Build the Business — Without Sacrificing the Partnership Behind It

For founders and their life partners — so home stays strong while the business grows.

Running a business will shape your relationship at home. The only question is whether you and your life partner navigate that by default — or by design.

Prefer to start privately? Take the 3-minute “Aligned Under Pressure” Relationship check-in → https://alignedunderpressure.scoreapp.com

Backed by 20+ years of research | Delivered by TEDx speakers (3.7M+ views) | Trusted by global organisations

Build & Bond™: When Business Hits Home

A free 90-minute discovery session for founders and their life partners — whether you run the business together, or your partner simply lives with the impact of it every day.

 

Building a business brings energy, freedom and possibility. It also brings intensity, uncertainty and pressure — and those pressures don’t stay neatly at work.

 

Even strong couples can start operating on autopilot when time, attention and emotional capacity get squeezed. At home, conversations become practical rather than relational. Small misalignments go unspoken. Connection becomes something you plan to “get back to” later.

 

Many founders and their life partners find themselves juggling:

These aren’t signs your relationship is failing — they’re signs you’re operating under sustained pressure.

When relationship friction is left unattended, the ripple effects quietly show up in decision-making, resilience, leadership energy and long-term growth.

The Build & Bond™: When Business Hits Home session creates space for you and your life partner to pause, reflect, and look at what pressure is changing — calmly, practically, and without blame.

Imagine if you could…

These aren’t personality traits — they’re skills. And any couple can learn them.

Your First Step: Build & Bond™ — When Business Hits Home

A practical, energising 90-minute online session designed for founders and their life partners who want less friction at home — and more clarity, focus and connection as the business grows.

 

You’ll leave with a clearer picture of how business pressure is shaping your relationship at home — and what to do about it this week, not “someday”.

 

You will:

  • Learn the relational patterns that most reliably strengthen high-performing partnerships under pressure

  • Identify where pressure is currently showing up for you (without judgement or therapy-style language)

  • Get simple tools you can apply immediately — at home and at work

  • Build shared language for better communication and decision-making

  • Understand the pathway to deeper support if you choose to continue

 

No fluff. No blame. Just practical relational tools tailored to entrepreneurial life.

This session is free so you can experience the value first-hand — and decide what (if anything) you want to do next.

A practical, energising 90-minute online session designed for founders and their life partners who want less friction at home — and more clarity, focus and connection as the business grows.

Ready to see how this works in practice?

Meet Your Hosts — Dr. Andrea & Jon Taylor-Cummings

We get it — because we’ve lived it.

We started our first business together over 30 years ago and have led several ventures side-by-side since. We know what it feels like to juggle deadlines, decisions, financial pressure and family life — and how easily the relationship can get squeezed in the process.

Today we’re internationally recognised relationship educators and TEDx speakers (3.5M+ views), and co-founders of The 4 Habits Institute®. For decades we’ve helped founders, leaders and couples build the relational intelligence that drives trust, resilience and high performance.

Our work has been featured in The Times, Daily Mail, Woman & Home and more.

We help founders and their life partners design how they do business and life together — intentionally, not by default.

We’d love to help you do the same.

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This session is perfect for you if:

  • You’re building a business — and you want your relationship to stay strong as pressure grows
  • Your business affects your relationship at home — time, stress, money, attention — whether or not your life partner works in the business.

  • You want fewer recurring friction points and more shared clarity
  • You value growth — personally, professionally and relationally
  • You’re proactive: you’d rather design this season than drift into it

Note: This session isn’t designed for couples in acute crisis or seeking therapeutic intervention. If that’s you, we can suggest more appropriate support.

The 4 Habits® Framework

The 4 Habits® are the observable behaviours that protect connection and performance — especially under pressure.

We first shared The 4 Habits® publicly in our 2019 TEDx talk (now viewed more than 3.7 million times), where we distilled decades of research and lived experience into four simple, observable behaviours that transform partnership dynamics.

These habits now sit at the heart of every high-performing team we’ve coached.

  • Habit 1 — Communicate Positively

    Upgrade everyday interactions to reduce stress and boost collaboration.

  • Habit 2 — Handle Conflict Constructively

    Stop unhelpful patterns and resolve issues without emotional residue.

  • Habit 3 — Negotiate Expectations

    Align on roles, goals and boundaries to prevent resentment and overwhelm.

  • Habit 4 — Build Emotional Connection

    Protect the partnership that fuels everything else.

(You’ll receive a link to our TEDx talk when you join the waitlist.)

Next Step After the Session: Your Fit & Focus™ Call

If you want personalised guidance, you can book a complimentary Fit & Focus™ Session — a 45-minute clarity conversation where we explore:

  • Your business season and pressures

  • Your relational strengths + current pressure points

  • What you want the next 12 months to feel like (at home and at work)

  • Whether the Fully Aligned or the Entrepreneurial RQ™ Coaching Journey is the right next step

There’s no pressure and no hard sell — just clarity.

Before the call, you’ll complete our Entrepreneurial RQ™ Scorecard so we can personalise your session.

We keep Fit & Focus™ calls for founders and their life partners who are serious about being intentional — and want clarity on what to do next.

 What Couples Are Saying

Small shifts. Big ripple effects — at home and at work.

Join the Waitlist for the Next Build & Bond™ Session

 

  • Free 90-minute online session

  • Priority access to dates + booking

  • A short pre-session reflection (optional) to help you get more from it

  • Bonus: Receive our When Business Hits Home Reflection Pack

Our next Discovery Session opens soon…

We’ll email you when the next session opens. No spam — just the details.

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