How to Survive in a Family Business (without losing your mind)

Crystal Diamond owns Characterz Cafe & Coffee Roasters, just a few doors down from us at Crown Trophy. We discuss some of the ins and outs of entrepreneurship as well as working with family and friends.

Shelby Swanson works on the Swanson Real Estate Team with her parents and has only good things to say.  She feels incredibly grateful to be working with and learning from her mom.

Dennis Erokan has always felt like working with family was a standard practice.  We discuss working with his brother, his wife, his in-laws, and his children and how much he has always loved working with family members.

I sat down with my mom, who alongside my dad, opened the company I work for, Crown Trophy and built it up to be the successful business it is today that I run the day to day operations of.

Nick Valenziano works with his family pretty much at all times.  When he's not working with his father-in-law as an insurance agent, he's working at Porky's Pizza Palace with basically the rest of his family.

Interview with Billy Buckley, the CEO of ENT Networks in Pleasanton

Getting burnt out happens to everyone

How and why I use venting to cope with working with family

Everything in life is a trade off, this episode is just talking about a couple of the sorts of trade offs you deal with when getting into the family business