Welcome to the first episode of Hustle Machine, our new podcast designed for the entrepreneurial community.

We’re Jason Marlowe and Zack Tatum, co-founders of Market House, a website design company specializing in branding and automation, but this particular podcast goes far beyond the scope of our small business.

No, Hustle Machine is our attempt to build a community and connect with entrepreneurs and solo-preneurs and focus on the various elements of running your own business, operating as a freelancer and how to make your hustle or side-hustle work for you.

In this inaugural (that’s another, fancy way to say first-ever for those of you skipped senior English in high school) episode, we want to, in fact, focus on that word, “hustle,” and perhaps re-define it, in effect flipping the script on what it means for people today.

We’ve been running Market House for nearly a decade. We, ourselves, are hustlers. But we knew from the beginning we didn’t want to run ourselves ragged or neglect our families and friends to make our business a success.

We want to show you can hustle as a business owner or freelancer and still establish a balance between business and personal life. We want to change up the business culture and overcome that negative training.

Ultimately, we want to help you answer the question, “How am I gonna be happy?” as a business owner. The answer, in part, is balance and avoiding the rat race mindset businesses have been pushing for far too long. The rest, we hope, will come from the lessons you can learn from this podcast.

Going forward, we hope Hustle Machine will allow our community to connect with another, mentor each other, form peer groups and provide continuing education for business matters.

Hustle Machine will come out every week, with plans for some live episodes going forward. In the meantime, you can listen to the episodes we’ve already uploaded, visit us online or connect with us via the social media site of your choice, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

And if you like what you hear, we hope you’ll subscribe and follow on your platform of choice as we continue to expand and explore what Hustle Machine can become. Drop on by and listen to two college buddies turned business partners explain what they know about business to you, with some bad jokes and good tips along the way.

Let's start the hustle.