Marriage & Entrepreneurship: The Balancing Act of Love & Business with Janessa Borges | EU 183

Are you a successful entrepreneur who’s also a mother and a wife? How can you handle a partner that feels threatened by your success? How can you and your partner find a new dynamic in your relationship that can grow with the changes? In this reverse podcast episode, I am so excited to have Janessa Borges on and together we discuss marriage, entrepreneurship, and the balancing act of love and business. I share stories about Willie and myself that I have not shared on the podcast before. Meet Janessa Borges Janessa is a first-generation Latina therapist, speaker, business strategist, and coach for entrepreneurs & soon to be an author. Janessa was born and raised in Miami and attained her degree from the clinically intensive program at NYU. She has over twenty years of experience working with individuals and families. After over 12 years in practice, Janessa is in the process of finalizing a book, and she created a program that helps clinicians open, market, and scale their own successful private practices. Janessa hosts networking events throughout the U.S. and her podcast “Latinas Empowering Latinas” helps reach and support others throughout the world. Connect with Janessa Borges on her website. Listen to her Podcast Here. Summary Overcoming early marriage issues Navigating solo entrepreneurship in marriage How to handle a threatened partner when you are successful Overcoming early marriage issues Back in the early years of their marriage, Willie Cisneros worked as a drill sergeant and Veronica was living with him during his three-year duty. Although they didn’t know it at the time, their communication habits were unhelpful, and they often turned against one another and into people that they didn’t recognize in each other. I didn’t know ,you don’t know what you don’t know. I didn’t know that he and I didn’t have good coping strategies. I didn’t know we weren’t talking well because he and I grew up in Hispanic cultures where you don’t talk. (Veronica Cisneros) In those early days, Veronica and Willie fought to be the winner in conflict, and it took them many years and a lot of effort to find the right type of communication and coping strategies to actually communicate to one another, and listen well. Navigating solo entrepreneurship in marriage It can