Throwback: Love and Leadership: Insights from a Couple Who Works Together

In this episode, Chad Franzen interviews Josh and Becca Hadley about their journey working together as a married couple. They share insights into balancing business and family life, setting boundaries, and defining clear roles. The Hadleys discuss the joys and challenges of entrepreneurship as partners, offer advice for couples considering a joint venture, and highlight the importance of communication, shared vision, and prioritizing their relationship. Personal anecdotes reveal their daily routines, family priorities, and fun facts about each other, providing an honest look at blending marriage and business.

Chapters:

Introduction and Guest Welcome (00:00:00)
Chad Frandsen is introduced as the interviewer; Becca and Josh Hadley are welcomed to the podcast.

Working with Your Spouse: Initial Thoughts (00:00:21)
Becca and Josh share their experiences and feelings about working together as a married couple.

Early Days of the Business (00:01:54)
Josh describes how they started working together, their routines, and the excitement of building the business.

Balancing Roles and Avoiding Friction (00:03:29)
Discussion on the importance of clarifying roles and responsibilities to prevent conflicts.

Work-Life Boundaries and Daily Routines (00:04:46)
Chad asks about setting workday boundaries; Becca and Josh explain their flexible approach and daily schedules.

Family Priorities and Involvement (00:07:01)
Josh emphasizes prioritizing family, coaching kids’ sports, and the importance of being present as parents.

Advice Received About Working Together (00:08:24)
Becca and Josh recall advice they received about working as a couple and the importance of maintaining balance.

Advice for Couples Considering Business Together (00:10:23)
Josh and Becca offer advice to couples thinking about starting a business together, stressing clear roles and shared vision.

Working from Home: Pros and Cons (00:12:39)
They discuss working from home, its benefits, challenges, and how it affects their work-life transition.

Personal Insights: About Each Other (00:13:43)
Chad asks Becca and Josh to share something listeners wouldn’t know about the other, revealing personal and fun facts.

Closing Remarks (00:15:52)
Chad wraps up the interview, thanks the guests, and offers best wishes.

Links and Mentions:

Company/Tool:
Rise 25

Book/Quote:
No success in the world can compensate for failure in the home

Transcript:

Josh 00:00:00  Today I'm excited to introduce to you. I have two special guests with me. We have my wife, Becca Hadley, and then we have Chad Franzen here of rise 25, who has done hundreds of interviews with successful entrepreneurs and CEOs. We have flipped the script, and he is going to be interviewing Becca and I today. So welcome to the podcast, Chad.

Chad 00:00:21  Hey, thanks so much, Josh. Great to be here with both of you. So, Becca, what is it like working with your spouse?

Becca 00:00:28  Yeah, I love it. I know almost every single person I talk to always says, I don't know how you do that, or that didn't work for me or were divorced or whatever it is. We I think it's been one of the best things for us. I think we had a strong foundation before we began working with each other, and it kind of started off slow. And Josh was working in corporate America. We were working together at night, but for us, it's been it's been fun.

Becca 00:00:51  It's been our hobby, I think since both of us are doing what we love, it's very fulfilling and then even more fulfilling to do it together. I think one of my favorite things is just the opportunity to, like, travel together to different conferences like we've had so many like couples trips that are business trips. and it's been so fun. We've seen so many places together. I think we're also learning new things together at the conferences we go to and the things that we listen to, the podcast, everything that we do together. So I think it takes our relationship even to the next level, which is really fun. Now, that's not to say that it's always easy. We definitely have our frustrations or our arguments or sometimes, like when we're on a date. In my head, I'm like, stop talking about the business, let's be on a date. So it's just finding a balance and making sure that, like in our relationship that we have like family time specifically and date nights and business time.

Becca 00:01:41  And for us, honestly, it has been an incredible blessing. I've loved every minute of it.

Chad 00:01:45  So great. Yeah. Why don't we get back to that in just a minute? Kind of the the boundaries or whatever, like work and home or whatever. But, Josh, what are your thoughts on working with your wife?

Josh 00:01:54  Yeah, I think that it's been an amazing experience. And I think that, like Becca talked about, it's Is important for us. I think it like has actually brought us closer together because we've been working on like a similar vision. Like I would say, like kids brings you together, right? You and your spouse together on like a similar vision of like, we want our children to to succeed, but also with the business. We want our business to succeed. And so it's been fun. Like I like Becca mentioned, like it was what was it literally a year after we had been married or like, yeah, it was one year after we had been married was when we kind of like got started into the business and working together.

Josh 00:02:36  And it was fun. You know, we didn't have kids at the time. We had a child on the way at the time, but for us, it our kind of life looked like this. I would come home from work at American Airlines, and then we would sit down together at night. And at the time I could have a TV show on in the background and be all right with that. But we would put on something fun, and then we would just be working together and we would be chatting and saying, hey, look at this cool thing I found. You know, hey, you know, and at the time, we were working with custom wedding invitations and brides. And so it was always like whenever we got to sell or somebody paid their deposit or they got booked on the calendar, it was like this big win. And I'd go run over and tell them, it's like, we got another one. And it was just like an exciting time for us. And, you know, we would stay up late into the evenings until like one, two in the morning, just working on the business together.

Josh 00:03:29  But we loved it and that's what our life revolved around. And and now as we have children because of the, you know, hard work, I think that we put forth early on, it's paying dividends in terms of us being able to be more present at their sporting events and having more flexibility in our schedule. But to Becca's point as well, like, it hasn't just been all rainbows and unicorns, not necessarily like there's there's friction at times. Right. And that friction, a lot of it comes down to, you know, are we on the same page in terms of like the vision and where we're going with the business, but also like in clarifying our roles? I think that's been one of the most important things, like if Becca were trying to be the CEO as well and she were like super possessive of like, this is my business, I have to be the CEO. Then that could cause a lot of friction. And I feel like that's what happens a lot of times is you've got a husband and wife and they don't necessarily clarify the roles.

Josh 00:04:27  They're like, I want to be the leader. I want to be the leader. And then they both start stepping on each other's toes. But because Becca does so well a...