FL254 – 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

Summary: <br> 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.<br> FULL TRANSCRIPT<br> Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's show we help Dan take his birth consulting business to the next level.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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?<br> <br> Dan Dekker: Giddy up, giddy up, let's make some money. Woo!<br> <br> Jocelyn Sams: That's probably the most energetic introduction we've ever had.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Shane Sams: Amazing.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Shane Sams: So,