CoupleCo Uncorked XVII: Post-Tequila-Fueled Bitch Fest
CoupleCo: Working With Your Spouse For Fun & Profit
Release Date: 04/14/2021
Dan Hill & Karen Bernthal: Blah Blah Blah--A Snarky Guide
CoupleCo: Working With Your Spouse For Fun & Profit
This is a special edition of CoupleCo. We’ve engineered this show for shameless self-promotion! Blaine helped write a satirical business book created by Dan Hill. Dan is a very smart guy who has consulted to over 100 of the world’s biggest brands on the topic of reading emotions through facial coding. He also collaborates with his wife, Karen Bernthal, who’s an artist and a designer. That's where the CoupleCo angle comes in. So, how potent is Dan’s advertising prowess? Honey has had a career working in big ad agencies, and Dan had her wondering if everything she knows is wrong. This...
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It's Figureoutable: John Lord & Alma Aguilar of Cerveceria Crazy Moon, Part 2
CoupleCo: Working With Your Spouse For Fun & Profit
Today, we are back with Part 2 of reaching for the moon. Specifically, craft brewer Crazy in Cholula Puebla, Mexico. When we were invited there, we replied using one of Honey’s favorite travel philosophies: Por qué no? “Why not” is a great phrase to know in any language. It has served us well around the world, including in Mexico. Craft brewers John Lord and his wife Alma Aguilar are lovely people who introduced us to more lovely people and we had an excellent time. They are also serial entrepreneurs. When they decided to open a brewery, they thought, “How hard could...
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It's Figureoutable: John Lord & Alma Aguilar of Cerveceria Crazy Moon, Part 1
CoupleCo: Working With Your Spouse For Fun & Profit
In this episode, CoupleCo leaves the country for the moon—specifically, the Crazy Moon brewery in Cholula Puebla, Mexico. This business is run by an old, Connecticut friend of Blaine’s and his Mexican wife. John and Alma are serial entrepreneurs who started this craft brewery in time for a global pandemic—which they have survived as they enter into a new funding series for taking their brewery to the next level. They make excellent beer. They confronted the challenges of the pandemic by keeping everyone on their staff employed and doing the pivots required to keep the revenue...
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Uncorked XXVIII: Something's Gotta Give!
CoupleCo: Working With Your Spouse For Fun & Profit
Opportunities, priorities, profit—all kinds of greatness is afoot. But that also means: something’s gotta give. Will it be this show? Nope. Well, not really. But we are taking a dose of our own advice and attenuating everyone’s favorite show about couples in business together. And honestly, it’s not just because we’re feeling queasy from being stuck in the hot, humid freak show that is South Jersey…
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CoupleCo Uncorked XXVII: How Big Is Big Enough?
CoupleCo: Working With Your Spouse For Fun & Profit
Why are a pair of married capitalists talking about Marxism, and what does that have to do with the price of CoupleCo-ism anyway? In this episode, we avoid the adolescent jokes surrounding the great question, “How big is big enough, anyway?” In your business, is it OK to want to remain small? We ask ourselves this question as we hang out with friends who’ve started really big companies. The answer has a lot to do with your priorities in life, and another, more important question you need to answer for yourself…
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CoupleCo Uncorked XXVI: Anniversary Madness!
CoupleCo: Working With Your Spouse For Fun & Profit
How did this happen?! On the 20th Anniversary of our wedding, Blaine Parker and the Fabulous Honey Parker turn the tables on themselves and reveal the answer to the Single Most Important Question of their CoupleCo interviews: “How did you two meet?” The reason it’s so important is without the answer to that question, there’d be no CoupleCo to follow. And since our answer includes dueling hangovers, a clever ruse involving a used car, and a famous comedy club, it might just be worth listening to…
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Uncorked XXV: CoupleCo Independence
CoupleCo: Working With Your Spouse For Fun & Profit
Should you do the dangerous deed of becoming a CoupleCo? Maybe your answer is here: it’s the 2021 Independence Edition of CoupleCo Uncorked! There are upsides to being in business with your spouse. Besides the fun! You’re your own boss! You can take risks! Set your own hours! But, there are also downsides. Hear our take on CoupleCo Independence after 15 years of doing this. Maybe it’ll sway you one way or the other. Maybe it’ll make you close the doors and go back to your 9-to-5. Who knows? Listen in and take a chance…
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Scrappy Underdogs: Chris & Jen Hudak of Escapod Trailers, Part 2
CoupleCo: Working With Your Spouse For Fun & Profit
Innovative, paradigm-shifting, champion-inspired cult camper moving and shaking! Jen and Chris Hudak have moved Escapod travel trailers, shaken up their own world, they’re changing world of teardrop campers, and they’ve built a collaborative business model in a burgeoning CoupleCo effort that began in a garage, expanded to an antique gas station with one employee, and now occupies an enormous space filled with employees in what was once a Ford dealership. In two years, they’ve expanded production exponentially, moving from selling dozens of units to hundreds. And they still can’t meet...
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Scrappy Underdogs: Chris & Jen Hudak of Escapod Trailers, Part 1
CoupleCo: Working With Your Spouse For Fun & Profit
All hail the scrappy underdog! In the two years since we first spoke to them, Chris and Jen Hudak have exploded. They’ve instigated an exponential increase in production of their cult-favorite travel trailer, survived a pandemic, and brought a baby to be in the world. What more could they want? How about a groundbreaking evolution in their already excellent product? These two are champions, they are unstoppable, and they bring new perspective to what it means to be successful collaborators…
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Re-Packed For Action: Therese Iknoian And Michael Hodgson of HI Travel Tales Redux, Part 2
CoupleCo: Working With Your Spouse For Fun & Profit
Comprehensive CoupleCo convo some award-winning expert travelers? How does that even happen? What is award-winning expert travel, anyway? Therese Iknoian and Michael Hodgson are epic travel bloggers as well as award-winning entrepreneurial journalists. (Therese was even part of a Pulitzer-winning reportage team.) These two have segued from traditional news professions into profitable nex-gen careers spanning the globe and discoursing on all things travel…
info_outlineWhat have we learned after last week’s stress-fest? It pays to be in business with someone to whom you can vent and then strategize. Also, Honey invents a category of noises, we talk about hand puppets, and the added CoupleCo bonus of having your own food taster. In other words, about 10 minutes of insight and nonsense.