35: How To Work With Your Spouse

<p>In this episode, Paul and Stacey will answer the question, “What are the strategies for being able to work with your spouse in a way that strengthens your marriage instead of weakening it?” This is something that they get asked a lot because most spouses who work together find it nearly impossible to separate their marriages from their businesses.</p><p>Most of those spouses end up failing at one of those things, and usually, it’s the marriage that loses out since it’s easier to do business than to do marriage. Why? Because there are plenty of easily accessible resources everywhere like books and courses about business to help people run their businesses much more easily, but similar resources for marriage are limited. </p><p>Spouses working together is always a magnifier for their marriage relationship. If they have things in their marriage relationship that they can't talk about, it's always a hundred times that in their business relationship. That’s the dynamic that people need to understand, and Paul and Stacey will share the four main things that spouses who work together or wish to work together can do to ensure that they achieve the desired win-win in both their marriage and business relationships.</p><p><strong>Key Points Discussed: </strong></p><ul><li>If there's something wrong in your relationship, it comes into the business, and vice versa (00:52)</li><li>The ceiling on your business is the ceiling on your relationship (03:38)</li><li>It’s a relationship deficit of what we don’t see that creates a loop (06:35)</li><li>Investing in our relationship skills for ourselves pays off for a lifetime (14:39)</li><li>The importance of the strategic reason for each of you to work in the same business (18:59)</li><li>Don't try to solve personal problems with a business solution (22:59)</li><li>You can’t win without systems and processes (27:51)</li><li>Understanding the invisible assumptions that create problems (31:21)</li></ul><p><strong>Additional Resources:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://14d