The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship and Marriage

Normally on this show, I'm the one teaching or asking the questions — but today I flipped the script.

This is actually a conversation from my wife Shay's podcast, Better Way to Build, where she interviewed me. And we didn't hold back.

After 20 years of marriage and 17-plus years of both of us running our own separate businesses, we got real about the actual cost of entrepreneurship — the stuff nobody puts in the highlight reel. Contentment, connection, peace — what it's taken from us, and what it's given us.

So stick around, because this one's more vulnerable than what you're used to from me.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and context of the conversation

00:30 The purpose of this collaborative episode

01:24 Unique entrepreneurial journeys of Graham and his wife

02:17 Benefits of entrepreneurship: freedom, family, purpose

04:15 The misconception that entrepreneurs must work constantly

07:34 How entrepreneurship enables family time and intentional living

10:58 Proving business can run without the owner for weeks