This book provides a lighthearted yet realistic look at what starting a business with your spouse or significant other can look like. The authors have a successful architectural salvage business, which was realized by commitment, hard work, self-awareness, and communication. Filled with stories and practical advice, Business Life of Husband & Wife is an easy-to-read handbook for people who are currently in business with their life partner, or who are thinking about it.
This book provides a lighthearted yet realistic look at what starting a business with your spouse or significant other can look like. The authors have a successful architectural salvage business, which was realized by commitment, hard work, self-awareness, and communication. Filled with stories and practical advice, Business Life of Husband & Wife is an easy-to-read handbook for people who are currently in business with their life partner, or who are thinking about it.
This book provides a lighthearted yet realistic look at what starting a business with your spouse or significant other can look like. The authors have a successful architectural salvage business, which was realized by commitment, hard work, self-awareness, and communication. Filled with stories and practical advice, Business Life of Husband & Wife is an easy-to-read handbook for people who are currently in business with their life partner, or who are thinking about it.
Owning a business is tough; so is being married. If you’re one of the millions people who happen to be married to your business partner then you likely know the extra challenges that come along with mixing business with marriage. Finally, a book that will help you navigate through many of the main problems married couples face when they become business partners. Things like lack of direction, mixing roles, ineffective communication and poor money management are a tried and true formula for disaster. Stop fighting over the business and putting that added stress to your marriage! The training, exercises and experiences in this book are designed to open the door of communication, understanding, empathy and trust between you and your spouse like never before. Business owners who implement these strategies are able to grow their business AND strengthen their marriage, simultaneously.
The Untold Story of the Entrepreneur’s Wife guides entrepreneurial couples to permanently exit the “norm” and thrive in their new entrepreneurial lifestyle. When people talk about entrepreneurs, they always talk about the entrepreneur’s journey and their climb to the top with all of the pits and peaks that create their hero’s journey. But they rarely speak about the entrepreneur’s family and their efforts and struggles on the road to success. There is a false belief that says being with an entrepreneur is highly desirable and that being the wife of a business owner is glamorous and exciting. Sure, it has its perks. But the truth is, entrepreneurs’ wives are sometimes forced into a life of singularity and loneliness, and they are in need of a roadmap to navigate the unique hurdles that come along with that life. In The Untold Story of the Entrepreneur’s Wife, coach Amy Stefanik shows her perspective that being an entrepreneur’s wife is not all doom and gloom to entrepreneurial couples. Entrepreneurial families learn how to harness the Unmistakable Entrepreneur Mindset to lay the "Fort Knox" Entrepreneurial Family Foundation and build an Unshakable Entrepreneurial Marriage. The most valuable lessons are not discovered on the highest mountain peaks, in the good and easy times, but in the valleys. Amy shares her tools with entrepreneurial families for when they find themselves in the valley and helps them transform “married to the business” to “the secret weapon” to becoming an unstoppable entrepreneurial power couple!
There are as many types of business families as there are colors in the sky. Business makes the world go round, but what happens on the other side of business? The families and the relationships. How do they fare? Everybody has a personal life outside of the office. Being a business owner, or the spouse of a business owner, can make for some less-than-traditional family issues. The many different types of businesses create as many different lifestyles. What does that mean for those of us who are Married to the Business? We are the unsung heroes of this great economy. Do you feel like you're married to the business? If you are the spouse or partner of a business owner, then this book is for you. The spouses of business owners are often those who stand at the ready, in the background, waiting for the other shoe to drop, or the ball to be thrown. We are all the helpmates of our partners. We are forever waiting, staring at the clock, for the phone call telling us our spouse made it safely to a business meeting across the country. We are regularly getting the kids through dinner, baths, and bedtime all on our own. We are consistently waiting up until all hours of the night for our spouse to get home after completing "just one more thing." Author, Kerry Anderson, is married to a business owner and serial entrepreneur. She gave up her career to be a stay at home hero. In Bed With the Business tells their story and outlines how YOU TOO can survive and flourish and still have strong personal relationships with your spouse and family. Learn the tools and techniques she and her husband have developed to navigate the chaotic world of marriage and entrepreneurship.
While there is no such thing as a perfect business or a fairytale marriage, there are ways to design the life you desire with your spouse. After Josh created multiple start-up businesses and Megan spending her time as a stay-at-home mom, they decided to be life-partners and business partners. The Business of Marriage is not the traditional marriage book! It is Joshua and Megan's story. Together, they give accounts of their marriage, the good and the bad. They share their pain and hard truths of moments when divorce seemed like the only option. You will get both perspectives of what it's like to work alongside your spouse while navigating hardships and pressing forward when life seems hopeless.Marriage comes with challenges and entrepreneurship only adds to it. With being together for over a decade, Joshua and Megan shed light on difficult topics, living check-to-check, blended families, relocating multiple times and how they are learning to become a husband and wife.Throughout each chapter, the transparency and authenticity will give anyone in marriage and business -- or both -- hope for second chances. Marriage is not easily broken during its darkest and most painful times when built on a cord of three strands.
Young serial entrepreneur Scott Gerber is not the product of a wealthy family or storied entrepreneurial heritage. Nor is he the outcome of a traditional business school education or a corporate executive turned entrepreneur. Rather, he is a hard-working, self-taught 26-year-old hustler, rainmaker, and bootstrapper who has survived and thrived despite never having held the proverbial "real” job. In Never Get a "Real" Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business, and Not Go Broke, Gerber challenges the social conventions behind the "real" job and empowers young people to take control of their lives and dump their nine-to-fives—or their quest to attain them. Drawing upon case studies, experiences, and observations, Scott dissects failures, shares hard-learned lessons, and presents practical, affordable, and systematic action steps to building, managing, and marketing a successful business on a shoestring budget. The proven, no-b.s. methodology presented in Never Get a "Real" Job teaches unemployed and underemployed Gen-Yers, aspiring small business owners, students, and recent college graduates how to quit 9-to-5s, become their own bosses, and achieve financial independence.
A fascinating look at the changing role of wives in modern America After a half century of battling for gender equality, women have been freed from the necessity of securing a husband for economic stability, sexual fulfillment, or procreation. Marriage is a choice, and increasingly women (and men) are opting out. Yet despite these changes, the cultural power of marriage has burgeoned. What was once an obligation has become an exclusive club into which heterosexual women with the right amount of self-discipline may win entry. The newly exalted professionalized wife is no longer reliant on her husband’s status or money; instead she can wield her own power provided she can successfully manage the business of being a wife. Wife, Inc. tells a fiercely contemporary story revealing that today’s wives do not labor in kitchens or even homes. Instead, the work of wifedom occurs in online dating sites, on reality television, in social media, and on the campaign trail. Dating, marital commitment, and married life have been reconfigured. No longer the stuff of marriage vows, these realms are now controlled by brand management and marketability. To prosper, women must appear confident, empowered, and sexually savvy. Guiding readers through the stages of the “wife-cycle,” Suzanne Leonard follows women as they date, prepare to wed, and toil as wives, using examples from popular television, film, and literature, as well as mass market news, women’s magazines, new media, and advice culture. The first major study to focus on this new definition of “working wives,” Wife, Inc. reveals how marriage occupies a newly professionalized role in the lives of American women. Being a wife is a business that takes a lot more than a vow to maintain—this book tells that story.
Owning a business is tough; so is being married. If you're one of the millions of people who happen to be married to your business partner then you likely know the extra challenges that come along with mixing business with marriage. Finally, a book that will help you navigate through many of the main problems married couples face when they become business partners. Things like lack of direction, mixing roles, ineffective communication and poor money management are a tried and true formula for disaster. Stop fighting over the business and putting that added stress to your marriage! The training, exercises and experiences in this book are designed to open the door of communication, understanding, empathy and trust between you and your spouse like never before. Business owners who implement these strategies are able to grow their business AND strengthen their marriage, simultaneously.
