Couples who work together… how do they do it?

It can be done and it can be fun and profitable.. and your marriage can survive.

We do it

More and more couples are working together or thinking of working together. Joanne and I have been married for more than 20 years (actual number censored by Joanne). We have been working together as a couple in our speaking and image consultants business for more than 10 years.

Me too, me too

You don’t know how many times we have heard people say – “I would love to do what the two of you do together. I would love to be able to work together in a business as a couple.”  And occasionally we hear someone say “I can’t imagine working with my spouse, how do you do it?”

If you’ve attended one of our co-facilitated seminars you know how different we are personality wise and how much fun we have working together and kibitzing about our differences .

Opposites attract

Joanne is Italian and I’m Irish. Joanne is a very amiable, expressive, relationship oriented person while I am an extremely analytical and somewhat expressive individual. She is from Venus and I am from Mars. But we somehow make it work.

We get to work together, play together and travel together and we plan on doing it for many years to come.

A how to for couples who work together or want to work together

We are teaming with another successful speaking and training couple, Charmaine Hammond and her husband Chris, to offer a workshop in September in Edmonton on successfully working together as a couple. Stay tuned for more details.

If you work together with your spouse/partner or you’ve ever thought about working together as a couple, we’d love to hear from you.  Send us your questions, hopes, fears, tips, advice or experiences.  We’d also love to have you join us at our workshop.

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Posted by Terry Pithers – the Business Etiquette Expert and one half of a happy entrepreneurial couple