Can You Really Run A Business With Your Other Half?

<p>Hey everyone. Welcome to this week's podcast. I'm your host, Sarah Jolley Jarvis, and I am really excited to be sharing with you my take on working with your other half. So in this week's podcast, what we're gonna be talking around is either bringing your other half as in your other. Who you are in a romantic relationship with into your business or, You know, in my case, my own experience is around setting up businesses with my husband.</p><p> </p><p>To start off with my relationship , cause it's the one I'm most qualified around. We've started a number of bit different businesses. We've started them in different forms. Sometimes he's taken the lead. Sometimes I've been there as kind of supporting roles. Sometimes it's been the other way around.</p><p> </p><p>It's been my, on me taking the. And him in a more supporting role. You know, we have very complimentary skills and that's why I think it works for us is because there are very clear boundaries there. And that's not to say that sometimes these boundaries get muddled or a little bit more, well, less clear  or, you know, that we don't have areas of the business where neither of us actually really enjoy doing it, or both of us really enjoy doing it.</p><p> </p><p>Which then is obviously a discussion point. You know, with any relationship, with any work, working relationship, it's not going to be. All the time, and I can definitely confirm that. And what I can say is setting out really clear boundaries, expectations, providing clarity on, on whose, whose role does this fall into being in a position where you can keep the communication open so that you can.</p><p> </p><p>Pull each other up when you're not necessarily doing something which is the most sensible, or you're coming from a place of, of more of an emotional response than a constructive response, et cetera, et cetera, is really helpful. And, and then that's the thing is, is you know, being able to work so closely with your other half, that's that person you know better than anybody else is so beneficia