Lindsey Simcik
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Being an entrepreneur is not easy. The entrepreneur has a different type of mindset. The number one thing that you can remember and accept in life is that your friendships are going to change and that's okay.
A lot of people want to be an entrepreneur for the idea of what being an entrepreneur is. They kind of see what's happening online on social media. They're like, oh, you work from home or you work on the beach or it's sexy. It's not like that. Why do you feel like most of these business marriages don't work? If we just love each other, this will be fine, right?
But then you get into the marriage and you're like, oh, this is a lot of work. The most important thing that people need to look for in relationship for entrepreneurs is... When we first started, I was so insecure about it.
Like, there's no limits how much money I can make.
We started recording on our closet floors. It was not perfect. It was not organized. It was a mess, but it felt so right. So if we had waited to start until we got a studio, had the business all set up and the strategy right, like we would have never started.
So with parents, sometimes we prioritize almost 30 our baby over our relationship. And so we're more in that role of the parents of our baby than we are as friends. And so it's sometimes felt like we've lost sight of friendship because we're so focused on the business and the growth of the business. And we also have to focus on aligning our dreams and visions for the future.
When you're in business with your best friend, especially, there's so many layers to the dynamic. And in a marriage, as you know, when you get married, you share finances, you share just deep growth and learning in all aspects of your life. And when you become entrepreneurs as best friends...
In a marriage, you have to continue to come back to like, where are we going? How are you feeling? Where are we going? And we have to do that all the time. So whenever people want to start businesses with their best friends, I'm always hesitant to tell them to do so because most of the time it fails when people do that. And we've been really lucky.
You start to share finances, first and foremost, and then you get into the deep work of becoming confident, successful entrepreneurs, which requires you to really look at every aspect of yourself and every aspect of how you are in relationship. So Krista and I have been through therapy. Oh, my gosh. Through coaching.
We put in the work during the process and it's been the most beautiful relationship of my life, but it's not easy.
We have had really, really hard conversations about finances, about our vision for the future, about what's working and what's not working.
And so there have been many times where like the lines are blurred. I'm like, I kind of want to be more of your friend right now. Yeah. But we're in a business conversation and vice versa. So it's been something we always have to actively participate in and actively work on.
So I think for most of us, the ideas that we were told about marriage were from Disney movies, were from media, were these ideas of marriage and relationships that are not actually real or supportive of healthy dynamics and relationships.
You know, we could essentially be in an unhealthy marriage forever, she and I. But what we want for our lives is to be happy, to be fulfilled, to do something great.
So now we came into our relationship, our marriage, with the idea of marriage being something where you sacrifice, you're not in alignment, you don't speak your truth, you don't ask for what you want, you don't create something amazing. And so a lot of people go in with that thought, like, this will just work without work.
I went into my previous marriage, I was married, and I kind of had that idea, if we just love each other, this will be fine, right? But then you get into the marriage and you're like, oh, this is a lot of work, a lot of checking in with myself, checking in with you, realigning our values.
And so if you go into a business partnership without checking in on the relationship, checking in on the values, checking in on the direction of where you're going, you're it's not going to work. Something's going to happen. You're going to build up resentment and you're probably going to end up breaking up.
I think the most important thing that people need to look for in relationship for entrepreneurs is being able to communicate. Just like a marriage, the number one thing in relationship is communication. You need to be talking about how you're feeling, what's coming up for you, what you want, where you want to go, what works for you, what doesn't work for you.
And we've really focused on our communication and communicating respectfully and with love and with intention. And that's been the biggest thing that's really kept us together.
Yeah.
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