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Love & Entrepreneurship w/Jaime & John Caponetta

·1 hr 20 min·10 clips

Mandi opens by pointing out that this is her first time interviewing a couple together. She notes how uncommon it is to see spouses managing a business side by side. Her own experience with her husband gives the conversation an immediate personal frame. Jamie and John start with how their careers began separately. The story then moves toward the moment they met. From there, their work starts to merge. First came a dog-walking business. Then came a dog-training business. After that, they moved into marketing and design work together as well. They now also have a farm. That farm is part of their work helping rehab shelter dogs. The conversation stays focused on how their relationship held up through all of that change. It does not pretend that business partnership is easy. It keeps asking what it costs to keep building with someone you love. The tone stays open and grounded. Mandi brings out the practical and emotional side of the story. The pair talk through what it means to keep going when work and home are tangled together. The episode also holds onto the value of patience and trust. It leaves room for the reality that shared work can be rewarding and exhausting at the same time. The throughline is growth that happened gradually, not neatly. By the end, the story feels rooted in the long journey they have made together.

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A candid look at a couple building a dog centered business together.

Mandi Bautel hosts Jamie and John Caponetta of Possum University in an episode that tracks how the pair's work and relationship grew side by side, from dog walking to dog training to the marketing and design work they do now, alongside a farm that helps rehab shelter dogs.

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When you want a warm, lived-in conversation about dog training, marriage, boundaries, and running a business together.

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