When Your Business Partner is Your Spouse

Kristen & Justin break down chapter nine of their book, When Your Business Partner is Your Spouse.

On This Episode:

• Justin talks about building the life they had out of necessity.
• Kristen and Justin reminisce about being able to take several months off, load up the family into an RV and travel cross country.
• Learn the key to hitting the light at the end of the entrepreneurial tunnel.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "The best feeling in the world is seeing the benefits and rewards of hard work." – Kevin Hart
• "A bored entrepreneur is a very dangerous thing."

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Kristen & Justin break down chapter eight of their book, When Your Business Partner is Your Spouse.

On This Episode:

• Kristen explains how overwhelm and stress can compound between two partners in a business relationship.
• Learn some helpful stress coping tactics.
• Justin shares how he relieves his stress in a healthy way.
• Hear how your body can be easily confused with how to respond to stress.
• Justin unpacks the powerful impact of meditation.
• Discover the importance of awareness.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "Balance myself first so that I can then support the rest." – Kristen Deese
• "Checking in with yourself is super important." – Justin Deese

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Kristen & Justin break down chapter seven of their book, When Your Business Partner is Your Spouse.

On This Episode:

• Kristen talks about the difficulties of establishing healthy boundaries between business and your relationship.
• Find the importance of having non-business-centric conversations.
• Justin & Kristen discuss the different needs of introverts and extroverts.
• Learn why you should take a boundary self-assessment frequently.
• Kristen explains the danger of business infiltrating every aspect of your relationship.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "Balance is not better time management its better boundary management."
• "Stop asking why they keep doing it and start asking why you keep allowing it."
• "Healthy boundaries are keeping a balance." – Kristen Deese

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Kristen & Justin break down chapter six of their book, When Your Business Partner is Your Spouse.

On This Episode:

• Hear how personal growth can cause drift from your relationships.
• Kristen shares about a time she felt isolated from others.
• Justin talks about how common loneliness is associated with business ownership.
• Understand the importance of being intentional with your time in relationships.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime."
• "If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck. If you hang out with Eagles, you're going to soar." – Steve Maraboli

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Kristen & Justin break down chapter five of their book, When Your Business Partner is Your Spouse.

On This Episode:

• Kristen breaks down the different levels of communication failure.
• Justin talks about the importance of not hitting someone with a firehose of information.
• Learn the importance of avoiding "words of totality."
• Justin explains the various forms of communicators.
• Hear a story of a communication challenge between Kristen and Justin.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "Seek to understand, then to be understood." – Stephen Covey
• "Communication is the cornerstone of all relationships." – Kristen Deese

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Kristen & Justin break down chapter four of their book, When Your Business Partner is Your Spouse.

On This Episode:

• Kristen & Justin discuss how spouses often get pulled into each other's ventures.
• Discover how to find your lane by identifying your strength.
• Learn the importance of recognizing what you don't know.
• Justin explains how, in business, owners often throw people into incorrect roles to try to fill a need quickly.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "Just like on the road, if you don't stay in your lane, accidents are more likely to occur." – Justin Deese
• "You do you, and only you." – Kristen Deese
• "Hustle like your broke." – Unknown

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Kristen & Justin break down chapter three of their book, When Your Business Partner is Your Spouse.

On This Episode:

• Kristen shows off her incredible ability to craft puns.
• Become more conscious of what you agree to do.
• Justin talks about when it felt like his business was running him because he had no respect for time.
• Learn the harsh truth that multi-tasking is a myth.
• Hear why your business is a reflection of you.
• Justin shares the importance of having a clear calendar and an empty inbox.

Tweetable Quotes:

"Either you own your time or your time owns you." – Justin Deese

"The bad new is time flies, the good news is, you're the pilot." – Michael Altshuler

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Kristen & Justin break down chapter two of their book, When Your Business Partner is Your Spouse.

On This Episode:

• Justin shares why he thinks vision is the most vital aspect of a business.
• Kristen talks about the danger of saying "yes" to too much, too often.
• Justin and Kristen discuss how having a coach impacted their business.
• Learn about the eulogy exercise.
• Discover the importance of defining your ideal day.

Tweetable Quotes:

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there." – The Cheshire Cat

"You can make $100, not realizing it's costing you $150." – Justin Deese

"Good coaching is about getting clients to change their perspectives." – Kristen Deese

"If you say yes to everything, you're saying no to your vision." – Justin Deese

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Kristen & Justin break down chapter one of their book, When Your Business Partner is Your Spouse.

On This Episode:

• Kristen & Justin discuss the limited capacity that business owners have without doing some internal work.
• Justin reflects on the leap he took from a mundane job into the difficult journey of owning a business.
• Hear about the times that Kristen and Justin debated throwing in the towel.
• Hear the origin of how the book was started.

Tweetable Quotes:

"I think that it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary." – Elon Musk

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