Startup Family: How To Find Balance When Building a Company

4 years ago I was living in San Francisco when my fiancee Renee came home and told me she was pregnant.

This happened to be the same week I started my new startup Clarity.

A few months later she decided to partner with a friend and start a new marketing agency Onboardly.

On top of that, we figured we wanted to be closer to family so we started work on a small summer home near our family back home in Canada.

In the middle of all this I raised $1.6M in funding to scale my new startup.

The following 9 months were hectic… but on August 17th, we had a beautiful little boy named Max (or as I like to call him: Mighty Max).

2 months later Renee got pregnant again!

That’s when we decided to build our dream home on a beautiful piece of land we had bought.

Exactly 8 months later we came back from the hospital with our 2nd boy Noah to move into our new home.

(Side note: I’m blessed to have a brother who is one of Canada’s top home builders or this would’ve definitely ended up badly.)

So essentially, in a 2 year period we started 2 companies, built 2 houses and had 2 kids.

To say that those 2 years were crazy would be a HUGE understatement.

The challenge for me is I wanted to be a great entrepreneur AND a great father.

It was definitely during this period that I grew the most as a person.

I studied books on parenting, spent time talking with experts on all aspects of “balance” and started to create a framework to manage it all.

In this video I cover the 5 areas that really provided the most value to achieving this:

Here they are are…

1) Boundaries: Understanding when you work and when you play
2) Be Present: Your Kids Want To Play
3) The Two Roles: CEO of Family Inc. & Relationship Inc
4) Block Time: Don’t Prioritize Your Schedule, Schedule Your Priorities
5) Your Why: Don’t Sacrifice Family For Business

Exclusive Bonus: Download a private interview called Surviving The Startup with TED speaker Esther Perel who taught me about The Two Roles concept mentioned above.

If you have any other tips or tricks, be sure to leave a comment with your feedback… I would love to hear from you. I can always improve my game.

Have an amazing day!