When you and your spouse face challenging situations, how do you feel? Does it seem like difficulties are going to tear you apart, or do they invigorate you and deepen your partnership? Does your spouse feel the same way?

The days when these hurdles seem too high to overcome, I look at my children and remind myself that I'm doing it for them.

The demands of taking care of a family and building a business can seem overwhelming. But even under the most challenging circumstances, focusing on how our families make us better entrepreneurs can help put things back into positive perspective.

Working from home can produce heights of ecstasy and depths of agony.

"&Son" was the best kind of author reading, one set in the same place as the book so it seems to come to life all around you. As I started the book that night, I realized that this was the first of many meta moments, all of which added up to a great story.