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iQuestions Faculty, Randy Draper 
 
 
Question: 
 
My wife is considering a home-based business. What should I do? 
 
Answer: 
 
If your wife is considering getting involved in a home-based business 
and getting out and selling a product of any kind, let me just 
encourage you to get involved. Go with her to those initial meetings, 
ask questions, find out about the company and the people, look at the 
marketing plan, look at the product, give her your opinion and help 
her make a wise decision.  
 
Don’t discourage her from starting a home-based business. I tell you, 
guys, I always tell other men, “If you treat your wife like a million, she 
might make you a million in this industry,” and I really believe she 
can. As a matter of fact, I’m treating my wife like $10 million.  
 
You need to be an encouragement. How can you encourage her you 
might ask? You’re going to encourage her by keeping the house in 
order while she is out at night selling her products. You’re going to 
help with the kids. It’s not babysitting when you are looking after your 
own children. It’s childcare. It’s child-rearing your own kids. 
 
I have to tell you, my boys are 22 and 24, and I have an incredible 
relationship with them, largely because when Elizabeth was out 
holding a jewelry show, we were at home doing things that Mom didn’t 
let us do when she was there—jumping on the furniture, getting 
muddy out in the backyard, making a mess. I always had it cleaned up 
and everything put back in order before she came home at the end of 
an evening. 
 
 
 
Another opportunity for you is to serve your wife. Just encourage her. 
Watch what you say. Give her positive reinforcement. Give her good, 
constructive criticism when asked. But I will tell you, most of the time 
when they come in and they’ve got something bothering them, they 
don’t want us to fix it, they just want us to encourage them, they just 
want us to listen—and if you will do that, your wife will build a home-
based business that might actually allow you to quit your job some 
day, and stay home and be a part of that business with her, right 
there in the comfort of your own home. 
 
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