Relationships can either push or hinder mental health professionals to grow in their business. Since we aspire to live an abundant lifestyle, we opt for a healthy relationship that consists of supportive couples who are transparent in each other’s financial matters while maintaining work-life balance to fulfill parental obligations. Join us in today's episode as Doctor TK shares some tips on how to establish mature conversations covering the areas in our career, business, or romantic relationship. She’ll also shed some light to how she utilized these tips to her personal life that has led to her business growth.

 

Podcast Goal: 
Utilize Doctor TK’s helpful tips  in terms of communicating about goals, money, and kids with your partner to grow your business while enhancing your personal relationship


 

Episode Timeline:
Introduction to the topic of goals, money, and kids [01:14]


Goals: How do you determine your goals in your current business or career situation? What should be considered in order to be very clear on your goals? [01:43]


How goals can be embedded in enhancing a healthy relationship: Whether you’re single or in a relationship, why is it important to communicate your goals with your partner and know how supportive they are of your goals? [02:40]


Money: aka the number one killer that leads to divorce. Doctor TK shares a chapter from the “Foundations Book: 12 steps to a Divine Relationship” which provides activities to initiate transparent conversations with your partner on how you spend, save, and invest money. What is the importance of rating your comfort level in terms of discussing money matters with your partner? [04:20]


How does Doctor TK communicate to her husband regarding her investments and the actions taken to scale her business to the next level? [05:29]


Doctor TK is a firm believer of informing your business decisions ahead with your partner. She shares about opening up her calendar for alignment calls to give clients time to consult their partner before signing up for a program [07:46]


Kids: What are the things that you should consider to align your schedule with your parental obligations? [11:03]


Doctor TK talks about her husband as her biggest cheerleader, what support she needs, and the good results of communicating her goals to her partner before and post marriage [14:32]


In terms of money, she expresses her approval of disclosing the business revenue and fund allocation to her partner, determining what’s ‘Mine’ vs ‘Ours’, and what they learned during their premarital counseling in church. [16:12]


All about how Doctor TK’s husband aligns his work hours in their household: From managing his schedule between work and custody arrangement with his son to how he took over Doctor TK’s business during her bed rest and sharing obligations with their son [19:50]


Episode recap [26:13]


If you wanna have more mature conversations with your partner, check out Foundations Book: 12 Steps to a Divine Relationship [27:08]


 

Standout Quote from Doctor TK:
“Money is a hot topic because in relationships — especially in marriages — this is the number one killer that leads to divorce.” [04:23]


 

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