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This podcast is for you, the married entrepreneur who wants to win in marriage and business simultaneously.
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Ep. 181 - How to Avoid Disaster: Why Working with Your Spouse Can Spell Trouble for Your Business!
According to the 2022 U.S. Census Bureau, a little more than 10% of businesses are run by husband and wife teams. And that number is continuing to grow as more and more couples are realizing they can make more money working together than in separate jobs or businesses…
Ep. 180 - Entrepreneurs: Accomplishments Are Fleeting, Relationships Are Forever with Aaron Walker
When you start with nothing to starting, building, and selling off multiple businesses to Fortune 500 companies, you’ve got it made, right? That’s not what this week’s guest, Aaron Walker experienced. Before he reached the age of 30 he had already sold his first company…
Ep. 179 - End Financial Arguments: Most Common Marital Conflicts
The reasons why couples fight over money is due to the different attitudes and habits that were formed growing up. Whatever was modeled to us growing up is what we adopt as an adult. As you’re aware, those differences are what causes the conflict.
Ep. 178 - Get Your Life Back with Jerry Dugan
As you go through the daily grind of building your business, does it sometime feel like Groundhog Day? Same thing over and over. If you stop and think, do you feel like you and your spouse are growing together or feeling more like roommates?
Ep. 177 - Mastering Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Navigating The Pitfalls of Working With Your Spouse
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…
Ep. 176 - Love, Labor, and Limits: Nurturing Balance in Entrepreneurial Marriages with Robert and Kay Lee Fukui
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.
Ep. 175 - Mindset Moguls: Conquering Life with Skiing Wisdom with Robert and Kay Lee Fukui
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.
Ep. 174 - Legacy Builders: Nurturing Family and Business for Future Generations
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.
Ep. 173 - The Profitable Equation: Efficiency, Margins, Pricing, and Productivity
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?
Ep.172 - Don’t Work For Your Wealth
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.
Ep. 171 - Find More Time to Grow Your Business
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…
Ep. 170 - Addicted to Success with Teresa McCloy
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…
Ep. 169 - Marriage Over Business: The Key to Success
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.
Ep. 168 - Surviving The Miracle On The Hudson with Dave Sanderson
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…
Ep. 167 - Don’t Have The Entrepreneurs Regret
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…
Ep. 166 - Re-Launch of the Podcast for the Married Entrepreneur
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…
Ep. 165 Finding Good Employees with Dr. Joey Faucette
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…
Ep. 164 - Becoming A Better Husband, Father, and Business Leader with Chris Niemeyer and Michael McGreevy
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…
Ep. 163 - Us Factor-Keys To Success In Marriage and Business with Bobby and Michelle Schaffer
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.
Ep. 162 - Four Day Work Week with Joe Sanok
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.
Podcast Hosts
Meet your podcast hosts Robert and Kay Lee. Robert has spent 25 years in marketing and sales for several Fortune 100 companies and Kay Lee grew up in a family business. While they come from two distinctly different business backgrounds they understand the unique challenges all business owners face regardless of its size. They are also dedicated to helping married couples in business build a thriving marriage and prosperous business.