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.

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…

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…

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.

We hope to save some marriages with this episode. Since money issues is the number one reason for conflict and divorce in a marriage, we would be remiss if we didn’t address it. The conflict boils down to this difference. One spouse is a saver while the other is a spender.

Owning a business can be awesome. But it can also come with some challenges. Like dealing with difficult customers/clients. The demanding few can eat into your personal time. Unfortunately, you can’t blame everything on your customer.

We all know communication is key when it comes to marriage. It’s also the foundation for great marketing. So we decided to bring in an expert in communication. Hall of Fame radio producer Steve Reiter.

We just celebrated 17 years of marriage and we thought we’d record an episode during our getaway while the thoughts are fresh in our mind. What have we learned about marriage and doing business together?

You may have been told to focus on what you want, not what you don’t want. Your mind focuses on what you talk about so when you say, “don’t touch the fire,” you’re going touch the fire…

Imagine working with your spouse and living in an RV the majority of the time. Now add four kids and a dog. That’s a recipe for…(fill in the blank) Meet this week’s guest, David and Teesha Laflin.

I’m not sure if you realize but we all buy based on what we read. Sure, what we see, feel and taste are part of the sales process but ultimately, we need to read what we are buying, how to buy it and what it costs.

Succession in business isn’t often done or done well. If you look at the statistics, only 30% of first generation businesses transition to the second. Why is the success rate so low?

We hit week five of our book tour and we’ve heard you loud and clear. Boundaries, or lack thereof, is the number one issue that is keeping the married entrepreneur from achieving greater work-life balance.

We did a thing! Our first book is released today on Amazon. What’s it about? Work-life balance and how to win in marriage and business at the same time. Is this even possible? It is.

If you want to win in business and marriage one of the things that will accelerate your success is to get help. As marriage and business coaches this may sound self-serving but we have our own coaches as well.

Do you treat your arguments like a competition? You need to be right and your spouse has to be wrong? Think about this. If you feel the intimacy may be eroding in your marriage, it may be due to the years of beating each other in one argument or another.

As an entrepreneur, you want to perform at the highest level to be able to grow a killer business. As a married entrepreneur, you also want to be able to balance work and home because your spouse wants it and your kids demand it. With all the competing issues, how do you do all that?

Being married and running a business can keep you very busy. We get it. But because of this busyness, the one of thing that gets put on the back burner is having fun. When you stop having fun, life can become a grind. Vacations are non-existent, good luck doing a weekender, and date night, what’s that?

Most business owners I know start their business so they can have other people run the business while they take frequent vacations, go on missions trips, and be home with the family. But something interesting happens along the way. Instead of the owner running the business, the business runs them.

Happy 100 episodes to us and you for listening for the past two years. In this episode, we want to talk about what we’ve learned about marriage and business from doing this show, and the wisdom from our guests.