Property, Pillow Talk and Parenting

In episode three, it's Heidi's turn in the hot seat! 🎙️ Chris asks her 10 questions and puts her through 3 quick-fire rounds to uncover the woman behind the property business. From life experiences and ambitions to marriage, family and everything in between, expect honest answers, a few surprises and plenty of laughs. How much will you learn about her? Tune in and find out!

In episode two, it's Chris's turn in the hot seat! 🎙️ Heidi asks him 10 questions and puts him through 3 quick-fire rounds to uncover the man behind the property business. From life experiences and ambitions to marriage, family and everything in between, expect honest answers, a few surprises and plenty of laughs. How much will you learn about him? Tune in and find out!

What's it really like to share a business, a bed and the school run with the same person?

In our very first episode, we (Heidi and Chris) introduce ourselves properly: married for 16 years, parents, business partners, and together 24/7. We even forget the name of our own podcast in the first minute, so you know exactly what you're getting.

Chris tells the story of how he got sacked, spent a full day applying for seven jobs, and decided that if we were ever going to do property together, this was the moment. We talk about his eight years in IT and information security, five of them in a civilian role at West Yorkshire Police after leaving the military, and why he has no interest in going back to a job where every minute is tracked and you have to look busy once the work is done.

Heidi shares how she went from volunteer to contracts manager at Shelter, housing people leaving prison, and the throwaway comment at work that started it all: "I bet I can set up a business and house these people quicker than this contract."

We take you back to where our property journey began:

• Renting a student house that was overpriced to buy, and turning down a lease option because the figures didn't stack up
• Buying our first house, turning it into a buy-to-let, adding value and releasing the equity to buy the home we live in now
• Not being able to get deposits together, so moving into rent-to-rent HMOs
• Heidi leaving her job to house vulnerable tenants, and how it grew from there
• What we do today: rent-to-rent serviced accommodation and HMOs, flips, and now title splits

In this episode:

• Who we are and why we started this podcast
• Losing a job and turning it into the push to go full-time in the family business
• Why being paid for your hours rather than your output drives people mad
• How we got started in property with no deposits
• What working together as a married couple actually looks like (spoiler: Chris talks, Heidi interrupts)

This podcast is for anyone building something with their partner, thinking about it, or just wondering how anyone does it without going mad. Expect the deals, the decisions and the disagreements, plus the bits nobody puts on Instagram, with plenty of laughs (and the odd swear word) along the way.

If something we said made you laugh, made you feel less alone, or made you nudge your other half, please follow, subscribe and leave us a review. It helps more couples find us. And send it to someone who works with their partner. They'll know exactly why.

Find us on all the usual social platforms. Heidi also writes about juggling business and family in her newsletter, Business Between School Runs: https://substack.com/@heidimobbs