For some groups of married entrepreneurs, working with your spouse is the greatest thing since sliced bread. For others, it’s a disaster. The third group is getting by and the last group doesn’t even want to go there…

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.

If you’re married, you want more intimacy. As a business owner, you want more revenue. But somehow getting both at the same time is elusive. Why? Because as you’re going all-in on the business, your marriage tends to take a back seat and the relationship suffers.

If you’re wondering what it takes to build a successful marriage it’s very business like. Take communication for example. In a business, good communication is a key to great marketing but also to foster better teamwork.

Intentional is a keyword that will help you create greater work-life balance and realize your dreams in marriage and business. Most couples we talk to have the mentality that if you just work hard enough your life will fall into place.

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?

Working with your spouse is always a hot topic. We typically get three reactions. Either, “It’s amazing,” “never,” or “we’re doing the best we can.” Regardless of which camp you lie, this episode is going to help your marriage whether you work with your spouse or not.

If you’ve never tried tandem surfing before, it’s not as easy as it looks. It takes a lot of skill, determination, coordination and teamwork. It’s two people moving as one on a surfboard.

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.

You’ve heard of Servant Leadership. Well, now pay attention to Customer Driven Leadership (CDL). It’s not necessarily better than Servant Leadership, it is an addition to.

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.

It’s one thing to be married and another to work together in business. And for a man, it can be tough on the ego to lay down a successful corporate career to join your wife in her business and not be the “boss.”

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.

When you have a business maintaining storm drain systems the natural progression is to make wine, right? That’s what this week’s guest Ric and Michelle Campos of Campos Family Vineyard in Contra Costa County did.

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.

Marriage isn’t a business, right? Or isn’t it. Think about this, you have to bring in income, you have expenses, there are operational needs, leadership challenges and disgruntled employees on occasion.