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Aaron and Kaleena Amuchastegui are entrepreneurs and the authors of "The 5-Hour School Week: An Inspirational Guide to Leaving the Classroom to Embrace Learning in a Way You Never Imagined" Have you ever thought about homeschooling your kids? Homeschool has been on our mind for a little over a year now. When we left our "9-to-5" jobs, we found freedom we never imagined working from home. But when our kids went to school, we found ourselves frustrated by the rigid nature of the school system. It felt like we had jobs again.  Be here on time.  Call in sick.  Ask permission to go on trips.  Etc. And the kids often told us school felt like prison. Do as your told, follow the bells, eat when we say, go to the bathroom when we say, play when we say, sit where we say... The school system itself feels broken, almost out of date. The entrepreneurial lessons and life skills we wanted our kids to learn, are just not an integral part of the curriculum in the school system. And the rigid nature of the school calendar and day left little room for freedom. Freedom of expression, travel, what you do with your time... Our kids were basically being taught to sit at a desk (cubicle?), follow orders, and be good little cogs in the machine. We kept getting more and more frustrated by the education system. So we start looking at homeschool for our kids. Considering homeschool is overwhelming. Dozens of questions/doubts/fears flood into your mind: * What is the best homeschool curriculum? * Are there any homeschool programs in my area? * We are people of faith.  Are there any Christian homeschool curriculum available? * Who is going to teach the kids everyday? * What if we don't know about something we are teaching them? * What about online homeschool? Is that a thing? It's clear there are a lot of benefits to homeschooling: 1-on-1 attention, learning at your own pace, freedom of schedule, to name a few. But answering the question of HOW to homeschool your child is a daunting task to wrap your head around. So we looked for help! That's when we found Aaron and Kaleena Amuchastegui. Aaron and Kalena are the authors of "The 5-Hour School Week: An Inspirational Guide to Leaving the Classroom to Embrace Learning in a Way You Never Imagined." As we were looking for homeschool resources to learn about the process, we were specifically looking for entrepreneurs who also homeschooled.  People who valued experiences, entrepreneurship, and freedom! When we found "The 5-Hour School Week" and Aaron and Kaleena, we knew we had found our answers! We had to have them on the podcast. In today's EXTENDED episode of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, Aaron and Kaleena guide us through the homeschooling decision. We cover all the hard questions like: * When should I start homeschooling? * What's the perfect homeschool schedule? * Can ANYONE homeschool? * What are the advantages of homeschool? * What are the disadvantages of homeschool? * How do you keep your kids from getting bored? * What about the social skills they develop in school? How do you replace that? * What about sports opportunities and activities for homeschool children? * How do homeschool children earn their high school diploma or get...

On the road for a cheerleading competition.Clyde and Belle (our elves) are traveling via tea pitcher of course. Can’t touch em due to the magic after all! Hey Y’all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today’s Q&A highlights answer the following questions:  Question One: "I'm a Certified Infant and Child Sleep Consultant and I have a membership to help parents get their little ones asleep for babies ages 4 months to 5 years. Many parents have asked me to create a program for newborn babies. My main concern with doing a sleep program for newborns is that I can't really talk about *results* in a black and white manner, the way I talk about results for older kids because they're newborns. While there's lots that parents can do to establish healthy sleep habits from day 1, there's still so much in the air when dealing with newborns. So a parent could easily purchase this newborn sleep program, follow everything, and still not see any results. If I were to move forward with this product, how should I take this concern into account?" Question Two: "I'm thinking about downsizing my job to help free up more time to focus on this community and my online business. Thoughts?" Question Three: "Do you have any tips for how to approach people to become a podcast guest?" Success stories mentioned on today's podcast: "First I want to give a huge thank you to Shane and Jocelyn for all of the hard work they put into FYL Live. It was at this event that I was able to finally see the mission and vision for my business clearly. Once I got clarity on these important foundations everything started to click. Before I even left the live event I put together a plan for promoting my online membership community. For 3 days in a row I promoted it and I created more than $800 in new membership sales in just 10 days after the event." - Amanda CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too!   Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

  In today's episode, we help Christal take her virtual assistant business to the next level. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all, on today's podcast, we help Christal take her virtual assistant business to the next level. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Shane Sams: We're a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online. Now we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What is going on everybody, welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. We're super excited to have another member of the Flip Your Life community on the show so that we can help them take their business and their dreams to the next level. Our guest today is Christal Allen Harrahill. Christal, welcome to the show. Christal H.: Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. Jocelyn Sams: It is great to talk to you, we saw you not too long ago at Flip Your Life live, which was awesome. If you've watched our highlight video, you may even see me chatting with Christal a little bit at the event. So definitely look for that. But yes, it is great to have you, we are really excited to talk to you today. Shane Sams: How awesome was Flip Your Life Live by the way, was that not amazing? Christal H.: It really was, I was so amazed at the organization of it and how much I actually got done while at the event. I've been to a lot of conferences in the past and that was rare. Shane Sams: Yeah, we tried to make it a working event because we looked back at all the live events we had ever been to when we were planning and creating Flip Your Life live. That was what we said to ourselves, we looked at each other and we're like, man if you don't get anything done, what's the point, you're just going to a party, and you can have a party at the house. Jocelyn Sams: Exactly, I mean it's nice to get all the information, but then if you don't do anything with it, what was the point. Christal H.: Exactly. Shane Sams: We were talking before we actually started recording. We just released the highlight reel for Flip Your Life Live, which you might have seen that on social media or somewhere out there in the internet sphere. But we were talking about how we got emotional, 'cause we were like oh, I miss everybody. Like it was so fun, like where is everybody. Shane Sams: So luckily there will be another Flip Your Life Family Reunion next year, we'll be all over that. Christal H.: And the food was amazing by the way, I'm still missing that hot chicken. Shane Sams: Oh man, we're southern people, and when we get that southern food going, we're not holding back. Jocelyn Sams: When you come to a live event in the south, you've gotta have some good southern food. Shane Sams: Yeah, you're not just getting wraps from some takeout joint. We're going southern fried chicken and hot chicken, all that good stuff. Jocelyn Sams: So if you come for nothing else, come for the food okay. Shane Sams: We actually went before we planned the event. We drove down there to taste the food. Jocelyn Sams: Because it was very important to me. When we went down there, I was like there will be no frozen biscuits or nothing from a mix. These things have gotta be homemade. Some of these people have never had biscuits before. Christal H.: That's right. Shane Sams: The chef that ran the hotel, he's like, you want me to do what. I'm like we want grandmamma's southern biscuits, you are not a grandmother, he was a dude. I was like,

  Because bathrooms need Christmas trees too! Hey Y’all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today’s Q&A highlights answer the following questions:  Question One: "I'm just starting out, so what should I focus on? I would really like to get a beta launch for my membership up before the Christmas holiday. I'm planning to post on social media everyday. Create a worksheet as a lead magnet for getting people on my email list. Work on getting my website up and running (from scratch). Does this sound like the correct order?" Question Two: "How do you launch a membership site to your email list when you haven't emailed them anything in the past couple months?" Question Three: "I have a question about an introductory offer. I'm confused about whether I should create a product first (I know that you've mentioned "product first" philosophy), but I've also heard you say about having an audience and finding out what THEY want. I've been focusing on building an audience and getting email subscribers so that I can ask them what they want. I do have a product available, which is career coaching calls, but should I create a digital product now (I have an idea of what I'd like to create) or wait until I have feedback from an audience so I create the right product?" Success stories mentioned on today's podcast: "I asked for feedback on my sales pages about 2 months ago and got some great feedback and Jocelyn asked some really powerful questions. I changed one of my sales pages based on Jocelyn's suggestions and CHA-CHING. Four subscribers in three weeks!" - Stephanie CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too!   Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

In today's episode, we catch up with former guest Daniel Hulsman after his membership launch. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey, y'all. On today's podcast, we catch up with former guest Daniel Hulsman after his membership launch. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flip Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. You ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the Flip Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again this week. I am really pumped up today because we are welcoming back a former guest, who was previously on the show. He's now launched his membership, launched his business, actually has customers, and this is even a more special former guest, because he is our favorite former troll. It's our good buddy, Daniel Hulsman. Daniel, welcome back to the show, man. Daniel Hulsman: Hey, Shane and Jocelyn. Thank you for having me. Jocelyn Sams: Yes, absolutely. We are happy to have you. Jocelyn Sams: ... here, again, today. We have some exciting stuff to talk about, some, kinda, hard stuff to talk about. We just got a really good conversation brewing, today. So we're really excited about this. We've been following along with you after your membership launch. You've had a few ups and downs, I would say. Daniel Hulsman: Yeah. Just a few. Shane Sams: Now, let me get everybody caught back up 'cause I think this is airing somewhere around December, January. I'm not exactly sure. So, Daniel was on the show back in July of 2018. It was episode 212. Right, Jocelyn? Jocelyn Sams: Yep, flippedlifestyle.com/podcast212. Shane Sams: So the interesting story behind Daniel even appearing on the show is Daniel didn't come to the Flipped Lifestyle community or podcast in, what I would call, the normal way. Daniel actually sent me some scathing hate mail at one point. Daniel Hulsman: Oh. It wasn't that. Jocelyn Sams: Okay. Shane Sams: It gets worse every time I tell the story, though. You know how it goes. Jocelyn Sams: In his defense, it's not the worse thing we've ever gotten. Shane Sams: It's not the worse thing we've ever gotten. Daniel Hulsman: It was definitely saucy. Shane Sams: It was saucy? It was quite the criticism. Okay? Daniel Hulsman: Yeah. Shane Sams: As I'm known to do, I like to engage with people online whether it's via email or fan mail or not-so-fan mail. Right? I actually got into a great discussion with Daniel and, kind of, challenged him to come in and actually look at our community, check us out, see how everything's going. Anyway, long story short, I've even invited him on the podcast. I said, "I'll tell you what. Come on the podcast. We'll talk about it," and we did. Right? Daniel's been a member, now, for a while, in the Flip Your Life community and just an awesome guy, just a great heart, and I am so glad that we became friends and that we got to be doing this online business stuff together. Shane Sams: So, long story short, we talked to you about your business and all that good stuff. Tell everybody a little bit, real quick, about your business, the nutshell version and, kind of, what's happened since you've joined the Flip Your Life community since that podcast. Tell them just a little bit about your business and where it ended up at, at this point, today. Daniel Hulsman: Sure. Yeah. So, in a nutshell, I run a website called

Cold outside. Hot coffee in hand. Book in my lap. Good dog at my feet. What great Saturday mornings are made of folks.   Hey Y’all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today’s Q&A highlights answer the following questions:  Question One: "Per the new autoresponder suggestions - we should now immediately deliver a link to the product on the thank you page and up sell. My question - For the up sell should it be our normal 50% off the first month of online training offer or should it be something exclusive, not to be found or offered anywhere else? " Question Two: "I know we talked about PASPY at Flip your Life LIVE but are there any specific words or phrases that you use when you are selling on video to get people to buy?" Question Three: "Should the main opt-in on my website be broad to cast a wider net (and appeal to more people) or should it be very specific to catch only those who are my super target audience?" Question Four: "My husband and I are adopting a baby, so in about a month I'm going to have a newborn for the first time. What do I need to do for my business now so that it keeps running while I'm focused on the baby? I'm at a stage where I'm trying build an audience and get members." Success stories mentioned on today's podcast: "I decided today was the day that I would be raising my membership price from $29 to $39 a month. I also did away with the $10 trial membership after today. I had 4 people join the membership rate at $39 a month getting in while the getting was good." - Brenda "In the last 4 weeks, I've been booked for three speaking engagements totaling almost $16,000!" - Jen CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too!   Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

In today's episode, we help Jeff find a profitable niche. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's podcast, we help Jeff find a profitable niche. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? Alright, let's get started. Shane Sams: What is going on everybody. Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It is great to back with you. Again, today this is our favorite day. It is recording day. It is a day we get to sit down with another member of the Flip Your Life community and help them take their business to the next level. And we're really excited today because this is another member who we have met in real life, Jeff Slaughter. Jeff, welcome to the show. Jeff Slaughter: Thank you. I'm so glad to be here. Shane Sams: Let me tell you something, Jeff makes a mean chocolate bar. I'm telling you. He made some chocolate for our live event. Man, it was good. Jocelyn Sams: Yeah, we were very fortunate that he brought a lot of chocolate along with him. He shared with everybody in attendance, which was awesome. My favorite were the ones with the little, it was the lip print, I think. I think they were some kind of salted chocolate. I don't know, they were really good. Shane Sams: When we met Jeff, he was like, "I'm a chocolatier." I'm like, "Man, that's a fancy way of making chocolate, but I like it." That's good stuff, man. Jeff Slaughter: Yeah. Well, thank you. It was a lot of fun to be able to share that. Jocelyn Sams: Alright, well let's talk a little bit about ... Well, first of all, how did you get into making chocolate? Tell us a little bit about you, your background, your family and what you're doing online. Let's kind of just smash all that in here. Jeff Slaughter: Okay. Well, we moved to Europe in 1998 to serve in missions and landed in France and a couple years later, moved to Belgium. Was doing various mission projects there and wanted to start an online business to kind of help our funding. Jeff Slaughter: So I started one about Brussels and in doing that, I learned a lot about Belgium and Belgian chocolate. And became interested in ... Why is it such a big deal in Belgium? How do you make that? I discovered an online course I could take. Took a three month online course to learn how to do it. Was in Belgium at the time so I could get all my supplies and chocolate and just spend a couple years doing it as a hobby and then when we come back to the U.S., we would do it as a fundraiser. Shane Sams: To support your missions? Like that's what- Jeff Slaughter: Yeah. Exactly. It was a great way to ... Kind of a great conversation starter as you saw it, Flip Your Life Nashville. It's interesting. It's not something a lot of people do and it was related to where we were. So it's been a really fun thing to do. It's definitely a side hustle. It's seasonal. I live in Louisiana, it's very hot and so- Shane Sams: The chocolate melts. Jeff Slaughter: Yeah. Shane Sams: Right. Jeff Slaughter: So you have about five or six months out of the year where you can do it without worrying about it melting in your car. I do continue to go back to Europe. I'm there now about four months a year. Shane Sams: Doing missions still? You still doing missions? Jeff Slaughter: Yeah. Our daughter started having children and my wife felt the call to be a grandmother. So we moved back to the U.S. and based here in Louisiana and I travel back and forth. What I do now is I do worship conferences all over Europe and digital m...

In today's episode, we talk about how we help Jennifer overcome fears and create a plan to quickly grow her membership by the end of the year. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's show, we help Jennifer take her education business to the next level. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right. Let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It is great to be back with you again this week. We have a beautiful day in Kentucky and we have an amazing guest. Another member of the Flip Your Life community. On the show today, we want to welcome Jennifer Bradley. Jennifer, welcome to the podcast. Jennifer B.: Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to talk to you guys. Jocelyn Sams: It is great to talk to you again. Jennifer is someone we have actually met in real life, which is really exciting. You guys know that I love it when we have people on that we have met in real life. This is a really good show for me. Shane Sams: And I was telling Jennifer off air, we may know Jennifer better than anyone who has ever been on the show because she's also a member of our all-access mastermind. I literally talk to Jennifer every single day on Voxer. Jennifer B.: Yes. Jocelyn Sams: And we chose Jennifer to be a part of the podcast because she is a community member who believes in posting her success. Shane Sams: And taking massive action in her business. Jocelyn Sams: When we look for people to be a guest on the podcast, we look for people who are really taking action, who are letting other people know about the successes that they're having. And that is why she's here today. Jocelyn Sams: Let's jump into a little bit of that. Start out by telling everyone about who you are and a little bit about your background and your business. Jennifer B.: I'm Jennifer Bradley and I'm from Michigan. I have three little kids at home. Ages seven, four and two. And then I'm married to my high school sweetheart. My business is I'm a speech therapist. I started out selling on a third-party platform Teachers Pay Teachers. I'd just sell therapy materials that I have created. I recently, about a year ago, turned it into a membership platform. I have all of my therapy materials in one area for speech therapists to use. Shane Sams: And how has that gone? I know a lot of people that is a scary transition. They'll go to a third-party marketplace, they'll make a little money online, whether it's putting a book on Kindle or selling something on you-to-me or in another place like that. Then it's like, "Oh, man. If I go offline, how am I gonna find customers?" All that thing. How's your membership going? Jennifer B.: It's going great. At first, it was a little scary. A little bit daunting to have my own website and send traffic there. But I'm really seeing the benefits now because I own it and as a third-party website I'm on there and I have no control of changes that are made. Since I'm always selling one-off products, I have to continuously sell and sell because most of my products range from $3 to $10. Where the membership is growing now, I'm having members and I'm in charge of my own destiny. It's been an amazing transition. Shane Sams: How many members do you have now? Jennifer B.: I have 380 members now. Shane Sams: Oh my goodness. That's insane. Jocelyn Sams: Yeah, that's awesome. Shane Sams: Just think about what you said out loud.

Enjoying family time tonight with Battleship on the balcony! Hey Y’all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today’s Q&A highlights answer the following questions:  Question One: "How can we build an email list while we are still finishing course content, website, etc?" Question Two: "I have 5500 members on facebook, what strategy should I use to convert them into email subscribers? I have only asked for subscribers once and we got 100. On a typical post, it shows it was seen by 600-750 people and 1300-2000 on live videos. What is a creative way to keep it front of them to continue to get more email subscribers?" Question Three: "How much content should be in place on the website before launching the membership? Currently there is plenty of content on social media places, but not much on the website. I have focused my efforts to make up a minimal product as a lead magnet. So how can I launch the membership before writing much or blogging?" Question Four: "One of the services you offer FYL members are the member call replays. I really value this and want to offer the same for my community. Will you share exactly how you do it, including the tools you use? Is it just Youtube live and vimeo? How do you get the chat under the live video?" CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too!   Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

In today's episode, we talk about how we helped Blair with a pricing change that resulted in $20,000.00 in recurring revenue. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's podcast, we talk about how taking one risk made Blair $20,000.00 in recurring revenue. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It is great to be back with you again this week. And man, we have got an amazing success story for you guys. It is going to inspire you to take massive actions. Maybe to go in and take some of those risks that you've been avoiding, and just show you what is truly possible when you're all in, online. Shane Sams: I wanna welcome to the show today, Flip Your Life community member ... Oh wait, hold on. Pause. Blair, how do you pronounce your last name? Blair T.: Thielemier. The H is silent. Shane Sams: Okay. Thielemier. Blair T.: Yes. Jocelyn Sams: Yes. Jocelyn Sams: Tea, like I drink every morning. Tea. Shane Sams: Because I was about to say Thielemier. Blair T.: No. Jocelyn Sams: I can only imagine what you get called. Shane Sams: Wanna welcome to the show today, Flip Your Life member, Blair Thielemier. Blair, welcome. Blair T.: Thank you for having me. Jocelyn Sams: It's so exciting to have you on today. This is my favorite kinda show, as you know, if you listen to our show very often. I love it when we have people on that we have met in real life. And I have actually spent time with Blair a couple of different times. So, it's really cool to have you on today. Blair T.: Yeah, yeah, so I got to meet you last year in Southern California, at a Women's Leadership Conference. And then, again at Flipped Life Live. So that, was really exciting for me, too. Shane Sams: Yeah, Flip Your Life Live was incredible, because it was just this overwhelming emotional experience, meeting people who ... that weird feeling. It was like the Facebook affect, almost. You feel like you know each other in real life already, and then you're actually in the same place. And our brains have not evolved properly, to handle all these social media connections that we have, or these community connections that we have online, so then it's just a surreal experience, isn't it? To get in the same room with people you feel like you already know personally? Blair T.: And I really loved what you guys did with the Facebook group. Most conferences that you go to, once you buy your ticket, it's like, you don't get to meet anyone til you get there. But with Flipped Life Live, we had the Facebook group, and that, for me, 'cause I didn't know anyone, was really helpful to get to put names with faces, and not feel like I was going in, not knowing anyone. Shane Sams: Now, I really do feel like, that we knew you quite personally before the event, because we had worked together, and we had done some coaching calls. We had talked to you in the forums about some different things that you were doing online. And we kinda made some radical changes in your business. And we say radical changes, but it really was just changing one thing, right? We just kind of switched the way you were presenting an offer. And it led to this massive amount of success that we're gonna talk about in a few minutes. Shane Sams: But tell everybody a little bit more about you, your background, and your online business,

Chilling in the lounge, waiting for our flight. Had an amazing week, but ready to be back in the bluegrass!   Hey Y’all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today’s Q&A highlights answer the following questions:  Question One: "If someone loves people empowerment, what are the possibilities online? Can you be a life and/or business coach without certification? If yes, how is the best way to do this building an online business from scratch?" Question Two: "First, what is the best month to run a membership drive to teachers now that school has started? Second, my new membership area launched a few months ago. I have one customer that is downloading everything possible. I sent her an email thanking her for joining and asked if we could talk to get feedback on how we could better serve her. She agreed. Is there anything particular I should ask to keep her instead of having a monthly subscriber quit after she gets it all?" Question Three: "I'm having trouble defining my avatars' "problem". Their "pain" is really more of an aspiration. My business, Undersea Naturalist, is focused on helping my avatars' learn about and appreciate marine life. They would have been folks who were fans of Jacques Cousteau's TV shows." Question Four: "We are planning on launching our membership. Right now we are adding content month by month, would it be strange to have a yearly purchase option or should we stick to a monthly purchase option?" CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too!   Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

In today's episode, we help Janet overcome obstacles and set goals to focus on increasing membership revenue. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey, y'all on today's show, we help Janet take her Spanish education business to the next level. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to Flip Your Life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again this week. Super excited to have another real member of the Flip Your Life Community, a real person out there starting, building and growing their own online business so they can change their family's future. We're here to help them take their business to the next level and let you guys listen in so that you can take your online business to the next level as well. We are really, really excited today because we have Janet Jimenez on the podcast. Janet, how are you doing? Janet Jimenez: Good. Thanks for having me. Shane Sams: Did I say that right? Jimenez or Jimenez? How do you say it? Janet Jimenez: You're pretty close to it, it's Jimenez. Shane Sams: Okay. Janet Jimenez. How do you spell that for me? Spell that out for us. Janet Jimenez: Okay. It's got a J, J-i-m-e-n-e-z. Shane Sams: So before I got on air, I just went straight Kentucky, uneducated redneck on Janet. I said, hey Janet, I'm going to introduce you as Janet Geminiz, and she was like, no, that is not. Jocelyn Sams: except you're not, 'cause that's not my name. Shane Sams: Except you're not because that's not how we pronounce that at all. Janet Jimenez: Well, I thought for a big sports fan. You would know how to pronounce the last name there. Jocelyn Sams: No, actually. I probably would have because I like to talk about how I did take four years of Spanish in high school. Unfortunately that was 20 years ago and I remember very little of it, which is sad, but I do remember that. Shane Sams: Jocelyn is amazing because she can read it and understand it, but not always speak it in like, so we'll go places where there's like Spanish speaking and she'll kind of know what's going on. But she doesn't ever use it so I can't even imagine how good she would be at it if we just dropped her into a Spanish speaking country for a year. She could probably be fluent. Janet Jimenez: Oh yeah. To just be immersed and then you'll pick it up. Jocelyn Sams: yeah exactly. I love going places though and just trying to see if I can read things. A lot of times I can still read. It's just the Kentucky Spanish that I learned, I don't think the speaking was always very accurate. Shane Sams: That's where we know the Geminiz not Jimenez, you know what I'm saying? Jocelyn Sams: Well my teacher her parents were from Puerto Rico, so I mean hers was really good but just trying to learn it was kind of hard. All right, well let's jump in. I love these kind of podcasts because we've actually met you in real life, which is super cool. Shane Sams: Janet is also a member of our all access mastermind. So we get to talk to her quite a bit over the phone. Jocelyn Sams: And I love talking to people that we have met in real life because you just already have a rapport with them, which is really cool. So let's jump into a little bit about you, your background, and what you are doing online. Janet Jimenez: Sure. So I am a mom of six. I have five children plus a stepson. My husband is from the Dominican Republic,

God has given you another day. Do something with it. Hey Y’all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today’s Q&A highlights answer the following questions:  Question One: "I formed my beta group with 4 members, yay!! We kick off this week, with weekly live lessons and live office hours, running for 10 weeks. What should be my #1 focus here? My head wants to spyder out to do ALL the things, but I want to make the most out of this opportunity to retain these members and grow that. I think my focus should be to be there for my members, teach, answer all their questions, and regularly ask them what they want next. Interestingly, the 4 members are not at all the avatar I had pictured in mind. So I feel like I have to roll with the punches to morph my membership site to what they asking for." Question Two: "I just gave birth to baby #3 6 weeks ago so I temporarily closed registration to my membership to keep my life from getting too crazy. I'm now feeling ready to get back in the game, open up registration and re-launch. I currently have about 50 members and I'm considering creating some kind of affiliate program for a few members who have been in my program for long enough to vouch for it. My question is- how do I figure out a revenue sharing arrangement when people are paying a monthly fee- and some members stick around for a month, while others stay for a year? It's obviously more straightforward when selling a course for a 1-time fee. Also- given that I'm a certified sleep consultant for babies and kids, and given the fact that I now have a 6 week old at home, how can I leverage my current situation to connect with my audience and add value to my membership? In my membership, I've already started giving them regular updates as to his sleep and what I'm doing so that they can follow my journey with him!" Question Three: "My site’s mission is helping people learn God’s way with money and create financial margin so they can give more generously and start enjoying life again. Product plan is to create courses/lessons on many biblical finance topics from big picture like financial freedom and treasures in heaven to practical topics like tackling debt and biblical investing and generosity. Some will be directly motivational, others may actually be church-style bible teachings. Three brief questions: Do I have to do the get out of debt piece because it’s an ‘aspirin'?  Does the word ‘Courses’ convert better than ‘Lessons?'  I’d like to eventually charge $49/mo, is that realistic when members may be in financial hardship? Do I have to focus on debt because it is the really hard hitting pain point?" Question Four: "Are there key things you like to do when you are holding a coaching session? I'm offering these for sale and would love to know what are your top priorities for making sure that you help someone who has paid for your time. My top guess would be; LISTEN, ask them what they are having TROUBLES with, ask do they have a SUGGESTION or plan, give your suggestions, make an ACTION plan." CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too!

In today's episode, we help Dan determine next steps in moving forward and growing his online business that teaches birth professionals about how to effectively operate a successful small business. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's show we help Dan take his birth consulting business to the next level. Shane Sams: Welcome to The Flip Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your host, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? Alright, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on, everybody, welcome back to The Flip Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today, we're super excited to welcome another member of our Flip Your Life community onto the show today to help them take their business to the next level and really, really especially excited today because we have a great friend of ours, someone who's been in the community for a long time, hung out with him in person numerous times and can't wait to help them today, Dan Dekker is on the program. Dan, what's up, man? Dan Dekker: Giddy up, giddy up, let's make some money. Woo! Jocelyn Sams: That's probably the most energetic introduction we've ever had. Shane Sams: I always love talking to you 'cause I know it's gonna be entertaining, especially when you do something like this. When I was reading your form that you filled out to be on the podcast, I love how ... Where it said like talking about your family, and you put three offspring. And I'm like, "Only Dan's putting offspring instead of children on the show, man." But Dan's got an awesome story, awesome business and we've had a lot of good times with Dan. So we're gonna ramp up everything that's going on in Dan's life today. So, Dan, tell us a little bit about you and your family and your online business. Dan Dekker: Well, first of all I like to pretend I'm from Kentucky but I wasn't actually born there so unfortunately I don't really have that accent. But yeah, my wife and I, Rebecca, started ... She started an online business 4 or 5 years ago and it really took off. I'm kind of in this weird spot where like, yeah, we flipped our lives, we have an online business that fully supports us and our family now, which is totally awesome. Shane Sams: Amazing. Dan Dekker: And now I'm kind of starting my own thing so it's this weird mix of, I've seen it happen and was sort of along for the ride but for myself I'm kind of starting from scratch and having to do it all myself, which has been definitely a learning experience. But I have my business degree. I always did accounting work for different businesses up until four years ago when I quit to do mainly the accounting and helping with our website full time and to watch the kids full time. So, I did that and now just recently ... Well, I should say our business is a childbirth-related business. My wife started it. It gives education materials to childbirth professionals. So for the last 4 or 5 years we've been dealing with these childbirth professionals on a regular basis. Dan Dekker: And that's where I kind of came up with this idea after meeting with all these doulas and midwives and childbirth educators, and realizing that a lot of them were really good at their jobs, were great at dealing with moms and families that are having babies, but they weren't all that great with the business side. You know, they get lots of training about how to help deliver a baby but no one tells them how to run a business. And so that's where this idea came from and that's what I'm starting as. It's a training class, kind of starting with the very beginning, for birth professionals to train them how to run a small business. Shane Sams: So,

Family photo in Jamaica!   Hey Y’all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today’s Q&A highlights answer the following questions:  Question One: "I am getting ready to launch my membership in the next 2 weeks. My list is about 2000 people and my open rate is typically around 20%. I know this must vary based on how niche you are, but how many people typically covert into customers from an email list?" Question Two: "How do you plan for attrition in your membership site when creating your business plan?" Question Three: "Hey y’all :) what’s your opinion on giveaways to build an email list? I feel like it could be a good way to build quickly as long as what I’m giving away is true to my niche. Thanks!" Question Four: "I've been doing weekly blog posts plus youtube videos for a month, there's not much change in my website views and no opt-ins. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to be more patient?" SUCCESS STORY: "SUCCESS! I received an email from someone this morning with questions about my class, I answered the email and 30 minutes later she bought the class!" - Dan "SUCCESS! I put on some of my social media platforms that Becca & I are going to be offering some courses for photographers this Fall. I got 25 emails within 24 hours!" - Matt CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too!   Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.