About this episode

Lee Baucom discusses the importance of actively maintaining relationships in both personal and professional contexts.

"You're either expanding a relationship — growing — or shrinking and dying." — Lee Baucom Most executives think pausing a relationship keeps it in place until they have time for it. Lee Baucom says that's not how it works — there's no pause button. You're either building the relationship or losing it, whether that's a marriage or a co-founder partnership. Lee is a marriage coach, author of seven books, and host of the Save the Marriage Podcast and Thrivology Podcast. For over two decades, he's helped thousands of couples pull back from the brink of divorce — and he's watched the exact same disconnection pattern show up between founders, co-founders, and leadership teams. What you'll walk away with: Why "I'll get back to this relationship later" is the excuse that quietly kills co-founder partnerships The three levels of connection — physical, emotional, spiritual — and which one most leaders skip entirely Why "report vs. rapport" explains why your check-ins aren't actually connecting with anyone The real reason high-profile founder marriages fall apart (it's not what you'd assume) The one question Lee asks every struggling couple — and every struggling co-founder team — first…

People in this episode

Host: Karl Pontau

Guest: Lee Baucom

Topics covered

• relationship building
• leadership
• co-founder partnerships
• communication
• marriage coaching

Keywords

• relationship
• co-founder
• communication
• leadership
• marriage coaching
• disconnection
• check-ins

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Save the Marriage Podcast, Thrivology Podcast, UnPauseYourMarriage.com, vouchedconnections.com, thehumanconnectionpodcast.com, LinkedIn

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