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In today’s podcast we are going to show you how to start your online business and improve your relationships at the same time.
Working together has been such a blessing for me and Jocelyn. Not only do we get to spend more time together, but we get to spend more time with the people we care about most.
You will also learn how:
- Our relationship got started, and how Shane “proposed” to Jocelyn
- Online business changed our family’s future
- Having an online business has improved our marriage
- Online business let us spend spend more time with our kids and friends
- Our business helped us take back our personal lives
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Can’t Miss Moments
Each week Jocelyn and I share moments that we might have missed if we had not started our online business. We hope these moments inspire you to see the possibilities and freedom online business could provide for your family.
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JOCELYN: Hey y’all. On today’s podcast, we’re going to talk about how starting an online business can improve your relationships. [spoiler]
SHANE: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We’re your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let’s get started.
What’s going on guys! Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is always great to be back with you for our Tuesday episode of the podcast. This our longer podcast. We would like to just talk about things that were on our mind or things that we think will help you start your online business. Want towards everybody a Happy Valentine’s Day! This weekend I’m sure you all have romantic evenings planned and…
JOCELYN: Sort of like this.
SHANE: Or we have no plans.
JOCELYN: Not really.
SHANE: Because we don’t really do that. Jocelyn and I are not particularly romantic. Okay? I wouldn’t exactly say we’re a, dropping flowers and candy and teddy bears of each other every week like that. You know? We’ve never been into that kind of stuff, but we know that some people are and we hope you have a great Valentines Day.
And I will say this, starting an online business did have a powerful side effect. Not only were we able to have more control over our time, make more money and really improve our finances. But having an online business has really improved our relationship. Not just without each other in our marriage, but also with our kids, with our friends, our family and our personal life. And it’s just really magnified all of those relationships in our lives.
So in honor of Valentines Day and all the love and romance. It’s in the air this week. We thought that would be a great time to kind of discuss how online business has improved our relationship and the reasons why it makes all those relationships better. But before we share the love for each other in our life and romance..
JOCELYN: Right.
SHANE: Together, we are gonna share some love from our audience by reading an iTunes rerview.
JOCELYN: Alright, today’s review is from Cali Saxman and I assume that, that’s a saxophone player in California. We have a lot of California listeners. So, thanks for that. And it says:
“Great podcast for online business and it has five stars. This is a brilliant podcast. I do a lot of reading and listen to a lot of podcast regarding online business and marketing and the thing that really set Shane and Jocelyn’s Flipped Lifestyle apart from 99% of everyone else teaching online, is that they gave so much information on a topic.
Most of the time, when I listen to other people I get the impression that they’re holding back some of the information that they possess. Almost as though they’re worried about creating too many competitors or giving away info that they would be able to sell you at some point in the future. With Shane and Jocelyn I really believe them when they say their main objective is to give back by helping others to be successful online. I think it’s clearly evident on podcast like this one. Thanks so much.”
We want to say thank you to Cali Saxman and all the other people who have left us iTunes reviews and we read everyone we love reading your reviews. If you have not had a chance to leave us an iTunes interview yet, we are giving away a membership to our Flipped Your Life E-Course which is starting very soon. Once you’ve completed your review, all you need to do is just head on over to FlippedLifeStyle.com/review to enter our contest, and we’re going to announce the winner on next week show.
SHANE: If you have not been giving us an iTunes review yet, head over to iTunes and do that and anyone who does it by next week we’ll be entered into a drawing for a free scholarship. I guess you would call it to our Flipped Your Life E-Course for we show you how to start, create and sell your first digital product.
Anyone who has ever left us in iTunes review don’t worry, we always put everyone’s name into that hat, so. If you have left us on iTunes review in the past and you have not won anything from us, you will also be included in that drawing.
JOCELYN: You do need to fill up the form, at FlippeLifeStyle.com/review to let us know that you have left one and we will let you know who win at next week.
SHANE: Alright, so let’s talk a little relationships and romance today. Now, Jocelyn and I had a very like a strange relationship. We always say that, “It’s not romance, It’s no man’s.”
JOCELYN: Exactly.
SHANE: In our situation. Jocelyn and I meet back long time ago. When did we meet like, ’98?
JOCELYN: ’98. Yes.
SHANE: 1998, and I do remember that first Christmas that we knew each other. We meet in August we kind of dated for a little bit off and on and you know how it goes. And then we said basically, “Alright, we’re boyfriend and girlfriend.” Whatever! And I do remember…
JOCELYN: Whatever?
SHANE: Whatever! Yeah, whatever! So, we did give each other a present that first Christmas cause I do remember that, but since then we never really bought each other like gifts. Like, we don’t buy each other Christmas presents…
JOCELYN: When people typically gave each other gifts.
SHANE: Exactly, yeah! That’s exactly right. When people do that stuff like we don’t do Valentines Day. We’ve never done Valentines Day. I don’t think we’ve ever been out to eat on Valentines Day like, once.
JOCELYN: I don’t remember.
SHANE: Cause we hate crowds. We don’t want to go out in the crowd, and we don’t buy birthday present, which is hilarious cause our birthday is like one day apart. We don’t ever do birthday presents and we just really don’t do all the traditional holiday stuff. I didn’t even ask Jocelyn to marry me on bended knee, with a nature theme in the background, or like you see all these crazy YouTube videos for people set up this big elaborate thing.
JOCELYN: The very thought of that is like hilarious.
SHANE: I know right, Jocelyn and I got engaged on the telephone. I literally call Jocelyn “I just got a job as a football coach” it was in Virginia University. I got a graduate assistant position there and I had to be like in a meetings cause that’s like 24/7 job you work constantly as a college football coach.
I remember that I got there, and they gave me my schedule when I move to Morgan town. And I was like, “oh my gosh! I’m going to be working pretty much for the next like 300 straight days.” So, I grab a phone I call Jocelyn I was already in West Virginia. She was still in Kentucky. Where were you at then? Lexington?
JOCELYN: Yeah, I live in Lexington. We were sort of just had our crossroad of our relationship, we didn’t really know what the next step was. We knew we didn’t really want to be apart. And so, we were just kind of talking one day..
SHANE: We were totally afraid of marriage. We’ve been dating like..
JOCELYN: A lot of years. Yeah.
SHANE: 7 years. Something like that.
JOCELYN: And so we were like, “You know, we need to be together,” and Shane is like, “Well, you know I got your life four weekend free,” and he’s like…
SHANE: If I could catch you then maybe we could just get together and get married kind of deal…
JOCELYN: Yeah, so we were like, “Well, should we get married? Yeah, I guess we should.”
SHANE: “Sure, why not! Lets do it.” Basically the only day we could get married it was the third of July. We got married on July 3rd. What year is that?
JOCELYN: 2004?
SHANE: 2004. We just decided to get married and now we are so funny because like somehow I came, I was back. Where were we when we bought your engagement ring?
JOCELYN: I think it was in Lexington I can’t really remember it’s been too long.
SHANE: Yeah. I remember, but like basically when we were together somehow in between meetings my football play for whatever, and we’re like, “hey, let’s go pick up your engagement ring.” Jocelyn went and picked her own engagement ring out and we didn’t even get to go on a honeymoon. This is how unromantic, this is pathetic really…
JOCELYN: It’s kind of sad.
SHANE: Yeah, we couldn’t go out on a honeymoon because when we got married on a third, we stayed in a Poducah, Kentucky for one night and then we had to get in the car and go cause I had a staff meeting.
JOCELYN: Did you ever cross the side of Kentucky and up to side of West Virginia? Like, oh! In one day!”
SHANE: Right, it was like 13 hours. After we got married, we basically got in a car. Drove 13 hours and I woke up went to work the next day. When did we go on our honeymoon?
JOCELYN: It was about a month later, something like that. Yeah.
SHANE: So eventually, we did go to our honeymoon. I guess that count as romance, but the moral of the story is Jocelyn and I do not do a lot of the romance stuff in our marriage.
JOCELYN: And you know, there’s nothing wrong with that. If that’s something that you want to do or not knocking that…
SHANE: No. Not at all.
JOCELYN: If it’s something that you feel strongly about…
SHANE: It’s just isn’t our thing. You know what I mean.
JOCELYN: For us, it’s not really our thing and I think for me it comes from my mom and dad, because my mom and dad…
SHANE: I hope they don’t listen to it. “My mom and dad were so unromantic and not in love…”
JOCELYN: I’m going to elaborate. That’s not true. They’ve been married for 35 years now. But they are an amazing example of selflessness. I hope they’re not crier, because I’m a big crier this day. But when I was growing up, they didn’t really have a lot of money. My dad works all the time like he works extra jobs to fix things up so that my mom could stay home with us. And they went without pretty much everything that they wanted, to make sure that we had everything that we needed.
And that really taught me just growing up through out my life. You always hear this quote and I’m not sure whose it is but it says, “The most important things in life aren’t the things,” and that’s so true. And as Shane and I have got our own term and we’ve moved in our lives about 10 times, something like that…
SHANE: 10 different places.
JOCELYN: We’ve realized that, you know. That’s really nice to get this nice shiny new thing but eventually they do lose their luster. They start collecting dust, they end up in the closet, they get thrown into a storage building in the garage. And we’ve just been dragging around all this stuff, that we became mutilated.
And this month, in fact, we’re working on getting rid of some of these. I’ve been trying to organize our life with what is really important. As a consequence of all of this. We’ve decided to put our time and effort into experiences instead of collecting stuff.
SHANE: Like the little trinkets and gifts, and you know all these things we buy each other just becomes like One-upmanship “Oh, I bought you a TV, I bought you a diamond ring, I bought you this, I bought you that,” and we just kind of put that aside basically.
JOCELYN: Yeah, and I know that in the United States specially we are really into things. The consumer is on men. How many things can we get? And do we have things that are nicer than our neighbors things?
SHANE: You know that car commercial they’ve got out now? I can’t remember what brand that for, but the wife is like doing the dishes and the husband is drying the dishes and they’re looking out those windows. The couple next door drives up a new car, that he got his wife for Valentines Day or whatever.
JOCELYN: I’d just be thrilled if you’d dry the dishes..
SHANE: Okay, I’m working on that. Right, let’s go back to that car. So, basically he’s looking and he’s like, “Oh, he must have got a new job. Good for him.” and the wife is like, “Good for her.” There’s always just like One-upmanship that, “Oh that’s what they got for Valentines Day or whatever.
JOCELYN: And so, when we think about that, I mean, if you think back at your life. There are very few gifts that you’ve probably received over the course of your life that you actually remember. Like I mean, just think back to your 10th birthday. Do you remember what you’ve got? And who gave it to you? Probably not. I don’t.
But, I bet you do remember if you went on a vacation that where you went, and the things that you did when you were there and the people that you’re with. And so, that is really what we try to do in our lives so we try to focus more on experiences and spending time together. Instead of gifts that are really great to get right then, but then later, you’re kind of losing their appeal.
SHANE: And that’s kind of what brought us today’s show, because we were talking about this today. We were talking about Valentines Day coming up, we always look at the lens of like our Can’t Miss Moments. How has online business magnified the goodness in our life?
We realize that as we were talking about this. We didn’t start buying each other presents, we didn’t start buying more stuff. But we realized that our relationship was so much better now. Not that it was bad, but it was so much better now that when we were working full-time for somebody else.
When we started our online business, it’s just kind of made all those things better. And when then when we said, “oh, it’s not just our relationship,” it’s our relationship with our kids, it’s our relationship with our friends and all these other things around us that are getting so much better because we started in online business.
So, what we want to do in today show, we’re going to break down into three areas. We’re going to look on our marriage quickly first, and talk about the specific examples of how online business is made our marriage better, our relationship. We’re going to talk how it improved our relationship with our children and made us better parents. And then, we’re going to talk about that outer circle like, our extended family and our friends and how it’s improved those relationships too.
Alright, let’s start with our marriage. I think that one of the biggest things that is improving in our marriage, because we started in online business, and because we work together. Is that we communicate a lot more, and we argue a lot less and the reason we do that is because we’re together all the time.
Jocelyn and I wake up together, get the kids ready for school. We usually ride to Isaac school together, go to the gym together. Come home and eat together, work together. We’re together all the time. So, it really makes it a lot harder to missed communicate. No. It’s not perfect, we do sometimes get off the page from each other, but instead of being in different chapters in the book. We usually just to purger to it of and because we’re like together, we get to like work that out quicker. So, you know. It doesn’t kind of fester.
You know, when you work full-time and you both working jobs and you have kids and you have all these things that are pulling tension from you. One of the things that really gets lost in the shuffle, in a marriage, or in a relationship is the ability to set down and talk, to communicate and to plan things out.
You know, when I’m coming home at 8 o’clock from football practice. Jocelyn’s Rollin’ in. You know, it’s seven by the time she got down with a PTA meeting and finish enough stuff in her library or taken the kids somewhere. You get together, you eat, you got the kids bath and boom! You just collapse in bed and you don’t have time to talk, you don’t have time to tell that person something that’s bothering you.
And like, we’ve talked about this in the path how things would fester maybe a week or two. When there was a problem before we would actually have a chance to talk about it, and by then you’re just so mad that you can’t ever think straight. Being together all the time you know, Jocelyn and I we had a desk right beside each other in our home office. We’re always with each other no matter where we go. We have a lot more opportunities to just talk to each other and make sure that nothing is wrong, or if there is something wrong, we can solve it quickly instead of letting it sit around for a week before we ever get a chance to talk about it.
So, a big thing that’s starting an online business has done in our marriage has given us more opportunities to be on the same page, to communicate with each other and keep from being confused about what the other person is thinking.
JOCELYN: The thing that I really love the most about our relationship now is that we don’t really need a special day that celebrate our love for one another.
SHANE: Oh, that was really, that made my heart kind of melt right there. You know what I mean?”
JOCELYN: Really?
SHANE: Yeah, that was… Really I liked it.
JOCELYN: Wow! Okay. Ah yeah. Okay. but seriously, we really don’t. I mean, we spend every day together. It’s like Shane said, we do pretty much everything together. And the weird thing is that we actually love it.
A lot of people say things to us like, “I can’t believe you have to work with your husband all day,” like that…
SHANE: How do you look at her all day long?
JOCELYN: And people really do say this.
SHANE: People say that all the time.
JOCELYN: But pretty much every day. I mean, granted I am gonna be very honest here and say that there are some days that are a lot harder than others to get along with Shane, and…
SHANE: To get along? You could’ve said to get along with each other.
JOCELYN: Yeah.
SHANE: Alright, never mind.
JOCELYN: I think today is going to be one of those days..
SHANE: Alright.
JOCELYN: And we’re not going to pretend that we always get along. I mean, we do have conflicts and we have conflict often, at least once a day, probably. But for the most part we are very happy just to be together. We did not always have that when we were full-time for somebody else. We saw each other very rarely.
SHANE: Especially during football season. That was tough.
JOCELYN: And now, it’s just so nice just to be able to be together and be on the same page most of the time and just moving’ the same direction. Everybody does need their own space from time to time. I mean, we totally working’ our site and we do have our own activities that we do sometimes, but usually we just like to be together.
When I’m not with Shane, I feel like something is missing. I just really enjoy the closeness that we have most of the time. Like I said, we don’t really have to have a special day to celebrate that.
Like for instance, yesterday, we went to the coffee shop to work for a little while. We sat at the same table, which you know, ‘less good.’ We were across from each other. We both had headphones on. So, we were listening to two different things. We were drinking coffee. I was drinking tea. We were just there typing our computer.
I think we maybe said like 50 words to each other the whole 2 or 3 hours that we were there, but it was just nice to be able to be together. If I wanted to talk to him I could, but it is also nice to know that you can just kind of sit in silence sometimes.
SHANE: That goes back to when we work full-time. We work all those hours basically 7/7 when we were working. Some of that was giving kids where they needed to be. Getting kids on Fridate, doing things like that. Travel time and all that. That’s still 12 hours for you not even together. You’re just out of sight like out of mind.
And I think we would come home and like, Jocelyn just said, “you need that individual space and you need time together,” but we would come home and like, now we’ve only got about an hour and a half before we collapse and fall asleep.
To get all that, “Okay, I want to watch a TV show, I want to check my email, I want to do this and I gotta hang out with my wife. I got to hang out with my husband and I got to do all this thing together.” So, basically what will happen is you would either spend time with each other which is great, but you have lost that time with yourself which you present, or you would spend time with your self and you would not hang out with each other and now you’ve built conflict.
So the great thing about starting an online business and being able to work at home with each other is that we don’t have to sacrifice for one of the other. There’s no bitterness, there’s no being mad to each other for either not hanging out or doing your own thing. We do have that opportunity to do those things, both of those things and it kind of just creates a more balance life.
JOCELYN: The beautiful thing about having an online business now is that we can put our relationship first. We can put it in the calendar before anything else. So if we feel like we need extra time together, or we need to do something, or we want to go somewhere. We schedule that in first.
And then our work goes in around us. So we’re not tied to somebody else schedule all the time. That is just such a powerful thing. That’s exactly why we do what we do.
SHANE: Alright, starting an online business didn’t just improve our relationship. It also improves our relationship with our children. Isaac and Anna. We had a little boy, he’s six. We had a little girl and she’s four.
Before we quit our job when we were working for somebody else. We ran into a lot of conflict for we had to make choices between our work and someone else’s agenda or our children.
There was even one time, where something bad was going on with Isaac and he wasn’t doing well and I had to go take care of that. It was during the school day, I remember going and talking to my assistant principal. I look at her and said, “I need to go and take care of my son here. I got responsibilities and I like to get out of here today.” and she looked at me and she was like, “Well, you can’t leave. You’re getting in trouble if you leave right now because you have responsibilities to your students too.” and I’m like, “oh my!” and that was one of the kind of lines in the sand that made me really starting to exploring my options.
When I realize that this person was trying to control my life, and this person was drawing a wedge between me and my children. She might have thought she was correct in whatever and she can probably argue her point on that. But you know what, my kid is the most important thing to me. If I’m gonna have to chose between that relationship and another relationship, I’m going to find a way to choose my child.
Since we started our online business. Especially since we quit our jobs. When we got to be able to do that.
It’s amazing watching our relationship with our kids grow. Isaac when he was little, and I was gone all the time for football and for teaching and with just so many hours a day. He would freak out at night when he would go to bed. He would cry and he would want to sleep in bed with us. He will want to be with us all the time because he got to see me so little, that he wanted to be with me just to sleep, even if he was just lying in bed with us.
Now, afterwards, you know we block our time every day with our kids. From 3 to 7 o’clock is pretty much family time. We take the kids to their activities, we play with them, we help Isaac study for his homework, we eat together. And you know, now we have this huge block of time that we can dedicate in our day to our children.
It’s just an amazing scene how that they’re calmer. Their anxiety is less. You know, they do sleep in their own beds now because they don’t feel like they’ve been having got to hang out with us much.
And I can look back how Isaac and our little girl was before we quit our job and we realized that we were never with them and that’s really all they want it. They didn’t want us to work hard to provide for all of these things in our lives. They just wanted that time with mommy and daddy.
And now that we can block out 4 or 5 hours a day with our kids. I can really see an improvement in that relationship between us and just their overall demeanor in life.
JOCELYN: It reminds me something that our pastor says. He says that, “children spell love: T I M E.”
SHANE: That’s right, that’s right. By having an online business and working for ourselves. Is it hard? Is it a struggle sometime? Are you really having to you know, sometimes you have to work more hours when you’re having an online business and you work for yourself and you do for working for somebody else.
But the difference is we control those hours. Having an online business allows us to control. When we spend our time working. We can dedicate our time for our kids and we could not do that before.
JOCELYN: Now that we don’t work for anyone else. We really have time to help Isaac with his school work and he has spelling test even in kindergarten. Which is kind of crazy to me, but we have time to…
SHANE: That’s a whole load of shift!
JOCELYN: Yeah, we have time to help him with his school work. We had time to read to him every night. We get to go to everyone of their events. Our children are involved in swimming and also gymnastics. The two of us actually go together about 90% of the time.
SHANE: And what’s crazy is we’re usually are the only parents that are there together. Usually one of the other, and I just always noticed that we’re the only couple there. It’s pretty awesome!
JOCELYN: So when we can, we always go together. We actually got to watch them. We don’t feel like we have to be working during that time or like checking our phone, or something like that. I’m not saying we never do that, but we really try to watch what they’re doing. That is really cool to do because I see a lot of people that are preoccupied, or doing something else while their kids are in this activities.
SHANE: And that goes back to not having time because those people are working full-time for somebody else. They haven’t had time to socialize which get on to social media all day. They haven’t had time you know to catch up with their friends so they’re trying to multitask. They’re actually taking time away from watching their kids do something while they try to do those individual things. So that’s another problem…
JOCELYN: And that actually talk right in to my next point. Is that Shane mentions earlier that we actually schedule in time to play with our kids. And I know that sounds crazy. But the fact to the matter is, if you are a woman, specially you feel like if you’re at home there are thing that you need to be doing at home and I’m still guilty of this. I do it all the time.
And I feel like if I’m here I need to be doing laundry. I need to be doing dishes. I need to be packing out around the house. But the beautiful thing about scheduling time to play with your kids, is that time is scheduled and you have other times to do your other house work. Then, you don’t feel like something is being neglected.
You feel like you can devote all of your time and energy to one thing. And like I said we are still working on this. It is a working progress for me. I’m still not a hundred percent there yet, but I think that we’re making good progress towards that.
SHANE: Starting an online business is really improving our marriage. In our relationship with each other. It really improves our relationship with our kids and their comfort level. You know watching them to not have to be anxious, about when is mommy and daddy pay attention to me, or when can they pay attention to me, I know they will want to but they are so busy. It really improve that part of our life.
It is also really taken our relationship with our friends and family to the next level. It’s just awesome being able to have the freedom in the morning than not has to start working 9 o’clock. We don’t have to be somewhere necessarily every single day.
If we want to work from 10 to 3, we can. If we want to work form 9 to 2 we can do that too. And it’s just awesome to having that flexibility to say, “You know, I’m going to run by my mom and dad’s in the morning.” Sometime, I’ll drop Anna off at her babysitter and I maybe going to the gym or something, we might and try to get that done.
And we can just stop by my mom and dad’s. They’re kind of on the way. They’re run in, have a cup of coffee, see how they’re doing for the day. And then head on and I do whatever else we want to do.
Sometimes, I just can have a lunch with my best friend. When I was a teacher, we were not allowed to leave the building for lunch. We either have to bring our lunch and eat in our room. We had to go buy lunch nobody want’s to eat school food.
JOCELYN. And you have like a whole 20 minutes for lunch.
SHANE: Yeah, 20 minute lunch when you are a teacher. Absolutely ridiculous! You know I never had a life, where I could just run out and do that. But now, for when I have lunch for a buddy of mine I can run down. We can have something to eat, talk a little bit hanging out some for one night, just taugh me and Jocelyn some time.
When summer time we go outside in our backyard take our food out there just kind of eat outside and enjoy the weather. And we have the freedom to be able to do that and go out and experience that. Jocelyn has a friend that want’s to go running, and I want to go running you know, early in the afternoon, I can do that. It’s just awesome to be able to just meet people and make those friends. We also had made so many new friends.
It’s amazing when you get on to online business, your circle of influence and the people around you grows exponentially. Every single day we talk to the people from Canada, Thailand, Bangladesh, we have like 2 or 3 couple friends in California that we talk to every. And all of those people, those relationship would not even exist. If we had not started an online business. So it really opens up your world to your friends and your family.
JOCELYN: Yeah, we get so excited when you guys wright things to us. Like that is just the highlight of our days. Shane will yelling unto me all the time. He’ll open up the email and be like, “Oh my goodness! I gotta tell you about this person, This said…” and I’m like..
SHANE: “Or this one from Africa. Wow!” You know, things like that and it’s just crazy.
JOCELYN: Yeah, we just love it! I mean, we love how things are going. We love it when you guys tell us about the success that you’re having.
SHANE: Cause those are relationship with you guys! And it’s just awesome to see those grow because of this online business.
JOCELYN: Yeah, it’s just so exciting and that is truly the reason that we do what we do. We want you to experience this same thing that we’re talking about right here. And that’s why we want to motivate you and tell you about what are we doing.
Moving in to my relationship with my friends. I like working in online business because it makes me more aware of whats going on in everyone’s life. One reason is because I am on social media a lot because of what we do, so I can kind of check in on everybody there.
Sometimes I’m just sitting around and I think of someone and I’ll just send them a text and just say, “Hey! I’m thinking about you today, how are things going?.”
And that’s something I never had time to do when I work to school. I mean, I was with kids from the time I got there till the time I left. And I didn’t have time really to think of anybody else…
SHANE: Yeah.
JOCELYN:…or what other people were doing, or what other people needed, or how I could help them, thing like that. So I really like having that kind of freedom now.
SHANE: That actually happened to me this morning. I was in the gym and I was kind of take off about a 5 minute break in the middle of my workout and goes down drink a cup of coffee.
So I sat down. I was just thinking and I got to thinking about a buddy of mine that I haven’t really talk to about a few months. And I just open up my phone took a minute and said, “Hey men! I was thinking about you. I’m praying for your family and I just want you to know you’re on my mind this morning.”
Where as before when I was on the gym. I had 30 minutes and I had to get out cause I had to rush my workout so fast. I would’ve had that time to kind of kick back, rest for a minute and let myself think about other people,so. That was something I did this morning. And I’d be thinking about that Jocelyn.
JOCELYN: Yeah, that is just a really cool benefit in doing what we do. And Shane mention that earlier. I also just love having flexibility. Now when I want to do something with one of my friends, we really have to worry about one’s schedule. Usually, I’m very flexible. I can go whenever they need to go. Like if it’s either go for a run, to have a cup of coffee, to go get our nails done and whatever the case maybe. All I have to do is when are you available? And I can make it happen. So I love that part of it.
SHANE: So the moral of the story today, you know. What are show basically about is this. Online business because we did this, because we took action and we started this 3 years ago it is given us so much. It is given us freedom. It is given us time. It’s given us more money and all those thing are great. And all those thing are cool. And you know that’s what most of the guru’s point to.
But really the best thing in an online business has given us is each other, is our kids, we get to experience our friends and family. We’ve got all those relationships back.
We’ve had a chance to actually get closer to, learn about and grow with the people we love the most. There’s no more that ships in the night thing were Jocelyn and I are just kinda passing each other when we collapse in bed and get up and go back to work.
All that is gone now, we get to experience life together, both of each other and our kids. And that’s what makes all the hard work sacrifice and effort worth in the beginning.
I wanna stress that at the beginning of our online journey, Jocelyn and I sacrificed a lot of time, money and effort to make this thing a reality. It was not easy, we had to step back from each other. Step back from what we are doing to our kids. Step back from those relationships and invest that time early to make what we have now possible.
But now, we do get to experience life together. We do get to improve on those relationships and we really want that for you guys too.
JOCELYN: Online business has absolutely flipped our life upside down and that is what our site is call Flipped Life Style. And we just want to tell you all of those things, to tell you that is possible for you to do this too. I know a lot of times you maybe listening to us thinking there’s no way that I an do this but we absolutely believe that you can. And we’ve talked about podcast not too long ago that we’ve set a goal for 2015 that we want to help 1000 families.
Get started. Making some money online in this year. We want you to take this first steps. We are so excited for you. We hear all of the things that you guys want to do. And the problems and pains that you have. We want to help you fix those.
One way that we can do that, we’ve created a course for you and it’s called Flip Your Life. And the purpose of it is just to help you get started in creating an online product. The digital product to sell online. We’re gonna’ hold your hand, we’re gonna’ walk you through every step and help you to create that product so that you can get started today.
So, if you are interested in learning more about Flip Your Life, you can head on over to FlippedLifeStyle.com/FlipYourLife or you can also text the word the Flip that says, FLIP to 38470 and we can send the link to the course right to your phone.
And we’d really and truly want to help you flipped your life just like we have. It is absolutely possible if we can do it, you can do it too.
SHANE: And we wanna stress to, like a lot of people say, “Oh well, they’re they go. They’re just gonna do that online marketing space.” But here is the deal, people don’t realize that we spend a lot of time on Flipped Lifestyle. If we took the time on Flipped Lifestyle and spend it on other next site, we make a whole lot more money outside of Flipped Lifestyle than we do it here.
It’s really not about the money to us, it’s about seeing people have those a hard moments. We just had a message like a week ago, someone quit their job because of some advice that we gave them. We help them grow their online business, we help them take it to the next level and now he is home with his wife and children because he flipped his life. He made it happen, he took those things to the next level.
And that’s what drives us do Flipped Life Style. We want as many people as possible to realise that there is another way and that they can do this if they just had help getting started. We’re not saying that our course is going to be A to Z, at the end of it you’re gonna make a hundred thousand dollars and quit your job. We want to help people get started.
The first step is the hardest, once you get the ball rolling, things happen online. The harder you go and the more you stay in it, the more chance you have to be successful. But it does not happen if you don’t start. That’s another reason that we do our Flipped podcast.
Next week we’re gonna have another flipped podcast. Where we invite one of you guys. One of our audience members to come on the show. We give them a free consulting call and we let everybody else listen in to get the help.
You know, we could go out and try the find big guest. We could have people like Timothy Ferris on the show. We could go get people. You know other people like that, big names in an online marketing space and that would probably help us grow our audience. We could probably get more exposure that way because they would share it.
But our number one priority is not exposure. Our number one priority is not rub shoulders and be buddies with this “A-List Marketing Gurus.”
JOCELYN: Or a dollar amount of money that we want to make.
SHANE: Exactly! Those are not even on our radar. What we want to do is to help as many people possible. And we can do that by doing Q&A’s. There’s no reason for us to do you know, little side podcast where we talk about random topics, we want to help a couple of people a week to answer their questions.
That’s why we do the Flipped podcast instead of bring on guru’s because I can spend an hour helping someone actually change their life, or I can spend an hour bringing on a millionaire to help promote his next book. And that is not what we want to do with our show. We’re here to help as many people as possible and let that ripple effect from what happen to us spread as far as we can make it spread. So don’t hesitate, if we can do anything for you to help you start your online journey and make this thing happen in your life as well, let us know. And we will be glad to do it.
Before we head out this week, we want to finish our show as we always do with our Can’t Miss Moments. These are things that we got to experience this week we got to do because of our online business that we did not get to do. When we are working full-time for the man you know, back in our old lives. So, Jocelyn, what is you Can’t Miss Moment this week?
JOCELYN: “Mine is actually super simple, I was sitting on my bed last Sunday night and I was just thinking to myself, how nice it is not to dread Monday. Because I know when I was working at school, I love to where I work to the people that I work with. But every Sunday night it would just be, “oh no, I have to go back,” we got to start this grand again. Up at 5:40, home at 5 o’clock you know, the same thing day in and day out. And I just love what we do now because I don’t have to dread Monday or any other day anymore because there all awesome.
SHANE: And mine was actually, I was over at my mom and dads the other day. My dad, he is self employed. Actually, he is an owner of an insurance. A business for a long time. Many, many years and you know. He is not retired, he’s semi-retired. But we were just sitting over the other day. Daddy come home from work, I’d stop by with Isaac after we picked him up after school. And I just looked over and got to see my dad and Isaac was sitting on his lap and they were just hugging and hanging out. And that was just an awesome moment for me to be able to be there with them and not have to have any other obligations to kind of pulled me away from that. So that was a pretty great moment.
Can’t Miss Moment are what drives us to what make us what we are. Why we do what we do. And we want you guys to be able to experience those Can’t Miss Moments as well so don’t wait. Figure out an idea and get started on your online business.
Alright, we well see you guys next week for a flipped podcast. We know your going to love it. This is a great interview with one of our audience members and ti’ll next time we will catch y’all on the flipped side. Thanks for listening.
JOCELYN: Happy Valentine’s Day! Bye.
SHANE: Bye!
Do you need step by step instruction? Do you need us to help you create your digital product and get your online business started? Well, you can do that. We actually now offer a course called the Flip Your Life e-course where we show you how to create your first digital product in 29 days or less.
All you have to do to get more information on this program is to go FlippedLifeStyle.com/FlipYourLife, and that’s all one word, and you can check out everything that we do in that course to help you get your digital product created for sale online even if you don’t have a website.
That’s FlippedLifeStyle.com/FlipYourLife. You can check when our next session is starting at that link. [/spoiler]
Lisa says
Your podcast was very inspiring! My husband and I currently have a storefront business together but I long for the freedom to connect more with family who are spread out across the country (and in Australia). I am working toward starting an on-line business and your podcasts are chock full of great information. I especially enjoy the podcasts where you help other people.
Shane Sams says
Thanks Lisa! Glad we can help!