Partnership as a Path to Personal Growth and Expansion: From Family to Business

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekDMDmitry MugenovCouples and healthy relationshipsWIWifeF/Friend / friendsChildren, parenting, and family life

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00The significance of partnership in life
• 01:11Do we need to define the goal of a partnership (growing closer to people)?
• 03:40An example: partnership with a wife as a relationship without a specific goal
• 05:26Money or relationships: what matters more in business?
• 07:12Partnership as a natural part of life
• 11:00Resolving conflicts in family and business
• 13:12The influence of the past on personal development

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• 00:21

  This is genuine growth and expansion as a person, where we would help each other develop.

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• 00:36

  People lose relationships with their parents, their children, within their families because of this.

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• 02:12

  I always say there is no rigid definition, when you want to create a partnership, of what matters: the goal of the partnership itself, achieving that goal, or a process that unfolds within it, understanding the actions needed to get a result…

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• 05:13

  So, to answer your question—to continue answering it from the business perspective—I have an education business.

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• 05:38

  On the one hand, I want to preserve the broad goal of developing this partnership with this person.

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• 05:55

  On the other hand, I still want to establish a very precise point of reference in the business: we're creating a business that should be worth a certain amount, or one that should generate a certain profit.

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• 08:43

  Many people ask, “With my partner, if they're my business partner, can I—or should I—start spending time with them and their family, or take trips with them?” Some say, “Absolutely not.”

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• 11:05

  How many times in my life have I blocked the resolution of a conflict within a partnership—blocked it out of my own pride and ego, rather than acting from the common sense of developing together?

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• 12:49

  Because of this, people lose relationships with their parents, their children, within their families, with their friends and acquaintances.

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• 14:38

  Hearing all of this is genuine expansion—it's what leads a person to an incredible scale, a truly cosmic scale, an enormous scale, a scale you often can't even fully grasp.

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