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Scenario

When business partners in trades face unequal workload and decision-making power

My business partner and I started this custom furniture shop five years ago and we've always split things fifty-fifty but he's been taking on higher-end clients while I handle the production work and now there's this weird tension where he's making the real money decisions and I'm basically becoming his employee. We keep saying we're equals but the math doesn't add up anymore and neither of us knows how to talk about it.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are watching their partnership become hierarchical while pretending it remains equal.

Your guide for this
Aurelius
Aurelius works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Trades — Carpentry & Woodworking?”

Peri

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