Business Together
Jon and Tara have been business partners for their entire marriage — running companies, making decisions together, and navigating the overlap between work and home. They're uniquely qualified to talk about the entrepreneurial couple experience.
Twenty-four years married and in business together the whole time. How to run a business and be married, how to actually get along with your entrepreneurial spouse — that's the stuff we live every single day.
Nobody with an ounce of dignity abandons their partner — in business or in life. That cowardly, childish behavior where you take all the leverage and say "get through me"? That's not partnership. That's not even close.
Jon's the complaints and business opportunity department. I handle the kudos and the happy-face emojis. It actually works — division of roles is real in business and in marriage.
Having different approaches to money, different risk tolerances, different visions — that's not just normal in business, it's the friction that forces better decisions. You've got to have those candid conversations early and often.
We sponsor ourselves. We built our own thing and we show up for it. That's what entrepreneurship in a marriage actually looks like — you're not waiting for someone to believe in you, you just do the work.
Business, money & entrepreneurship
