Who: Kate Erickson
Blog: EOFire.com

Would you ever consider running an online business with a partner?

Would you ever consider doing it where your business partner is your significant other?

In today’s episode, Kate Erickson talks about how to run a business with your significant other.

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How to Run a Business with Your Significant Other

Kate Erickson is the content creator and community leader at Entrepreneur On Fire and the host of Kate’s take, an audio blog where she shares actionable advice for entrepreneurs who are looking to just start and take action today.

She left her nine to five at an advertising and marketing company to partner with her other half, John Lee Dumas to build something bigger.

She wanted to do something where she could feel as if she could do what she loves and feel fulfilled at the end of the day and like she’s actually helped someone.

This led to her business partnership with her significant other, John Lee Dumas.

Together, they run an extremely profitable business that inspires entrepreneurs all over the world to do big things.

I was having an unrelated conversation with her a few weeks ago and somehow we got on the topic of working with your significant other.

Kate’s story impressed me so much that I just had to have her on to share it because whether or not you’re working with your life’s partner, there’s so much we can all learn about running successful business partnerships.

Kate shares:

  • How she made the entrepreneurial leap from not getting her “dream job” of becoming a college professor to starting her first business.
  • How her first entrepreneurial venture never became successful.
  • Her decision to go back to working a job.
  • How she finally decided to leave her job to work with John.
  • Decisions they had to make so that the relationships (business and personal) would work.
  • The importance of setting boundaries.
  • The challenges they encountered on the journey.
  • The importance of separating business roles.
  • How to work as an effective team.
  • Their plans for the future.
  • MUCH more

There is so much value in this episode that whether you are thinking about working with your life’s partner or simply collaborating with someone on a business venture, you’re going to love it.

So go ahead and have a listen and then leave your thoughts in the comments area below.

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How to Run a Business with Your Significant Other

Transcript

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About the Author Leslie Samuel


Leslie Samuel a business coach for high-performing entrepreneurs. As the host of the Leslie Samuel Show, he teaches how to build an online business. "Changing the world one post at a time” is the mission he strives towards. As a former university professor, he has a passion for education. He's the founder of Interactive Biology, a blog and YouTube channel dedicated to making biology fun for students and teachers. As the head of training for the Social Media Marketing Society, he helps social media marketers get the training they need to stay on the leading edge of social media.

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