#144 Building a Business with Your Partner | From Laird & I's Experience
The Gabby Reece Show
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🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Today's Bonus: the highs and lows of building a business with your "better half" ;)
Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks recently visited the show and shared his past experience with "success addiction" and just how instrumental his partner was in shaping a healthy career and life around, together. Off that conversation, Gabby jumps into personal experiences about building, shaping and maintaining multiple businesses (XPT, Laird Superfood, and others) with Laird. Questions covered:
- How did the idea start? How did you develop it? Was someone "in charge" and someone serving? Who took on "big picture" and who did "day to day?" Was one of you a dreamer and one of you a realist?
- What hurdles did you face? How did you overcome them? Together, heads down? Someone leading the charge?
- How did you then juggle "real life?" So raising kids, maintaining other aspects of your life, etc.?
- How does starting and running a business with your partner test, challenge, serve, or hinder your relationship?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone it's Gabby and we're going to start doing some bonus episodes |
| 0:06.3 | weekly for the listeners and what we're trying to do is just take these specific |
| 0:10.6 | bite-sized topics go through them pretty quickly and drill down on specific |
| 0:16.7 | takeaways. What we're also doing is we fielded some questions and we try to elaborate |
| 0:20.9 | from there. Hi everyone. |
| 0:25.0 | So this is sort of the bonus conversation that I had with Arthur C. Brooks just maybe expanding |
| 0:36.7 | because we talked a lot with Arthur about the impact his wife has had in his life and maybe the opportunities that he was able to pursue with just |
| 0:48.0 | either a nudge by her or even the invitation and so I got asked questions about working with my partner, Laird. |
| 0:57.0 | I've been with Laird for, we'll be married, I guess 25 years this November and together 27 years. We come from very small sports. |
| 1:06.3 | I mean volleyball, big wave surfing, you by force are almost an entrepreneur. |
| 1:10.8 | And so we've actually worked together quite a lot over these years. |
| 1:14.0 | The good, the bad, and the ugly and so I was just asked some questions about that. |
| 1:18.0 | And just starting off with success addiction, Arthur was talking a lot about that. I think for both Laird and I |
| 1:26.3 | it's an interesting question because it doesn't make you happy right? Success |
| 1:30.4 | feels good in the short term it doesn't actually make you happy in the long |
| 1:34.3 | run but when it's sort of this pursuit of excellence or expression of self that |
| 1:40.6 | has a different impact and so I think both Laird and I, Laird's his pursuit of surfing and the sort of creative aspects of that and me I just like I'm curious and so whether it was doing businesses like |
| 1:54.0 | ex-P-T or Laird Superfood or even doing television or this |
| 1:57.9 | podcast it's sort of the pursuit of curiosity and self-expression. |
| 2:02.9 | And so how it works for us, I will say, |
| 2:08.0 | oh, and I have to tell you today, |
| 2:09.8 | like I literally, I think I've eaten half of an like a almond croissant. My point is this. It's like I think everyone thinks every day I eat perfect. I don't and it's totally okay. And I'm just sharing that because the other side of that is I thoroughly enjoyed it but I'm also not feeling my best |
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