November 12, 2025 • 29 mins
We found a way to get 20 extra hours every single week without working more, without hiring employees, and without some crazy productivity hack - and we're breaking down exactly how we did it. No time management gurus, just real strategies that actually work.
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SPEAKER_01 (00:00):
So we get this question all the time.
(00:01):
How do you guys do so much whenyou have two kids, multiple
seven-figure businesses, andyou're not working 80-hour work
weeks like you used to do?
So in the next couple minutes,we're gonna answer that question
completely.
We'll show you exactly what westop doing, what we pay other
people to do instead, and howmuch it costs.
Because if you feel like you'realways busy, you'll never get
things done, you'll never getthings ahead, and this video
(00:22):
might change everything for you.
Yo, yo, what's going on, guys?
Welcome to another episode ofthe More Than A Side Hustle
Podcast where we help morenon-to-fives create more impact,
income, and influence outsidethe non-tof.
SPEAKER_00 (00:44):
So today we're gonna be talking about how we get 20
extra hours in our week withoutworking more.
So listen up closely.
And you know, they see us go ondate nights, vacations, running
our business and the secret.
They want to know what thesecret is.
Are you not sleeping?
Which is absolutely not true.
We both get eight hours plusevery night.
So we're gonna talk about thattoday.
SPEAKER_01 (01:02):
And honestly, we used to wonder the same thing.
And it's like you feel like whenyou got more in life, when you
have more things to do in life,that you aren't, you actually
don't have the time to dothings, and that's not the case.
And we literally sat down anddid the math.
And what we found out shockedus, we literally have about 20
extra hours every single weekcompared to when we first
started.
SPEAKER_00 (01:19):
And we're not working less per se, we're not
cutting corners, we just arecutting out the things that we
don't need to do to give us moretime.
We're not superhuman, we're notworking less, we are just
intentional about our time.
SPEAKER_01 (01:31):
And so we realized we were spending hours every
single week in things on thatdidn't actually move our life
forward or it didn't move ourbusiness forward.
So we sat down, we did a timeaudit, and there are some things
that you realize in your lifethat actually you don't need to
be doing.
And one of the things werealized is that it doesn't give
us back more time in order tocreate more income for
ourselves, and not necessarilyjust didn't move the needle for
it, but things that you candelegate as well.
SPEAKER_00 (01:53):
Like you said, you don't have to do it all.
I know that that's how we wereraised.
I know most of our were raisedthat way that you do the
cleaning, you do the lawn, youdo the shop, you do all the
things.
And now we're at a place that ifwe can delegate it out, we will.
So the first one is meal prepand grocery delivery.
I actually did like a TikTokvideo on things that make our
life easier, and this was thenumber one thing in it.
(02:16):
Since COVID started in 2020, westarted using Instacart.
If you don't know what Instacartis, it's a grocery delivery
service, and honestly, theydeliver almost anything at this
point.
I think there's thousands ofstores on there, so it's not
just like food groceries.
But either way, every Sunday wemake sure we put everything into
the app.
The entire family, between me,Anthony, and our all up here,
(02:37):
and we order groceries so thatit comes directly to our door.
Now, some of you are gonna sayit costs a little more there.
It does.
I I've seen the price changes,it does cost a bit more.
However, the time it will takeus to walk through the aisles,
we probably spend more becauseyou get things you don't need
when you're walking in theaisles in the grocery store.
SPEAKER_01 (02:55):
Especially if you go hungry and you go to the grocery
store and start shopping.
SPEAKER_00 (02:58):
Right.
Also, don't gotta pack the kidsup and do all that.
It's just more convenient for usto have the groceries delivered
right here.
We can cook, we know what we'redoing for the week, things like
that.
That works perfectly for us.
So, grocery deliveries withInstacart has been a game
changer for the past five years.
We never stop since COVIDstarted.
SPEAKER_01 (03:16):
Absolutely, and this time you'll be saving is about
two to three hours because inbetween grocery trips, you gotta
talk about also the meal prepdelivery service.
So, people think meal prepdelivery service is a lot of
money.
And if you find someone localand you break it down, we had a
meal prep delivery service downhere in Dallas, Texas.
That was an inside joke.
(03:36):
Sorry about that.
Junoka usually says down here inDallas, like we're already here.
SPEAKER_00 (03:40):
No, because majority of the people that I assume that
we're speaking to is from backhome or upper east coast.
It could they can be anywhere,but technically we're down.
Texas is down.
SPEAKER_01 (03:48):
So we say down here.
But we found someone local, andwhen we really did the math, it
came out to about$10 to$12 ameal.
If you're talking about 10 mealsbetween two people, that gives
you lunch and dinner everysingle day for at least Monday
through Friday, where you don'thave to meal prep, you don't
have to think about it.
SPEAKER_00 (04:03):
You don't have to think about it.
Just gotta think about the kids.
SPEAKER_01 (04:05):
And then also the part you're not thinking about
is you're probably eatinghealthier when you're meal
prepping services.
So if you do a meal prepservice, you try to find
something that's like$10 to$12an hour.
You might say it's a little bitmore expensive where you are,
but then it's not just about themoney, it's about the time
you're saving.
So between the grocery deliveryservices and the meal prep, that
alone is going to get you atleast two to three hours back a
(04:26):
week.
And I was like, what can usethat time to do uh something
else that you want to do?
SPEAKER_00 (04:29):
And even the meal prep, they bring it right to the
door.
So even if it's not a localperson, I know a lot of
different companies out there doit.
X Factor, there's so manydifferent companies that that do
it, but we prefer just somebodylocal, just fed it felt a bit
more fresh for us.
But yes, meal prep and grocerydeliveries is something that I
don't know that we will evergive up.
Now, don't get me wrong, once ina while we may stop in
(04:51):
somewhere, but 90% of ourgroceries come from delivery.
SPEAKER_01 (04:55):
And then also, if you can't do five meals a week
or 10 meals a week, whatever itis, can you start with one meal
a day?
That gives you five meals forthe entire week.
So that might be a dinner orsomething.
You might say, all right, well,I normally eat a little heavier
at night.
So you might say, instead of medoing something where I gotta
cook, I'm just gonna do one meala day.
And you could just start there.
SPEAKER_00 (05:17):
Definitely healthier options, I would I would say
with meal deliveries.
I don't know many meal deliveryservices that's not doing
healthy, but I'm sure that'spossible.
Oh, absolutely.
Um, yeah, definitely healthyoptions.
So that is the first thing whenit comes to saving time for us.
The second thing is laundryservices.
Now, we don't use it everysingle time, but use it enough.
So maybe we're coming back fromvacation, the clothes is it's a
(05:38):
busy week and nobody has time todo laundry, or even our
comforters for the differentseasons.
We can't do our comforters inour washer and dryer.
And so we will use laundryservices and once again,
directly to the door.
Put your laundry outside of thedoor, they pick it up, take
pictures, it's all through anapp, and they bring it back the
next day.
Folded, smelling fresh.
You can tell them what productsto use.
(05:59):
If you want dryer sheets to holdnine, if you're so particular,
and then they bring it back.
SPEAKER_01 (06:03):
And that's gonna save you.
If you think about the amount oftime it takes you to do laundry,
energy and the energy and themental bandwidth.
If you took them about two tothree hours, that's probably
like two to three hours a week,right there as well.
Some people wash every day.
SPEAKER_00 (06:14):
I heard that like we wash probably once a week now.
SPEAKER_01 (06:17):
Yeah, the girls wash their clothes a little bit more.
But if you think about theamount of energy and time that
you're putting into washing, yougotta put the clothes, you gotta
sort the clothes, put them inthe washer, and then take them
out the washer, put them intothe dryer, and then take them
out.
And then folding them, and mostof y'all let your clothes sit
for at least a week before theshave me.
SPEAKER_00 (06:33):
That was me.
SPEAKER_01 (06:34):
So you're letting the clothes sit for some time
because you're like, I'm it'seventually going to get done.
And it's when you start pickingfrom the clean clothes, and then
now you got a clean clothes pileand a dirty clothes pile starts
getting messy.
But we're talking about at leasttwo to three hours a week, and
you might be thinking that thisis going to cost a lot of money.
More often than not, it's goingto be less expensive than you
think.
So for us, if we're cleaning ourclothes for a family, usually me
(06:56):
and Junoka, we do our clothes.
Yeah.
And we're talking about maybeabout four loads.
That's under$100.
Way less than that.
It's actually way less thanthat.
Yeah.
I don't remember that.
You have to check your app thelast time, how much you spent.
SPEAKER_00 (07:07):
Oh, speaking of app, what are some apps that people
could use for that?
The only app we've used twoapps, but the one that I can
think of now is Poplin.
I don't remember the other onethat we've done in the past.
And it usually ranges to like, Ithink like$50 sometimes.
And then you, if you give a tip,I want to say that's the range
of it.
SPEAKER_01 (07:22):
Oh, we'll also put the the show notes where you
have the link to what it is.
So it's P-O-P-L-I-N Poplin.
SPEAKER_00 (07:28):
Hmm.
So we got a little link we couldput.
Cool.
SPEAKER_01 (07:31):
Absolutely.
So the last laundry load we didwas only$37.
SPEAKER_00 (07:35):
That's what I was about to say.
It's not even.
SPEAKER_01 (07:37):
And if I look at the actual, we had three bags of
laundry that they service, andit was only$37.
And it came up to about 27pounds.
So about a dollar a pound, yougive tip, gratuity, all of that
stuff.
So it comes up to$37.
And that was literally for bothof our laundry over the course
of a week and a half.
SPEAKER_00 (07:53):
Yes.
And we go to the gym a lot andeverything.
SPEAKER_01 (07:55):
So you're talking about saving two to three hours
a week for just$37.
If you don't want to do thedrop-off service or delivery, if
you want to do the deliveryservice, you can do the drop-off
service.
SPEAKER_00 (08:04):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (08:04):
So we used to do that back in a city as well when
we lived in New York.
We would do the local wash andfold and we would drop it off to
them.
SPEAKER_00 (08:10):
And then go pick it up.
SPEAKER_01 (08:11):
And go pick it up.
SPEAKER_00 (08:12):
Same type of thing.
But this one is actually comingto your home.
So it's just a bit easier andmore convenient.
This is all about convenience,okay?
And I I always live byconvenience costs more money.
Just in general in life,convenience is always gonna cost
more money.
So if you're willing to kind ofspend it, then go ahead and do
it.
SPEAKER_01 (08:27):
You're gonna pay in time or you're gonna pay in
money?
SPEAKER_00 (08:29):
Yes, that's enough.
SPEAKER_01 (08:30):
So in this one, we're talking about saving some
time while dishing out a littlebit of extra dollars.
SPEAKER_00 (08:34):
Now the third thing we do is house cleaning.
If you didn't know, we arecleaning business owners, so we
get our home clean every two tothree weeks.
And that is just something thatworks conveniently for us.
Now, even before we became umcleaning business owners, when
we moved down to Dallas, we hadbook cleaning services.
We're like, we don't want to doit ourselves.
Now there's things you do inbetween, sure.
(08:54):
There's tidying up before thecleaning services come, sure.
But having the cleaning servicehere a specific time, a specific
day, everybody knows it's gonnahappen is just a game changer.
And then as the holidays come,you do a deep clean, the base
for all those things.
So I don't know when, if ever,we will go without cleaning
services.
SPEAKER_01 (09:12):
Yes, we own a cleaning business where we don't
clean houses, and also one ofthe things about that is that
your cleaning business expensesbecome a write-off for your
cleaning business.
So if you're saying you'rehaving people come to your home
and they're cleaning, thatbecomes a write-off in our
business because now we're usingour business services
internally.
So talk to your CPA andaccountant.
But one thing you mentioned wasuh cleaning up before the
(09:33):
cleaners come.
I want to know, is that likeonly a black person thing or
does do normal people do that aswell?
Everybody does that, otherpeople do that as well.
SPEAKER_00 (09:39):
Based on Tinta, everybody does it.
SPEAKER_01 (09:40):
So everybody cleans it before the cleaning business.
SPEAKER_00 (09:42):
It's more like tidying, not necessarily you're
scrubbing something, but morelike tidying because it's like
you don't want to get in theirway of the cleaning.
SPEAKER_01 (09:49):
So do you guys clean before your cleaning business,
your cleaning company comes andcleans or your cleaners.
Let me know in the comments.
And you might be thinking itmight cost a lot of money to do
this, and a lot is relative.
So you're talking about if youhave a a depends on the size of
your home.
Depends on the size of yourhome, obviously.
But if you have a 1500 to 2,000square foot house or apartment,
whatever it may be, you might bethinking about$150 to$200 to$200
(10:11):
every two weeks.
Depending on where you live andall that, and all of that stuff.
But if you think about theamount of time you're saving
back, you're talking about twoto four hours every single week
or every two weeks that you nowget back in life that you don't
have to go and clean and scruband things like that.
Now, some people say I enjoydoing it.
But my question for you is isthis something that you enjoy
doing more than cleaning?
So you give up the$150,$200, andnow you go do something that you
(10:34):
actually enjoy doing more thanthat.
So people think it is a anextreme expense, but more often
than not, you just have to lookup the pricing.
So that's something you canstart with once a month.
SPEAKER_00 (10:43):
I think it's a different feeling.
I mean, it depends how hard youscrap, but I think it's a
different feeling of like havingyour home clean.
And like you said, it doesn'thave to be expensive.
You can go with a company, youcan go with a person, it can
really range.
You'll be surprised.
I I yeah, we definitely grow upin the world of like, no, we
don't have cleaning servicesthat costs too much money.
But if you look into it, you'llbe surprised.
You may be able to afford it.
SPEAKER_01 (11:03):
So exactly.
And if you don't want to doevery two weeks, you could do
once a month and start there andwork your way up.
So now you at least get that twoto three hours back per month
versus per week or every twoweeks.
And if you want to learn how tostart a remote cleaning business
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We got a starter kit where wekind of help you get launched
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SPEAKER_00 (11:22):
So at Cleaning Business University.
SPEAKER_01 (11:24):
Absolutely.
Thanks, Cerlo.
Start with once a month.
You're talking about$100,$250.
And then you could even dohourly if you want.
If you want to just start with atwo-hour cleaning, see if they
do that, that could be about$120.
Now you could get your timeback.
SPEAKER_00 (11:35):
So just in specific areas in your home.
Yeah.
The fourth thing that we do inregards to saving time is lawn
care.
Yeah, we ain't doing nothing outthere.
Now, there's been times that youjust wanted to go out there and
rake the leaves, and you've donethat with Alani in the backyard,
and they were out there havingfun.
Listen, me, I don't want to jumpin out.
You know, we live in Texas.
Some people then say they'veseen a little snake.
I I don't want to, I'm not doingit.
(11:58):
I'm not doing it.
So, yes, we have somebody thatcomes and does the lawn
depending on the weather,depending on the season, excuse
me.
It could be every week or everyother week.
They trim the bushes.
We haven't done like a fullrevamp of like flower beds, but
when my grandmother was here,she would do that.
So lawn care is something thatwe hire and outsource.
It is not something that we doourselves unless the leaves look
(12:19):
too crazy, and then Anthony willgo out there and kind of handle
that.
But other than that, we do lawncare.
And they just bill us and we wepay it and keep it moving.
SPEAKER_01 (12:27):
And we don't spend hours every single weekend
mowing the lawn and doing theleaves because we'd rather have
someone else do it.
So the time we're talking aboutsaving, the time that I have
actually done it, it's taking meover an hour to do it.
More than that.
SPEAKER_00 (12:38):
You were out there forever.
SPEAKER_01 (12:39):
I was out there for a minute doing it.
I had my daughter, we was kindof playing around with it.
But I as I was doing it, I'mlike, I could be doing something
better with my time.
It was a good time to be with mydaughter and doing it.
But I'm not going out and rakingleaves every single weekend
because I feel like I'd ratherspend that time with my family,
working out, or just on mymentor load and just enjoying
life versus doing that manuallabor that I don't have to do.
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So we're talking about one totwo hours every single week of
our team coming in doing that.
Now, you might be thinking thatmight be expensive as well, but
we pay our personality.
It might be$40,$30 a week doingthat.
It might be$30 every two weeksif you decide$40 every two
weeks.
So we're talking about less than$100, and that's giving you at
least one hour per week back,depending on how fast your lawn
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grows and stuff like that.
But you can now save that timeand do something else.
You give the$100, they do it,they come every single week, and
then now you're doing somethingelse that you enjoy doing.
So that's something that we donot do.
Um, and that gets us our timeback.
SPEAKER_00 (13:34):
The fifth thing that we kind of outsource definitely,
and we've spoken about it indifferent ways, is childcare.
We had a well, doula kind of wasmore education-based.
I wouldn't say she um weoutsourced her, but it is
someone that can help you beforebirth, during birth, and after
birth, kind of prepare your bodymentally and physically to have
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the baby and do all the thingsthey educate you and get you
prepared.
But she didn't help withchildcare per se, but there are
some that I guess assist withthat.
But we've had a night nurse whenwe had Alani, we've had a
full-time nanny for two years,and then we've had an all-peer,
and then we've also hadbabysitters.
So we are not afraid, and we'vealso oh, our child is in school,
(14:15):
so that's child care.
SPEAKER_01 (14:16):
Let's pause for a second, let's break down the
different layers because youwent from doula to all pair, and
we gotta go through pricepoints.
SPEAKER_00 (14:22):
So let's start with Okay, Doula's not a child care
person, so I won't just eraseher for now.
SPEAKER_01 (14:27):
Let's start with the night nanny.
Let's start with the lowestlevel of childcare that someone
could, I don't want to sayoutsource, but in order to get
some hours back.
SPEAKER_00 (14:35):
Babysitter.
SPEAKER_01 (14:35):
Babysitter.
SPEAKER_00 (14:36):
Most of our babysitters I have found in
Facebook groups, honestly.
Just mom groups or just nannygroups where people are
promoting their services.
Like, what's an example of likea mom group?
Mom group in Dallas.
So just literally or justliterally your city and town mom
group or like nannies inCharlotte.
Nanny's in Georgia.
Like, you know, they're lookingfor work and they're promoting
their work there, and people aresigning off on their behalf.
(14:59):
So we found our two babysittersand our long-term nanny in
Facebook groups.
That's where we found them.
Um, interviewed them, backgroundchecked, got their ID, license
plate, all that type of stuff,and then we hired them.
That's essentially.
But a babysitter is gonna becheaper than a nanny because a
babysitter is usually justcoming in for a few hours to
assist you.
So depending on where you live,obviously, nothing is lower than
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$20 in Dallas,$20 per hour,unless it's a high school
person, which I've not done thatyet.
I haven't had any babysitterthat young.
Usually our babysitters havebeen about 25 plus.
But if you get someone from highschool, I'm sure they're much
cheaper than$20 an hour.
That's the lowest or cheapestthat you probably can find.
And if you have more kids, theycharge more for more kids.
And so babysitters are easier tofind and you can utilize.
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And it's not like you have tosay, like, oh, I'm giving them
specific hours every week.
It's just as needed.
So nanny's process, sameprocess, honestly.
They're just if they're lookingfor more hours or not.
So when we were in the place, welook for someone that it's funny
because originally we said, Oh,we only need 20 hours, we don't
really need full time, but wequickly saw that we did need
full time and we did, we likedit.
SPEAKER_01 (16:02):
And that could be 20 hours a week, that could be 20
hours a month, which would befive hours, about four to five
hours a week if you want to takeit that way.
SPEAKER_00 (16:08):
So, time saved for us when it comes to childcare is
higher than most people,probably, but not necessarily
because most of us kids are indaycare, and our child is our
oldest is in daycare, ouryoungest is still at home.
She's about 15 months right now,she's still at home with our
all-pair.
Now, all pair is someone thatlives with us, it's basically a
culture exchange, and she's withus for a year, and yeah, she's
(16:31):
the nanny, but lives that butlives here, essentially.
A living nanny, if you if that'sa better way to explain it.
So, childcare is something thatwe definitely outsource and
we're not afraid to do so.
One, because we work, we justwork at home, so I know it looks
different for people.
We work and so we need thatassistance.
Two, our oldest didn't go toschool until she was about two.
(16:51):
I we just don't feel the need torush them into school if we
don't have to.
So we like them being home,learning and doing all the
things, but just kind of keepinga close eye with them being that
young.
So that's just the flexibilitythat we like to have, and that's
why we have we've had nanniesand an RPR.
What else I wanted to say aroundthat?
SPEAKER_01 (17:08):
And then it also gives us the ability to do date
nights.
Yeah, and we got work,obviously.
We got some, we need to do focusenergy, focus work sometimes,
but then also date nights.
So, how do you reconnect?
You see those couples that arelike, Well, I haven't been on
vacation, I haven't done a datenight.
And I was like, huh?
We haven't done a date night insix months.
We do a date night almost threetimes a month.
Yeah, at least three times amonth.
SPEAKER_00 (17:29):
And and date night doesn't have to be what people
think, like have lunch.
Yeah, it can just be your lunchsomething just outside of the
yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (17:35):
If you have kids, if you have kids and they're home
with you after school, can youget a babysitter for$20 an hour
to just babysit them for now twoto three hours so you and your
spouse can go out for a littlebit and enjoy that, enjoy that
time with each other.
And even a few hours can make ahuge difference.
So you're saving about and childcare can be with grandparents
too.
Some some of them don't evenhave to be paid, right?
(17:56):
Yeah.
So for us, if it's like a$20,$25per hour person, they're gonna
watch our kids for a couplehours.
Now it allows us to do morework, are we able to make more
money, or just spend time witheach other and focus on each
other.
SPEAKER_00 (18:06):
So also, I'm gonna make a TikTok about this.
But some schools, I mean, yourkid has to go there, they do
like parent night out.
So like from 6 to 9 p.m.,they'll watch their kid.
But outside of that, I know likelocal things in the area do
that.
So like the gymnastics and stufflike that, they allow like you
to put your kid there, likemaybe one Friday and it could be
six to nine, six to ten p.m.,forty dollars, and that's
(18:28):
cheaper than getting someone.
So you could look at that aswell to find someone so you can
have date night or just thinkclearly, or just quiet in your
home, whatever that looks likefor you.
So, yeah, that's another optionwhen it comes to childcare.
SPEAKER_01 (18:41):
All right, number six, we're talking about admin
errant outsourcing VAs, whichwill be a virtual assistant,
talk about task rabbit, and wedelegate a lot of things in our
life.
We delegate errands, research,admin tasks to either people
online or people locally, and wecould talk about the admin
assistant and things like that.
SPEAKER_00 (18:59):
So we are not really a DIY couple, and some people
like to DIY things, but that'snot us.
If we gotta paint, we're gettinga painter.
If I gotta hang a TV, we'regetting a TV hanger.
If I'm putting up multiple ringcamera, so yeah, so that's just
not who we are.
So we do hire on Tass Rabbit.
If you don't know whatTaskRabbit is, they come and do
the task that you need.
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Like you can find cleaners onthere, you can you can find, I
don't know, almost anything thatyou can think of that you need
done in your home, maybe outsideof your home as well, you can
find on Tassarabbit for areasonable rate, and you can
look at their reviews and bookthem to come do a service.
And we've done that, especiallymoving into the home, hanging
things, stuff like that.
So we utilize that specifically.
Like what we do is like, okay,we have a few things that we
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need to do, have them come bangit out an hour to two hours.
SPEAKER_01 (19:46):
So, for an example, when we had our daughter, we was
getting nursery together, and itwas a lot of parts.
SPEAKER_00 (19:51):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (19:51):
And during that time, you are extremely busy,
you're extremely stressed.
Oh, well, well, you I mean, youcan't really do that.
So for me, it's like she can'tdo it.
Oh, she can't do it.
I don't want to do it though.
But it's like, all right, wehave all these heavy pieces.
Yes, I can sit there and try tofigure it out.
But we said, who can we havecome put all these pieces
together in one shot?
I know someone with the oneshot.
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I know some fathers, like, yeah,I take pride and enjoying
putting this stuff together, andthere's a little thing I might I
might do it, I might enjoy doingit.
Snoo, like little things likethat.
But if it's gonna take memultiple hours doing this, I'd
rather outsource.
You go to task rabbit, you havea gentleman come who's
professionally trained in doingthings like this.
He has a whole tool set, he getspaid, I get to look like I did
it.
It's a win-win situation.
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And even when he has less thantime, then I would.
SPEAKER_00 (20:35):
Just even an example, when we have like
furniture and stuff delivered,you can always do like the white
glove service, or you can someof them you have to do, but
either way, you can do like youbuild it yourself.
I add on build like you, youbuild it.
I want you to build it.
When we were moving ourdaughter's rooms from downstairs
to upstairs and putting thingstogether, the people that
painted also assisted with likebuilding stuff and stuff like
that.
So we are very like utilizingthe things around us as much as
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possible so we can just focus onother things.
We just don't enjoy it.
I mean, if we enjoyed buildingor doing it, then we would do
it.
But that's not something that weenjoy doing.
So we delegated out.
SPEAKER_01 (21:08):
But then think about that time save.
So just the the children's room,that was a heavy hour task
between both of the guys thatcame and did it.
Yeah.
So imagine if I was trying to dothat myself and we paid them, I
don't know how much we pay them,but you can find somebody$20,$25
an hour and you just savedyourself three to five hours.
And it's just that was just oneof the big tasks, but it's like
all a few little admin things,right?
SPEAKER_00 (21:28):
If you might have to go return something to like the
post officer, like you had alist of things, like some
examples of things that well,which one thing we don't have
here, but if you can do it ishaving a house manager.
Um, we did have a house managertemporarily, but uh she ended up
getting a full-time job.
SPEAKER_01 (21:45):
House manager sounds bougie.
You could just say an assistantor admin assistant or something.
An assistant don't sound bougie?
I don't know.
A house manager sounds moreextens expensive than an
assistant.
SPEAKER_00 (21:55):
But someone can help out with tasks.
Okay, well, the house manager,you can Google exactly what it
is, but it's someone that canhelp you with tasks in your
home.
So maybe they'll book the taskrabbit, maybe they'll make sure
that the person arrives, they'llreturn your returns, make sure
you have groceries, things arestocked, make sure you order
your meal plan.
Like they manage the house.
You know, and you know, that'ssome things that mostly a lot of
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women handle, not saying mendon't, but mostly a lot of women
handle it can be an added-onthing.
And so hiring an assistant, taskmanager, whatever you want to
call them, can be something elsethat can be helpful as well.
That's along the lines of thatadmin errant outsourcing thing.
And how much would you kind ofpay someone to do that?
So I think it depends.
If if that's someone's likefull-time role, it's probably on
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the higher side.
But I I found someone as low as$20 an hour, similar to like
what they can do for babysittingor nanny.
And sometimes people do both.
Like I've seen people that theyare household manager and nanny
all in one.
So think about that.
SPEAKER_01 (22:48):
You think house manager is going to be hundreds
of dollars, but in thisparticular instance, or mommy's
helper is another name that youmight have heard.
So we're talking about$20 anhour.
These are things that we havehad in our lives that literally
saved us a lot of time.
So you might be thinking, Oh, Ican't afford it, but it's$20 an
hour where you're like, well, ifI get back now three to five
hours a week, is that$20 an hourworth it?
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Adjust the mental load of ththat you have.
And you can find somebody, thisdoesn't have to be a
professional, you can findsomebody from high school and
just give them a task list,right?
Find somebody to do this, findsomebody to do that, find
somebody to do that, and itcould just be a couple hours a
week that just gives you moretime back.
SPEAKER_00 (23:23):
We spend a lot of time just doing the outsource
and then VA.
So virtual assistants workheavily in our businesses, on
our online businesses that wehave.
So the cleaning business, ourdigital side, even just the
podcast, education.
We use virtual assistants.
We use a lot of internationalvirtual assistants for our
businesses, and we've beenworking with a lot of them for
years.
And that's something that Ithink also I think more people
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are getting hip to it now, butit doesn't have to be a huge
expense, it doesn't have to be afull-time, you can find someone
that just wants part-time, andthe hourly pay can range from
three to six dollars an hour foryour business.
Can you afford that?
So that's something to alsoconsider when it comes to that.
SPEAKER_01 (24:00):
Before y'all try to blow up the comments, you're
like, how do you pay somebodysix dollars an hour?
Well, if they're working or theinternationally, yeah, if you're
working overseas in thePhilippines, like that's how,
because that's a pretty decentwage when you kind of do the
conversion of it.
Yes.
So that's what most of themcharge anyway.
So you can go upwards if youwant to pay in more, you know,
six to ten dollars, that'stotally fine as well.
So, but again, you're bringingsomebody in to help you get that
time back.
(24:21):
So now you can do things in yourbusiness if you have a business,
or even if you got things athome that you want them to
handle, like booking flights foryou, checking your calendar,
date night appointments,checking on hotels, these are
all things that we feel like weain't there yet, but we actually
could be.
We haven't we have an admin whodoes some of these things,
right?
But you think it just costs somuch money.
So you could go to onlinejobs.phand find somebody for three to
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five dollars an hour, and theycan help you in your day-to-day
operations of just running yourlife, not even just your
business.
SPEAKER_00 (24:48):
Well, I mean, along the lines of errand outsourcing
also can be like travel agentsand stuff like that.
Now, that's not a weekly thingthat we do, we're not traveling
every week, but it is somethingthat helps us just when we want
a vacation, so we don't have tothink about it.
It's just like a brain dump.
We want to go here, we want tospend this, and this is what we
want to do.
Kids are not, and give me theoptions and we'll pay.
So that's another option of likeoutsourcing and utilizing
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people.
And the last thing, just a quickbonus on something else that we
do, which is once again, it'snot weekly, but it's something
that you can consider is TSApre-check, global entry, clear,
clear, it's not as expensive asyou as you think, and it lasts
for years to come.
So if you get global entry, thatcan just cover TSA and Global
Entry.
If you don't know what that is,it allows you to skip the lines
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when you're going throughcustoms and um yeah, customs
coming back into the country,and even in other countries,
global entry allows you to skipthe lines.
Same thing with TSA, as youknow.
Uh, the lines are generallyshorter.
A lot more people have it now,but the lines are generally
shorter, and you don't have tocheck out your laptop and
everything like that.
So just making it moreconvenient for yourself when
you're flying, showing up,having kids, doing all the
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things, you can get you can getaway with that.
So it's another like shortcutfor your life.
Anything that we can do to makeour life easier, we're gonna
implement obviously if we canafford it, especially if it
saves us time.
Yes, and global entry, I don'teven know what the price is at
this point.
Kids under 18 are free at thispoint.
SPEAKER_01 (26:13):
But it might be$150, like all in for like five years,
and then also if you add clearon top of that, that's another
travel hack where if you got TSAand clear, now some lines just
saying they got like it's a it'sa it's like habit stacking.
You got the TSA, you got thepre-check, and then you got the
clear, and it's like you got tocombine both of them, and you
get to skip everyone.
(26:33):
So think about the time saved onthose lines that might be 30
minutes versus and you got inyour shoes and your book bag and
all of that stuff saves youtime, energy.
SPEAKER_00 (26:41):
And a lot of credit cards cover clear and global
entry, they cover the fee.
So if you have if you have acredit card, just check it out.
And for us, it's a no-brainerthat every single person in the
family will have all the thingsbecause we travel enough that we
don't want to waste time, youknow, especially going through
with kids.
SPEAKER_01 (26:59):
So let's talk about the math for a little bit.
What is your time work?
So, guys, if you if you aregoing through this episode,
you're listening, but well,Anthony and Janoka, you guys got
all this money in the world, soof course you could do these
things.
And I want to change yourmindset a little bit because if
you make$50 per hour, right?
Think about it.
Why would you spend$5 a weekdoing a$15 an hour task?
SPEAKER_00 (27:19):
$50 per hour is pretty good.
SPEAKER_01 (27:21):
If you make$40 an hour, why would you spend your
time doing something thatsomebody else could do for five
to ten dollars an hour?
Think about it like that, right?
So if you have if now if youhave$50, now you're like, all
right, I'm giving up$10 an hour,but then now you're getting back
two to three hours a week doingthose things.
And buying back your time is notabout being lazy, it's more
about being smart andintentional.
And then it's about reinvestingyour time back into yourself,
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your family, your business,whatever it may be.
So that's super important inyour health, yeah.
And you don't have to do it allyourself.
You can start with one thingthat you hate the most and then
try to outsource that or thething that takes the most time.
So if you're like, all right,well, laundry,$15,$10 a load, I
might want to outsource that.
Start with just one thing.
It doesn't have to be all thesethings, like we said.
(28:04):
Yeah, start with just one thingand start outsourcing that,
right?
SPEAKER_00 (28:07):
And yeah, we don't always do the laundry, you know,
just whenever it's conveniencefor you, convenient, excuse me,
for you.
And it helps you just to have aclearer space.
I I briefly just spoke on that,but there's a big conversation
now about like women and mothershaving a full-on mental load.
And it's like, can you get ridof some of the things to assist
you and not constantly have thatreoccurring thing in your head
(28:28):
of like, I need to do, I need todo, I need to do?
Because we don't necessarilyhave to do it all.
Um, if we're able to, we candelegate it out to other people.
So we wanted to know which oneof these resonated with you the
most.
Like which one do you think thatyou will implement today?
Ain't no reason to wait till thenext month.
Today, can you discuss with aspouse?
Can you discuss with someone?
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What is one of these hacks orone of these outsourcing things
that you can do and implementfor your family yourself?
SPEAKER_01 (28:54):
Make sure you drop it in the comments too.
And if you want more tips onbuying back your time and
building real wealth, subscribeand check out our other videos
and share this with someone thatyou know who may need it.
SPEAKER_00 (29:05):
Someone that needs to hear this, someone that
you're like, I've been tellingthem, I've been doing it, hear
from someone else.
I know also for people that looklike us, it's also a different
conversation.
Even just having thoseconversations with our parents,
like mother and saying, like,oh, you're gonna have a night
nanny?
There's gonna be a person therewatching the kid at night.
Like those conversations waswere had with us, but it's
something that we're like, yeah,this is what we want to do.
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So it just opens up a differentconversation sometimes.
SPEAKER_01 (29:29):
So the biggest mistake people make is thinking
they have to do it all bythemselves.
Start with one thing, buy back afew hours, and watch how much
your life changes.
So thanks for watching and makesure that you take action.
Absolutely.
See you guys next time.
What would you do differently ifyou were us?
What would you add?
What would you subtract?
Let us know.
Peace.
All right, bye.
So we get this question all the time.
(00:01):
How do you guys do so much whenyou have two kids, multiple
seven-figure businesses, andyou're not working 80-hour work
weeks like you used to do?
So in the next couple minutes,we're gonna answer that question
completely.
We'll show you exactly what westop doing, what we pay other
people to do instead, and howmuch it costs.
Because if you feel like you'realways busy, you'll never get
things done, you'll never getthings ahead, and this video
(00:22):
might change everything for you.
Yo, yo, what's going on, guys?
Welcome to another episode ofthe More Than A Side Hustle
Podcast where we help morenon-to-fives create more impact,
income, and influence outsidethe non-tof.
SPEAKER_00 (00:44):
So today we're gonna be talking about how we get 20
extra hours in our week withoutworking more.
So listen up closely.
And you know, they see us go ondate nights, vacations, running
our business and the secret.
They want to know what thesecret is.
Are you not sleeping?
Which is absolutely not true.
We both get eight hours plusevery night.
So we're gonna talk about thattoday.
SPEAKER_01 (01:02):
And honestly, we used to wonder the same thing.
And it's like you feel like whenyou got more in life, when you
have more things to do in life,that you aren't, you actually
don't have the time to dothings, and that's not the case.
And we literally sat down anddid the math.
And what we found out shockedus, we literally have about 20
extra hours every single weekcompared to when we first
started.
SPEAKER_00 (01:19):
And we're not working less per se, we're not
cutting corners, we just arecutting out the things that we
don't need to do to give us moretime.
We're not superhuman, we're notworking less, we are just
intentional about our time.
SPEAKER_01 (01:31):
And so we realized we were spending hours every
single week in things on thatdidn't actually move our life
forward or it didn't move ourbusiness forward.
So we sat down, we did a timeaudit, and there are some things
that you realize in your lifethat actually you don't need to
be doing.
And one of the things werealized is that it doesn't give
us back more time in order tocreate more income for
ourselves, and not necessarilyjust didn't move the needle for
it, but things that you candelegate as well.
SPEAKER_00 (01:53):
Like you said, you don't have to do it all.
I know that that's how we wereraised.
I know most of our were raisedthat way that you do the
cleaning, you do the lawn, youdo the shop, you do all the
things.
And now we're at a place that ifwe can delegate it out, we will.
So the first one is meal prepand grocery delivery.
I actually did like a TikTokvideo on things that make our
life easier, and this was thenumber one thing in it.
(02:16):
Since COVID started in 2020, westarted using Instacart.
If you don't know what Instacartis, it's a grocery delivery
service, and honestly, theydeliver almost anything at this
point.
I think there's thousands ofstores on there, so it's not
just like food groceries.
But either way, every Sunday wemake sure we put everything into
the app.
The entire family, between me,Anthony, and our all up here,
(02:37):
and we order groceries so thatit comes directly to our door.
Now, some of you are gonna sayit costs a little more there.
It does.
I I've seen the price changes,it does cost a bit more.
However, the time it will takeus to walk through the aisles,
we probably spend more becauseyou get things you don't need
when you're walking in theaisles in the grocery store.
SPEAKER_01 (02:55):
Especially if you go hungry and you go to the grocery
store and start shopping.
SPEAKER_00 (02:58):
Right.
Also, don't gotta pack the kidsup and do all that.
It's just more convenient for usto have the groceries delivered
right here.
We can cook, we know what we'redoing for the week, things like
that.
That works perfectly for us.
So, grocery deliveries withInstacart has been a game
changer for the past five years.
We never stop since COVIDstarted.
SPEAKER_01 (03:16):
Absolutely, and this time you'll be saving is about
two to three hours because inbetween grocery trips, you gotta
talk about also the meal prepdelivery service.
So, people think meal prepdelivery service is a lot of
money.
And if you find someone localand you break it down, we had a
meal prep delivery service downhere in Dallas, Texas.
That was an inside joke.
(03:36):
Sorry about that.
Junoka usually says down here inDallas, like we're already here.
SPEAKER_00 (03:40):
No, because majority of the people that I assume that
we're speaking to is from backhome or upper east coast.
It could they can be anywhere,but technically we're down.
Texas is down.
SPEAKER_01 (03:48):
So we say down here.
But we found someone local, andwhen we really did the math, it
came out to about$10 to$12 ameal.
If you're talking about 10 mealsbetween two people, that gives
you lunch and dinner everysingle day for at least Monday
through Friday, where you don'thave to meal prep, you don't
have to think about it.
SPEAKER_00 (04:03):
You don't have to think about it.
Just gotta think about the kids.
SPEAKER_01 (04:05):
And then also the part you're not thinking about
is you're probably eatinghealthier when you're meal
prepping services.
So if you do a meal prepservice, you try to find
something that's like$10 to$12an hour.
You might say it's a little bitmore expensive where you are,
but then it's not just about themoney, it's about the time
you're saving.
So between the grocery deliveryservices and the meal prep, that
alone is going to get you atleast two to three hours back a
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week.
And I was like, what can usethat time to do uh something
else that you want to do?
SPEAKER_00 (04:29):
And even the meal prep, they bring it right to the
door.
So even if it's not a localperson, I know a lot of
different companies out there doit.
X Factor, there's so manydifferent companies that that do
it, but we prefer just somebodylocal, just fed it felt a bit
more fresh for us.
But yes, meal prep and grocerydeliveries is something that I
don't know that we will evergive up.
Now, don't get me wrong, once ina while we may stop in
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somewhere, but 90% of ourgroceries come from delivery.
SPEAKER_01 (04:55):
And then also, if you can't do five meals a week
or 10 meals a week, whatever itis, can you start with one meal
a day?
That gives you five meals forthe entire week.
So that might be a dinner orsomething.
You might say, all right, well,I normally eat a little heavier
at night.
So you might say, instead of medoing something where I gotta
cook, I'm just gonna do one meala day.
And you could just start there.
SPEAKER_00 (05:17):
Definitely healthier options, I would I would say
with meal deliveries.
I don't know many meal deliveryservices that's not doing
healthy, but I'm sure that'spossible.
Oh, absolutely.
Um, yeah, definitely healthyoptions.
So that is the first thing whenit comes to saving time for us.
The second thing is laundryservices.
Now, we don't use it everysingle time, but use it enough.
So maybe we're coming back fromvacation, the clothes is it's a
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busy week and nobody has time todo laundry, or even our
comforters for the differentseasons.
We can't do our comforters inour washer and dryer.
And so we will use laundryservices and once again,
directly to the door.
Put your laundry outside of thedoor, they pick it up, take
pictures, it's all through anapp, and they bring it back the
next day.
Folded, smelling fresh.
You can tell them what productsto use.
(05:59):
If you want dryer sheets to holdnine, if you're so particular,
and then they bring it back.
SPEAKER_01 (06:03):
And that's gonna save you.
If you think about the amount oftime it takes you to do laundry,
energy and the energy and themental bandwidth.
If you took them about two tothree hours, that's probably
like two to three hours a week,right there as well.
Some people wash every day.
SPEAKER_00 (06:14):
I heard that like we wash probably once a week now.
SPEAKER_01 (06:17):
Yeah, the girls wash their clothes a little bit more.
But if you think about theamount of energy and time that
you're putting into washing, yougotta put the clothes, you gotta
sort the clothes, put them inthe washer, and then take them
out the washer, put them intothe dryer, and then take them
out.
And then folding them, and mostof y'all let your clothes sit
for at least a week before theshave me.
SPEAKER_00 (06:33):
That was me.
SPEAKER_01 (06:34):
So you're letting the clothes sit for some time
because you're like, I'm it'seventually going to get done.
And it's when you start pickingfrom the clean clothes, and then
now you got a clean clothes pileand a dirty clothes pile starts
getting messy.
But we're talking about at leasttwo to three hours a week, and
you might be thinking that thisis going to cost a lot of money.
More often than not, it's goingto be less expensive than you
think.
So for us, if we're cleaning ourclothes for a family, usually me
(06:56):
and Junoka, we do our clothes.
Yeah.
And we're talking about maybeabout four loads.
That's under$100.
Way less than that.
It's actually way less thanthat.
Yeah.
I don't remember that.
You have to check your app thelast time, how much you spent.
SPEAKER_00 (07:07):
Oh, speaking of app, what are some apps that people
could use for that?
The only app we've used twoapps, but the one that I can
think of now is Poplin.
I don't remember the other onethat we've done in the past.
And it usually ranges to like, Ithink like$50 sometimes.
And then you, if you give a tip,I want to say that's the range
of it.
SPEAKER_01 (07:22):
Oh, we'll also put the the show notes where you
have the link to what it is.
So it's P-O-P-L-I-N Poplin.
SPEAKER_00 (07:28):
Hmm.
So we got a little link we couldput.
Cool.
SPEAKER_01 (07:31):
Absolutely.
So the last laundry load we didwas only$37.
SPEAKER_00 (07:35):
That's what I was about to say.
It's not even.
SPEAKER_01 (07:37):
And if I look at the actual, we had three bags of
laundry that they service, andit was only$37.
And it came up to about 27pounds.
So about a dollar a pound, yougive tip, gratuity, all of that
stuff.
So it comes up to$37.
And that was literally for bothof our laundry over the course
of a week and a half.
SPEAKER_00 (07:53):
Yes.
And we go to the gym a lot andeverything.
SPEAKER_01 (07:55):
So you're talking about saving two to three hours
a week for just$37.
If you don't want to do thedrop-off service or delivery, if
you want to do the deliveryservice, you can do the drop-off
service.
SPEAKER_00 (08:04):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (08:04):
So we used to do that back in a city as well when
we lived in New York.
We would do the local wash andfold and we would drop it off to
them.
SPEAKER_00 (08:10):
And then go pick it up.
SPEAKER_01 (08:11):
And go pick it up.
SPEAKER_00 (08:12):
Same type of thing.
But this one is actually comingto your home.
So it's just a bit easier andmore convenient.
This is all about convenience,okay?
And I I always live byconvenience costs more money.
Just in general in life,convenience is always gonna cost
more money.
So if you're willing to kind ofspend it, then go ahead and do
it.
SPEAKER_01 (08:27):
You're gonna pay in time or you're gonna pay in
money?
SPEAKER_00 (08:29):
Yes, that's enough.
SPEAKER_01 (08:30):
So in this one, we're talking about saving some
time while dishing out a littlebit of extra dollars.
SPEAKER_00 (08:34):
Now the third thing we do is house cleaning.
If you didn't know, we arecleaning business owners, so we
get our home clean every two tothree weeks.
And that is just something thatworks conveniently for us.
Now, even before we became umcleaning business owners, when
we moved down to Dallas, we hadbook cleaning services.
We're like, we don't want to doit ourselves.
Now there's things you do inbetween, sure.
(08:54):
There's tidying up before thecleaning services come, sure.
But having the cleaning servicehere a specific time, a specific
day, everybody knows it's gonnahappen is just a game changer.
And then as the holidays come,you do a deep clean, the base
for all those things.
So I don't know when, if ever,we will go without cleaning
services.
SPEAKER_01 (09:12):
Yes, we own a cleaning business where we don't
clean houses, and also one ofthe things about that is that
your cleaning business expensesbecome a write-off for your
cleaning business.
So if you're saying you'rehaving people come to your home
and they're cleaning, thatbecomes a write-off in our
business because now we're usingour business services
internally.
So talk to your CPA andaccountant.
But one thing you mentioned wasuh cleaning up before the
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cleaners come.
I want to know, is that likeonly a black person thing or
does do normal people do that aswell?
Everybody does that, otherpeople do that as well.
SPEAKER_00 (09:39):
Based on Tinta, everybody does it.
SPEAKER_01 (09:40):
So everybody cleans it before the cleaning business.
SPEAKER_00 (09:42):
It's more like tidying, not necessarily you're
scrubbing something, but morelike tidying because it's like
you don't want to get in theirway of the cleaning.
SPEAKER_01 (09:49):
So do you guys clean before your cleaning business,
your cleaning company comes andcleans or your cleaners.
Let me know in the comments.
And you might be thinking itmight cost a lot of money to do
this, and a lot is relative.
So you're talking about if youhave a a depends on the size of
your home.
Depends on the size of yourhome, obviously.
But if you have a 1500 to 2,000square foot house or apartment,
whatever it may be, you might bethinking about$150 to$200 to$200
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every two weeks.
Depending on where you live andall that, and all of that stuff.
But if you think about theamount of time you're saving
back, you're talking about twoto four hours every single week
or every two weeks that you nowget back in life that you don't
have to go and clean and scruband things like that.
Now, some people say I enjoydoing it.
But my question for you is isthis something that you enjoy
doing more than cleaning?
So you give up the$150,$200, andnow you go do something that you
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actually enjoy doing more thanthat.
So people think it is a anextreme expense, but more often
than not, you just have to lookup the pricing.
So that's something you canstart with once a month.
SPEAKER_00 (10:43):
I think it's a different feeling.
I mean, it depends how hard youscrap, but I think it's a
different feeling of like havingyour home clean.
And like you said, it doesn'thave to be expensive.
You can go with a company, youcan go with a person, it can
really range.
You'll be surprised.
I I yeah, we definitely grow upin the world of like, no, we
don't have cleaning servicesthat costs too much money.
But if you look into it, you'llbe surprised.
You may be able to afford it.
SPEAKER_01 (11:03):
So exactly.
And if you don't want to doevery two weeks, you could do
once a month and start there andwork your way up.
So now you at least get that twoto three hours back per month
versus per week or every twoweeks.
And if you want to learn how tostart a remote cleaning business
without cleaning any houses,click the link below.
We got a starter kit where wekind of help you get launched
and learn more about the remotecleaning business.
SPEAKER_00 (11:22):
So at Cleaning Business University.
SPEAKER_01 (11:24):
Absolutely.
Thanks, Cerlo.
Start with once a month.
You're talking about$100,$250.
And then you could even dohourly if you want.
If you want to just start with atwo-hour cleaning, see if they
do that, that could be about$120.
Now you could get your timeback.
SPEAKER_00 (11:35):
So just in specific areas in your home.
Yeah.
The fourth thing that we do inregards to saving time is lawn
care.
Yeah, we ain't doing nothing outthere.
Now, there's been times that youjust wanted to go out there and
rake the leaves, and you've donethat with Alani in the backyard,
and they were out there havingfun.
Listen, me, I don't want to jumpin out.
You know, we live in Texas.
Some people then say they'veseen a little snake.
I I don't want to, I'm not doingit.
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I'm not doing it.
So, yes, we have somebody thatcomes and does the lawn
depending on the weather,depending on the season, excuse
me.
It could be every week or everyother week.
They trim the bushes.
We haven't done like a fullrevamp of like flower beds, but
when my grandmother was here,she would do that.
So lawn care is something thatwe hire and outsource.
It is not something that we doourselves unless the leaves look
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too crazy, and then Anthony willgo out there and kind of handle
that.
But other than that, we do lawncare.
And they just bill us and we wepay it and keep it moving.
SPEAKER_01 (12:27):
And we don't spend hours every single weekend
mowing the lawn and doing theleaves because we'd rather have
someone else do it.
So the time we're talking aboutsaving, the time that I have
actually done it, it's taking meover an hour to do it.
More than that.
SPEAKER_00 (12:38):
You were out there forever.
SPEAKER_01 (12:39):
I was out there for a minute doing it.
I had my daughter, we was kindof playing around with it.
But I as I was doing it, I'mlike, I could be doing something
better with my time.
It was a good time to be with mydaughter and doing it.
But I'm not going out and rakingleaves every single weekend
because I feel like I'd ratherspend that time with my family,
working out, or just on mymentor load and just enjoying
life versus doing that manuallabor that I don't have to do.
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So we're talking about one totwo hours every single week of
our team coming in doing that.
Now, you might be thinking thatmight be expensive as well, but
we pay our personality.
It might be$40,$30 a week doingthat.
It might be$30 every two weeksif you decide$40 every two
weeks.
So we're talking about less than$100, and that's giving you at
least one hour per week back,depending on how fast your lawn
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grows and stuff like that.
But you can now save that timeand do something else.
You give the$100, they do it,they come every single week, and
then now you're doing somethingelse that you enjoy doing.
So that's something that we donot do.
Um, and that gets us our timeback.
SPEAKER_00 (13:34):
The fifth thing that we kind of outsource definitely,
and we've spoken about it indifferent ways, is childcare.
We had a well, doula kind of wasmore education-based.
I wouldn't say she um weoutsourced her, but it is
someone that can help you beforebirth, during birth, and after
birth, kind of prepare your bodymentally and physically to have
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the baby and do all the thingsthey educate you and get you
prepared.
But she didn't help withchildcare per se, but there are
some that I guess assist withthat.
But we've had a night nurse whenwe had Alani, we've had a
full-time nanny for two years,and then we've had an all-peer,
and then we've also hadbabysitters.
So we are not afraid, and we'vealso oh, our child is in school,
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so that's child care.
SPEAKER_01 (14:16):
Let's pause for a second, let's break down the
different layers because youwent from doula to all pair, and
we gotta go through pricepoints.
SPEAKER_00 (14:22):
So let's start with Okay, Doula's not a child care
person, so I won't just eraseher for now.
SPEAKER_01 (14:27):
Let's start with the night nanny.
Let's start with the lowestlevel of childcare that someone
could, I don't want to sayoutsource, but in order to get
some hours back.
SPEAKER_00 (14:35):
Babysitter.
SPEAKER_01 (14:35):
Babysitter.
SPEAKER_00 (14:36):
Most of our babysitters I have found in
Facebook groups, honestly.
Just mom groups or just nannygroups where people are
promoting their services.
Like, what's an example of likea mom group?
Mom group in Dallas.
So just literally or justliterally your city and town mom
group or like nannies inCharlotte.
Nanny's in Georgia.
Like, you know, they're lookingfor work and they're promoting
their work there, and people aresigning off on their behalf.
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So we found our two babysittersand our long-term nanny in
Facebook groups.
That's where we found them.
Um, interviewed them, backgroundchecked, got their ID, license
plate, all that type of stuff,and then we hired them.
That's essentially.
But a babysitter is gonna becheaper than a nanny because a
babysitter is usually justcoming in for a few hours to
assist you.
So depending on where you live,obviously, nothing is lower than
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$20 in Dallas,$20 per hour,unless it's a high school
person, which I've not done thatyet.
I haven't had any babysitterthat young.
Usually our babysitters havebeen about 25 plus.
But if you get someone from highschool, I'm sure they're much
cheaper than$20 an hour.
That's the lowest or cheapestthat you probably can find.
And if you have more kids, theycharge more for more kids.
And so babysitters are easier tofind and you can utilize.
(15:41):
And it's not like you have tosay, like, oh, I'm giving them
specific hours every week.
It's just as needed.
So nanny's process, sameprocess, honestly.
They're just if they're lookingfor more hours or not.
So when we were in the place, welook for someone that it's funny
because originally we said, Oh,we only need 20 hours, we don't
really need full time, but wequickly saw that we did need
full time and we did, we likedit.
SPEAKER_01 (16:02):
And that could be 20 hours a week, that could be 20
hours a month, which would befive hours, about four to five
hours a week if you want to takeit that way.
SPEAKER_00 (16:08):
So, time saved for us when it comes to childcare is
higher than most people,probably, but not necessarily
because most of us kids are indaycare, and our child is our
oldest is in daycare, ouryoungest is still at home.
She's about 15 months right now,she's still at home with our
all-pair.
Now, all pair is someone thatlives with us, it's basically a
culture exchange, and she's withus for a year, and yeah, she's
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the nanny, but lives that butlives here, essentially.
A living nanny, if you if that'sa better way to explain it.
So, childcare is something thatwe definitely outsource and
we're not afraid to do so.
One, because we work, we justwork at home, so I know it looks
different for people.
We work and so we need thatassistance.
Two, our oldest didn't go toschool until she was about two.
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I we just don't feel the need torush them into school if we
don't have to.
So we like them being home,learning and doing all the
things, but just kind of keepinga close eye with them being that
young.
So that's just the flexibilitythat we like to have, and that's
why we have we've had nanniesand an RPR.
What else I wanted to say aroundthat?
SPEAKER_01 (17:08):
And then it also gives us the ability to do date
nights.
Yeah, and we got work,obviously.
We got some, we need to do focusenergy, focus work sometimes,
but then also date nights.
So, how do you reconnect?
You see those couples that arelike, Well, I haven't been on
vacation, I haven't done a datenight.
And I was like, huh?
We haven't done a date night insix months.
We do a date night almost threetimes a month.
Yeah, at least three times amonth.
SPEAKER_00 (17:29):
And and date night doesn't have to be what people
think, like have lunch.
Yeah, it can just be your lunchsomething just outside of the
yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (17:35):
If you have kids, if you have kids and they're home
with you after school, can youget a babysitter for$20 an hour
to just babysit them for now twoto three hours so you and your
spouse can go out for a littlebit and enjoy that, enjoy that
time with each other.
And even a few hours can make ahuge difference.
So you're saving about and childcare can be with grandparents
too.
Some some of them don't evenhave to be paid, right?
(17:56):
Yeah.
So for us, if it's like a$20,$25per hour person, they're gonna
watch our kids for a couplehours.
Now it allows us to do morework, are we able to make more
money, or just spend time witheach other and focus on each
other.
SPEAKER_00 (18:06):
So also, I'm gonna make a TikTok about this.
But some schools, I mean, yourkid has to go there, they do
like parent night out.
So like from 6 to 9 p.m.,they'll watch their kid.
But outside of that, I know likelocal things in the area do
that.
So like the gymnastics and stufflike that, they allow like you
to put your kid there, likemaybe one Friday and it could be
six to nine, six to ten p.m.,forty dollars, and that's
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cheaper than getting someone.
So you could look at that aswell to find someone so you can
have date night or just thinkclearly, or just quiet in your
home, whatever that looks likefor you.
So, yeah, that's another optionwhen it comes to childcare.
SPEAKER_01 (18:41):
All right, number six, we're talking about admin
errant outsourcing VAs, whichwill be a virtual assistant,
talk about task rabbit, and wedelegate a lot of things in our
life.
We delegate errands, research,admin tasks to either people
online or people locally, and wecould talk about the admin
assistant and things like that.
SPEAKER_00 (18:59):
So we are not really a DIY couple, and some people
like to DIY things, but that'snot us.
If we gotta paint, we're gettinga painter.
If I gotta hang a TV, we'regetting a TV hanger.
If I'm putting up multiple ringcamera, so yeah, so that's just
not who we are.
So we do hire on Tass Rabbit.
If you don't know whatTaskRabbit is, they come and do
the task that you need.
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Like you can find cleaners onthere, you can you can find, I
don't know, almost anything thatyou can think of that you need
done in your home, maybe outsideof your home as well, you can
find on Tassarabbit for areasonable rate, and you can
look at their reviews and bookthem to come do a service.
And we've done that, especiallymoving into the home, hanging
things, stuff like that.
So we utilize that specifically.
Like what we do is like, okay,we have a few things that we
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need to do, have them come bangit out an hour to two hours.
SPEAKER_01 (19:46):
So, for an example, when we had our daughter, we was
getting nursery together, and itwas a lot of parts.
SPEAKER_00 (19:51):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (19:51):
And during that time, you are extremely busy,
you're extremely stressed.
Oh, well, well, you I mean, youcan't really do that.
So for me, it's like she can'tdo it.
Oh, she can't do it.
I don't want to do it though.
But it's like, all right, wehave all these heavy pieces.
Yes, I can sit there and try tofigure it out.
But we said, who can we havecome put all these pieces
together in one shot?
I know someone with the oneshot.
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I know some fathers, like, yeah,I take pride and enjoying
putting this stuff together, andthere's a little thing I might I
might do it, I might enjoy doingit.
Snoo, like little things likethat.
But if it's gonna take memultiple hours doing this, I'd
rather outsource.
You go to task rabbit, you havea gentleman come who's
professionally trained in doingthings like this.
He has a whole tool set, he getspaid, I get to look like I did
it.
It's a win-win situation.
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And even when he has less thantime, then I would.
SPEAKER_00 (20:35):
Just even an example, when we have like
furniture and stuff delivered,you can always do like the white
glove service, or you can someof them you have to do, but
either way, you can do like youbuild it yourself.
I add on build like you, youbuild it.
I want you to build it.
When we were moving ourdaughter's rooms from downstairs
to upstairs and putting thingstogether, the people that
painted also assisted with likebuilding stuff and stuff like
that.
So we are very like utilizingthe things around us as much as
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possible so we can just focus onother things.
We just don't enjoy it.
I mean, if we enjoyed buildingor doing it, then we would do
it.
But that's not something that weenjoy doing.
So we delegated out.
SPEAKER_01 (21:08):
But then think about that time save.
So just the the children's room,that was a heavy hour task
between both of the guys thatcame and did it.
Yeah.
So imagine if I was trying to dothat myself and we paid them, I
don't know how much we pay them,but you can find somebody$20,$25
an hour and you just savedyourself three to five hours.
And it's just that was just oneof the big tasks, but it's like
all a few little admin things,right?
SPEAKER_00 (21:28):
If you might have to go return something to like the
post officer, like you had alist of things, like some
examples of things that well,which one thing we don't have
here, but if you can do it ishaving a house manager.
Um, we did have a house managertemporarily, but uh she ended up
getting a full-time job.
SPEAKER_01 (21:45):
House manager sounds bougie.
You could just say an assistantor admin assistant or something.
An assistant don't sound bougie?
I don't know.
A house manager sounds moreextens expensive than an
assistant.
SPEAKER_00 (21:55):
But someone can help out with tasks.
Okay, well, the house manager,you can Google exactly what it
is, but it's someone that canhelp you with tasks in your
home.
So maybe they'll book the taskrabbit, maybe they'll make sure
that the person arrives, they'llreturn your returns, make sure
you have groceries, things arestocked, make sure you order
your meal plan.
Like they manage the house.
You know, and you know, that'ssome things that mostly a lot of
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women handle, not saying mendon't, but mostly a lot of women
handle it can be an added-onthing.
And so hiring an assistant, taskmanager, whatever you want to
call them, can be something elsethat can be helpful as well.
That's along the lines of thatadmin errant outsourcing thing.
And how much would you kind ofpay someone to do that?
So I think it depends.
If if that's someone's likefull-time role, it's probably on
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the higher side.
But I I found someone as low as$20 an hour, similar to like
what they can do for babysittingor nanny.
And sometimes people do both.
Like I've seen people that theyare household manager and nanny
all in one.
So think about that.
SPEAKER_01 (22:48):
You think house manager is going to be hundreds
of dollars, but in thisparticular instance, or mommy's
helper is another name that youmight have heard.
So we're talking about$20 anhour.
These are things that we havehad in our lives that literally
saved us a lot of time.
So you might be thinking, Oh, Ican't afford it, but it's$20 an
hour where you're like, well, ifI get back now three to five
hours a week, is that$20 an hourworth it?
(23:09):
Adjust the mental load of ththat you have.
And you can find somebody, thisdoesn't have to be a
professional, you can findsomebody from high school and
just give them a task list,right?
Find somebody to do this, findsomebody to do that, find
somebody to do that, and itcould just be a couple hours a
week that just gives you moretime back.
SPEAKER_00 (23:23):
We spend a lot of time just doing the outsource
and then VA.
So virtual assistants workheavily in our businesses, on
our online businesses that wehave.
So the cleaning business, ourdigital side, even just the
podcast, education.
We use virtual assistants.
We use a lot of internationalvirtual assistants for our
businesses, and we've beenworking with a lot of them for
years.
And that's something that Ithink also I think more people
(23:45):
are getting hip to it now, butit doesn't have to be a huge
expense, it doesn't have to be afull-time, you can find someone
that just wants part-time, andthe hourly pay can range from
three to six dollars an hour foryour business.
Can you afford that?
So that's something to alsoconsider when it comes to that.
SPEAKER_01 (24:00):
Before y'all try to blow up the comments, you're
like, how do you pay somebodysix dollars an hour?
Well, if they're working or theinternationally, yeah, if you're
working overseas in thePhilippines, like that's how,
because that's a pretty decentwage when you kind of do the
conversion of it.
Yes.
So that's what most of themcharge anyway.
So you can go upwards if youwant to pay in more, you know,
six to ten dollars, that'stotally fine as well.
So, but again, you're bringingsomebody in to help you get that
time back.
(24:21):
So now you can do things in yourbusiness if you have a business,
or even if you got things athome that you want them to
handle, like booking flights foryou, checking your calendar,
date night appointments,checking on hotels, these are
all things that we feel like weain't there yet, but we actually
could be.
We haven't we have an admin whodoes some of these things,
right?
But you think it just costs somuch money.
So you could go to onlinejobs.phand find somebody for three to
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five dollars an hour, and theycan help you in your day-to-day
operations of just running yourlife, not even just your
business.
SPEAKER_00 (24:48):
Well, I mean, along the lines of errand outsourcing
also can be like travel agentsand stuff like that.
Now, that's not a weekly thingthat we do, we're not traveling
every week, but it is somethingthat helps us just when we want
a vacation, so we don't have tothink about it.
It's just like a brain dump.
We want to go here, we want tospend this, and this is what we
want to do.
Kids are not, and give me theoptions and we'll pay.
So that's another option of likeoutsourcing and utilizing
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people.
And the last thing, just a quickbonus on something else that we
do, which is once again, it'snot weekly, but it's something
that you can consider is TSApre-check, global entry, clear,
clear, it's not as expensive asyou as you think, and it lasts
for years to come.
So if you get global entry, thatcan just cover TSA and Global
Entry.
If you don't know what that is,it allows you to skip the lines
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when you're going throughcustoms and um yeah, customs
coming back into the country,and even in other countries,
global entry allows you to skipthe lines.
Same thing with TSA, as youknow.
Uh, the lines are generallyshorter.
A lot more people have it now,but the lines are generally
shorter, and you don't have tocheck out your laptop and
everything like that.
So just making it moreconvenient for yourself when
you're flying, showing up,having kids, doing all the
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things, you can get you can getaway with that.
So it's another like shortcutfor your life.
Anything that we can do to makeour life easier, we're gonna
implement obviously if we canafford it, especially if it
saves us time.
Yes, and global entry, I don'teven know what the price is at
this point.
Kids under 18 are free at thispoint.
SPEAKER_01 (26:13):
But it might be$150, like all in for like five years,
and then also if you add clearon top of that, that's another
travel hack where if you got TSAand clear, now some lines just
saying they got like it's a it'sa it's like habit stacking.
You got the TSA, you got thepre-check, and then you got the
clear, and it's like you got tocombine both of them, and you
get to skip everyone.
(26:33):
So think about the time saved onthose lines that might be 30
minutes versus and you got inyour shoes and your book bag and
all of that stuff saves youtime, energy.
SPEAKER_00 (26:41):
And a lot of credit cards cover clear and global
entry, they cover the fee.
So if you have if you have acredit card, just check it out.
And for us, it's a no-brainerthat every single person in the
family will have all the thingsbecause we travel enough that we
don't want to waste time, youknow, especially going through
with kids.
SPEAKER_01 (26:59):
So let's talk about the math for a little bit.
What is your time work?
So, guys, if you if you aregoing through this episode,
you're listening, but well,Anthony and Janoka, you guys got
all this money in the world, soof course you could do these
things.
And I want to change yourmindset a little bit because if
you make$50 per hour, right?
Think about it.
Why would you spend$5 a weekdoing a$15 an hour task?
SPEAKER_00 (27:19):
$50 per hour is pretty good.
SPEAKER_01 (27:21):
If you make$40 an hour, why would you spend your
time doing something thatsomebody else could do for five
to ten dollars an hour?
Think about it like that, right?
So if you have if now if youhave$50, now you're like, all
right, I'm giving up$10 an hour,but then now you're getting back
two to three hours a week doingthose things.
And buying back your time is notabout being lazy, it's more
about being smart andintentional.
And then it's about reinvestingyour time back into yourself,
(27:44):
your family, your business,whatever it may be.
So that's super important inyour health, yeah.
And you don't have to do it allyourself.
You can start with one thingthat you hate the most and then
try to outsource that or thething that takes the most time.
So if you're like, all right,well, laundry,$15,$10 a load, I
might want to outsource that.
Start with just one thing.
It doesn't have to be all thesethings, like we said.
(28:04):
Yeah, start with just one thingand start outsourcing that,
right?
SPEAKER_00 (28:07):
And yeah, we don't always do the laundry, you know,
just whenever it's conveniencefor you, convenient, excuse me,
for you.
And it helps you just to have aclearer space.
I I briefly just spoke on that,but there's a big conversation
now about like women and mothershaving a full-on mental load.
And it's like, can you get ridof some of the things to assist
you and not constantly have thatreoccurring thing in your head
(28:28):
of like, I need to do, I need todo, I need to do?
Because we don't necessarilyhave to do it all.
Um, if we're able to, we candelegate it out to other people.
So we wanted to know which oneof these resonated with you the
most.
Like which one do you think thatyou will implement today?
Ain't no reason to wait till thenext month.
Today, can you discuss with aspouse?
Can you discuss with someone?
(28:48):
What is one of these hacks orone of these outsourcing things
that you can do and implementfor your family yourself?
SPEAKER_01 (28:54):
Make sure you drop it in the comments too.
And if you want more tips onbuying back your time and
building real wealth, subscribeand check out our other videos
and share this with someone thatyou know who may need it.
SPEAKER_00 (29:05):
Someone that needs to hear this, someone that
you're like, I've been tellingthem, I've been doing it, hear
from someone else.
I know also for people that looklike us, it's also a different
conversation.
Even just having thoseconversations with our parents,
like mother and saying, like,oh, you're gonna have a night
nanny?
There's gonna be a person therewatching the kid at night.
Like those conversations waswere had with us, but it's
something that we're like, yeah,this is what we want to do.
(29:26):
So it just opens up a differentconversation sometimes.
SPEAKER_01 (29:29):
So the biggest mistake people make is thinking
they have to do it all bythemselves.
Start with one thing, buy back afew hours, and watch how much
your life changes.
So thanks for watching and makesure that you take action.
Absolutely.
See you guys next time.
What would you do differently ifyou were us?
What would you add?
What would you subtract?
Let us know.
Peace.
All right, bye.
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