Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs

One of the reasons for the lack of work-life balance is working a lot of hours and taking on too many responsibilities. Whether it's business or personal related, we tend to say yes to more things than we realize which steals time away from your spouse and kids. So how do we keep from taking on too much so we can maintain a healthy relationship with our family? Our spouses can keep us accountable...

Whenever we face challenges like recessions, COVID-19, business competition, or market crashes, fear tends to rear its ugly head. How we deal with fear determines how well we get through those challenging times.    Kay Lee and I recently went on a ski vacation and I noticed a lot of skiing metaphors that applied to how we deal with life and business challenges. If you're a skier, you may pick up a...

The term family legacy gets thrown around a lot. We want it but do we really know what it means, how to build it, and know when you have it? In this episode, we'll share what we've learned, how we've built it, and share some stories of others who've done it. NOTE: It doesn't matter how much or little your assets are worth. Nor does age have anything to do with it. You haeBuilding a family legacy s...

Improving the businesses bottom line is always a nice thing to do. Usually, the strategy to do so is increase sales. But when you're already working hard and long hours, more sales means more work. More work means more hours and less time at home with your spouse and family. How much more can you handle? What if we can show you how to find more money within your business without you having to go c...

Becoming financially wealthy is a desire many have but most don't achieve. Is it really that difficult? Actually not as difficult as many think. The difference between the people that achieve financial wealth vs those that simply talk about is based on their mindset on money and the habits they form around it. In this episode, we will talk about how we created our wealth and the multiple streams o...

Time seems to be that asset that entrepreneurs don't have a lot of. If you're feeling like you're so busy you don't have enough time to get everything done than this episode is for you. While no one can gain more time in the day, you can gain more margin. That takes doing less busy work and concentrate on more productive work. This can be hard as the less productive work are things that we face at...

What drives you? What's important to you? If relationships wasn't an answer to at least one of those questions, you definitely need to listen to this episode. We live in a success driven world. Which wouldn't be a problem if success was defined in a holistic way. But for most entrepreneurs, we often forget to mention our relationships. Even if we say relationships are our priority it isn't lived o...

I know you want to prioritize your marriage over the business but there is a tension that pulls you to prioritize the business first. After all, it's the main source of income for you and your family. If the business struggles you will financially as well.  But what if I told you that they key to business success is to prioritize your marriage? There's plenty of research around this topic that Kay...

It typically takes a significant (near) life tragedy to change someone's perspective. Many of us entrepreneurs are wired to achieve while neglecting our most important relationships. Imagine being in a commercial jet that is about to go crashing into the Hudson River. What would be going through your mind and how would your perspective on life change after surviving? Meet this week's guest, Dave S...

When successful entrepreneurs start reaching their golden years, they often talk about some of their regrets in life. It's not usually about missed business opportunities or investments, it's about relationships. The most common regrets among the successful are around not taking care of themself and their close relationships like spouse and kids. Why does this happen? Because they were raised a lo...

Welcome to Thriving in Tandem. It's a podcast for you the married entrepreneur that wants to win in business and marriage at the same time.  The biggest challenge for the married entrepreneur isn't just succeeding in business, it's succeeding in all areas of your life including your marriage. What if we could take you behind closed doors to share with you the real stories, conversations, and hard...

No matter what business owner we speak to anywhere in the country, the top concern is finding good employees. The same thing seems to be happening all over the U.S.A., no one wants to work. And the ones that do want to be paid a lot of money and with a lot of perks. Sound familiar? Well, Dr Joey Faucette is going to help us develop a plan to attract and retain great talent. Beware, finding good ta...

Are you a man? Are you a husband? Are you a father? Are you a business owner? Than this show is for you! Or any wife that wants to hear what guys talk about. Ha ha! But this isn't going to be a mancave show. It's going to be three guys sharing what it takes to be a superstar husband, dad, and entrepreneur. As you know, trying to do it all can be difficult. It's like spinning plates sometimes. But...

How would you and your spouse deal with losing, not one but, two businesses? Losing one business is bad enough. The stress that your relationship goes through can send many straight to divorce court. Fortunately, that did not happen to this week's guest Bobby and Michelle Schaffer. They only got stronger together. Almost immediatly after being ousted from the very company they started, they set co...

Work 4 days a week? What entrepreneur doesn't want that? Ok, so maybe I can adjust my schedule to do this but wouldn't my business suffer? These are great questions that this week's guest Joe Sanok is going to answer. As a counselor and therapist, he effectively grew and sold his practice incorporating the 4 day work week principle. Now he helps other private practice therapists do the same throug...

You hear us and others warning that if you prioritize succeeding in business over the relationship, it CAN harm your marriage. This week's guest, Krystal Parker, shows it WILL destroy your marriage. She found out the hard way how focusing so hard on achieving professional success can lead to two divorces. You'd think she would learn the first time, right? Well, she did. What happened the second ti...

We're all about helping the married entrepreneur create greater work-life balance. A lot of our discussion is around setting boundaries and being more efficient with our time. This week, we want to talk about an often overlooked aspect of the business that largely determines how hard the business has to work to make a profit. PRICE. Price setting is the most important financial decision you make f...

As a business owner, you need to be more lazy. No, it's not that we don't believe in hard work. But too many entrepreneurs are working so hard that they are slave to the business and it stunts the growth of the business. If you find a way to do less of the work by delegating more of it to employees that are better at certain tasks then you, then you're a step closer to scaling and growing a busine...

Entrepreneurs are great visionaries, starters, doers, but often lack patience. In one sense that is a strength because many people just think about doing stuff but the entrepreneur makes it happen. There is a downside though. Impatience can cause the entrepreneur to pivot too quickly or get caught up in the shiny object. This can cause the business to lose any momentum it has created. Want to live...

Training and developing employees seems like common sense but many small businesses do an inadequate job of doing so. Lack of time and resources seems to be the primary excuse. But if you knew that creating a culture that constantly develops its people would increase your profits, you would do it in a heartbeat, right? Join us in this important discussion with leadership consultant Dr. Karen Wilso...

In this world of busyness it seems like time is our enemy more than our friend. But who's fault is that? There are so many things coming at us in our business and personal lives that some of the more important aspects are being neglected. At home, spouses feel ignored and kids feel neglected. In business, many of the high level projects that would grow our business are being put off time and time...

Overcoming childhood trauma is significant in itself. But how about being criticized, passed over, and looked down upon every step of your career? To top it off, one of the leaders you admire tells you, you're not good enough. That is a lot to overcome and still be successful. Meet this week's guest, Kelly Baader. She survived all of this to be an entrepreneur helping other leaders be successful i...

Business growth is on the minds of most entrepreneurs. Unfortunately for many, they approach growth in the reverse order that it should be done. Most will focus on driving sales and then play catch up with any operational needs that is sure to appear when the workload increases.  Similar to building a housing development. The infrastructure like sewage, water, and electrical is installed in the ne...

What do you do when your wife is the boss? Is she the same at work and home? And what about if her dad is the owner of the company and you're coming in as the son-in-law? Lastly, how do you handle succession when you and your spouse have one idea of where to take the company that differs from dad? We tackle these issues and more as we interview Craig and Allison Guido. A husband and wife team that...

Why is it so hard to get your spouse on board with establishing a long term vision for your life and/or business? Is it just us? Yes, we've struggled with it at times and so have our clients. So in this episode, we'll dive into why creating vision is a struggle and how to do it better.