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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Have you ever thought of trying integrative or naturopathic medicine as an alternative to the way you treat yourself now? In this episode, you’ll hear how Dr. Jillian Smithers made the jump from traditional to naturopathic medicine, as well as her own personal medical journey.
Mika also breaks down her health issues, why she sought out Jillian’s services and how being more in tune with her body naturally has helped her. We’ll get into hormones, supplements, and other natural remedies.
On today’s podcast, Mika will tell us all about attending Alt Summit, and her 6 takeaways from the week-long experience.
Mika just spent the last week at Alt Summit, an annual conference in Palm Springs, CA for entrepreneurs, business owners, influencers, and really any creative soul.
In this solo episode, she’ll tell us about what she learned that week including how to travel alone as a mom, Pinterest & SEO, and how the trip renewed her love for her hometown of Scottsdale, Arizona.
Russ and Mika both used Dena Patton as a business coach (at the same time) in different ways. But what they both can attest to, is how Dena’s work goes far beyond building a business.
In this episode, Dena talks about identifying your limitations and “igniting your greatness,” whether that means building a million dollar business, growing and hiring new employees, or just being your best self for the ones you love.
One of the goals that Russ and Mika have for this podcast in 2019 is to invite people who have had an impact on their lives on to show to share their own stories.
Russ met Deric Keller through their work with the Warrior program, and when we heard Deric's story we knew we wanted him to share it with our listeners.
Deric is a decorated combat veteran, husband, and father of seven children. He is also the founder of a personal coaching and accountability program called Battlefield Boardroom.
After returning home from serving in the Iraq war, Deric was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and struggled with adjusting to everyday life.
Deric joins us this week to share his powerful story about his experience serving in the United States Marine Corps, working through trauma and anger, healing, and committing himself to a life of coaching others.
A few weeks ago, Russ surprised Mika on Valentine's Day by planning a trip for her to spend a weekend at Canyon Ranch Wellness Resort in Tucson, Arizona.
This wasn't just a weekend getaway, though. This was a two-day wellness retreat, where Mika could disconnect from her everyday life and focus entirely on relaxation and self-care.
She returned home feeling completely rejuvenated, energized, and excited to share some of the powerful things that she discovered.
On today's podcast, you'll hear all about that trip, as well as eight specific life lessons, reminders, and practical tips that Mika learned on her wellness retreat.
On this weeks episode, we are excited to share our very first interview with licensed esthetician and skin care specialist Emme Diane.
Emme is a licensed esthetician with 20 years of professional experience. She specializes in advanced skin care treatments and has also started her own line of corrective skin care products.
Emme joins us this week to talk about why skin care is important, and what we can do to better take care of our skin. This episode isn't just about skin care, though. Emme also shares her emotional story about her own journey through addiction, rehab, sobriety and eventually finding success as an entrepreneur.
Russ and Mika talk a lot on this show about how building routines can help us to better balance our lives.
But when you take a break from those routines, they can be very difficult to get back into. This is why we often find ourselves feeling out of alignment after we travel or go on vacation.
Today's episode is all about what we can do after we travel to re-establish our routines and stay motivated, energized, and focused when we return to our daily lives after a long trip.
On today's podcast, we are talking about love languages.
This is a topic that Russ and Mika bring up quite a bit on this show, and it is based on a book called The Five Love Languages by Dr. Gary Chapman.
In that book, Chapman proposes that each of us speaks our own love languages, and the secret to having long-lasting, healthy relationships is learning how to speak to your partner in their own language.
These ideas have informed Russ and Mika's relationship throughout their marriage, and even their relationships with their children.
On this week's episode, we'll be talking about what each of these languages are, what they mean, and how understanding them has made a tremendous difference in our lives.
On this week's episode, Russ and Mika have decided to revisit one of our very first episodes on this podcast.
We've been publishing Good to Be Home for almost a year now, and we have gained several new listeners along the way. This topic is such an important piece of Russ and Mika's lives, that they wanted to share it again it for those who haven't heard it yet because it informs so much of what we talk about on this show.
Several months ago, Mika chose to open up on her personal blog about something that most people don't feel comfortable talking about publicly. In 2012, she discovered that Russ was having an affair, and it nearly destroyed their marriage.
Soon afterward, she wrote a blog post called "We Saved Our Marriage", about how the two of them addressed this challenge, how they grew from it, and how they came out stronger on the other side.
This episode is the story of how Russ and Mika saved their marriage, what it felt like to share that story online, how people reacted to the story, and what the two of them have learned from that experience. We hope you enjoy.
On this week's podcast, Russ and Mika are returning to the subject of business.
In particular, they are addressing a question that they recently received from a listener: how do you hire and manage people in your business?
This is a complicated subject and one that a lot of entrepreneurs struggle with.
In this episode, you will hear about the three things that we focus on while hiring and managing our teams: Mission, Vision, and Values. You'll also hear about the specific processes that we follow when building and growing our teams.
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