Interesting Way to Succeed as Married Entrepreneurs: Be Married to the Job
One thing I’m interested in is married couples who go into business together and manage to keep it all together. The reason I think why I’m so interested in them is because I’ve kind of always wanted to be part of one myself.
The thought struck me again as I was reading yet another article about a successful married couple running some sort of company together - this one was I think about the Becks (Marla and Barry Beck), on WWD at https://wwd.com/beauty-industry-news/beauty-features/bluemercury-barry-beck-marla-beck-1203136400/ but of course I’ve read about the Elliots (like on LA Confidential at https://laconfidentialmag.com/namaste-founders-on-self-care) and about the Fulops (like on Inc at https://www.inc.com/emily-canal/brooklinen-millennials.html) and a bunch of others quite a bit too. I dig stories of couples who work together, split the company chores, then come home and manage to do the same thing.
Check out this quote from that piece: “We never separate our business and personal life. It’s all one thing.” I’m taking it that they have chosen to be married to the job as much as to each other, to meld the relationships. An interesting and not universal approach, from my readings.
I’m not sure if this is for us, but it definitely works for them.
See, of the two of us (my wife and myself), I’m really the more entrepreneurial, by default. I’m not much of a risk-taker (but more so than she), though I am self-employed and have been for years. But getting her to join me in anything resembling self-employment would not be an easy proposition.
The thing is, I know it could work, if only we were to work it together. If all these people can choose to work it - https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/308959 - then we can too.