this week i had a blast it was fun we'll do it more what do you want to know about
tell me what you want to know about message me or post it on martha's page i'll i'll make a video
about anything you want to know about you know i'm just uh i like to get granular with this stuff
so you tell me and i'll i'd make a video about anything you want to know more about
you want to know more about graphic design i don't know you want a more
you want to know more about editing videos i do a lot of that
i spend a lot of time editing videos so uh danielle is amazing danelle we love danelle
my husband is a mechanic and i'm not sure how to get him involved but he does support what i do and
tells people about it he would go out cold calling or do event booths with me too that's perfect
i think i mean based on that
you gotta keep her there i think you should execute on some of those ideas
amanda
yeah my husband would totally take that on and step up huge in that space of taking on running
house ladies guys want to they want to be there like you'd be surprised coming from another guy
hopefully that helps is that you know if we had the chance to be able to be like
to to help at the household more most guys these days would love that um
yes love hbr hbr is where where it's at folks
having to manage the home would be so hard for me my bat signal deals with home management okay
more graphic design oh we could go down the rabbit hole on graphic design
thanks we'll do looking at having a booth at events in the next six months there you go amanda
right on this video we figured some stuff out for you so really happy about that all right
guys i gotta pop out of here god bless you thanks for being here loved having you this week see ya