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How We Built This (and Stayed Happily Married)

By: Jackie & Stephana Bledsoe
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  • Are you in business or ministry with your spouse? What does it take to build a successful business or ministry, without sacrificing your marriage? You can build something you love with the one you love! Join Jackie and Stephana Bledsoe, authors, speakers, and the founders of HappilyMarriedCouples.com, as they share their candid conversations with the power couples who’ve built profitable businesses and impactful ministries, while remaining happily married through it all. Each week on the podcast, Jackie and Stephana will sit down with a couple who has built a successful business, brand, or nonprofit. They’ll also interview couples who run impactful ministries or have planted churches. Their stories will encourage and inspire you to take action. You’ll learn practical strategies to build a business that supports your marriage and grow a marriage that supports your business. And you’ll see what opportunities are available for you today, and the steps you can take to launch, relaunch, or even start over. If you’re an entrepreneur, married to an entrepreneur, in business with your spouse, in ministry together, are a church planter, or run a nonprofit or charitable organization, this podcast is for you! Each episode you’ll get a ton of value, enjoy a little bit of laughter, and receive uber inspiration in your entrepreneurial journey. Like many couples, Jackie and Stephana have experienced the ups and downs of marriage and parenting. They’ve also experienced the challenges, lessons learned, and thrill of entrepreneurship in all but two years of their marriage, as they started their first business in January 2003, just 18 months after getting married in June 2001. Jackie is a self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur. After giving birth to three kiddos, serving in marriage ministry for years, and launching several businesses of varying success (real talk!), they are still happily married and are dedicated to help as many couples, like you, do the same. Your dream marriage and your dream to impact the world don’t have to pull from one another. In fact, they can and should work together in a way that positively impacts your marriage and your work! The How We Built This (and Stayed Happily Married) Podcast will show you it is possible to build a profitable business or an impactful ministry today — and there is no person better to build it with than your spouse. For show notes, or more curated resources to help you thrive in your marriage and business, go to howwebuiltthismarried.com.
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Episodes
  • #008: Building Multiple Businesses with Comedy and Confidence

    #008: Building Multiple Businesses with Comedy and Confidence
    May 25 2021

    Are you in business for your family? Mike and Roz Goodwin are in business because of their family -- actually because of their daughter.

    At age 7, Gabby Goodwin, Mike and Roz’s daughter, persistently encouraged Roz to create a hair barrette for her. Together they invented the first Double-Face Double-Snap Barrette, which became GaBBY Bows, a 6-figure brand.

    At the same time Mike was building a unique, family-friendly, and very funny comedy brand, called Bowtie Comedy. Learn how they built it and developed persistence, determination, and resilience along the way.
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    57 mins
  • #007: Creating Profitable Systems for Married Entrepreneurs

    #007: Creating Profitable Systems for Married Entrepreneurs
    May 18 2021

    What happens when your identity is wrapped up in your job, but your spouse has been an entrepreneur their entire working life? O.L. and Sway Buckley share how they organically came together as married entrepreneurs to create systems to help other married entrepreneurs build multiple streams of income, without sacrificing their most important asset -- their marriage.
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    46 mins
  • #006: From Food Stamps to 8-Figures in Four Years

    #006: From Food Stamps to 8-Figures in Four Years
    Apr 27 2021

    What happens when you move to a new city for a new job and that job falls through? And you have a baby on the way? Jamal and Natasha Miller share their purpose-driven story of going from food stamps, while six-months pregnant, to an 8-figure business in four years. They’ve built multiple 7-figure brands using a repeatable framework, they call the Circle of Purpose.
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    55 mins
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