Mr & Mrs In Business Podcast

Is a work life balance a real thing that we can achieve and how do we work towards it?

In this weeks podcast, we discuss work life balance. 
Are you like Chris and can only cut off when on specific holidays or do you watch trash TV like Helen to zone out?
Do we give ourselves too much of a hard time for cutting off, or for working too long?At the end of the day should we just “do you”?
Every day is a school day, not only in business. This week we learn from our son what a “Kevin” is. Not only are there “Karens” out there that may moan to you from time to time, but we’ve learnt there are also Kevins as the male versions of those moaning type!
We wait with baited breath to see if Chris has remembered to change the branded mug in the foreground!? Or does he simply think he’s too cool for school and using words that are too young for him hey “guys and girls”!?
Will Helen be happy with Chris’ outfit for the podcast!? It’s doubtful, he got the dreaded stare!
We discuss further, how we both individually and as a family like to cut off, and how we use our ying and yang ways to help each other with the house and work through sharing our completely different strengths. 
Why is it a thing that everyone seems to clean their house before you go on holiday? Surely it’s not just us!?
When Helen has a brain fart, will Chris be there to support her? Or will he kick back, relax and enjoy the embarrassment!?
Is it normal to work on a Friday night at 10:30pm? It may be to some and maybe not to others. At the end of the day, you do you.
We end the podcast with another fantastic local business shout out that we are a huge fan of, My Coffee Station.  

Success - In Sickness & In Health For Richer For Poorer

What do you see as success? 🤔 
Can either of us remember how to open a podcast after a 4/5 month break!? 😅
It’s been a few months since we last filmed our first podcast. That’s because quite honestly after filming the first and second episodes we found we just weren’t agreeing how to go about producing it and decided to knock the whole idea on the head rather than argue about it and negatively effect our personal relationship. 🙃
However after further chats over many cups of teas and coffee we knew we both ultimately wanted to do a podcast together! We agreed we would be both willing to compromise that little bit further in trying to meet a happy medium for us both ⚖️ 
So here we are 😅
In this weeks episode we each discuss how we personally feel we define success and what being successful means to us. Has our opinion of this changed over the years or remained the same? 
Whilst we may be a Ying and Yang team, ultimately our morals and goals align some how! 🫶🏻
For some money is the only way to measure their happiness, but do we agree? 🤷🏼‍♀️ Can money buy happiness? 💰 
Helen thinks not and instead focusses on the smaller things in life that can be priceless but without being toooo soppy!! 😂
During our chat we have one of many disagreements about a few things including how we both look, what is perfect, how much should work, should we become “Fat Fellows” to make some extra cash!? 🤣
When would be an ideal time to retire and could we realistically just stop working all together!? 🤷🏻 
We finish our discussion with a business shoutout where we want to share our positive thoughts as we appreciate the long journey Rhys has taken to build his inspiring Empire and community at Emp1re Gym, what a great guy! 💪🏻

Our first ever podcast Mr & Mrs In Business

How to start a Podcast? Well we’re not totally sure but we’ve finally done it anyway. 
We are Chris and Helen Butler, husband and wife who not only live together with our son and fur baby Labrador, but also run multiple businesses together too.
Talking candidly about life, business, family and the highs, and lows along the way. We feel naked and vulnerable being so honest but want to share our real thoughts of our journey. It’s not easy and plane sailing but there are some rants and bants we’d also like to share on our journey. 
Through our first episode Helen gets a saying right for the first time. Chris exposes himself, not naked thankfully, as we share the rollercoaster ride with anyone who wants to listen.  
Producing a podcast is something we both have wanted to do for a few years and we have finally bitten the bullet. We discuss how failing is a way of learning. You don’t fail, instead you learn. A few side eyes later we agreed to move on with our chats with some waffling in between. Sharing our different personalities, past experiences from our mid 20s when we first met whilst dancing away on the dance floor strutting our moves to now doing the Mum and Dad shuffle in our 40s! Can we say our experience in 60 seconds~? Well one of can! 
Does everything happen for a reason? We discuss how we do and don’t love working with each other with a sprinkle of love and hate along our journey. Is it easy to argue at work? Should you work with family? Can you leave things at the front door? Can Helen get a saying right about that too!? Probably not! Whilst we are ying and yang, chalk and cheese, so far, it works for us. In our own way!  
After experiencing it ourselves this week, we also discuss the importance, or lack of it, of getting a nice photo done for a new passport. Is it important to like your passport photo? Helen thinks so however Chris doesn’t agree. What are your thoughts? 
 
We want to paint an honest picture of our journey. If anyone other than our Mums want to listen, support or subscribe we hope we can help some of you with something. Whether you’re a business owner, a parent, have an annoying spouse or work colleague or fancy a light hearted listen, we are still learning on our journey and talk candidly about the highs and lows along the way and we hope some may even learn something from our discussions and hopefully laugh with us, not always at us, during our waffling.