"How Do You Stay on the Same Page When You Work With Your Spouse?"

0:00Yes. Hey, just want to start off by saying $100 million offer has changed my life. It's the reason I was able to get out of corporate America. I was able to pay off all of our personal debt. Like first time we've been able to put stuff in our retirement. Like it's [ __ ] amazing. So, thank you. >> You bet. >> Um >> You'll like the next book even more. >> I'm looking forward to it. >> It will make everybody here more money than the other two books put together. Promise you. I wrote that book first. It's how to make money. And then I realized I had to write the other two books in order to publish this book.

0:26I've had it for 5 and 1/2 years. Just sitting. Yeah. Just waiting. It's going to be a [ __ ] nuclear bomb. It's going to be great. >> [laughter] >> So, my wife and I co-founded our creative studio together after like a traumatic event. So, like we have always had the same mission and the same vision for our business. We came into an opportunity last year to work with CDFIs, community development financial institutions, that >> They're to get in business with what? >> They're called community development financial institutions. So, they're organizations that receive like government funding and then it trickles down to small to medium-sized businesses. So, our exact avatar.

1:00We landed one deal that was able to double our revenue from last year within the first half of this year. Now, because of that one deal, we have this opportunity to work with CDFIs throughout the state of Michigan and then also work with them throughout the country. So, my my question to you, because I work with my wife, is going to be how do you stay on the same page as you're going through the peaks and valleys of growth and scaling?

1:28>> You just share it. You know. Um Why do you not feel like you're going through the peaks and valleys together? >> We do go through the peaks and valleys together, but I think it's just like the way that the stress lands on us is very different. So, just being able to like for me I just don't shut the [ __ ] up about business all day. It's like all I talk to her about. And there are just times where she's like, "Can you shut the [ __ ] up about business right now?"

1:56So, it's just being able to make sure that we're on the same page as we continue to scale cuz >> I've never stopped that. >> Okay. >> I don't stop talking about business. >> Okay. >> [laughter] >> Seriously. >> Thank you. >> Um and thankfully Leila also only talks about business. Our first date was 4 hours of business. And I was like, "Oh, this is dope. I don't have to pretend to be interested in what you're interested in." >> [laughter] >> So much easier. And so, yeah, I mean, I've just been like Thank you. Yeah. Be here all day.

2:23Um No, but I I I like if you have to take turns on talking about what you care about, then that's a compromise that you have to make an agreement on. >> Ooh. >> Yeah. That's it. >> [laughter] >> Cool. Thank you, man. >> Yeah, you bet. If you like this video and you're business owner who wants to break through your current revenue ceiling, I distilled every lesson from scaling 10 businesses past 10 million and three businesses past 100 million into a completely free scaling road map that I've used to go from zero to one, zero to 10, and zero to 100 plus. And so, you can click here and you can check it out. Again, absolutely free. And since you're business owner, appreciate you, and enjoy.