Before you build a business, a marriage, or a family, you need to know what you're actually building toward. In this solo episode, Dustin unpacks the first question every couple has to answer honestly: do you know your mission? Your mission is your vision — and once it's clear, implementation stops being the hard part. This is the north star conversation that has to happen before any strategy, system, or scoreboard.

Tim and Nancy have been through hell and back — and they're not shy about it. Their marriage didn't turn a corner through a system or a strategy. It turned when Tim humbled himself before God and got real about who he needed to be as a husband.

Today, Tim and Nancy run a mastermind for entrepreneurs together, lead a nonprofit called Blessings to Others, and build wealth as a couple through house flipping and rental properties. In this episode, we talk about what it actually took to rebuild trust, why humility had to come before strategy, and how they turned their hardest season into the foundation for everything they've built since — together.

This one is a real look at the Marriage pillar of the Built Together framework: the relationship is the business. If your marriage needs to come first before anything else works, this episode is for you.

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In this episode, Dustin sits down with Colin and Paige McNeil, who run a thriving insurance brokerage in the St. Louis market. When the pandemic hit, Paige made the call to walk away from her job — and never looked back. What followed wasn't just a career pivot, it was a full redesign of how they wanted to live.

Colin runs the front end of the business while Paige owns the back end, and together they've built something rare: a partnership where the roles are different but the weight is shared. They talk about the freedom that comes with entrepreneurship, what it actually takes to build a life by design instead of default, and how staying in your own lane can be the thing that makes a team work.

This one is a real look at what it looks like when two people build something together — on purpose.

Kyle Shepard had nearly 20 years in finance. In 2024 he walked away from it so he and Molly could focus full time on their real estate investment business. Molly is still working — but not forever. The goal is W2 optional. And they're building toward it while raising four kids, fostering, and running a business that refuses to cut corners.

Molly is an Army veteran. Kyle is a financial operator. Together, they flip and restore homes with one simple standard: treat people fairly, do quality work, follow through.

But the conversation that stuck with me most wasn't about real estate. It was about this: when you work with your spouse, it's easy to slip into boss mode. And the moment you do, you've lost something. Molly and Kyle talk honestly about how they catch themselves, reset, and remember who they actually are to each other.

Mike and Bonnie Galbally started as business partners in 2014 — before they were ever husband and wife. They got married in 2016, built one of the most successful real estate agent teams in the St. Louis market, started investing in real estate together, and somewhere in the middle of all of it — raised two kids.Their dynamic is one of the most honest things I've heard a couple say out loud: in business, they split every decision equally. At home, Bonnie wants Mike to be the leader of the family. That clarity — knowing which version of your partnership you're in at any given moment — might be one of the most underrated things a couple in business can figure out.This conversation goes there. Business, marriage, family, the real cost of building something big, and what it actually takes to not lose each other in the process.🎙️ Built Together with Dustin is for couples building a business and a life at the same time — and refusing to sacrifice one for the other.#builttogether #realestatepodcast #couplesinbusiness #realestateinvesting #marriageandmoney #entrepreneurcouple #stlouisrealestate #husbanandwife #buildingtogether #faithandfamily

Three minutes. That's all this is.

This is Built Together — a podcast for couples who are building a business and a life at the same time, and refuse to sacrifice one for the other.

I'm Dustin. Starting next week we get into the real stuff. This is just the beginning.