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CoupleCo: Working With Your Spouse For Fun & Profit

The best route to success is modeling successful people. And if you’re working with your spouse, how do you find model couples? CoupleCo: Working With Your Spouse For Fun & Profit features interviews with couples in business together who are crushing it in the 21st century. This is where you can hear their stories, glean insights into their systems, pitfalls, failures, must-do's and working styles. And, there are plenty of laughs. Welcome to CoupleCo. It’s business—and it’s personal.

 

Feb 28, 2018

Last week, we met Jared and Trish McMillen, fine-art photographers who seem to share a brain. This week, you’re going to hear them talk about how they have a mandatory mutual admiration society of two. They’ll also talk about a pitfall to avoid (that does involve ego), and—of course—we hit them with the...


Feb 21, 2018

If you understand anything about creating art, this couple seems to defy logic. Jared and Trish McMillen are fine-art photographers who seem to share a brain. They’re making an incredible living doing what they do, while so many others struggle. They shoot stunning landscapes with a large-format view camera, and they...


Feb 13, 2018

In Part 2 of the Waugh Family Winery interview, we talk with the Waughs about how their business impacts the kids (who may not go into the family business), how Crystal is not a winemaker but has had a dramatic impact on Ryan wines, the ever important quality of emotional intelligence, and how they believe they have...


Feb 13, 2018

The Waugh Family Winery narrowly escaped the devastation of the Napa Valley fires. In the wake of all that, the Waughs were good enough to take us into the cave at their winery, serve samples of their wines, and talk about the synergy that catapulted Ryan's micro-winery business--which began in a rented garage--into...


Feb 13, 2018

In part 2 of this conversation with Jim & Robin Whitney, we get deeper into how their CoupleCo impacted their children (and it did impact the kids, who have no interest in being in advertising), they talk about their immense respect for each other, and we hit them with the Fearsome Five lightning round and learn all...