A Week in the Life....

A lot of people assume that because we do our main instructing on the weekend that we just work 3 days a week. In fact, I have had a lot of people even make comments such as "I wish I could work only a few hours a week and make as much money as you." So I would like to give a brief run down of an average week.

For anyone that stumbles across this blog and doesn't know who I am or what I do, my husband and I own our own company. We are in the dating niche and teach men and women, mostly men, how to approach, interact with and escalate things with the opposite sex. Whether it is to escalate it to a friendship, physically, sexually or romantically, we teach it all. We work closely in the 'pick up' community and consider ourselves dating coaches. The name of our company is Attraction Explained, LLC. and I own 100% of the shares in our company.

Now, with that out of the way, here is our week!

Thursday: This is usually the start to our week. Thursday's for us are travel days so this is the day we pack, lock up and shut down our house, and head to the airport. It's usually 1.5 hours pre-flight to get to the airport, check in, get through security, and board the plane. Then about a 2.5 to 7 hour flight (depending on where we are going and if it is a direct flight or whether we're connecting) and another hour once we land to get to our destination. We try to do work on the flights. Thursdays are also usually the days that we meet with any journalists that will be covering our workshops.

Friday: If we have a press piece in the city that we're in, which we often do, this almost always happens on Friday. We have been on either FOX, ABC, NBC and others in every single city we have been to, not to mention the newspapers and magazines, which is amazing and a blessing! Friday's are reserved for prepping for that, going into hair and make-up if needed, and then the media piece itself. Our workshops then begin at 6 p.m. and go straight until 1 a.m.

Saturday: Our workshop continues throughout the weekend and starts at noon, going until about 1 a.m. again. Let me tell you, I spend a lot of time in heels! And that is not a complaint. :)

Sunday: This is the final day of the workshop and it begins at noon and ends at 6 p.m. When it is finished we do a dinner meeting with our instructors and then either explore the city we're in or get some rest. We usually try to sneak in a work out on Saturday or Sunday also.

Monday: Traveling back home is what we do on Mondays. So again, packing up, getting to the airport and actual travel time. Also, this is the day that the reports and write ups are done on our clients along with mail-outs, entering info into our database, etc.

Tuesday and Wednesday: I would love to say that these days are our Fridays and Saturdays but they're not. These are the days that we do all of the home stuff and admin work stuff. Laundry, unpacking, organizing and cleaning our house take up a lot of time. Then all of the admin stuff that has piled up needs to be done! We get hundreds of emails a day (literally hundreds!) that need to be responded to, do interviews with other Web sites and companies, write articles (we write regularly for sites like AskMen.com, have a featured column in FHM, and of course our own site), film and edit videos for our site, book flights, hotels and seminar rooms for upcoming workshops, deal with financials like expense reports and payroll, and do other training like phone consultations.

Also, we do private week-long training in Austin that consists of 70 hours of training over 7 days. Our instructors do a lot of the work (because we're obviously not in town to run them) but we do a few of the sessions as well as most of the organization.

This is not a post about me complaining about my job or lifestyle. In fact, it is the opposite! I love my career, I love what I do and I love the positive impact we have on dozens of men every week. This is definitely an unconventional lifestyle that we live and I wouldn't trade it in for ANYTHING, however it is not a walk in the park.

The reason why Adam and I do so well and are successful is because we work so hard. My dad told me that when you work for yourself you never stop working, and that is so true. If we need money we need to generate that money, there is no one we can go to to get a raise or promotion. But as the saying goes, if you love what you do, you never work a day in your life.

So this is us, the life of a dating coach entrepreneur! We definitely have a lot on our plate which is why we have recently taken on a personal assistant and intern! I will write a post on that soon.

Hope everyone has a Happy 4th of July and spends time with loved ones. Leave me some comments about your work, I love to read what others out there do also. :)