A Balancing Act: Starting a Business with your Best Friend

Aug 8 Podcast (1)

Typical business advice often warns people not to start a business with their best friend if they want the company — or the friendship — to last. When a Harvard Business School professor studied over 10,000 startups, he found that the least stable teams were friends, with a founder turnover rate of 28.6%, higher than teams of virtual strangers. But Meghan Patke and Lisa Strangis have proven that with a shared passion and respect for each other, you can balance the friend and business partner relationship. Tune in as Susan sits down with Meghan and Lisa to discuss how they collaborated and compromised to make the business and relationship work.

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About Susan Michel

Women's Wealth: The Middle Way® is a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. The podcast is hosted by Susan Michel and Carol Ann Fernandez.

Susan Michel has worked in the financial advisory industry for more than two decades and is the founder of her own financial services firm, Glen Eagle, in Kingston, New Jersey. She has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, and Newsweek. Carol Ann Fernandez is the Chief Operating Officer at Glen Eagle.