Christian Polk pushes an entrepreneur to stop separating his marriage from his business strategy. The speaker resists at first, but Polk argues that personal circumstances should shape how you design your business to deliver the life you actually want, not just revenue.
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Like, how does your wife feel about that?
Excuse me? Why are you asking about my wife?
Do you feel like she's a big part of your life? Yeah. So when it comes to if we're looking to make a big change in our life, you feel like she has to be included in that?
Well, this is business. This has nothing to do with my personal—
Can I make a suggestion, man? Go ahead. You are an extension of your business. So anything that affects you or your life, does that affect your business? To an extent, I guess. To an extent? Like, you can be real with me, dude. Like, I'm on your team. Like, does what happens in your life affect your business?
My wife's mad at me, but I guess I am mad at people.
It's like for me, like, dude, like, I'm a business owner as well. My life is a direct extension, like, of my business. I'm just a person who happens to own a business. Our personal life and like what's going on is directly applicable to our business because we can either be a slave to the business or we can design the business to give us the life that we actually want. Which one would you rather do?
I want it to give me the life I want.
Yeah. So if you want it to give you the life you want, we have to understand right now what we don't want. That way we can paint the picture and actually get us to what we do want. Would you agree with that? I see what you mean. Do you actually agree? Like, we need to understand like where we're at now in order to get to where we want to be. I agree. Be real with me, man, because like I'm on your team and I want to see you win. If the biggest reason we need to change is due to our wife, we have to understand what that's actually doing to her. So how do you feel like that actually makes her feel if we had to think about it?
He deserves better. She's a little bit mad at me, I'll admit it.
