The My Wife Quit Her Job Podcast With Steve Chou

The MyWifeQuitHerJob podcast is a podcast about entrepreneurs who quit their jobs to start successful online businesses.

Through a series of personal interviews, Steve uncovers the exact strategies that led to their success.

Unlike other business podcasts, Steve is known for digging deep and extracting out every last detail.

He's never afraid to ask the hard questions and he leverages his extensive knowledge running his two 7 figure businesses to get to the point.

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109: How To Make 7.5 Million Per Year Selling On Amazon With Will Tjernlund

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Today I’ve got someone really special on the show, Will Tjernlund. Now I met Will at the StartupBros conference and I’m really glad that I did. He and his brother Andrew made about 7.5 million dollars from Amazon and their own stores last year making him one of the most successful Amazon sellers that I’ve had on the podcast so far. And the best part is that his business is just a 2 man operation with him and his brother. Today, we’re going to go into depth on how he got started. What You’ll Learn How Will got into ecommerce […]

108: How John Rampton Lost His 7 Figure Amazon Business

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How John Lost His 7 Figure Business By Getting Banned From Amazon

Today I’m thrilled to have John Rampton with me on the show. John is someone who I met at FinCon 2 years ago and he’s got an amazing story to share with you today. In fact, his story is almost unreal. 10 years ago, he was working in construction when he had his legs crushed in a freak accident. He didn’t think he could walk again and during that time when he was bed ridden, he studied business, marketing and selling online 16-20 hours a day. Fast forward to today, he’s started a bunch of 7 figure companies. He writes […]

107: How To Make 17 Million Dollars Selling iPhone And iPad Cases Online With Kai Klement

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Today I’m thrilled to have Kai Klement on the show. Kai is someone who reached out to me with an incredible story and I knew that I needed to have him on the podcast. Kai and his partner Jorg(yerg) are the co-founders of Kavaj (kavai), an internationally top-selling leather case manufacturer for phones and tablets. They’ve sold over 500,000 cases generating over 17 million in revenue. They both started out as former Amazon employees with zero knowledge of manufacturing, or product creation and ended up creating this awesome ipad and phone case company. Enjoy the interview! What You’ll Learn How […]

106: How To Design A High Converting Website With Chase Reeves

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How To Design A High Converting Ecommerce Website With Chase Reeves

Today I’m thrilled to have Chase Reeves on the show. Chase is someone who I met recently at the FinCon Expo in Charlotte and the face to face meeting was a long time coming. If you don’t know Chase, he is the creative director for Fizzle.co, Corbett Barr’s awesome online business training course which was mentioned back in episode 45. And he’s also the goofy white guy on the Fizzle podcast where he’s frickin hilarious. You should check it out. But the main reason, I decided to have Chase on today is because is he is great at design. Here’s […]

105: How To Run Profitable Facebook Ads To Sell Physical Products Online With Miracle Wanzo

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Today I have Miracle Wanzo on the show. First off, isn’t that the coolest name ever? When I first met her, I had assumed that it was her pen name but nope, her name is really Miracle and she is one of the sweetest, most down to earth person you’ll ever meet. Anyway, I met Miracle at the Ecommerce Fuel Live event in Nashville a few months ago and I’m glad that I did. Miracle runs HipUndies.com where she sells women’s undergarments and lingerie. Now normally, I tend to think that selling clothing or anything that has to do with fashion […]

104: How Tony Horton Started P90X and Sold Over 7 Million Workout DVDs

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Today I am honored to have the one and only Tony Horton on the show. If you’ve never heard of Tony, he is the creator of the incredibly popular P90X home exercise program. Now the personal exercise industry is EXTREMELY competitive and to give you an idea how big time his video was, it ended up selling over 7 million copies. Ridiculous! Since P90X, Tony has released P90X2 and P90X3 with awesome success as well. Not only does Tony look great but he’s quite an entertaining guy as well. Enjoy the interview What You’ll Learn How to stand out among […]

102: How to Start A Multi Million Dollar Clothing Line With Edmund Lowman

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I’m really excited to have Edmund Lowman on the show. Edmund is someone who I met at the Import Summit in Orlando and after chatting with the guy for a while at the conference, I learned that he’s got a pretty awesome story to share. First off he’s a former rockstar who was part of a wildly successful rock band called Red Jump Suit Apparatus. In fact, I believe that his rock band made him a multimillionaire in his 20’s. Then he realized that the rockstar life was not for him, lost all of his money and had to work […]

101: Will It Fly? How To Validate Your Business Before You Invest With Pat Flynn

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Today I’m thrilled to have my buddy Pat Flynn back on the show. Now I’ve had Pat on the show once before on episode 41 where we talked about how to make money with every online business model out there. In fact, Pat was gracious enough to come dressed for the occasion as he wore Stanford cardinal red and a beat cal button during the interview. I mean how cool is that? To be able to forsake his own college for a superior school is just a testament to his awesomeness. Anyway, Pat runs the very popular blog SmartPassiveIncome.com and […]

100: An Interview With My Wife – How We Made $100K Profit In Our First Year Selling Handkerchiefs

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How We Made $100,000 Profit In Our First Year Selling Wedding Handkerchiefs

Welcome to an extra special podcast episode. As you know, I’ve been running this podcast for almost 2 years now and we just hit episode 100! Can you believe it? And to celebrate this very special milestone, I finally convinced my wife to be a guest on the show. Now up until this point, you haven’t heard from her at all because she’s an introvert. She doesn’t like the spotlight and she hates public speaking. So I can not tell you what a treat it is for me to have her come on the show. Jennifer Chou is the better […]

099: How To Find Legit Chinese Vendors Online With Peter Zapf Of GlobalSources.com

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How To Find Legit Chinese Vendors Online With Peter Zapf Of GlobalSources.net

Today I’m happy to have Peter Zapf, the CIO of Global Sources, which is one of the leading B2B marketplaces for connecting buyers and suppliers in Asia. They’ve been around for 40 years, make around 200 million in revenues, have over 150000 suppliers in their database and work with 95% of the top global retailers. Today, Peter was gracious enough to come on my podcast to give us an overview of the private labeling landscape and all of the recent trends in importing! Enjoy the episode. What You’ll Learn How Global Sources compares with other B2B marketplaces like Alibaba How […]

098: How To Private Label Goods From China With Sam Boyd Of Guided Imports

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In this episode, I have Sam Boyd of GuidedImports.com, a company that helps others import safely from China. Now in the past few years, more and people have been jumping on the Amazon private labeling bandwagon so I brought Sam Boyd on the show to give us his unique perspective on the Amazon gold rush. As I’ve mentioned many times in previous articles and podcasts, relying solely on Amazon is a dangerous play and you really need to establish your own branded website in order to future proof your business. Enjoy the show! What You’ll Learn Common mistakes that Amazon […]

097: How To Go From 0 To 180K Subscribers On SoundCloud In A Year As A Musician

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How To Go From 0 to 180K Subscribers In A Year On SoundCloud As A Musician

Budi Voogt is the co-founder of Heroic Recordings, a record label group and agency that represents a number of major electronic artists. He is also the author of the SoundCloud Bible. Now I have a lot of listeners who are artists and some are even musicians. So I brought Budi on the show today to teach us how to become a successful solo entrepreneur and leverage your artistic talents as a business. What You’ll Learn What exactly a record label does and what it means to be an agency How the music industry works How artists are typically paid and […]

096: How To Get Unbiased Feedback On Your Project In Minutes With John Li Of PickFu.com

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How To Get Unbiased Feedback About Your Project In Minutes With John Li Of PickFu.com

Today, I’m thrilled to have John Li on the show. John is someone who I met through Dave Lu, who I had on the show back in episode 19. Originally, I had only planned to have a short coffee break with John but we ended up chatting for close to 3 hours about family, business and life. One of the things I like about the Bay Area is that there seems to be an endless stream of awesome entrepreneurs to meet and John is no exception. John and his partner created PickFu.com, a site that allows you to easily get […]

095: How Nathan Barry Created ConvertKit, An Email Service Made For Bloggers

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How Nathan Barry Created ConvertKit - The Best Email Marketing Provider For Bloggers

Today I’m thrilled to have Nathan Barry on the show. If you’ve never heard of Nathan, he is the owner of NathanBarry.com. And he’s well known for many different accomplishments. First off, Nathan is the author of The App Design Handbook, a book where he made $12K on his first day with an email list of under 1000 people. He’s created a bunch of iPhone apps which include OneVoice, Fluent and Commit. But the reason I have Nathan on the show is to talk about his latest project ConvertKit. ConvertKit is an email marketing platform designed specifically with bloggers in […]

094: How To Make 7 Figures Creating YouTube Videos With Joe Jitsukawa Of Just Kidding Films

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094: How To Make 7 Figures Making You Tube Videos With Joe Jo Of Just Kidding Films

Today I’m thrilled to have Joe Jo on the show. Joe and his partner Bart started JustKidding Films on YouTube back in 2007 and today have over 1.5 million subscribers. Not only that. In addition to Just Kidding Films, they also have 3 other channels JKParty, JKGamer and JKNews which all boast anywhere from 700K-1.5million subscribers each. All told, I think the 4 channels have a combined 4 million total subscribers which is incredible. If you follow me you know that when my online store was featured on the today show, I had 7X the revenue that day and the […]