Omar Zenhom and a co-speaker discuss running a business with your spouse. They argue that you can always build another business, but a solid personal relationship is harder to cultivate and must come first. Disagreements are inevitable, but treating them as solvable problems rather than ego battles keeps the partnership intact.
You know, you can always build another business, but it's very hard to create another solid relationship with your significant other. You know, businesses come and go, and you gotta really prioritize, uh, your personal relationship if you're working with your spouse.
Yeah, the relationship has to come first. And I think, you know, in all those moments where maybe there were disagreements— and we'll talk a little bit more about some of those key disagreements— always coming back to the relationship has to come first, not just as like a nice, you know, thing to say. It's really how we operate. And I think the more years you have in business, the more problems you experience, the more wins you experience as well. But then you get used to saying, okay, it's another problem we can solve, like, that's fine, we'll get past that, you know, this too shall pass. There's no room for ego. If we want to see each other win, then I think there's no chance of sacrificing.
