#161: Love & Business: How to Make it Work

Published: May 25, 2017, 4 p.m.

b'If you think being an entrepreneur is tough, try being married to one.\\n Just ask Hobie Porterfield (as\\xa0I do in this episode).\\n You\\u2019ve heard me\\xa0talk about my hunky husband\\xa0from time to time, and just how important he is to the success of my business. But I\\u2019ve never really talked about what that means exactly.\\n In isolation, running a business and keeping a marriage together are tough. Together?\\n It\\u2019s an entirely different beast. The fact is, entrepreneurship brings a very different dimension to a marriage.\\n People with 9-to-5 jobs usually work in organizations that provide support, training and resources. Entrepreneurship can be isolating, which is one reason we often turn to our spouses or significant others for support.\\n So today,\\xa0Hobie and I are talking about what the road has been like for us.\\n In this episode we reveal:\\n Why Hobie thinks the significant other is 40% of your business success\\n My recent \\u2018aha\\u2019 moment about what it means to REALLY spend time together\\n How we give each other what we need, EVEN during the most stressful times\\n The five most important things we do to make our marriage work\\n We\\u2019re in a pretty awesome place now, but it wasn\\u2019t always that way, and we figure out something new every day, including us coming up with a trigger word (it\\u2019s a celebrity name - can you guess which one?) to bring me back to him when my iPhone has got me sucked in!\\n This is every bit as important (probably more) as planning your next big launch or creating a new marketing funnel.\\xa0You\\u2019ve got to nurture your personal relationships\\xa0with the same care, intensity and passion as you do your business.\\n Go listen here now,\\xa0your main squeeze will thank you for it, I promise ;-)'