Hey Everyone! I'm Emeka coming at you here and I'm so excited to sit down with
Natasha and Marco the moti knows from from the moti knows from the YouTube
channel the power couple and we are going to talk about well we're going to
talk about their journey on building their online business exactly what
they're gonna be talking about on their channel it's definitely something you
want to check out if you're married if you're in a relationship if you have a
family or you want to find out more what what's this whole family life about
definitely want to stay tuned for this interview hey guys welcome to the
channel great to have you here so I'm Erica it's nice to be back here
it's nice to be here with Natasha - yeah barca your your you're no stranger to
the channel but first time for you so exact excited to have you here I believe
you guys are actually my first couple or first like two people interview that
I've ever done like so yes congratulations thank you yeah yeah no
worries alright so let's dive into it um we well
to start off why don't I want to know how and why you decided to start an
online business because yeah why don't we just start with that so take it from
the beginning what kind of got you into the whole online business world alright
so the initial reason for me was just something different than what I was
doing day-to-day okay so yeah like I didn't want to I want to have like a
side hustle earn income separately from like what we were working on or what I
was working on at the time so that was the initial reason and it was that was
Scott me started but eventually it turned to I want for you okay and and
Mark would always come at me and be like not like there's this new way we can
make money this and that like he'd always find like do different things
that we could do to make more money yeah the Hughes is always just looking for
money chasing so he's chasing money now Markel what
were you doing before you did the before you started the online business okay so
a couple of things so okay I graduated I got a job in my position in the field
what field was it the software development software engineering okay
and so I worked there for a bit I wasn't too satisfied because I'm I'm the type
of guy at least the way that comes to that industry I actually like to go and
write code and solve problems and stuff like that there was a little bit of that
there was a lot more of like just using other people's software they get stuff
done so I wasn't too happy I decided to leave and at the same time I opened up a
different business with my brother he was in roofing yeah he asked me to
partner up with him to run the business side of things and he would just do the
roofing side of things did that for a year at the same time I was working for
a start-up and then that that was probably the toughest year of our life
for sure why is that business-wise like ton of issues very stressful like every
night was a sleepless night lot of money just like a really corrupt industry it
was really yeah and so then I left my brother completely understood yeah
he knew that wasn't my passion he's still running it and for him that they
were doing quite well actually yeah good yeah so no hard feelings nothing like
that so and then at that point that's when I got into the whole
transformational thing changing mindset looking for opportunities that were
separate from what I was doing so still working for the startup but yeah that's
kind of what I was doing prior to this and then so you knew you wanted more
more money or more whatever right how did you find like what made you think oh
well I could probably make money online like Natasha G do you have
experience online or were you you were running your own I also own a dog
grooming salon I have groomers there now so I don't act
presently I don't have to actively be there but yes I had that but at the time
I was pregnant so I was like starting to like being off work Jeff so when he
started looking into the whole online thing I was kind of like there's a you
know a jump for me but I wasn't sure yeah yeah okay so market what may what
led you did the online decision okay so
yeah I want it was somebody had to be separate from what I was doing gray just
cause like overloaded stuff yeah that's a good question why online like that's
yeah I can't really pinpoint exactly I know how I found Kindle publishing that
I can pinpoint and that was from FBA I fear was the first thing I found right
which we tried we tried that yes you did try it good yeah actually it wasn't too
bad yeah it's not like we failed were like dramatically we made some money
very little not a lot yeah but then we decide cuz the expense the upfront was
way more massive it's yeah totally do you have to deal with like China
importing brokers and yes supplies is way more yeah yes so we made the
decision stick to Kindle you took Stefan's course two before mecca's yes
yeah you we probably maybe we met in Barron's right we might have met it I
remember you are the first month I was there I think it was like in May he's
paid monthly you were like student yeah so we might
have even chatted it it'd be funny to go through that like I'm clearly not in the
Facebook group I don't you are either but be cool if we could go back or if it
was watching if you're in Kay Miami masterful disclosure if you could
fine our old posts if you and me like if we talked ever yeah be kind of cool to
see those you know just way back in the day like way back kind of just figuring
out this whole publishing thing I'd be able to see that those first couple
conversations that we had compared to like you know how the relationship that
you know that we have now right that's totally different and be so crazy to see
so yeah alright so then you found the online thing and then you okay so yes so
you started a bit with FBA what was that a joint effort or market where you kind
of like he took the reins on it we can we say what we started with oh yeah
yeah so we started with that fidget cube that it was a cube different sides on it
no and we actually sold quite a few of them but then it died out and we had all
this inventory we had a bow I think 80 left but though the what sold we still
like you made back your money do you still have a retiree of this you know we
got rid of it just get rid of inventory yeah so okay now Natasha were you what
were your initial thoughts when Marco came to you with hey I'm gonna do this
business I'm gonna learn some products from China I'm gonna sell them on Amazon
and we're gonna make a lot of money because I know what Marianas initial
thoughts were but what was it from you because it'd be kind of interesting to
see what what yours was okay so I feel with marker for almost 10
years now and since I've been with him who has hops from like idea to idea yeah
so when he told me about this idea I kind of looked at him I was like okay
like I was supportive but I wasn't supportive you know name yeah yeah yeah
I was kind of you you're being the wife yeah yeah yeah I got you but you want to
start this and I have is your baby cooking like yeah but overall I mean
what am I gonna say I wasn't thrilled I didn't have a passion to do it but I
followed his lead which is kind of what I've been doing for the last ten years
and that led us to the FBA now we're doing Kindle which is it's amazingly him
well I got started but then she well yeah he he was the push I'm not gonna
liable yeah right was the push and he was persistent and he used tactics like
you know you're really good at this so why don't you try doing
I started with the books right it's like hey you know honey you know how to use
Photoshop but what if you helped make covers yeah yeah and that's how I got
started with the children's books is because he was like why don't you just
do that on your spare time that the baby's asleep
thank you start publishing technically before murder my not before no no we
actually we did at the same time we did two books she decided on one book I
decided on one yeah yeah yeah cool my book was a failed by the way this is my
first book enjoy the club alright so then let's fast forward a few months
okay now publishing is starting to work out
your books are not no longer failing you're figuring things out maybe by this
point Marco you're in the blue print we've started working together money
starting to slowly come in thoughts on the business how how did how do things
start looking you know compared to when you first started mm-hmm well when we
first started there's a lot of points where we almost gave up like not working
I don't know if I want to put any more effort yeah but then was this was
publishing or FBA or just publishing there was there's the thoughts of giving
up yeah oh yeah cuz we had books that were doing really well and then other
books that weren't doing well and it was because we weren't following we made
mistakes before we found like your course and yeah and the thing was to
like we had an envision first rate income and we saw all these people
achieve it and we weren't getting there for us and that was that was the biggest
thing for me because I wasn't seeing the results I was expecting right so it was
very like demotivating I guess you could say market why didn't you give up like
why didn't you just throw the towel I don't know I just I I knew I could do it
I just I had to kind of I guess prove it to myself that it was possible and
because I was seeing everybody else doing it I mean if everybody else could
do it there's got to be a way that I can figure it out and then yeah that's when
we ran into your course I think this is an October of last year and actually to
add to that is when he joined your course I noticed like through your
mentorship and everything like he changed like his changed yeah he changed
like he had that support from you and people in the group and he met people
you guys are much different no friends now today but like it changed him
because he had that support and you know there was I noticed that he was way more
confident he wasn't doubting himself as much right which obviously me
a huge huge difference yeah that support system when you start doing this
business or really any business or really anything when you start doing it
with friends it just changes how you do it like it right it just it kind of it
makes it more fun it makes it more enjoyable you know but don't feel like
you're alone right yeah yeah yeah I think before he had me to pick my brain
but like but it's different it's yeah right yeah because you know it's you
know I I explain this like you know when
you know when I went to LA you know Mariana was questioned it's like why do
you got to go early why do you have to stay later you know there's blend time
with family but I'm like they've got understand
I'm going there to connect and hang out with the people that I'm building
businesses with we go there we talk we inspire each other we we are better
together when we hang out right it's just it's it's kind of like a a cheap to
speed things up if if that makes sense yeah right cuz like talking like this
like you know or when we call each other on Facebook you know that's one thing
but like hanging out and having those conversations and that's it's completely
different right so and I think that's what it's like having joining a
community of people who are doing what you're doing online and connecting with
them and you know thinking about how much fast we've all faster we've all
started growing now that we've kind of all connected connected right and we're
talking on a regular basis we have weekly calls on a regular basis now we
all are growing 10 times faster because we're doing this together right cool
okay so now you've been in the blueprint we've started working together you were
believed my longest running student on the accelerator oh yeah yeah
and now okay so then things really start picking up you served in a few ground
with publishing and then you start thinking it's like man I can really
build more from from Amazon right I don't have to just publish I could you
know there's other areas that I see I could do better than what some other
people are doing right same same thing I did with the course right I said you
know what there's some good info but I could do better and so you started doing
that so you built another business um that's what were your thoughts when he
wanted to build that second business
like actually he brought up the idea and within like I want to say 48 hours he
was already like interviewing people to get started well it was very fast yeah
and as soon as he said it I was like yes like let's get this going because I mean
it's just it made sense it made sense based on the industry that we're in yeah
I think I got the idea and then I went to work right away and then I think
maybe a week and a half to two weeks it was like live yeah completely really
this is the urban writer's this is the urban raise yeah yeah I you know agree
that fast idea I didn't know it came together that quickly very fast yeah
yeah I mean I had people already make I needed obviously more writers but I had
writers at the time right that was a whole dilemma was I couldn't use any
other comfort any rating company because my experience with them was just so bad
yeah yeah not so much like it was the writing the written content was okay but
the customer service is horrible if you say it's your fault that there's an
issue ya need an edit for your book and you're not guaranteed that it's not a
good feeling going into it so we wanted to create that through the urban writers
yeah wanted people to trust us to be like okay I'm paying you to find someone
to write my book but I have an issue with it I can come to
you and you're gonna help me with that and that's what we wanted to order me
around yeah yeah that you know it's a lot like Lewbert
eats okay do you guys have we're eating oh yeah you huh that's one thing I'll
miss when they go to Vancouver hopefully they get there together and make oh man
Vancouver mayor you're ever watching this you moron there's together
no he they don't want to we're to come in because you know like not even like
uber itself like uber itself is not even that like take a cab right so convenient
uber is one of the best things to ever happen to the transportation industry
yeah you know and it's just it's so upsetting that you know the cab drivers
because they refuse to change an update and you know clean their cabs that all
of a sudden they're like in a business
so because like I remember marking my first experience and you know I was like
no I want to go through the full process I wonder like place order and like you
know I want to do that and yeah you know just getting the emails knowing you know
yet your orders been received and like okay this that's cool
your your book is being assigned you're right I'm like wait what yeah I remember
getting so surprised every time I got an update your book is finished is being
placed to our editors or whatever that other email is and I was just like I was
blown away at how I was kept in in the loop every single step and the
confidence it gave me to know exactly where my book was versus placing an
order and then in two and a half three weeks boom I got my book but the two and
a half three weeks I'm wondering is like cuz has a writer quit or is it being
written is it finished is it like no or like finding out in two
and a half weeks one of our writers quit we had to assign
like somebody else it'll be two more weeks right like it was just it was a
breath breath breath breath breath fresh air yeah the urban writers so and I'll
have links down below so I mean anybody can check that out okay cool how is how
did things really start changing over the summer now that the other businesses
you know you started another business because you're freaking insane that was
my first reaction was like wait he's doing another thing you know and thing
the difference is is now he's focusing on that one thing before he jumps on to
the next they're not they're not suffering no right and that's good
because yeah but so now you started the third business a stunning change is
still a mess profit formula or is it yeah no no it is okay but we're
rebranding it but now we're actually gonna join it with right okay on the web
page yeah so the ads your ad course yeah you know so you started that and what I
love about those two things they've completely changed the industry you're
you're giving publishers the ability to get phenomenal customer service from a
writing company and get high quality books a really really reasonable price
but then now you're showing them how to successfully run ads to their books so
they could spend a dollar and make three and right and it's just it's been
awesome okay so going through the summer how did your life start changing over
the summer like think back to what was going on as you were growing the
businesses all of a sudden they started getting
busier and they started making more money how did that sort of fact in life
at all actually one thing that happened is you really started to see that the
goals that we we've set the year before last year were achievable with
everything going on and we like our confidence just kept going up and up one
thing that did have to happen is we did slowed down a bit on the publishing side
yeah I mean we released some like books over the summer but we really slowed
down like I haven't looked at publishing like either of us like she's done she
has a book that's complete that's not published yet because she can't focus on
it it's a children's book yeah yeah right you know I got a program that
solves that it's almost ready he's the scene right isn't she she's
almost fully trained so that's one thing we kind of have to slow down on and that
totally makes sense Walt you know like do urban writers it
took some time there was times where we even like we're skeptical about the
urban writers because it took time to pick up as well especially since our
prices were more than our competitors yep all right what have you learned
about pricing you learn you learned that people will pay for quality yeah yeah
being the cheapest is it dumb business exactly yeah you can say yeah great what
I think really transformed us this summer though was when we went to Cancun
always time for your man really yeah because we met like we put a face to
everybody slowly after summer but yeah that was this doesn't really end until
after the mastermind let's let's be real
but that was the the conference that really turned everything for us and
things just took off that what what happened like what what what happened
like what were some of the things well we got to me like a ton of amazing
people connected with them you know God talk a bit about our services their
services and we made that connection that trust connection that's important
in a business and we got to showcase a value that we're bringing and people saw
that and they trusted that and that that's what led to the growth that we
saw after yeah yeah like I think like where we were going with that is that
after that trip because we made all those connections like our business like
took off because people were like they were showcasing our business on their
channels or whatever but yeah you got to know us again don't trust with us which
led to that that jump so okay now fast forward to October 2018 the business out
brings in almost $40,000 u.s. being Canadian
that's like 55 grand or so yeah really $5,000 Canadian I don't know what
the average wage is in Canada but I bet it's less than that a year yeah whatever
you did that in a month twelve funds okay yeah how has that month shifted
your your mindset your beliefs your goals your dreams everything like what
has happened over that 12 months from $300 to you know to 40 grand or so yeah
sometimes it's surreal you know you you don't and then you think about like
things that you couldn't afford before and you're like oh yeah right like we
made you know whatever you know what I mean so we
have to work on that a little bit but it's it's been a crazy journey it has
far like a lot more confident now in terms of money bringing money we don't
really worry about buying stuff like we're just like you want that okay I
will buy it whatever it doesn't it's not like an issue anymore we don't have to
worry about money that's gone that's at a table written it's a complete change
like complete it's so big that it's hard to express right and and and we're just
getting started - that's like the part that's like surreal is that who knows
where we could take this who knows where we could be next year next well six
figures a month yeah and that's the yeah mr. lorry's
like I I know we've we spoken about this you know but doing six figures a month
is is you know kind of like the main goal for for 2019 is to start breaking
six figure months yes right that's yeah and when that happens you know it's
gonna be the same thing like what's the nice is never gonna right and and so
what about your what about some of your goals or dreams how have things shifted
how have things become more clear because I know when when we really
started like I'm staring at my whiteboard and you know it's in the last
48 hours we've made what we made in February it's amazing that's crazy right
now and we you know from from our experience all of a sudden like we want
to go move to Italy for a month that's now possible it's not a matter of like
how can we do that it's just okay well when when should we just put that in our
calendar and buy tickets and go the fact that you know I could go to LA hang with
you guys for a bit I just bought that flight no I don't have flights from
Miami yet but I'm going the atashi you come in as well right tonight yeah right
the fact that I can do that now and just you don't have to think about
it you can just leave oh yeah cool so there's a thing you know San Diego
there's nothing like you go without worry about it has been a big man this
is this is really cool this is what I've always seen other successful people
being able to do and now I'm able to do it yeah yeah have any of your goals or
dreams that you thoughts like oh one day it's now it's like okay when should we
just do it yeah you know what interestingly enough I set a goal when I
when I first started this because I was one one of the things I was taught to do
like after like do reading and all that stuff was to set goals and I set a goal
of making someone's yearly salary monthly which was actually fifty grand
and we just pretty much did that in October and that was pretty crazy cuz I
forgot about that I forgot that I set that it was just one
of those things that I wanted to do when I first got started in all this and now
looking back it's pretty insane how that works yeah yeah so that was that was
pretty cool but now like our goals are totally different I compared to when we
first started Brighton right and I feel like it's always gonna that's always
gonna happen as we grow totem poles are gonna change right things that we want
to accomplish and looking back like five years before if you ask me I'd be doing
this I think you're crazy no way yeah the thing is is like as much work as we
put into it it wasn't as hard as people think it is to get here if you dedicate
time and put in the effort you're gonna you're gonna make it mm-hmm especially
with like all the resources that they have online now through like you know
publishing books affiliate marketing like you don't have to do anything once
it's out there I mean you have to meet you maintain but you're not things yeah
it's like it's definitely a lot easier today to make money it was yeah and it's
only gonna get easier yes that's my belief I think making
money we'll only become easier for people as
technology advances and new opportunities come up and like you know
I mean like there's always always gonna be plenty of opportunity you just have
to be willing to put in the work and the sacrifices and commit you just gotta
I think committing is the hardest thing for people Yeah right and lack of
support right commitment and self belief believing that you can I think that's
what a lot of people struggle struggle with in my opinion that's just what I
see yeah people just don't believe they can do it but you want to before we met
even before we met like you know everyone that we have that's helped us
along the way we had a lot of people who just thought that we were dreamers and
we weren't gonna get to where we were
yeah but that was like the closest closest people to us yeah and I feel
like that's common though cuz that's a story I hear all the time it you know
it'll be interesting I thought a lot of of us when we left Canada really like 50
grand and dad had no money you know weren't really enjoying things when we
go back we're gonna buy a house okay and not like a 200 op like you know like
seventy eight hundred thousand dollar house a nice house you know my parents
haven't had a house since I was three that they owned you know I can by the
way the rage over yeah they could imagine her age overs no she doesn't
have a good taste I have to taste for her by her deranged over yeah I'm you
know yeah so but it'll be hearse there's a whole long-term plan for that it's
like if I get her that vehicle then I the next one right it's like yeah but
like so my close friends and family it'll be really interesting to see right
because none of them are in the online space like a huge job it'll be huge and
it's not like you know I have to go around talking about the income but we
talked about the business and it's doing twenty thirty forty thousand dollars a
month American somebody else course right may this this could be our first
$40,000 months amazing the reigning American like yeah yes kind of like I am
I when market when you say your income report to the group and I saw it I was
like oh that's awesome for him fuck cuz I just feel like I'm the quote-unquote
supposed to be the leader you know what I mean it's like so I just you know and
that's good because that's gonna it's forcing me to step up big time this
month cuz I want to you know yeah a way to
push yourself to 100% we know these it's great healthy competition
we all make more money so but like it'll be really interesting when we go back
you know it's it's uh yeah I'm still Marianna our publishing business
literally does 100 to 120 thousand dollars a year without me looking at one
thing anymore yeah and then I actually got something I wanted to mention that
we haven't touched publishing and we're still bringing about four thousand
dollars right so four thousand so that's what four times twelve forty eight and
that's American and that's slowing Canadian that's close to five grand
so what's 5 times twelve sixty grand so that's a sixty thousand dollar business
Canadian but you don't have to look at and you boom 60 grand
so what somebody's going to work for for forty hours a week for 40 hours a week
50 weeks in a year two weeks holiday they're spending more time with their
work colleagues than they are their own friends and family they're our flesh and
blood you do that you make that without even looking at the business you can
literally do video games all day long your kid and hang out with Natasha yeah
and you're gonna make what they're gonna be making slaving away at a job for
eight hours a day every single day for the entire year
yeah anyone watching this like that needs to be a wake-up call like people
should be like like oh wait there's more to this
so yeah I've often thought about you know what's it gonna be like when I'm
with my friends and family and like life is gonna be different like you know like
things are just you know things are just it's funny I don't wanna get off topic
but it happens but my parents are was like hey you know when you buy a house
you have to do the lawn I just thought like know they have landscaping
companies that will come and do that shit for me right like you know we're
talking about having a live-in nanny I'm like no it's just like why I cook for
yourself if we can just have somebody come and cook and clean and do all that
shit for you yeah and just focus on I just focus on what you care about on
what you care about what you want to do and that's the whole point of making
money so you can live life and not work to pay bills but to work to grow your
family to work to give them the lifestyle that they wanna that you want
to give them so they can you know marry I keep saying it's like I just love
being able to go to store and buy whatever I want in the store of course
within reason but like she can go in buy whatever she wants for the kids and like
she bought a $600 lazy boy recliner a few months ago didn't even ask me and
and she's made it clear it's like god no you cannot spend that type of money
without asking but you know but she didn't have to ask and she's like you
have no idea the confidence I gave me and like it was a drop in the bucket
like it didn't affect anything she knew we could pay for it like yeah that is
just like that is so powerful for families it is it is yeah talking about
that our couple what are you guys gonna be talking about on your channel ah so
the three things that we're gonna focus on is mindset business particularly
online and relationship so how to work with your partner and stuff so like
breaking those three those three things down really really detailed and just
show people how to you know how to do it right I think I like for example I
firmly believe that if I didn't tackle my mindset I wouldn't have achieved
success in anything that I've been doing yeah a hundred percent man hundred
percent cuz you would have looked at community limiting limiting beliefs or
too many reasons why this would have worked not gonna work right yeah yeah
and we we thoroughly enjoy working together I mean there's times where we
don't oh yeah no yeah oh really there are cuz you guys seem like you know
we're not perfect now keep telling Mary I said we need to be more like Marco
Natasha when we like even recording our first video we were going at it for
quite some time wasting time I want to see this in bloopers we need to show
people that it is doable and achievable so and it's so much more fun when you
can do with your partner because then you guys have the same goals and you're
aligned with where you're going in the future right like next year we really
want to do some traveling and it took him some a bit of time to get me on
board on that just because of like the fear of traveling with a baby but really
yeah yeah like I have that I have that fear like what like what what's the fear
or what I think just like based on where we're
going like it's just stupid things that moms worry about it's just like health
care and if we need help like what are we gonna do I spent $40 on 12 juice
boxes of milk that I brought over with me because I was afraid to use the milk
in Mexico it's all good hey you know what Mariana is a lot very similar in
that retrospect she likes to pre check everything and make sure it's like okay
if we're going there you know is this to Giver
you know so I totally relate and so I just the milk thing was definitely a new
thing narrative before you know it's all it's all good to encourage more people
to do things as like a United yeah I love that it like is that I'm super
excited to watch more of your channel and and learn more from me because yeah
like I want Mariana to become more involved in the business and work with
her more you know but we've worked together before when I was running my
like Keiko vector office and she was my receptionist and like you know we kind
of clashed a little bit you know but you know this business is totally different
but so I'm really really excited I'll probably be your biggest fan learning
from you and you know maybe we'll be like a success story what's now that are
working together they're businesses more powerful than ever and you know so well
hey guys thank you so much for for spending some time talking with with
everybody and sharing your story and having some laughs there's been
absolutely make sure you check out all of the links to their companies their
website and their there's channel in the description and if you got any questions
for these guys make sure you just ask away
comments but yeah guys thanks again and congratulations on your massive success
over the last 12 months thank you thank you so much and Mike it was a pleasure
you
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