Today I'm thrilled to interview my wife Suzi Whitford, who launched our family out of the world of 9 to 5 job life, and into the exciting adventure of entrepreneurship.
In this episode, we are going to unpack for you:
- How growing up in a third world country destined Suzi to build her own online business
- The identity struggle that changed our lives through a little blog
- How Suzi continues to thrive even in the face of fierce online competition!
Be sure to connect with Suzi and let her know what you think about this episode!
Free Gift: Beginner's Blogging Course: https://freedombynumber.com/blogplan
Suzi's website: https://startamomblog.com
Suzi's YouTube Channel: https://startamomblog.com/youtube
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Beginning Transcript
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Hey guys, how's it going, John and Suzi here. Welcome back to the unbeatable tech podcast in this first real episode, not the trailer. I want to dive deeper into Suzi's backstory and you'll hear mine in the next episode. So if you haven't already done so please subscribe to the podcast to hear all of the nitty-gritty details.
But before we dive in Suzi, how are you feeling today?
Thank you. And thanks for making me the first official. Um, episode. I really appreciate it.
Absolutely. I might need to shuffle around the order of some other episodes that are already published, but you are going to be the first official episode on the unbeatable tech podcast.
Super excited to have you, um, like it's been such a wild journey between you and me and the CO's and between corporate life and entrepreneurship. There's so much to unpack here. I felt like we really had to separate this into two separate interviews to get both sides of this.
Definitely. Um, yeah, there's been a lot that happened over the last, um, golly, 8, 7, 8, 9 years.
Yeah. So there's, it's been a lot, it's been a awesome roller coaster with ups and downs and. I'm happy to
share it. Fantastic. And before we dive into Suzi's entire story, if you guys want to get some action plans, some actionable tips and consume some of the content that Suzi has created, you can head over to start them on blog.com.
And what would you have them do once they get over their Suzy
and read every single blog post sign up for every single freebie, um, just, just browse around. And if you find a freebie to sign up for, then you'll be put onto my email list and then you'll hear from me.
That is phenomenal. All right. So let's dive into, we've got a huge story to unpack here.
So take us back before entrepreneurship, before marrying me and all those things. Let's get back to the dark ages. Give us a third one country. Take us back to the very beginning and give us a quick 30,000 foot overview of who you are and how you came to. This version of you
to meet? Well, I woke up. All right.
So I was born and raised in South Africa, beautiful country, very rich culture. Fantastic. And I had a wonderful childhood. My dad started his own company when he was in his early teens. My mom had her own restaurant. She had little side hustles that she had. So it was always kind of been in my blood to kind of find your own way in the world, but never really clicked that.
That's what is in my family. Um, both my grandparents had their own businesses that they started. My one grandpa was a butcher, so he was a hunter. He went out and hunted animals in sold their meat. And then my other grandpa had, um, a construction company that he bought from. So we were born and raised in South Africa.
We moved to the states when I was around 11, got kicked out of the country. Again, went back to South Africa, try to come back again. So it was back and forth. My parents always continuously to try to give us a really good childhood. So they spent a lot of money trying to get us out of South Africa and give us a better future in the states.
And I just really respect them for that for going through all that.
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