The My Wife Quit Her Job Podcast With Steve Chou

Today I’m thrilled to have my friend Hanson Li on the show. Hanson is an old Stanford classmate of mine and he runs the Salt Partners Group, a company focused on the food and beverage industry. Hanson owns a bunch of restaurants and as you know, the entire restaurant industry has been hurting big time due to the shelter in place rules. But Hanson has managed to make the best of the situation and in this episode, we discuss the pivots he's made to make up for the lost revenue.

Today I’m thrilled to have Jake Cohen back on the show. Jake is the product marketing leader over at Klaviyo and he has been heading up a special Covid-19 Coronavirus task force to research, gather and synthesize e-commerce data. In this episode, we are going to go over some hard data on how e-commerce stores are faring during this pandemic along with which industries are doing well, which are not, and how to improve your sales. We also make some predictions on the future of e-commerce.

Whenever I publish 100 episodes, I always have an extra special guest on the show. And today, I have my Mom, Janice Chou, on the show. Now my Mom is not an entrepreneur in the classical sense but she recently discovered a cure for a rare disease called Glycogen Storage Disease. It is her life’s work and her cure is currently undergoing clinical trials. So far, the trial is going extremely well and her treatment has cured 9 patients so far. Here's her story.

Today I’m happy to have my buddy Chris Guthrie back on the show. Now a lot has changed since I last interviewed him in episode 53. For one thing, he’s bought and sold a bunch of businesses in the past 4 years and he recently joined Quiet Light Brokerage as well. So today, we’re going to break down Chris’s process on how he selects businesses to buy.

Today I’m really happy to have Sally Osborne on the show. Sally is a student in my Create A Profitable Online Store Course, she resides in the UK and she sells cross stitch supplies over at CaterpillarCrossstitch.com. Sally has been a joy to have in the class and in this episode, she tells us her story and reveals how she has managed to generate all of her sales.

Today, we’re doing a special episode because I’m in lock down at home with my entire family and I’ve got nothing else on my schedule for today. And my partner in crime Toni Anderson also happened to have today free, so I decided to bring her on the show today to talk about how Corona virus has affected our businesses. We’ll also discuss what we believe is the right way versus the wrong way to handle your business in a financial crisis.

If you are living paycheck to paycheck or saddled with debt, you probably think it’s impossible to become a millionaire unless you win the lottery or inherit a large sum of money. And it’s true. If you continue down your current path of spending all the money you earn or working at a dead end job, you’ll never ever become a millionaire. But if you formulate a plan, start now, and develop the right habits, you can easily learn how to become a millionaire within the next decade (or sooner depending on the path you choose to take. In this episode, you’ll learn all of the different ways that I’ve personally made a million dollars in the past 20 years.

Today I’m really happy to have Cathy Heller on the show. Cathy is the host of the popular podcast "Don’t Keep Your Day Job" and she inspires thousands of listeners every day to find purpose in their life and get paid to do what they love. She’s been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, HuffPost, the NY Times and prior to her podcast, she made a 6 figure living with her music as a songwriter. Today, we’re going to explore Cathy’s journey and how you can turn your passion into a career.

Today, I’m happy to have my buddy Grant Baldwin back on the show. Grant runs The Speaker Lab which is a business that teaches others how to get paid and booked to speak. He also has a brand new book out called The Successful Speaker which I highly recommended. Over the past few years, he’s tripled his business using a combination of automated webinars, Facebook ads and email marketing and we're going to dissect his strategies.

Today I’m thrilled to have Arri Bagah on the show. Arri and I both spoke at the Many Chat Conversations conference this past year. He is the founder of Conversmart which is a company that helps direct to consumer brands generate 6 figures in revenue per month using SMS marketing. In this episode, Arri and I go in depth on the best ways to implement SMS with an ecommerce store.

Today I have my friend Mari Smith on the show. Mari is often referred to as the Queen of Facebook and is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts on Facebook marketing. She’s a Forbes top Social Media Power Influencer, author of The New Relationship Marketing and co author of Facebook Marketing: An Hour A Day. She also teaches businesses and brands on how to properly monetize their social media efforts. In this episode, she'll teach us how to succeed with Facebook today.

Today I’m happy to have Luke Carthy on the show. Luke is an ecommerce growth consultant specializing in strategy, search & conversion. He's been helping ecommerce brands grow for over 12+ years and he’s spoken at a variety of events including the last Mozcon in 2019. Today, we’re going to discuss his strategies for growing an ecommerce brand.

I’m really happy to have Erich Hellstrom on the show. Erich is a digital marketing strategist for Chubbies, a men’s short shorts brand with a huge cult following. Erich is in charge of crafting the copy for Chubbies social, email, product and events. And even though Chubbies clothing isn’t really my style, I’m on their email list because it is hilarious and they do a fantastic job building a loyal brand.

Today I’m thrilled to have Nate Lipton on the show because he runs numerous ecommerce businesses in the cannabis space. For example, GrowersHouse.com is an 8 figure ecommerce store selling growing supplies and he recently launched a line of CBD products over at TruPotency.com In any case, I have many students and readers who have been asking me questions on how to break into this space so we're going to have Nate answer these questions directly.

Today I’m thrilled to have Kevin Stecko back on the show. Kevin runs an awesome site called 80stees.com where he sells t-shirts from the 80s. Kevin’s t-shirt business was already super competitive but in the past several years, it’s gotten even more intense. As a result, he made some fundamental changes to his business strategy and it’s paid off in droves, both in terms of profit and lifestyle.