The Family Sabbatical
Extended breaks are wonderful things, unless the spouse and kids have other plans. Read more
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg
Recent Balancing Acts Articles
Stonyfield Founder: I'm Not Retiring!
Gary Hirshberg talks to his wife, Inc. columnist Meg Cadoux Hirshberg, about his recent decision to step down as CEO of Stonyfield Yogurt. Read more
The Small Joys of Family Business
Entrepreneurship, for all its challenges, can bestow on families unexpected benefits beyond the obvious financial ones. Read more
How Much About the Business Should You Share With Your Spouse?
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg examines the limit on what your spouse should know about the company’s problems. Read more
When the Business Fails
It’s a fact: More companies fail than succeed. So when that happens, can the marriage survive? Read more
Balancing Acts: Meg Cadoux Hirshberg
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg is the wife of Stonyfield Farm CEO Gary Hirshberg. In these videos she describes the ups and downs of having the line between business a... Read more
Balancing Acts: Please, Turn Off the BlackBerry
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg discusses that despite our ability to be constantly connected, ignoring the phone and e-mail once in a while makes for a happy marriage ... Watch video
Balancing Acts: Is it OK to Leave Your Spouse at Home?
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg discusses how expectations and reality may differ. Watch video
Balancing Acts: Set the Bar Low, But Set it Somewhere
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg discusses how the family business can interfere with the marriage but that by setting some minimum expectations, it can still be a great... Watch video
Balancing Acts: Minding the Kids
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg talks about about the impact of the family business on children. Watch video
Balancing Acts: If Not Now, When?
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg discusses how running a business can interfere with the rest of your plans in life and how important is it to take the time to do them. Watch video
Balancing Acts: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg discusses the challenges of having family and friends be investors in your company. Watch video
Balancing Acts: Bed and Boardroom
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg discusses the challenges of having her home also be the base for her husband's business. Watch video
Balancing Acts: Introduction
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg describes the ups and downs of having the line between business and family disappear. Watch video
Why Entrepreneurs Should Take Sick Days
Business owners strive to control their lives and fortunes—and then illness strikes, and everything falls apart. Read more
When Family Businesses Bungle Succession Planning
Handing off a business to the next generation is the realization of a dream—or a complete nightmare. Read more
The Romance of Good Deeds
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg explains why building a business with a strong social mission can also be great for your marriage. Read more
Why So Many Entrepreneurs Get Divorced
Why the start of a company so often spells the end of a marriage Read more
My Husband's Next Business
The four words an entrepreneur’s spouse dreads hearing: “I have an idea.” Read more
To Love, Honor, and Report To
Working in your spouse's company may be the toughest job you will ever have. Read more
Is it OK to Leave Your Spouse at Home?
What to do when the work-obsessed spouse wants to play--without you. Read more
Minding the Kids
For better or worse, your children are deeply involved in your business. Stop feeling guilty about it, and start inviting your kids into your work life. Read more
Bed and Boardroom
There's nothing like a home-based business for increasing family stress. Read more
10 Tips for a Happy Marriage
Business owners who want to keep their spouses happy would do well to live by these simple rules. Read more
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Thanksgiving dinner or meeting of the board? When your family members are investors in your business, the lines get blurry. Read more
If Not Now, When?
For entrepreneurs, there's never a right time to buy a house, start a family, have a life. While you are building a business, work-life balance inevitably su... Read more
Living with a BlackBerry Addict
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg writes about how her husband, Stonyfield Farm's Gary Hirshberg, never lets his BlackBerry leave his side. Read more
Balancing Marriage and Business
When your marriage is hitched to a business, life is one long test of allegiance Read more
Hitched to Someone Else's Dream
The people who run fast-growing companies are driven by optimism and a passion for what they do. And the people married to them? The author remembers worryin... Read more
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