Business Fit Magazine September 2019 Issue 2 | Page 6

Business
How to Create
a Kickass
Relationship
with your partner that will boost
your business results
Financial coach, Waleska Cerpa, shares with
Business Fit readers her tips on building a
successful relationship with your partner and
how combining knowledge and efforts and
working as a team can bring happiness and
fulfilment.
In 2011, when I started my path toward financial
freedom, I wanted to change my life. I wanted
to be successful, to have a business and a lot of
money. I did not know how I was going to do it,
but I wanted it and I was willing to do whatever it
took to get it.
At that time I was going through a love-hate
relationship with men, I was in my facet of “I am
almighty, I do not need a man, I am a 4x4 woman,
I am going to adopt a child, etc ...” Terrible right?
In one of those magical trips that life gave me
in 2013, I travelled to La Paz, Bolivia and came
across the Rich Dad Advisors book series. There
was one in particular which caught my attention
called “Team Code of Honor” by Blair Singer.
The book said it would teach me how to create
a successful business team to grow my sales
machine. At that time I had no business, no team,
no sales, but I decided to buy it anyway to see
what people who did have this life were saying.
I must confess that I did not understand anything
about the book. It gave a lot of examples from
sports champions and I do not have much
knowledge in this area either. If it had been any
other book, I would have left it aside, however
something inside was telling me to continue
reading and so I did.
It all made sense when I got to the part where he
was talking about family, Blair (now my mentor)
explained how he had built a code of honour for
his marriage and with his children. He said that
the family should have rules and that everyone
should adhere to that code if they wanted to
be successful as a family. This made sense to
me, it was a concept I could resonate with.
This approach was closer to what I felt about
relationships and very distant from the suffering
of Romeo and Juliet I had been taught.
with our kids, would you like to come with me for
the ride?”
He looked at me and said: “Is it possible?” And
I replied, “I have not done it yet, but there are
people out there who have, and this is what I
want”. That day we both said “Let’s do this” since
then, it has been an incredible adventure of ups
and downs which have made us grow financially
and personally.
My husband is a Software Engineer and I currently
work as a Financial Coach. We have learned to
combine our knowledge and efforts to develop
online programs. He has his ideas, projects and
dreams and I have mine, but we have performed
better on the business perspective when we
have worked together; when we make decisions
together; when we discuss the direction we
should take together and when we celebrate our
triumphs together.
After seeing the results we decided we would
make our combined efforts our primary job
and each have a side hustle to continue feeling
independent. This has not only made us grow
our business, but it has brought more happiness
and fulfilment into our relationship
I am not a “relationships guru” but I feel I have
become an expert in my relationship with my
husband, especially when it comes to working as
a team. Here I want to share with you what I have
learned along the way:
It has been
an incredible
adventure
of ups and
downs
I said to myself: “I wonder what it would be like
to have a partner for life”. Three months later I
met my now husband and from our second date
I said: “I do not want to waste time here, I want
a man who loves me, with whom I can build a
family but who also wants to build businesses, be
financially independent and do worldschooling
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