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.”

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.

I often hear budding entrepreneurs tell me they’re going to start a business so they can have other people manage it while they go off and do something fun or significant in their life…

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.

The top reason for business failure is lack of money, pure and simple. No money, you can’t pay the bills, right? Sure, there are many reasons for that lack of money like low demand, poor marketing, or too high of overhead.

Because of our experience consulting with businesses from a variety of industries, we often get asked “what the most profitable business to own” is. From a profit margin standpoint, my usual answer has been most service type businesses like accounting, law, financial services and life insurance.

If you were like me growing up, I often felt like I didn’t fit in. Especially when we moved from Hawaii to San Jose, Ca. I was the only asian kid in my class. So I got picked on, not so much because of my ethnicity but my height. Or lack thereof.

One of the strong suits of the entrepreneur is their vision. They see the possibility even when others think it’s impossible. Tons of ideas are constantly racing through their…Squirrel!...heads. Unfortunately, that can also be the trap that keeps them from building a great business.

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?

Have you ever had a good business opportunity pass you by because you weren’t prepared? Or what about a killer deal on a house but didn’t have everything together to pull the financing together? I’ve certainly had some opportunities slip by because I wasn’t prepared.

Finding out your purpose in your business sounds like a lot of fluff. That’s something a non-profit needs to know, not a serious business like yours, right? Well, you’d be surprised to learn how understanding your God given purpose for your life and how it can positively impact your business can be beneficial for your business.

This topic has been recommended by Kay Lee. She tells me that one of my gifts is making the complex simple. It’s true. I can’t stand complexity. Plus, from a practical level, the more complicated things are the more chances things can go wrong and the harder it is to be successful.

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.

You definitely need to listen to this interview with Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback coach Clyde Christensen to the end. An amazing interview on leadership and have a winning attitude on and off the field.

When you talk about marketing, what comes to mind? Digital ads, SEO, websites, and sales funnels to name a few? It’s all about customer acquisition and finding new customers, right?

Imagine going from 28 locations to expanding globally? That was the task this week’s guest Howard Behar was given. He is the former president of Starbucks International, Starbucks North America and board chair.