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Eric Siu on balancing entrepreneurship and parenting: treat your kids like an audience you're trying to understand, ask questions instead of giving orders, and coach them the way you'd engage with followers or customers.
Eric Siu on balancing entrepreneurship and parenting: treat your kids like an audience you're trying to understand, ask questions instead of giving orders, and coach them the way you'd engage with followers or customers.
How do you think about parenting as an entrepreneur? If my audience as an entrepreneur is my email list and my subscribers and my followers, and the best way to serve them is by getting involved with what they're doing and really hearing from them, I'm doing the same thing with my kids. My kids is my audience. I'm going to get involved in what they're doing because I want to have conversations. I want to learn about what's going on in their head so that I can better serve them. But serving a kid is maybe a little bit different in the sense that, okay, I'm not going to create a course for them or anything like I'm going to coach them. So I don't do a ton of coaching in my entrepreneurial world, but the coaching I have done feels pretty similar to the way that my wife and I, quote unquote, raise and/or coach our kids, because we don't tell them what to do. That is not our philosophy. We help them realize what the right thing is to do by asking them questions.
