Have you ever started a company with your best friends or worked with your children? How about romance at work? Listen as Tom and Yana share their insights into the topic of doing business with your loved ones. They discuss when it is ok to work with friends and family and, in their opinion when it causes issues. Yana and Tom also speak about romantic relationships in the workplace and the point that it becomes unacceptable. They are always good for a few laughs, so sit back and smile.

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Today’s Episode:

• [00:24] Happy Monday everybody, we are back!
• [00:37] Yana shares the topic for this episode.
• [00:57] Yana describes when she feels it’s ok to mix friendships and business.
• [02:52] Tom says he can relate to her feelings, but his opinion is that it doesn’t matter.
• [05:04] Tom believes that when it comes to  you need to keep your private funds and corporate funds separate.
• [06:12] Does it make a difference if you had a friendship first then became business partners or if you were business partners first, then later became friends?
• [08:15] Tom wants to know how Yana can hang out with friends, but she doesn’t like team-building exercises. 
• [09:18] Yana says when there are romantic relationships in business it gives her headaches.
• [10:52] Tom agrees that romantic relationships can lead to issues at work but if it works out they can be beneficial to the company.
• [12:30] The problems start when someone in the higher levels of the company starts something with someone in the lower levels.
• [13:04] Yana believes that working with her kids is the best thing ever and she hopes it continues.
• [14:42] Tom shares that he worked with his son and people in the office thought they were brothers.
• [15:35] Have you ever had a conflict of interest when dealing with your child as a boss as opposed to a parent?
• [18:01] Tom and Yana speak about having their children on the podcast because Yana’s son felt like they had some information wrong on a couple of episodes.
• [18:58] Thank you for sticking with us, we hope you enjoyed the episode.

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• How to get in touch with us, if you’d like to tell your startup story: Yana on Instagram, Tom on LinkedIn