Never Act Married in Front of Your Team — Transcript

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1. 0:00What do you look for in a partner?
2. 0:04>> I like a little bit of crazy.
3. 0:06Um
4. 0:09you know, uh and then you know, there's
5. 0:11different price tags, you know, that
6. 0:12that are associated and I, you know,
7. 0:17Um okay, I'll be honest with you.
8. 0:19So,
9. 0:21I decided a long time ago that the
10. 0:23number one character trait that I wanted
11. 0:24in a partner was loyalty.
12. 0:26It was the number one thing. I was like,
13. 0:27I have I have I've
14. 0:29the the path that I want to walk, I'm
15. 0:31going to have too many enemies. I'm
16. 0:32going to have too many people who want
17. 0:33to stab me behind my back, and I need
18. 0:35someone who I don't have to look behind
19. 0:36me to know if they're there.
20. 0:39And so,
21. 0:40that's that is for me like that was like
22. 0:42my number one, two, and three. And so
23. 0:44like I would say like in our
24. 0:45relationship, I've never once doubted
25. 0:47Leila's loyalty. Like never once.
26. 0:49Um and I think a lot of people
27. 0:51misunderstand Leila and I's dynamic.
28. 0:53Like
29. 0:54Leila is like it's funny because people
30. 0:56like see us as like a modern-day couple
31. 0:58or something like that. But like I feel
32. 1:01like we are so traditional in terms of
33. 1:03like how we
34. 1:04like live.
35. 1:05>> I think there's marriage and then
36. 1:06there's business and it's
37. 1:08different.
38. 1:09>> Yeah, like our marriage relationship is
39. 1:10super traditional.
40. 1:12And then our business relationship is I
41. 1:14mean, I guess I don't know. Yeah,
42. 1:16modern, I guess. Yeah.
43. 1:17Yeah, I mean, we have roles in the
44. 1:18company and we both fulfill those roles.
45. 1:20>> Yeah.
46. 1:20>> And like if if we had zero relationship,
47. 1:23the way that we like if we had zero
48. 1:24romantic relationship, the way that we
49. 1:25work would be the same.
50. 1:28>> Yeah, that's fair.
51. 1:29>> Which is I mean, yeah, we started
52. 1:30working together. And so that like we
53. 1:31actually learned that dynamic first. We
54. 1:33didn't learn the the romantic side.
55. 1:35>> Yeah.
56. 1:37Yeah, and interesting for everybody on
57. 1:38here is like, you know, something that
58. 1:39we made decision is like um when we
59. 1:41first started the business together, we
60. 1:43said like one of our first mentors
61. 1:45I remember he said like
62. 1:47act like business partners in front of
63. 1:49your team. Like they don't need to see
64. 1:50you guys acting all, you know, like
65. 1:53husband and wife in front of each other.
66. 1:54Like that makes people very
67. 1:55uncomfortable. And so a lot of people
68. 1:57will say when they see us in content,
69. 1:58they're like, "Why aren't you guys like
70. 1:59hugging, kissing all together in
71. 2:00public?" And it's
72. 2:01>> We've learned.
73. 2:02>> We've learned not to do that in public.
74. 2:04You know, we do save that for private.
75. 2:05And so, you also just
76. 2:07>> Also, we started we started dating when
77. 2:09or we got married when Leila was 23, I
78. 2:11just turned 27 or somewhere in there.
79. 2:13Um
80. 2:15We were kids. And so, we had like adults
81. 2:17working for us. And like, we needed to
82. 2:18be like extra professional.
83. 2:20>> Yeah.
84. 2:20>> I would say now because we're a little
85. 2:22older, um and we have like a little bit
86. 2:24more gravitas than we did then. Like, we
87. 2:26can get away with a little bit more.
88. 2:27Like,
89. 2:28>> get super weird with PDA stuff, though.
90. 2:29>> Oh.
91. 2:30>> I like I don't know why. It's just like
92. 2:31I trained it into myself.
93. 2:33>> All right.
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