This is Help Wanted, the show that makes your work work for you. I'm Jason Pfizer,

editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine.

And I'm money expert Nicole Lappin. On Tuesdays, Jason and I answer the helpline and help

callers solve their work problems. And on Thursdays, I give you one way to improve your work and build a career or company you love.

And it starts now.

My question is about running a business with your ex-partner.

I've been married for seven years. We recently separated and our business is facing the next stage of growth.

Do we take that next step together and if one of us leaves, who leaves and what does that look like for the business?

Well, hello, Nicole. Thanks for joining us on Help Wanted.

Thanks, Jason, for having me.

So, before we give you any advice, I feel like we're going to need to know more about

what's going on here. Do both you for example want to continue to run the business

together do you like each other and generally what kind of business is it okay

so we operate a mobile bicycle workshop. We go into buildings, houses and

schools and cycling events and we service and repair bikes. Me and my ex-husband started this business in 2015. It was a bit of a backyard

business. We were running it out of our garage and it quickly gained momentum.

We saw that we were onto something.

Throughout COVID there was a bit of a boom in the bike industry.

So our business started to do really, really well

and we thought, okay, we need to start taking this seriously

unfortunately at the same time our marriage ran into a series of difficulties

and we mutually decided that it was best last year to separate.

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