Today we’re sitting down with Dustin and Megan Bunnell, a husband-and-wife team who built a family-first life that actually works. He runs Jum-Pawn-It, a thriving chain of pawn shops across California and Arizona. She’s a life coach helping women hustle less and sparkle more. Together they’ve traded corporate comfort for freedom, structure, and a life built on intention.
In this episode, we dig into their Power Hour Strategy, the simple one-hour weekly habit that helps them balance business, family, and sanity. They share how to design a schedule that supports your values, create peace in your week, and still grow a business that doesn’t run your life.
What You’ll Learn:
The Power Hour framework that keeps their family aligned
How to plan your week around purpose, not pressure
Why structure creates more freedom, not less
The mindset shift from busy to productive
How to build businesses that serve your life, not steal it
On The Our Family Invests Podcast, we sit down with inspiring entrepreneurial couples to uncover the habits, mindsets, and strategies they use to build wealth, freedom, and legacy without sacrificing what matters most.
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Ever feel like everything hits at once? Finances, family, and faith all being tested at the same time?
That’s the season Kyle and Danie Wallitner are currently walking through. A government shutdown, a property fire, and an empty home still carrying a mortgage. Instead of breaking under pressure, they are choosing calm, alignment, and gratitude.
In this episode, we talk about what it means to lead your family through hard seasons, teach your kids about money, and build freedom that actually feels good. Kyle and Danie remind us that storms don’t last forever… and sometimes the hardest moments bring the most growth.
What You’ll Learn:
How to lead your family through hard financial seasons
Teaching your kids about money and responsibility
What real resilience looks like in marriage and business
Why alignment matters more than hustle
How to find peace when life feels uncertain
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Jonathan and Jynafer Yanez built their dream life two hours at a time. Between bestselling novels, film productions, homeschooling, and marriage, they’ve learned that consistency creates freedom and structure fuels creativity.
In this episode of The Our Family Invests Podcast, Mike and Caroline sit down with the couple behind Wolf Pack Entertainment and Archimedes Books to talk about what it really takes to live in alignment. Jonathan breaks down his “Two Hour Rule,” the daily rhythm that helped him write over seventy novels and build a business that supports his family. Jynafer shares how faith, focus, and purpose guide their creative process and parenting.
This conversation is packed with lessons on discipline, alignment, and the power of doing small things with big intention.
🎧 You’ll Learn:• How the “Two Hour Rule” builds momentum and consistency
• Why alignment and faith drive their biggest decisions
• What it takes to run multiple creative businesses as a family
• How discipline protects creativity
• The mindset that turns daily effort into long-term freedom
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High school sweethearts lose $35K on their first flip, then build a thriving remote real estate business while raising their baby boy.
In this episode, Janelle and Don Carlson share how they flipped that failure into freedom, managing 30+ deals a year from anywhere in the world. From systems and schedules to mindset and marriage, they break down the real steps to building wealth that doesn’t cost your family.
💡 What You’ll Learn:
• How to flip houses remotely (and make it sustainable)
• The systems and tools Janelle uses to run her team out of state
• How to define roles as a couple and avoid burnout
• The mindset shift from chasing doors to building freedom
• Lessons learned from losing $35K on their first deal
🎙 Hosted by Mike and Caroline Neubauer
On The Our Family Invests Podcast, we sit down with entrepreneurial couples to uncover the habits, mindsets, and strategies they use to build wealth and legacy without sacrificing family.
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Most people live in reaction mode. They wake up to notifications, scroll through chaos, and let everyone else set the tone for their day. But real growth comes from alignment, not more hustle.
In this solo episode, Mike Neubauer breaks down The Elevate Method, a simple seven-step framework to help you realign your energy, mindset, and purpose when life feels off track. You cannot elevate what you do not evaluate.
On The Our Family Invests Podcast, Mike and Caroline Neubauer share stories, frameworks, and conversations that help couples and families pursue freedom, wealth, and purpose without losing what matters most.
👉 How to reset your energy using the “Energy Triangle”👉 Why letting go of old identities creates space for growth👉 The Purpose Formula: pain + passion + people = purpose👉 A five-minute visualization practice to build clarity👉 How to act in faith even when fear shows up👉 Why tracking your wins builds momentum👉 How gratitude expands capacity and anchors peace
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Robin and Shani Casper never set out to build an empire. He was leading multi-million dollar embassy projects overseas. She was raising four kids, managing chaos, and keeping their family grounded. Somewhere between rocket attacks in Israel and renovations in New York, they quietly built a 70-unit real estate portfolio—and a life of freedom most families only dream about.
In this episode of The Our Family Invests Podcast, we sit down with the Caspers to uncover how they built wealth while raising a family, stayed aligned across continents, and turned challenges into fuel for freedom.
You’ll learn:
How Robin scaled from Navy Seabee to 70-unit investor
The untapped goldmine in historic properties
The surprising stability of student athlete rentals
Shani’s take on balancing family, fitness, and freedom
What “family first” looks like when life feels like a circus
Follow the Caspers’ journey from embassies to cash flow, chaos to connection—and learn how to build your own version of freedom without sacrificing what matters most.
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Let’s be honest. Most entrepreneurs chasing “freedom” are secretly trading their family for a bigger balance sheet.
Not Gino and Julia Barbaro.
They’ve built a $350M multifamily portfolio. They’ve raised six kids. They’ve stayed married for 27 years without losing themselves — or each other — in the process.
He started as a chef. She used to avoid money like the plague. Now they’re authors, podcast hosts, and Certified Money Coaches helping couples stop fighting about finances and start building legacy with clarity.
In this episode:
• Gino’s turning point: garlic stains, long johns, and a decision
• Julia’s money avoidance and what cracked it open
• Why your kids don’t care about your $450M empire
• The 3 steps every multifamily beginner actually needs
• How surrender (not spreadsheets) saved their sanity
This one’s for the couples in the middle of the grind — the ones who want to build something big without losing everything that matters.
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They sold their company thinking the hard part was over.
Then everything collapsed.
The buyer unraveled. The money vanished. Their entire team — including family — was laid off.
Most couples would’ve split under that kind of pressure. Jodi and Kelly chose to fight.
They cold plunged, fasted, walked miles through the mountains, and stared each other down at the kitchen table until a new plan emerged:
Buy it back. Save the business. Save the family.
In this episode:
• Selling Green Goo, then losing it
• When everything falls apart at once
• Cold plunges, fasting, and nervous system repair
• What resilience really looks like in a marriage
• Why they literally bet the farm
• What their daughter is learning from all of this
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AJ and Nichole Frandanisa are proving you don’t have to choose between building wealth and building a family. Through faith, discipline, and real estate investing, they’ve created financial freedom while raising their son and living by the motto “We do hard things.”
Their journey — from downsizing to 800 sq ft, living in their driveway during a live-in flip, and completing seven full gut rehabs — is packed with lessons for entrepreneurial couples who want to build legacy without losing sight of faith and family.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
👉 Why letting people “think you’re broke” might be the smartest money hack for financial freedom
👉 How six years of waiting taught them patience, faith, and perseverance
👉 The three moves they’d make to rebuild financial freedom from scratch in 2025
👉 ROJ (Return on Joy) — the secret metric couples need beyond ROI
👉 How to raise kids with gratitude and grit by bringing them into your real estate journey
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Craig Curleop became a millionaire and hit financial independence at 27, retiring his wife Grace so she could focus on her passions. Their story is about more than money. From living behind a curtain and biking to work, to building co-living businesses and a thriving homestead, Craig and Grace chose freedom over convention.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
👉 How Craig hit FI at 26 through house hacking
👉 The sacrifices that built their freedom
👉 The $100K mistake that reshaped his business
👉 The rule that keeps their marriage aligned
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What does it really take to build freedom as a couple?
For Santiago and Debbie Martinez, it meant trading the grind for growth. Debbie walked away from full-time trauma and critical care as a Physician Assistant to embrace per diem work, more time in her garden, and the presence she had always longed for. Santi, a world-class martial artist, took the discipline of wrestling, judo, and jiu-jitsu and applied it to building a 55-door real estate portfolio and a flipping company in the Lehigh Valley.
In this episode, they share their journey from meeting online during COVID to traveling the world together, from self-doubt to their first big win in real estate, and from burnout to balance. Their story is a reminder that success isn’t measured by the number of doors you own, but by the person you’re becoming in the process.
You’ll learn:
Why differences in a relationship can be your superpower
How to balance explosive growth with slowing down to be present
The “Long Sword and Short Sword” strategy for building cash flow and wealth
How to create freedom without sacrificing love, joy, or presence
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If you’re ready to slow down in order to level up, this episode is for you.
Zulfiya immigrated from Uzbekistan with two suitcases. Ian turned a layoff into seven tech certifications and a new role running ops. Together they help construction companies stop missing calls, automate workflows with AI voice agents + knowledge-base agents, and grow a family-first business with two kids and no excuses.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Why AI can’t scale chaos, and the SOP fixes that unlock automation
How contractors turn missed calls into booked jobs (24/7 voice agents)
Searchable meeting minutes & docs that find answers instantly
Real tools your team already uses: Slack, Teams, ClickUp, WhatsApp
Ian’s 7-cert pivot playbook & ops mindset
The couple’s repair script: “What would you like to see happen?”
Family-first rhythms that keep growth sustainable
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New episodes every Tuesday.
Keywords: AI for construction, construction automation, contractor lead generation, missed calls to booked jobs, voice agents, knowledge base agents, small business systems, SOPs, immigrant entrepreneur, family-first investing, couples in business
Mike and Lindsay McCarthy aren’t just raising kids. They’re building legacy and helping other families do the same.
Mike scaled Keller Williams Greater Pennsylvania to over $23 billion in annual sales. He co-founded the GoBundance mastermind and launched Fambundance, a movement that helps entrepreneurial families grow in connection, purpose, and alignment.
Lindsay is a former D1 athlete, co-author of The Miracle Morning for Parents and Families, and founder of GoWives. She climbed Mount Kilimanjaro while four months pregnant. She’s a grounded leader and intentional mother who helps women thrive in family and business.
In this episode, we dive into what it means to lead your family first.
Here’s what you’ll take away:
✔ How to co-create family values your kids actually believe in
✔ The screen time contract and cell phone system that teaches real-world accountability
✔ Why connection needs to come before correction
✔ How to plan meaningful, bucket-list trips as a team
✔ The one mindset shift that changes how you parent forever
This isn’t a parenting manual. It’s a call to lead with purpose.
Whether you're raising kids, running a business, or trying to do both without losing what matters most, this conversation is for you.
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Fambundance: https://fambundance.com
GoBundance: https://gobundance.com
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What happens when a couple meets at a Mariners game, house hacks their first duplex before they can legally rent a car, and raises three kids who can spot a great DADU lot from the backseat?
You get Shannon and Christian Nossum—Seattle-based real estate power couple, educators, and the intentional family behind The Awesome Nossum Group.
In this episode, we talk about:
The agent-to-investor journey
How they built passive income while raising a family
Why their 13-year-old is already managing contractors
What it really looks like to mix marriage, mindset, and money
This one’s packed with laughs, lessons, and legacy-building insight.
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🔗 New episodes drop every Tuesday.
The market feels weird right now. And a lot of people are afraid to say it out loud.
In this episode, we’re sharing what we’re seeing in the real estate world, both across the country and here on Maui. From stagnant listings and rising holding costs to shifting lender behavior and over-leveraged operators, we’re breaking down what we think actually matters.
If you’re a current investor, thinking about buying, or just trying to figure out what’s going on, this is the conversation we wish someone had with us.
We’re also sharing how we’re investing right now, where we’re staying patient, and what filters we’re using to evaluate every deal.
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Today we’re sharing the truth about what it’s really been like building this podcast from scratch. No fluff. Just the reality of what it takes to show up every week, balance life behind the scenes, and stay aligned through it all.
We talk about:
• What’s surprised us most about podcasting
• The messy moments no one sees• Wins that made it worth it
• Things we’d do differently
• And where we want to take the show next
If you’ve ever wanted to start a podcast, grow one, or just peek behind the curtain — this episode is for you.
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What does it look like to build a marriage, a business, and a legacy that actually reflect your values?
In this episode, we sit down with Nicko and Colette Ching-Kazadzis for a conversation on love, leadership, and learning to live with intention. From a dance floor in Hawaii to leading companies and raising strong daughters, their story is filled with wisdom, growth, and purpose.
We dive into:
How they met and built a 28-year marriage
Why they don’t stay together “just for the kids”
Colette’s shift from real estate to people-first leadership
What changed after she hit her financial goals
How mindful mornings helped her rediscover herself
This episode is for anyone building a life that looks good on paper but wants it to feel aligned in real life too.
🎙 Hosted by Mike and Caroline Neubauer
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This is the episode we didn’t know we’d have to record.
Recently, both of Caroline’s parents were diagnosed with dementia. Since then, we’ve been navigating emotional breakdowns, logistical chaos, and legal decisions, all while trying to piece together a plan from another country.
The last few weeks we spent in Vancouver, BC trying to figure out a new health care system, learn the lingo of complex care and try to navigate a tricky and outdated system to move both of her parents into a care facility. It hasn't been easy and it's not over yet. The twists and turns keep coming, but this is a culmination of the last few weeks we've spent in Canada.
In this conversation, we talk about what no one prepared us for. From missing passwords and unspoken wishes to hard conversations and heartbreaking realizations, this episode is our way of processing out loud and hopefully helping someone else feel less alone in the process.
If you're facing anything like this, or might someday, we hope this gives you courage, clarity, and comfort. And hopefully a few pointers that will make your journey a bit easier.
— Mike & Caroline
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They packed up their family for a 6-month handyman job in Maui—with no plan and a baby on the way.
Three months later, they bought a house and built a thriving business from scratch.
Gene + Irina Murashko share how they turned one bold move into a family-first lifestyle, and the mindset shifts that made it possible.
🎯 This one’s for couples who dream bigger—and dare to leap.
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Chase and Amy Ingram aren’t chasing flashy. They’re building freedom on their own terms—with two little girls in tow.
In this episode, Mike & Caroline sit down with the Ingrams to unpack:
– How Chase went from pharma sales to full-time house flipping
– Why Amy built and sold her company in just 2 years
– What it means to “solve for Tuesday afternoon”
– How they stay aligned in marriage, business, and parenting
– That time a horse literally kicked Chase in the head 😳
If you’re a couplepreneur or purpose-driven investor, this episode will inspire you to redefine success, own your schedule, and build wealth without losing your family.
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