Stay ConnectedHi, we’re Russ and Mika Perry. We live together in Scottsdale, Arizona with our three beautiful daughters. We have devoted our lives to building a solid foundation for our family through entrepreneurship and healthy practices, with the goal of living a successful, balanced, family-focused lifestyle.
Good To Be Home is a weekly exploration of entrepreneurship, family, marriage, sobriety, and how we balance our business and life.
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Russ and Mika have received many requests over the past several months from listeners who want to hear a conversation about finances.
This is a topic that people don't always like to talk about. Financial conversations can be incredibly uncomfortable.
On this week's podcast, they are diving headfirst into some of those uncomfortable conversations. You'll hear about ways that you can save, budget, and approach your finances with a whole new perspective.
In this bonus episode, Russ breaks down sobriety. For him, alcohol was his addiction, but sobriety could mean breaking patterns around drugs, problem habits or more.
He says in order for sobriety to work, you have to change for yourself; not your kids, your wife, your job, etc.
Russ will talk about some practical tips on how to start and sustain sobriety and how important building a supportive community is.
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There are a variety of support and community groups dealing with addiction, beyond just Alcoholics Anonymous. For Russ, Celebrate Recovery was the best option.
Find more info online: www.celebraterecovery.com
Russ was inspired to record today's episode because his oldest daughter Maddix recently started high school.
Maddix was born when Russ was in college, and it was one of the most unexpected moments of his life. It has also been undoubtedly one of the biggest blessings.
And yet so many times, when these unexpected moments happen to us, feelings of anxiety or negativity typically follow.
Today's podcast is all about how we can persevere through the unexpected challenges, grow from them, and thrive.
Every summer for the past few years, Russ and Mika have taken their family on a long trip overseas. This year, they chose the United Kingdom as their travel destination and so for the past five weeks or so, the Perry family has been living and working in London.
On today's' podcast, you'll hear why they chose to travel to London, as well as all of the details that went into planning a trip of this magnitude.
You'll also hear what their life has looked like for the last five weeks, from working remotely from coworking to hiring a nanny. their favorite activities and a whole lot more.
Working out of a co-working space in London this week has reminded Russ and Mika of some of their earlier days as aspiring entrepreneurs.
It has also inspired them to revisit a topic that they haven't thought about in quite some time: how to hire someone for the first time.
The only way that you can grow your business to the point that you can balance your life successfully is by hiring the right people, and it all starts with that first person.
On today's show, they are going to be sharing eight tips for helping you make that first hire.
These tips aren't just for running a business. They can apply to anyone that you are bringing on board to help you with your personal life as well.
Russ and Mika are planners. As a family, they write down and discuss goals for the year every January on their annual staycations. But last year, the two decided to check-in and start a mid-year planning tradition. Now, this isn't a practice that should be just about looking forward and stressing about what needs to get done - but should be a moment of recap, reflection, and reset for the second half of the year.
In this episode, Russ and Mika break down their goals for the rest of 2019, both as a couple and independently. Using the framework of "Body, Being, Balance and Business" (something you might remember from their Core 4 episode), they look at all they have accomplished so far, and re-commit to some promises they may have been slacking on.
Everyone's comfort level and goals are going to look different, whether your plans include buying a new car, fixing up the house, or actually following that meditation routine (for real this time.) As long as you can stay objective in the process, Russ says we can all create great things in a year.
One of Mika's favorite podcasts to listen to is 3 in 30, a 30-minute show for busy moms with 3 clear cut takeaways (or what Mika calls "knowledge bombs") on parenting struggles and strategies.
Mika was a guest on Rachel's show not too long ago, and now we are welcoming her to Good To Be Home!
What Mika admires most about this show is Rachel's ability and willingness to go deep on topics that may not be tackled on other shows, like what to do when you don't like playing with your kids, how religion can affect your ideas of what a mom should be or how Rachel is happier as a mom when she is still working.
An English teacher turned mom turned podcaster, Rachel now has over 80 episodes of 3 in 30 aiming to help moms "manage the madness and maximize the magic of motherhood."
Mika and Rachel discuss 3 of Mika's favorite episodes of 3 in 30, how to bring more positivity into your social media feeds, and how to deal with that inner critic that always seems to be nagging inside.
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SIGN UP for Mika and Rachel's one day workshop "Declutter Your Motherhood" on Saturday, September 21st in Phoenix, Arizona! The event is for moms to connect with other moms while working to declutter on the inside and on the outside. Learn how to declutter your schedule, your expectations as a mom, your limiting beliefs and your physical space - leaving room to do add much more joy to your days.
www.mikaperry.com/workshop
Welcome to the first Good To Be Home bonus episode! In these quick segments, we will be digging into some topics that we may have covered in previous episodes and want to go deeper into - or questions from listeners!
In this first bonus (and Russ's first solo episode) he picks up the conversation left off in Episode 60, and talks more about his book The Sober Entrepreneur. The book took about a year to write, and if you're interested in the writing process, or are thinking of writing your own book, this episode is for you.
You'll hear more about changes he would have made if he could do it all again, his marketing strategies for the book, and how to use Amazon to your advantage.
Fans of the show may or may not know that Russ and Mika are both sober. And in 2017, a few years into his sobriety, Russ published his first book The Sober Entrepreneur, about his struggles to balance work, life, and combat addiction.
Now almost 6 years sober, Russ calls the book not only an obligation to his family, but a resource for those who might be going through a similar situation.
Russ says for you to succeed as an entrepreneur you need to be addicted to a belief, a characteristic that if not controlled right, could lead to addiction in other forms.
He says the decision to write the book was extremely personal, and in this episode, you'll hear more about the legacy he hopes his story will leave, a few takeaways from other people who have read it, and a bit more about Russ and Mika's decisions to get sober.
PLUS if you sign up for the Good To Be Home Podcast newsletter, you'll receive a FREE PDF copy of the book!
Building a home can be difficult, especially if your significant other is a little...less organized than you.
In this weeks episode, Mika takes the reigns and talks about encouraging Russ to be more organized, based on questions and comments shes received from listeners on social media.
Organizing is not only about putting stuff into labeled boxes but extends to strengthening your relationship and home life in general.
Whether you hear yourself in Mika (as the more organized one) or Russ (who needed a bit of help), this episode will show you some easy ways to nudge your loved one into setting up more intentional systems of organization.
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