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 – Grow Your Business Without Sacrificing Your Relationships – with Sharon Pope

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Hosted by HerBusiness

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25 September 2025

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Running a business does NOT happen in a vacuum. As business owners, our personal lives and working lives are deeply intertwined — each affects the other. So can you grow your business without sacrificing your relationships?

In this episode of the HerBusiness podcast, I’m sitting down with Life Coach and Relationship Expert Sharon Pope to explore the intersections of business and love. We’re talking through power dynamic shifts, outearning your partner, muting ambitions to ‘keep the peace’, and how to fill your own cup.

If you have ever felt torn between growing your business successfully and navigating your personal relationships (because it is a struggle to balance both!), this is the episode you need.

Here’s What You’ll Discover in the Episode:

  • Why you can’t separate your “business self” from your “personal self” as an entrepreneur (even though we all certainly try!)
  • How to prioritise yourself first, before both the business and others, so you’re never pouring from an empty cup
  • What to do if you’re evolving in life and business… but your partner isn’t
  • The hidden dynamics that come to play when women start outearning their partners, and how to navigate them
  • How to have the hard, but needed, conversations that create connection rather than conflict in relationships, while running a successful business
  • Why your business community is so crucial when your friends or your partner don’t fully understand the business journey

 

Stay Or Go How To Find Confidence And Clarity So You Can Fix Your Marriage, Or Move Forward Without Regret by Sharon Pope

 

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Learn More about Sharon Pope

Read Sharon’s bestselling book: Stay or Go: How to Find the Confidence & Clarity You Need to Either Fix the Struggles in Your Marriage or Move Forward without Regret

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About the host

Suzi Dafnis

Hi there. I’m Suzi Dafnis, CEO at HerBusiness. My BIG passion is helping women business owners to grow and scale their business, so that they can create their ideal lifestyle and make a difference in the world. Every day I am inspired by the more than 30,000 amazing women (and men!) in our community and I love finding the best education, mentors, and resources from around the globe, to help them get the skills, knowledge, and support they need to succeed. It’s been my privilege to lead HerBusiness (formerly The Australian Businesswomen’s Network) for the past 23 years (two+ decades – WOW!) because, whilst I’ve enjoyed success in business, I’ve also experienced the highs and the lows – sometimes you can feel on top of the world and in control and other times you can feel isolated, exhausted and stuck. What has made the biggest difference for me has always been having great people around me and having a lifelong commitment to learning. That’s why I am so passionate about the work we do here at HerBusiness – providing a Connection Network for women in business to get the mentors, contacts, referrals, knowledge, and skills they need to grow their confidence, make more money, build their businesses, expand their network and create the lives they love. My entrepreneurial journey started in the spare room of my Sydney apartment in 1994 when my business partner and I started a boutique events company that represented speakers and authors from the USA, here in Australia. Over the years I’ve grown multiple multi-million dollar businesses in the events, publishing and education niches – with teams in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Not everything has worked and there has been a degree of trial and error, and a lot of bumps in the road. But I have always had a strong commitment to always surrounding myself with great mentors and like-minded peers – a Connection Network that I can depend on and who can depend on me to be there for them too. I truly do what I love, every day.  

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Sharon Pope

Sharon Pope

Sharon Pope is a certified Master Life Coach and Relationship Expert helping women in midlife get the tools they need to improve, heal, or release their struggling marriages. She is a seven-time international best-selling author on love and relationships, including Stay or Go: How to Find the Confidence & Clarity You Need to Either Fix the Struggles in Your Marriage or Move Forward without Regret, which has sold more than 300,000 copies. She is host of the podcast, “The Loving Truth,” and her work has appeared in numerous media outlets, including the “Modern Love”column of The New York Times.

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