The Marriage Family Business Podcast

Are you comfortable with the status quo? Or do you need to transform your life into something you actually like? Mick and Claire use today’s episode to reflect on how transformation happens to everyone. You need to figure out how to translate that transformation process into something positive! Join Mick and Claire to find out how you can start changing for the better.

“Growth comes with consequences.”

-Claire Olinik

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1:56 – Why winter causes problems for families in Michigan

3:33 – Winter is expensive: How winter messes with Mick and Claire’s finances and emotions

5:20 – While your children are growing, you may be surprised how you are transforming too

8:30 – How parents’ growth is similar to their children’s and how you need to prioritize people

12:16 – How you can serve your family by evaluating and managing your personal time

16:29 – Taking transformation to the next level: How pain can be good when you’re changing for a better and more productive life

19:16 – What other people will do when you attempt to transform–you need to be prepared

22:28 – Are you willing to work for your best transformation? Why you need to choose transformation and what you need to do to choose transformation.

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Your perspective of the world may be an illusion. In today’s society, women battle the idea that they are weak and men are afraid of women who are able to have a voice. Today’s episode dives deep into the presumptions we all have. Join Mick and Claire as they share their thoughts on why you need to get a grip on reality. Take notes as they explain how you can fight the societal norms placed on each gender.

“Even in our daily actions and verbiage we are consciously or subconsciously making “female” negative.”

-Claire Olinik

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1:55 – The thing Mick didn’t believe existed: Men who are afraid of women because they’re women

5:32 – How society has blinded itself to many significant social issues

8:41 – What everyone needs to realize: The glass shattering experience Mick went through

11:51 – The benefits of Warrior and why you should consider pursuing the same training

14:01 – Different types of fighting and how couples can improve the way you disagree

16:48 – Realizing the problem: Why it sucks to be a woman in 2018

20:52 – How men should support the women in their lives and promote the voice of women

22:47 – Why women are being viewed as weak and how our children are learning this today

24:30 – Society is not awakening: How all of our preconceptions are somehow causing pain

Resources:

Rockstar

Warrior Week Now

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For men and the women who have special men in their lives: What is a GOOD man? Join Mick and Claire as they reflect on what a man should be and how he can become that man. Your idea of a “good man” may be missing more than you think. Listen to today’s episode to find out how you can enhance your manhood and improve your family life.

“Being good at being a man is very difficult because most of us who are men were never actually taught how to be men.”

-Mick Olinik

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1:27 – Introducing Mick’s journey into the Warrior Program and why the women listening to this podcast shouldn’t ignore what is about to happen

3:06 – What the industrial revolution has done to your perspective of being a MAN

5:27 – Father’s, listen up: Why you didn’t learn how to be a man from your father

7:22 – How you can develop yourself into the modern man you and your family need

8:27 – Hear why Mick was “punched in the face” with what he learned at Warrior Week

9:17 – Claire’s perspective of how Mick has changed: How you can become focused and driven as a man

11:42 – Why even how you start your day is affected by your character

14:04 – Steps you can take to being a better man

Resources:

Rockstar

Warrior Week

WarriorCon3.com

Be the Man by Garrett J. White

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Taking a vacation is great, and you deserve it after all your hard work. What is not great is compromising your business while you’re away. On today’s episode, Mick and Claire answer one of the listener’s questions on how do you leave your business for a week. Discover how to prepare your business before you go and what to expect. Of course, you also want the vacation to be a great experience for you, your marriage, and family and Claire tackles that too.  

“If you plan for the rogue waves… (and) you make a space for it in your brain, in your schedule, then it doesn’t completely flip your boat.”

-Claire Olinik

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2:53 – How to plan for your vacation and prepare your business before you go

4:30 – Working while on vacation – the pros and cons of online business

5:46 – What you can do if you want a ‘no work as much as possible’ vacation

9:40 – Planning your vacation in advance and knowing what not to do while you’re away

11:47 – Preparing and making sure the vacation will be a great experience for you, your marriage and family

14:54 – Expecting the unexpected – plus how Mick and Claire handled a work emergency while on vacation

18:04 – Mick’s question and Claire’s request for you

Resources:

Rockstar

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Do you feel overwhelmed with things you need to do for events and projects that come your way? On today’s episode, Mick and Claire talk about how they handle those things in their life. Listen in as Claire teaches you one strategy to help you get through it without overwhelming yourself.

 

 “It’s so easy, when you get a giant project and you know that you have to get at the other end of it…  to look at it and completely freak out.”

-Claire Olinik 

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1:48 – Warrior Week and Mick’s anxiety about it

4:03 – Claire’s funny story on one of her speech and how to overcome overwhelm

13:00 – Preparation list for Christmas

15:24 – Setting goals and targets and making a list

19:43 – Question to reflect on

 

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Rockstar 

Warrior Week

My Wife, the Control Freak

Wunderlist

 

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Does planning for everything make you a control freak?  Is being a control freak good or bad? Mick and Claire discuss how planning, or being a control freak, helps them in their marriage, family, and business. Plus find out how they plan for the rogue waves that are sure to happen.

“Claire is the glue, she provides the structure and direction, she is a bit of a control freak.”

-Mick Olinik

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Timestamps:

6:05 – Claire likes to know her boundaries and work in her “box”

9:13 – Claire has helped Mick become more disciplined

13:15 – The Wunderlist

15:17 – Planning for the business, family, home, and travel

18:00 – Checking things off of your list

23:14 – The Dirty Secret

28:30 – How do you plan for the unplannable?

Resources:

Wunderlist

Sunflower Seed Butter

Macro Diet

Lucky’s Market

Warrior Week

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With all the hard work that entrepreneurs put in on a daily basis, are they stopping to celebrate their wins?  As a couple, Claire and Mick discuss Dan Sullivan’s concept “The Gap” (the distance between what we want and what we have) and how to stay out of it by kissing your trophies.  

“Are you stopping to celebrate your wins as an entrepreneur?”

-Mick Olinik

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Timestamps:

1:32 – Mick’s experience with Strategic Coach

2:13 – Review of “Perform better in Business and in Life”

3:05 –  The distance between what we want and what we have

6:43 – The space between where you are right now and where you want to go

11:15 – It’s not just looking at the horizon, it’s seeing the buoys you pass along the way

13:46 – Dwelling on the negative

21:10 – We invite you to kiss your trophies with us.  Please post on Facebook or our website a win that you have had recently

22:09 – Let’s start from a more positive head-space

Resources

Strategic Coach

Dan Sullivan

Comtempo Cafe

 

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With all the hard work that entrepreneurs put in on a daily basis, are they stopping to celebrate their wins?  As a couple, Claire and Mick discuss Dan Sullivan’s concept “The Gap” (the distance between what we want and what we have) and how to stay out of it by kissing your trophies.  

 

“Are you stopping to celebrate your wins as an entrepreneur?”

-Mick Olinik

 

 

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Timestamps:

1:32 - Mick’s experience with Strategic Coach

2:13 - Review of “Perform better in Business and in Life"

3:05 -  The distance between what we want and what we have

6:43 - The space between where you are right now and where you want to go

11:15 - It’s not just looking at the horizon, it’s seeing the buoys you pass along the way

13:46 - Dwelling on the negative

21:10 - We invite you to kiss your trophies with us.  Please post on Facebook or our website a win that you have had recently

22:09 - Let’s start from a more positive head-space

 

Resources

 

• Strategic Coach

• Dan Sullivan

• Comtempo Cafe

 

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Can the same integrity that you use within your business transfer to your marriage? Integrity is a vital piece of marriage, business, and family. Join Mick and Claire as they discuss the many ways to react to change in all areas of life through integrity. Promote long-term relationships and handle growing businesses through your integrity.

“What is real and what is relevant at any given point in time fundamentally may be different than what it was last week.”

-Mick Olinik

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1:50 – Designing your project and knowing your limits

6:39 – Balancing integrity with the health of your company

9:53 – Developing a proper set of standards that promote everyone’s best interests

13:57 – Be willing to be there for your relationships

15:36 – How to handle changing relationships from a place of integrity

17:53 – Grow together to maintain long-term relationships

20:47 – What may have been a reality before may not be a reality now

26:21 – The “evils” of self-checkout

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In this episode of the Marriage Family Business podcast, Mick and Claire delve into how to create more time in your life and be wary of “time thieves.”

Mick and Claire explore valuable tips on making lists, time blocking, and sticking to your plan. Claire also fills us in about priorities, and how even 14 minutes shouldn’t be wasted.

“Identify the areas of your life that you want to make a priority.”

-Claire Olinik

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4:01 -Not having enough time to eat!

6:08 – Everyone has the same 24 hours

6:38 – Mick’s opinion on making more time

7:30 – Making your marriage a priority

9:07 – Keeping a list of priorities

10:23 – Being wary of time thieves

11:30 – Put up a 30 min block

15:03 – Time blocking

17:09 – If you are clear on priorities, there will be more time

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Traverse City

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