Start, Love, Repeat, Dorcas ChengTozun
Start, Love, Repeat, Dorcas ChengTozun
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Start, Love, Repeat
How to Stay in Love with Your Entrepreneur in a Crazy Start-up World

Author: Dorcas Cheng-Tozun

Narrator: Linda Henning

Unabridged: 10 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Center Street

Published: 11/07/2017

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

A prescriptive guide to how to keep your relationship strong when there's a start-up in the family.

The idea of starting your own business is exhilarating and inspiring. It's one over 30 million Americans pursue. But being the significant other of an entrepreneur is not so glamorous. Boundaries between work and home disappear. Personal savings and business funds become intertwined. You can feel like a single parent as your spouse travels, works late hours, and answers calls and e-mails 24-7.You may even sacrifice a career or move your home for the sake of the business.

But there are strategies you can use to combat all this stress and uncertainty. Whether you're new to the start-up world, or a long-term entrepreneurial partner, Start, Love, Repeat will help you understand exactly how a start-up affects your lives-and what you can do to build a happy and healthy relationship in the midst of the madness. Dorcas Cheng-Tozun has not only done extensive research, she has lived through the perils and pitfalls of being with an entrepreneur as the wife of the CEO and cofounder of successful start-up d.light. She offers clear-sighted, first-hand advice for any couple considering making the same leap. She further draws on interviews with other successful entrepreneurs and their significant others, executive coaches, marriage-family therapists, venture capitalists, and start-up authorities to provide practical insights and steps any couple can take to build a strong relationship while launching that dream business.

About Dorcas Cheng-Tozun

Dorcas Cheng-Tozun is a writer and leader whose work with various nonprofits, social enterprises, and faith-based organizations has given her opportunity to engage with a broad range of social issues toward solutions in the areas of homelessness, affordable housing, energy access, youth leadership, HIV/AIDS, and international development. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her social entrepreneur husband and two young sons.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Audrey on November 07, 2017

Maybe you've heard people described as "married to their work." This might sound like just an expression but for entrepreneurs, it's almost literally true. The problems can start when they actually get married--to a living, breathing human being with wants, needs, and desires. That's when they'll wan......more

Goodreads review by Eve on November 26, 2017

Start, Love, Repeat is a very timely book, not only for those married to entrepreneurs, but really for everyone. It hit home for me because my husband has the entrepreneur personality - to a tee - but he started and ran two non-profits since 1984. I wish this book had been there for me before he sta......more

Goodreads review by Helene on December 08, 2017

This excellent book by Dorcas Cheng-Tozun is written for anyone who lives with a partner committed to a startup business. Often entrepreneurs are more committed to their startups than to anything or anybody else. Dorcas describes how to build a good life together anyway. She is not claiming it is ea......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on November 07, 2017

Start, Love, Repeat is the first book that I’ve seen that addresses the challenges of a couple during the early years of a start up company. Dorcas Cheng-Tozun shares first hand the many challenges an entrepreneurial couple can face; especially the spouse of the entrepreneur. As a wife of a cofounde......more

Goodreads review by Nadia on October 28, 2017

I will definitely recommend this read to all my entrepreneurial friends & their spouses. This is my new go-to gift for entrepreneur friends! And love the interesting 'start-up' stories and examples throughout the book. I'm not in start-up world, but have a busy and stressed corporate job and the boo......more


Quotes

This is a practical, loving, balanced, clear, complete and real guide to living with an entrepreneur. Dorcas has included a sensitive balance between personal experience, applied examples, and research-based concepts. Her authentic vulnerability is both touching and helpful. There is wisdom and depth in every chapter.—Dave Phillips, Leadership Mentor and Speaker

Dorcas Cheng-Tozun has written an astute, pragmatic marriage book that will quickly become the go-to manual for entrepreneurial couples across the globe. Start, Love, Repeat paves a clear path through the unpredictable labyrinth of start-up life allowing husbands and wives to a find their way to healthy, satisfying marriages.
Dorothy Littell Greco, writer, photographer, and author of Making Marriage Beautiful

Dorcas Cheng-Tozun has written a real-life exploration of the deep importance of sustained relationships to entrepreneurs and their families. As a longtime investor, I've been an adviser to numerous founders who have faced trade-offs in their personal and professional lives. Start, Love, Repeat provides insightful, engaging, and practical advice for those who want to "win" in life and at work.—Eric Kim, cofounder and managing partner of Goodwater Capital

Start, Love, Repeat should be required reading! This guide, and the unique guidance Dorcas provides throughout, is a godsend for entrepreneurial couples and families.—Jessica Jackley, instructor in social entrepreneurship at USC Marshall School of Business and cofounder of Kiva

Dorcas Cheng-Tozun has provided a powerful and practical resource for any entrepreneur and their family. I recommend this to any entrepreneur who has ever struggled with balancing their work and spending time with those they love.
Daniel Epstein, founder and CEO of Unreasonable

Start, Love, Repeat is rich in data, actionable advice and insights, inspiring stories, and raw, honest, relatable anecdotes that validate just how intense and demanding the founder's journey inevitably is. Dorcas does a wonderful job weaving an entertaining, dramatic narrative together with helpful advice and eye-opening research and quotations from across the venture spectrum. If you're hurdling down the entrepreneurial path or just along for the ride, you will benefit greatly from reading this book.—Andrea Miller, founder and CEO of YourTango; author of Radical Acceptance: The Secret to Happy, Lasting Love

While all couples are challenged with how to balance their work and relationship, Dorcas does an amazing job of guiding them through understanding relational skills that transform their challenge into mutual growth and career success.—Harville Hendrix, Ph. and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph. D, authors of Getting the Love You Want and Making Marriage Simple