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"Though stores are full of books for entrepreneurs, most ignore the seismic shock a business venture can inflict on a marriage. Honey, I Want to Start my Own Business is a must for entrepreneurs who depend on spouses for support, either financial or emotional."
"How many couples are willing to stake their relationship and marriage on the Herculean demands that building a business often involves?" Azriela Jaffe takes a more intimate view of the interpersonal dynamics and understanding needed when life partners are joint owners of a business or one partner is self-employed.
Jaffe has created a cross between an entrepreneurial guide like Michael Gerber's "The E-Myth and a couple's relationships book like John Gray's "Men are From Mars, WOmen are From Venus. Buy this title to help life-mates through the emotionally charged issues of financial risk, business failure, and family sacrifices.
If you're married and starting (or have already started) your own business, this is a must read! Many books talk about starting marriage or about enlivening marriages. This one tells you how to keep, sustain, and enhance a marriage while making an entrepreneurial endeavor work.
The beauty of Honey, I Want to start my Own Business is in the specifics. Self tests and exercises cover such topics as . . . Jaffe doesn't stop with assessment, however. Where skill levels might fall short, she provides techniques and ideas for making them better.
"Entrepreneurial couples face unique challenges in keeping the romance alive. Azriela Jaffe understands and explores this challenge in a stimulating and insightful manner that will help couples in practical ways".
"For the first time (thank goodness!) a book that takes on the real challenges and concerns pele have about working successfully from your home. Sensitive and smart, Honey is full of been-there, done-that, how-to wisdom. A practical MUST read for every home-based business-woman. An insightful YOU'D BETTER read this for every man".
"This book provides a sane approach to the entrepreneurial lifestyle and brilliant interactive tools for goalsetting and downline support. This book should be required reading for any couple involved in network marketing, or even just thinking about it! Read Honey with your relationship partner - it will be key to your business success".
"This book is a MUST for any couple planning to work in a business together, or where one or both of them wants to take a large financial risk. If people do these exercises, it will change their lives tremendously - in more ways than just around their business".
"This project soars above the pack. It is fresh substantive material, beautifully organized, and tightly written. The author has a wealth of anecdotes from more than 100 interviews, and they richly enhance her work. The exercises are brilliant. Honey fills a gap in what is now available for couples - and does so in a lively way". - Susan Page, author of "Now that I'm Married, Why Isn't Everything Perfect"? |