{"podcast":{"title":"Optimized Entrepreneur","slug":"optimized-entrepreneur-7658241","podcast_index_feed_id":7658241,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/EMTZM4067693296","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/optimized-entrepreneur","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/c3a59fb2-637a-11f1-86e0-0b230728c90a/image/faa883e298c9fae1f59ed1c473709a86.jpeg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Myia and Jeremy Hanson","episode_count":24,"summary":"Optimized Entrepreneur is a podcast for entrepreneurs who want to build profitable, scalable businesses without burning themselves out in the process. Hosted by Jeremy Hanson, this show focuses on the real operating system behind business success: the entrepreneur themselves. Most business podcasts focus on tactics—marketing hacks, growth tricks, and surface-level strategies. Optimized Entrepreneur goes deeper. Each episode explores how personal capacity, emotional regulation, decision-making clarity, discipline, and systems thinking directly determine whether a business grows sustainably or collapses under pressure. This podcast is built for small business owners, service business operators, blue-collar entrepreneurs, and multi-business owners who want long-term success without chaos, exhaustion, or constant firefighting. Jeremy draws from over two decades of real-world experience building and operating multiple service-based businesses. Episodes combine practical business insights with personal development principles that apply in the real world—not theory, not influencer advice, and not Silicon Valley hype. Listeners will learn why personal capacity sets the ceiling for busines…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-30T22:17:28.186934+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimized-entrepreneur-7658241"},"episode":{"title":"Build a Business That Funds Your Marriage — Not One That Bankrupts It","slug":"build-a-business-that-funds-your-marriage-not-one-that-bankrupts-it","published_at":"2026-06-30T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimized-entrepreneur-7658241/build-a-business-that-funds-your-marriage-not-one-that-bankrupts-it","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimized-entrepreneur-7658241","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/EMTZM5987458242.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/EMTZM5987458242.mp3","summary":"Every entrepreneur quietly wrestles with the same question: how do you build a company that demands everything from you while building a marriage that deserves your absolute best? In this episode of Optimized Entrepreneur, Jeremy Hanson skips the recycled \"schedule a date night\" advice and goes straight at the real problem — marriages rarely die from one big event. They starve, slowly, from a lack of intentional investment. Jeremy lays out ten pillars for building a marriage with deep reserves: the emotional profit margin, leading instead of managing your spouse, micro-moments over grand gestures, dreaming together monthly, protecting your home from becoming a corporate office, staying students of each other, building shared experiences, becoming each other's safe place, celebrating ordinary wins, and treating a strong marriage as your single biggest competitive advantage. Along the way he gets honest about the things most operators won't say out loud — why the bedroom is the last place trouble shows up, and why you can never stop being the person they married. It closes with a gut-check: one day someone else will own your company. Who's still sitting across the table from you when that day comes? Brought to you by Proraso. (00:00) Cold Open — The question every entrepreneur asks but never says Premise — Marriages don't explode; they starve Pillar 1 — Build an emotional profit margin Pillar 2 — Stop treating your spouse like an employee Pillar 3 — Create micro-moments instead of waiting for vacations Pillar 4 — Dream together every month Pillar 5 — Protect your home from becoming a corporate office Pillar 6 — Become students of each other again Never Stop Being the Person They Married Sponsor — Proraso Pillar 7 — Build shared experiences at home Pillar 8 — Become each…","meta_description":"Every entrepreneur quietly wrestles with the same question: how do you build a company that demands everything from you while building a marriage that des…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3498,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/optimized-entrepreneur-7658241/episodes/build-a-business-that-funds-your-marriage-not-one-that-bankrupts-it/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimized-entrepreneur-7658241/build-a-business-that-funds-your-marriage-not-one-that-bankrupts-it.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}