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382

 - How to Work with Your Husband, Wife, or Partner in Business (Without Conflict)

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Hosted by HerBusiness

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8 October 2026

When you’re in business with the person you love, you’re not separated by a commute and two different offices. The business comes to your dinner plans. It climbs into bed at the end of the day. It sits down in the middle of family time, invited or not.

This week’s episode is an Ask Suzi edition, prompted by a listener who wrote in about exactly this: she and her husband run their business together, they see things very differently, and she can feel that the way they’re working needs to change. It’s a question all women business owners who work with their partners know well.

If you work with your husband, with, or partner, this episode is all about how to disagree well, make decisions cleanly, and protect the relationship WHILE you build the business together.

What You’ll Discover in Episode 382: How to Work with Your Husband, Wife, or Partner in Business (Without Conflict)

  • Why “equal partners” doesn’t have to mean an equal vote on every single decision in the business.
  • The one shift that prevents the endless litigation over the smallest of decisions.
  • Why your hard conversations need a dedicated home (and how to actually protect your business-free time).
  • How to agree on your rules for disagreement before the next stalemate or difficult topic, so conversations never end in a fight or deadlock.
  • How real alignment is built: through regular talking, shared fundamentals, and learning together rather than drifting apart
  • The one diagnostic that tells whether you’ve got a structure problem (fixable) or a respect problem
  • Three questions that you and your husband, wife, or partner can work through together this week to start making changes

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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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