Elder My City, with Tim Schmoyer

Recently I was able to sit down with Greg Smith, cofounder and CEO of Thinkific. He and his brother took this company from a little starter company to a billion dollar company traded on the NY Stock Exchange in less than 10 years - all while having a family.  You might find yourself in a similar spot, trying to grow a company while trying to figure out what is most important and where to put your...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/BPHfSg7w4H8" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen> Sean and I have known each other for a long time. We connected in the early days of YouTube due to our similar paths regarding church ministry, video creating, etc. It’s been so cool to w...

Recently, I got the pleasure of sitting down with a long time friend, Derral Eves who is the CEO and executive producer of The Chosen. We got to discuss how he manages his businesses and his family well.  Derral shares practical examples of how he is 100% present at home, gives individual attention to each of his five kids, creates family memories, takes personal time for himself, focuses during w...

It has been said, “Wherever you are, be there.” But when it comes to turning off your brain and focusing just on your business or just on your family, this is way easier said than done.  Last week, I was able to sit down and discuss this topic with one of my good friends and former employee’s Lennon Bone. We talked about how to keep our mind focused on the present and I also shared the most import...

There’s a lot of similarities in how to successfully lead a business and a family. Let’s talk about it! SEND ME A VOICE MESSAGE: Questions? Comments? Thoughts to share? Leave a voice message here. SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Anchor.fm YouTube LET'S CONNECT! Instagram Facebook Twitter LinkedIn ABOUT ME This is Tim Schmoyer's personal podcast where he shares what...

A lot happened for me in 2022, mostly on a personal level. Some dragons came up that I had to slay. As difficult as they were, doing so has been very fruitful in my life, my business, my family, and my marriage. SEND ME A VOICE MESSAGE: Questions? Comments? Thoughts to share? Leave a voice message here. SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Anchor.fm YouTube LET'S CONNECT...

I'm not suggesting that we leave our family every day like we do with work, but is there some value in taking a break from our family and leaving with our spouse to re-energize, re-focus, and re-align? Will doing so have the same effect on our family as it does on our work? Watch the video of our trip to Rhode Island last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzJ0DQSOuiI SEND ME A VOICE MESSAGE: Q...

Most people recommend that you do NOT work with your spouse in your business. While it might not be for everyone, we have discovered that working with your husband or wife in business can certainly have some advantages to your relationship, too. Today we discuss experience of mixing business and marriage together and what it's done for our relationships. FOLLOW THE HEMSATHS Instagram: https://www....

Last week I spoke at an event about, "Faith at work," specifically how my faith impacts my work and how my work impacts my faith. This a recording of that presentation. I'd love to hear any questions or reactions you have to it! SEND ME A VOICE MESSAGE: Questions? Comments? Thoughts to share? Leave a voice message here: https://www.businessfamilymarriage.com/message SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Apple...

On my journey to becoming a $10 million CEO as well as a better father and husband, I'm learning that I need to acquire new skills to get to new levels. One of those skills is the power of focus. In this episode I talk about the one thing I can do that that makes everything else easier or unnecessary. That thing will allow me to better grow my business as well as become a better husband and father...

In this episode my oldest two kids sit down with me to answer some questions about how I can be a better father and how we can improve our family. I do one-on-ones every month with my employees to ensure that the working environment is positive for them, that they have what they need, that the job is still working well for them, and to go over any performance discussions we need to have. Doing so...

At work, people are held accountable to perform certain duties. At Video Creators, we use OKRs as a goal setting framework for how we set goals and accomplish them each quarter. Everyone's work is public and we're all accountable to each other for it. At home, our kids should learn that lesson now with accountability. There should be goal charts, daily chores. If someone is struggling with their c...

We all want to live in environments that have a high, position morale. When morale is low, nothing good happens. The quality of work declines, people bicker with each other, and no one is happy. But when morale is high, people cooperate, there's a positive energy, and momentum that keeps everything running smoothly, both in business and in the family. Today I want to share some thoughts about how...

Last week we had a company team retreat and a family team retreat. One went great. The other not so much. These are some of my reflections on what worked, what didn’t, and the impact retreats can have on our business and family. Questions? Comments? Thoughts to share? Leave a voice message here: https://www.businessfamilymarriage.com/voicemail SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST - Apple Podcasts: https://pod...

It's important that my business stays focused on becoming the best in the world at one thing, not mediocre at a lot of things. When I lose my focus, the business declines. I have to say "no" to a lot of good and tempting things in order to win. Same with my family. Right now people are asking us to make family videos again, but we stopped Reclaiming Motherhood because we just don't have...

I've been intrigued by the Skorys for years. They're four siblings who grew up and started a successful business on YouTube together. Somehow they still enjoy being around each other, figured out how to work well together, respect each other, and do it all in a profitable way. How does that work? And what did their parents to do foster that kind of environment for them growing up so that they coul...

Employees and kids don’t come out of a box fully trained and designed to do one thing and do it well. Often the frustrations we might feel about the poor job our employees or kids do is actually our fault for not training them well enough. We poorly set expectations and then expect them to meet the undefined expectations every time. Instead, SOPs can be a great tool in helping us set expectations...

The normal approach is to motivating employees is to pay them more money. With kids, we typically motivate them with bigger rewards or worse consequences. There’s some merit to both approaches, but I’ve been thinking about what Daniel Pink refers to in his research about what drives people. It’s prompted a few thoughts for both motivating our employees as well as our kids. The research seems count...

When your business team grows, that’s usually a sign of success and that things are going well, but if the family team grows with too many children, often the family system starts to break down a bit. What if, instead, we saw our family as a team and oriented it in such a way that it grew stronger as the family team grew larger? Questions? Comments? Thoughts to share? Leave a voice message here: h...

Every family struggles with work/life balance. For us, we have 7 kids, a business, employees, a marriage, property, and more. It’s taken us almost 15 years to get to a place where our family rhythm feels like it’s at a good place. My wife shares how we currently approach this challenge and what it looks like for us. “Every Good Endeavor,” by Tim Keller: https://amzn.to/3yKwFOV (affiliate) Question...

We have our business’ team retreat coming up, as well as family vacation and travel. What we accomplish relationally with those “retreat tools” is sometimes similar with both our employees as well as with our family. Questions? Comments? Thoughts to share? https://anchor.fm/businessfamilymarriage/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acce...

In my business I conduct monthly one-on-ones with each employee to review their job, how it’s working for them, review any performance issues, and discuss what they need in order to do better. There’s a lot of benefits fo this approach over an annual review. A lot of those same benefits apply to doing monthly one-on-ones with my wife and kids. It sets them up to thrive in our family and with the e...

In the book, “Primal Branding,” Patrick Hanlon outlines the 7 elements that makes it easy for someone to fall in love with a brand. This is the stuff that grows YouTube channels and businesses every day, but they’re the same elements that capture our kids’ hearts for our “family brand.” Today I share a bit of what that looks like. Questions? Comments? Thoughts to share? Leave a message here and re...

Having a vision, mission, and core values for your business not only helps you make good decisions for your business growth, but having those things written out for your family helps you make better decisions about your family’s time and resources, too. In fact, it’s what sets your business up to be the best in the world at what you do. It’ll do the same for your family, too. See our family missio...

Welcome to the first episode! I am really looking forward to talking with all of you about the intersection between business, family, and marriage. I’m learning that the skills I learn in one of those areas of my life overlap fairly significantly with the other areas of my life and make them all fruitful. Leave a voice message here with your questions, comments, and ideas. https://anchor.fm/busine...