Balancing Act: How a Married Couple Built 5 Businesses in 5 Years | Team Builders

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Tom Ferry

Education, Self-improvement, Business

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🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Galen Callahan and Sergio Gonzalez have been married for 13 years, have five daughters together, and in the last five years they have built… you guessed it… FIVE different companies. Where most people would be spinning out of control, Galen and Sergio have found a way to manage their businesses and their home life with ease and efficiency. On today’s episode of Team Builders, this dynamic duo shared with me some of their secrets, including: Pivoting when circumstances change Playing to each other’s strengths Installing management and creating the right culture for each company Outsourcing at work and home If you work directly with your spouse or have ever considered it, you’ll want to watch or listen to this advice, right here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Team Builder Show where the most successful team leader share
0:03.5	how to build, scale, organize, and ultimately maximize your sales team results.
0:13.1	Hey, welcome to the Team Builder Show. We're going to unpack a husband and wife team
0:17.1	that have literally in the last five years built one, two, three, four, five different companies
0:23.3	and figure out how they did it and how in the world are they still married and happy
0:26.7	and this is good looking. So, so Galen and Sergio, welcome to the show,
0:30.8	super sorry to have you guys. I love it. You flew in from Southern California to be here.
0:36.1	That means it's a world to me. So first of all, if we just unpack, so Galen,
0:41.4	Callahan, top of the morning, Ryan DeViti right now is like my people, right?
0:47.1	Sergio Gonzalez, you didn't take the last name, but you guys been married for how long?
0:50.4	For 13 years this year. And how many kids? Five.
0:54.0	With five girls. Five girls. Five girls. Five businesses. You have 10 children.
0:59.4	That's how I came up. Pretty much. Yeah, no, seriously. So, so the theme of this show is like
1:05.2	the rise of the entrepreneurial agent, right? So, so let's give people some context and background.
1:10.4	So, so Galen, how long in the business? How long in the business is? What did you do before?
1:15.0	All of this came together the last five years. So, we actually met because I was a real
1:20.7	I started out in Santa Monica. I got licensed around 2006. Yeah. So, I was selling on the west side,
1:26.0	Malibu. Yeah. He was with Countrywide at the time. Right. My office.
1:30.2	A little countrywide. Mr. Mozilla. Right. My office had a lending division. So, he would service
1:36.5	your lending side. Sure. A few years later, we had a mutual friend. He had started his own
1:42.0	mortgage company. Yeah. Our company had shut down. Yeah. He said, yeah, you can hang your license
1:46.6	with us. Yeah. In the mortgage company. Yeah. Is this how you picked up on girls?
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