We recently connected with Remon & Candace Tuck and have shared our conversation below.

Remon & Candace, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today How did you come up with the idea for your business?

Imagine being college sweethearts, bestfriends, parents of three beautiful kids to find yourself looking divorce in the face 10 years into your marriage! This was our story. We knew we were soulmates very shortly after dating each other. We complimented each other so well, in college when you saw one you saw the other. So how did we get to divorce after seventeen years in each others life? After choosing to save our marriage by going to counseling God planted the idea for a book, Somebody Shoulda Told Me, Marriage Do We Really Know What It’s About. Remon didn’t want to write the book because he felt he caused most of the problems and didn’t want to air our dirty laundry to the world. Nevertheless, we wrote the book to help other couples that would take the journey as a married couple. Most people do not know the power of marriage nor what it is going to require of you. As we traveled to local podcasts to promote the book, all the hosts kept suggesting we get our own show. That led to the creation of the award-winning talk show, The Couples Lounge. It gives us a bigger platform to help couples, seriously dating, engaged, and married, win! This was never in the plans. It was like God planted a seed through the book and then blew his magic power on it and created a full ministry that also includes events, workshops, and speaking opportunities. We believe in the marriage union and we are doing our part to make sure couples are educated on how to have a successful marriage.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

Remon and I have been married for 21 years! What led us to our business was wanting to be happily married and going through our own personal challenges in our marriage. We offer couples coaching, host marriage retreats, provide workshops/trainings as well as speak across the country. We are called upon when marriages are on the verge of divorce or when couples need support effectively communicating in hopes of saving their relationship. We have a monthly column in the Fort Worth Black News where we give advice on love, marriage, relationships, and family.

If you listen to The Couples Lounge show you will witness our unorthodox way of delivering powerful information that will help you be successful in your relationship. We come with a lot of energy and we believe what makes it all so magical is that we think differently about a lot of things so you get two different perspectives, people are able to themselves through us. What makes us stand out is that we are an actual married couple hosting the talk show and facilitating the couples coaching. It allows for both sides perspectives to be shared. Ain’t nobody doing it like us, because they ain’t us…this is our shows tagline because it is the truth.

We are really proud that we have been able to sustain our working relationship for seven years because it too has presented its challenges but whenever we want to “break-up” lol and not do the show or host the events God stepped right in and said, “NO. This is the assignment I have placed on yall marriage and you will fulfill it.” After having God send several messages, we decided we were in this too until the end.

We get joy from seeing relationships transform, divorce papers being torn up, getting an invite to the wedding and hearing things like, “If it wasn’t for yall, we would not be standing here together today.” We are passionate and intentional about the calling of The Couples Lounge and We Will Win because it is purpose-driven. There is an attack on the marriage union and we are willing to do our part, being used as vessels, to help heal the world through marriage.

How’d you meet your business partner?

We met on the campus of Jarvis Christian University formerly Jarvis Christian College almost 30 years ago. Neither one of us thought our relationship would become a love story. The first day I saw him, he was dressed in his high school basketball uniform with was ORANGE, his socks up to his knees, headed to do a “college run” to the store for his friends. He looked hideous, lol. That encounter led to him taking my friends and I to the store, at a later time, and let’s just say I vowed to never get in the car with him again! Then one day we were in the cafe and I ended up behind him in line, I had forgotten how to pronounce his name so instead of just asking, I asked to see his class ring. I told him he had to be special because I never initiated flirts! This was very at the norm for me.

She wasn’t my type. I had no attraction to her at all but she started to grow on me. She was my first example of sometimes you don’t know what you need so be thankful that God does. We begin to talk and after just three months I was the first one to say, “I love you”. She was the first girlfriend I ever had, the first lady I brought home to my parents.

The moment we become a couple we were inseparable. And to see us 28 years later with a family, home, business is such a beautiful testimony of what God is capable of doing.

Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?

How did we build our audience? When we first started the podcast we would go live in the studio because we liked the personal connection it allowed us to have with our listeners/followers/fans. It provided an intimate feel, like we were in the living room with them. We were very diligent with it. My husband wanted us to transition to Youtube early on but our following was with Facebook at the time. We tried it but it wasn’t producing numbers. If I could tell my younger influencer self something it would be, do not get caught up in the numbers. Stay consistent, understand your purpose, and follow your intuition and the suggestion of your business partner. If we would have stayed with Youtube we would have grown eventually. Growing your audience on social media takes being seen often. Our show is weekly plus we ask our followers to share our page and tell others. We include it in our marketing materials, advertise when we are on other shows, and any chance we get to tell someone about The Couples Lounge and We Will Win. Something really strange happened last year, I (Candace) did a dancing video with my son that turned into a blooper because he dropped me. What most saw as a mess-up, was God’s blessing. That video went viral, and increased my following from 1,000 friends to 66,000 followers!!! It wasn’t strange at all it was God’s hands at work. The advice I would give is to stay focused on the purpose and content, remain consistent, and aim to improve the quality of your show and the following will come.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.candacetuck.com
• Instagram: @thecoupleslounge
• Facebook: @thecoupleslounge
• Youtube: @thecoupleslounge