MBA2682 How To Stop Fighting With Your Co-Founders

Are you constantly arguing with your cofounder? Maybe you're silently stewing because you don't like the way they work. They work differently than you. This episode might just save your business or at least your sanity because the truth is most founder fights aren't about strategy or money. It's about how you work. And more importantly, how you work together and how misunderstood you might feel. Nicole and I used to butt heads a lot more until we did one simple exercise that changed literally everything. It's not therapy. It's not a team building activity. Just one honest conversation that really brought us more fulfillment to our work, but more importantly, more peace with each other, more understanding, and way better teamwork. I wanna share with you that exercise. I wanna show you exactly what we did that really changed things around for us. Now remember, my cofounder is also my wife. Okay? So this is even more important for us to get right. I'm gonna show you step by step how you can reduce the stress, reduce the tension, and work better than ever with your cofounder or cofounders. Let's get into it. Welcome back to the $100 MBA show. I'm your host, Omar Zdenholm where I deliver practical business lessons three times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday to help you start, grow and scale your business. Before we get started, I just wanna take a quick second to say thank you for being here. You're a learner. You're a doer. You're my kind of person. And if you wanna join people just like you in our growing community of entrepreneurs, hit follow right here in your podcast app. You grow. We grow. We all win. Thanks. First things first, the problem isn't that your cofounder sucks at communication or doesn't pull their weight or doesn't know how to work, right? The problem is that you're both assuming the other person works like you do, okay? But they don't. They can't because you are different people. You're different human beings. You have different styles. You have different work histories. You have different tendencies, preferences, different ways of solving problems. And all of that kind of fits in the box of what you like to do when you work, how you like to work. And until you understand that and adjust how you work together, you're gonna keep stepping on each other's toes. You're gonna keep pushing each other's buttons. This is especially true because you're both emotionally invested in the business, which is good. You wanna feel that fire. But working off different internal expectations is a really a recipe for resentment. You know, let me give you an example from my own relationship with Nicole, my cofounder. You know, one of the things I can't really tolerate much of, really bothers me a lot, really creates almost, I would say, physical pain for me is being interrupted. I don't like to be interrupted, not in a conversation, …