Month: March 2025

What Entrepreneurs and Co-Parents Often Get Wrong

In All In Startup, Diana Kander challenges one of the most common traps in entrepreneurship:

Entrepreneurs fail when they fall in love with their idea instead of their customer’s problem.

That same trap shows up in co-parenting all the time.

One parent builds a routine they believe is ideal.
The other defends a schedule they’ve grown attached to.
Each parent wants to be heard—but neither stops to ask:
Is this working for our child?

Continue reading “Week 7: All In Startup – Co-Parenting Is a Long Game, Not a Quick Fix”

What If You Treated Co-Parenting Like a Startup?

In The Lean Startup,  defines a startup as an organization designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Sound familiar?

Co-parenting, especially in its early phases, is full of uncertainty, emotional intensity, and untested assumptions. What children need, what the schedule should look like, what communication will work—none of it is obvious.

Instead of guessing or repeating what didn’t work, The Lean Startup offers a method:
Build → Measure → Learn.

This is exactly what we teach in BeH2O™.

Continue reading “Week 6: Lean Startup – Adapting & Iterating for Co-Parenting Success”

Why 2x Thinking Keeps Co-Parents Stuck

Most parents try to improve co-parenting by doing more—more communication, more involvement, more control. But The Hard Thing About Hard Things taught us that pushing harder isn’t always the answer.

10x Is Easier Than 2x introduces a radical shift: growth doesn’t come from adding—it comes from subtracting.

A 2x mindset is about:

• Doing what you’re already doing, just with more effort
• Trying to make a broken system work instead of building a better one
• Focusing on small, surface-level changes

A 10x mindset is about:

• Letting go of 80% of what isn’t working
• Simplifying down to the core essentials
• Transforming the way you approach co-parenting, not just adjusting the details

Continue reading “Week 5: 10x Is Easier Than 2x – Focusing on High-Impact Parenting Moves”

Why Co-Parenting Feels Impossible Sometimes

Ben Horowitz’s The Hard Thing About Hard Things doesn’t offer easy solutions—because when you’re leading a company (or co-parenting a child), there aren’t any.

Hard things are hard not because there’s a secret formula you haven’t found yet, but because:

• Your emotions are at odds with your logic
• There are no perfect choices—only the best possible move at the time
• The weight of responsibility can feel isolating

The same is true for co-parenting. There’s no easy path, only the one you create.

Continue reading “Week 4: The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Navigating Co-Parenting Challenges”

Why Most Co-Parents Feel Stuck

Michael Gerber’s The E-Myth is a classic for a reason—it exposes the biggest mistake most entrepreneurs make: they spend all their time working in their business rather than on their business.

Co-parenting has the same trap. Many parents spend their energy putting out fires, handling daily logistics, and reacting emotionally instead of building a structured, sustainable co-parenting system.

They get stuck in:

• Short-term problem-solving instead of long-term planning
• Constant conflict over details instead of establishing a predictable framework
• Reacting to challenges instead of preventing them with systems

When co-parenting operates without a system, small issues become constant disruptions. The result? A child caught in an unpredictable, stressful environment. Continue reading “Week 3: The E-Myth – Co-Parenting as a System, Not Just Emotion”