
10-20 | Meet the Author – Ken Chester
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · 6:30 PM CDT · Beaverdale Books · Des Moines, IA
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You’ve had the idea for years. Maybe it’s a side hustle. Maybe it’s a small business only you could build. Maybe it doesn’t even have a name yet — just a quiet certainty that you’re meant to build something of your own. And every year it stays in your head. Not on paper. Not in the world. Not earning a dime. It isn’t because you’re lazy. It’s because you’re already running at capacity. A full-time job. Kids who need dinner, homework help, and someone awake at 6 a.m. A partner, a household, a calendar that looks like a brick wall. By the time the day finally exhales, you have just enough left to scroll, not start. The shelf is full of books telling you to find more time. This is the one that says you don’t need any more — just two hours, every week, used inside a system that actually builds something. Two-Hour Entrepreneur is not a productivity book and not a motivational title. It is a step-by-step framework for taking one idea out of your head and turning it into a real business with paying customers — in the hours you already have. Ken Chester wrote it as an operator, not a coach. His first company — a syndicated automotive news service — grew to 200 million weekly readers while he held a full-time accounting job and commuted 130 miles a day. His second, TechMobility Productions, now reaches 12 million listeners across 40 markets. He raised three children through it. No investors. No trust fund. Just two hours a week, applied with consistency — and a refusal to let “not enough time” end the story. This book is the exact system he used, taught plainly, in the order you actually need it. Two focused hours a week is 104 hours a year — more than two and a half full work weeks of real progress. That’s enough to validate your business concept, build a real offer, talk to actual customers, and earn your first five paying ones. Most aspiring entrepreneurs never invest that much over their entire lifetime. They sprint on a Saturday, stall on Monday, and carry an…
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