How outside funding affects a business, running a business with your significant other, and maintaining a healthy work-life balance with Russ and Natalie Monson.

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Welcome to episode 287 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Russ and Natalie Monson about building online businesses.

As entrepreneurs, business owners, and bloggers, we know that it’s sometimes tough to find balance between life and work.

That’s what we’re focusing on in this interview with Russ and Natalie Monson from Super Healthy Kids and Prepear. Throughout their time as entrepreneurs, they’ve grown a food blog, built an app, received funding for their business, and more.

In this episode, you’ll learn how they do it all while maintaining a healthy balance with their other responsibilities.

• How Russ and Natalie started working together
• How they started working on Super Healthy Kids full-time
• How they came up with the idea for Prepear
• How they found balance and a healthy relationship with their work
• How taking outside funding affects a business
• What it was like to get sued by Apple
• How Prepear works

Resources:

• Super Healthy Kids
• Prepear
• Big Magic
• “I Was a Starter Wife”: Inside America’s Messiest Divorce
• Gumroad
• Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
• Marco Polo
• Apple goes after meal-prep company Prepear over its ‘similar’ logo
• Learn more about Prepear for food bloggers
• Email Russ -- russ@prepear.com
• Learn more about WP Tasty’s sale!

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