Chapter 1 – The Introduction

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."WANT TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS AND A HAPPY MARRIAGE? www.businessspouse.com/

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 DeeseWANT TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS AND A HAPPY MARRIAGE?www.businessspouse.com

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 DeeseWANT TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS AND A HAPPY MARRIAGE?www.businessspouse.com

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 MaraboliWANT TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS AND A HAPPY MARRIAGE?www.businessspouse.com

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 DeeseWANT TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS AND A HAPPY MARRIAGE?www.businessspouse.com

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." – UnknownWANT TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS AND A HAPPY MARRIAGE?www.businessspouse.com

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 AltshulerWANT TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS AND A HAPPY MARRIAGE?www.businessspouse.com

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 DeeseWANT TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS AND A HAPPY MARRIAGE?www.businessspouse.com

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 MuskWANT TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS AND A HAPPY MARRIAGE?www.businessspouse.com