Ep. 169 - Marriage Over Business: The Key to Success

Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs

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 Lee and I will share in this episode. We’ll also help you answer the question, “how much time is enough to prioritize your marriage and family and how do you make sure you have enough time to make your busines succeed?”

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Key Takeaways:

• Why did you marry me?

• Were you thinking, as long as he makes a ton of money I’ll be happy? Regardless if I pay attention to you or not?

• How much time in the day do you need from me to make you happy?

• We’ve all grown up with the mindset that as long as I take care of my wife (caveman style) she’ll be happy. Be the provider

• We don’t have time to be provider and care about your feelings, empathize with you, listen to your dreams and vision.

• There was a time being a good provider was an important factor women looked for in a man. No longer.

• What do wives want according to socioligists Christine Whelan at University of Pittsburgh

• Love

• Character

• Emotional stability and maturity

• #10- Finances

• What do husbands want

• The same top 3

• We “have to” focus our time to the business for it to become successful

• How much time guarantees business success?

• How much time guarantees relational success?

• We overestimate how much time it takes to be successful at either one

• Yet we’ve never really explored how much it takes

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