You Could Marry Your Work Crush— IF You Do This First

Help Wanted

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Self-improvement, Education, Business

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Dating your office crush might seem like a recipe for disaster... until you meet colleagues-turned-spouses Kiera and Clint Carter. Today, Jason and Nicole talk to Kiera and Clint about the conversations they had early on that made them confident moving forward with their relationship, what advice they would give anyone considering asking their colleague out, how to avoid being office gossip, and when dating a colleague might actually be a good thing. To read Kiera's work, click here: https://www.kieracarter.com/ To read Clint's work, click here: https://www.clintlcarter.com/

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0:00.0	This is Help Wanted, the show that makes your work work for you. I'm Jason Pfizer, Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneur magazine.
0:14.0	And I'm money expert Nicole Lappin. On Tuesdays, Jason and I answer the helpline and help
0:18.5	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.
0:26.0	And it starts now.
0:28.0	On the show, we talk a lot about finding a business partner that you're compatible with but today we're
0:33.6	to talk about what happens when you find a romantic partner that you're compatible with
0:37.4	through business. Yeah this is a really hot topic you and I get a lot of
0:42.0	questions about it and for good reason because
0:44.0	27% of US workers have had a workplace romance and 40% have flirted with a
0:49.8	coworker so they've thought about a workplace romance maybe.
0:52.8	That is from a recent survey by the Society for Human Resource Management.
0:57.4	And it's not all just harmless fun.
0:58.9	In that survey, nearly 20% of people who said they'd been in a workplace romance also said that it hurt their career.
1:06.0	So if you're going to do this, you need to take it seriously.
1:08.6	You need to romance like it's your job, which is why today, Nicole, I am bringing on two friends of mine
1:16.6	who did it right.
1:17.8	They are Clint and Kira Carter.
1:19.7	They're married.
1:20.4	They have two kids, and they met when they were coworkers at Men's Health magazine which is where I met them too I was a colleague of theirs
1:28.1	But for a while they kept it a secret and I and our friends there had no idea they were dating.
1:34.0	Did you find out the secret?
1:35.0	Oh, did I?
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