Meet My Wife!!! Surviving The Startup with Renee Warren @ FamilyAcademy.co - EV Ep.14
How do you support your partner when they don’t want your help? In this very personal episode, I interview my beautiful wife and partner in crime, Renee Warren, on surviving the startup in your marriage.
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I can’t believe this...
One of the guys on my marketing team told me he Googled my name and you know what came up as a suggested search term?
“Dan Martell Wife”.
Google only suggests popular searches, so… Does that mean people are Googling who my wife is?! Oh man that makes me laugh.
I’ve got a better idea -- How about you meet her?
In this episode of Escape Velocity, I’m chatting with my beautiful wife and partner in crime, Renee Warren.
Not only is Renee an unlimited source of inspiration in my life, but she runs her own business, FamilyAcademy.co
She works with female entrepreneurs to help them gain more freedom in their lives by teaching them how to have a better relationship with their partner and their kids.
I’ve worked with so many stressed-out SaaS coaches who struggle to balance a relationship with the demands of their business.
So in my eyes, Renee’s work is serving a huge mission that’s needed in todays overworked entrepreneurial culture.
Check out this latest episode where you’ll learn more about what I’m like to live with, and about balancing a relationship with your entrepreneurial drive.
It’s unfair to call this an interview since I gave Renee free reign to speak her mind. But in this episode, you’ll hear us chat about:
- Work Life Balance (here’s a micro-doc we did on the topic)
- Relentlessly pursuing ambition when you’re in a relationship
- Creating 5-year plans individually from your partner
- How to balance priorities by doing Quarterly Retreats
- Our weekly Martell Clan meetings
- How to help your partner when they don’t want your help
- Relationship resistance
- Making sure your kids aren’t entitled when they grow up
- Why we’re sending our kids to public school
Oh and just because I’m married to a woman that helps entrepreneurs have great relationships, that doesn’t mean we’re perfect by any means.
I’ll be the first to admit that living with an entrepreneur is demanding.
We fight. We have our struggles.
But what we have is a support group and structure that keeps us on track and investing in our relationship.
In fact, in this episode, she jokes that she should write a book about what it’s like to live with me.
Her title?
“Living with Chaos”.
This was a fun episode, but I think as a SaaS founder, you’ll really find it valuable too.
If you’re in a relationship, then giving it the love and care it deserves will impact the energy you can bring to your business too.
Tune in here to watch the latest episode or get it on iTunes here.
Dan “Chaos” Martell.
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ABOUT DAN MARTELL
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“You can only keep what you give away.” That’s the mantra that’s shaped Dan Martell from a struggling 20-something business owner in the Canadian Maritimes (which is waaay out east) to a successful startup founder who’s raised more than $3 million in venture funding and exited not one... not two... but three tech businesses: Clarity.fm, Spheric and Flowtown.
You can only keep what you give away. That philosophy has led Dan to invest in 33+ early stage startups such as Udemy, Intercom, Unbounce and Foodspotting. It’s also helped him shape the future of Hootsuite as an advisor to the social media tour de force.
An activator, a tech geek, an adrenaline junkie and, yes, a romantic (ask his wife Renee), Dan has recently turned his attention to teaching startups a fundamental, little-discussed lesson that directly impacts their growth: how to scale. You’ll find not only incredible insights in every moment of every talk Dan gives - but also highly actionable takeaways that will propel your business forward. Because Dan gives freely of all that he knows. After all, you can only keep what you give away.