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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Does the idea of planning a family vacation to Disneyland stress you out? Planning the meals, figuring out what rides to hit and navigating the park itself can all seem a bit overwhelming. That's why the Perry's are bringing you this episode, a how-to guide to a stress-free vacation at Disneyland.
Based on two of Mika's blog posts, Russ & Mika layout all the tips, strategies and apps that help them enjoy the park with their three girls.
What kind of stroller should you bring? How many snacks should you pack? How do you deal with inevitable meltdowns? Mika says its all about letting the little moments outside the rides happen, and with three Disney trips under their belt, Russ & Mika share some of their secret tricks to making this vacation a magical one.
**Due to some issues during our recording session, parts of episodes #56 & #57 might be hard to hear. Sorry for the inconvenience, and we'll be back to normal soon!** If you've listened to Good To Be Home before, you know how passionate Russ and Mika are about date night - their weekly evenings out as a couple (ie: no kids) to catch up with each other and unwind.
But sometimes, despite how determined they are to keep up this practice, schedules just get too crazy and life gets in the way.
So what happens between those date nights? Or in the weeks they just can't find a free night together? In this episode, Russ and Mika run through some practical tips on how they stay connected, like working out together or going to church, as well as jump into some larger concepts like open communication about scheduling and laughing about parenting together.
**Due to some issues during our recording session, parts of episodes #56 & #57 might be hard to hear. Sorry for the inconvenience, and we'll be back to normal soon!**
In today's episode, Russ and Mika are talking all things Picklecon 2019, Design Pickle's inaugural US conference for creative entrepreneurs in Scottsdale, Arizona last month. We'll hear from each of their perspectives: Russ on what it's like to create and run an event, and Mika who was a guest speaker and got to see it from more of an attendee role.
The theme of this year's event was "Profit. Automation. Scale." But Russ says Picklecon is not like most other conferences you may see people attending in your Instagram feeds, and talks about why Picklecon is focused more on personal development, as well as just business goals.
Russ and Mika are both avid conference attendees, traveling not only across the country but around the world for both personal and professional development events. We'll hear how they pick conferences, the value of both smaller, boutique events vs. larger, more broad events, and how growth comes from connecting with others in person, not from sitting behind a screen.
Today's episode is all about managing time. So what is "Timeblocking?" As Russ describes it, it works like a budget does for money, and its all about breaking your time into categories.
Timeblocking helps a busy, ever changing schedule by not only incorporating time for meetings, appointments and events - but also building in time for more fluid tasks like creation, self care, and family.
This approach to scheduling not only helps Russ manage his business, but also helps Mika uses it for more home based tasks like balancing the girls schedules and dance classes.
When it feels like so much of the current news cycle is heavy and negative, Russ and Mika are taking today's episode to talk about how they work through negativity, both on the inside and the outside.
You'll hear tips and tricks to dealing with negativity and harnessing your energy towards the positive, whether its reading less news like Russ, or incorporating meditation and other wellness strategies like Mika.
Negativity can be the smallness voice in your head telling you you're not good enough, or external factors like trolls on the internet. Both Russ and Mika talk in this episode about how they've dealt with haters on social media, and curating their own feeds and who they follow to promote positivity.
And what about negativity in relationships? When do you lean in to helping them become less negative, or leave to honor your own boundaries?
In today’s episode Mika breaks down her beauty routines with the girls while Russ is out of town. She shares her day looks, night looks, and everyday self-care systems.
While she’s not a beauty blogger, Mika is a woman who also has a blog, and you’ll hear some of her favorite products, the services she gets outside the home, and why she invests in those.
As a busy mom, Mika’s schedule is always changing, and we’ll hear how she gets ready every morning; whether she’s heading straight to the gym, going to school with the girls or working in the office.
Besides make up and hair styles, Mika also dives into botox and fillers, whether she uses them and why.
Today’s episode is a pretty straightforward look at vision boards: what they are, how to use them and how they visualize your goals
These vision boards aren’t just collages made from magazine cutouts, they’re manifestations of the life you want, and how you’re going to get there. Russ & Mika talk about some of the things they've added to their own boards, why material possessions are okay to throw on there, and how they use boards independently, and as a family unit.
Today’s episode marks 365 days of Good To Be Home! Russ & Mika look back at 51 episodes, pick their favorites and give us a behind the scenes look at how the podcast is made.
They'll talk about how making the show has affected their relationship, what it's like to have a creative project to work on as a couple and goals for year 2!
This episode also features Good To Be Home's first ever giveaway! Stay tuned to the end of the show to hear details on how to enter.
While Russ and Mika both have parents who are teachers, they have pretty different educational backgrounds. Russ was born and raised in Arizona public schools and Mika hopped around schools in Japan, both urban schools and rural villages, before coming to the states.
In this episode, Russ & Mika talk private, public and charter schools, what they look for in a school and its teachers, and the education they try to teach as parents, outside of the classroom.
As she told us in her first episode on the show, finding a coach that fits your needs is the first step. But what comes next? In this second episode, Dena tells us what it means to be “coachable.”
To be coached she says is to be vulnerable, open and humble. It’s giving up being right and being willing to do the work.
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