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?

Read more “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™.

Read more “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

Read more “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.

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

Schools, childcare providers, and professionals working with children strive to create safe, supportive environments. Yet, when communication with co-parents is inconsistent, unclear, or one-sided, they risk creating confusion, conflict, and unintended harm to the very childhoods they aim to protect.

When both parents are not equally informed and engaged, the impact extends beyond just administrative challenges. It affects the child’s emotional stability, their trust in the school or provider, and their ability to thrive in a learning environment.

This is why clear, structured co-parent communication is not just about reducing professional headaches. It is about safeguarding childhoods.

Read more “The Hidden Cost of Inconsistent Co-Parent Communication for Schools, Childcare Providers, and Professionals”

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. Read more “Week 3: The E-Myth – Co-Parenting as a System, Not Just Emotion”

Why Changing Behaviors Isn’t Enough

Many co-parents want things to improve, but they focus only on changing the other parent’s behavior. They believe if their co-parent would just be more flexible, communicate better, or stop being difficult, things would improve.

But change doesn’t start with behavior. It starts with mindset.

If you see your co-parent as the problem, you’ll always be in conflict.

The Arbinger Institute’s Outward Mindset explains that conflict thrives when we see others as obstacles rather than people. When we assume negative intent, it fuels tension. But when we stop reacting to behavior and start recognizing the human behind it, everything shifts.

This is exactly what BeH2O™ teaches co-parents: Your mindset, not just your actions, determines the success of your co-parenting relationship.

Read more “Week 2: Entrepreneurial Mindset for Co-Parenting Success – Outward Mindset”

At The Layne Project (TLP) and The Layne Project 4 Families (TLP4Families), we are committed to safeguarding childhoods by providing families with the highest quality support through an intentionally designed, proven infrastructure.

We recognized early on that families navigating co-parenting challenges, high-conflict custody situations, and family transitions often experience fragmented and inconsistent support when services are spread across multiple agencies. To solve this, we built TLP’s unique infrastructure to provide a comprehensive, ethical, and highly coordinated approach to family support.

With TLP’s proven service model as its foundation, TLP4Families will able to deliver wraparound services that minimize barriers to care, reduce stress for families, and create a seamless, supportive experience for parents and children alike. Read more “How The Layne Project’s Unique Infrastructure Facilitates Ethical and Effective Wraparound Family Services”

Start With Why: The Foundation of Successful Co-Parenting

The Problem: Co-Parenting Without a Clear Why

When entrepreneurs build businesses, they don’t start with what they do or how they do it—they start with why.

Yet, in co-parenting, many parents focus first on logistics (who picks up the kids, what the schedule looks like, how to communicate). The problem? Without a why, co-parenting becomes reactionary rather than intentional.

When co-parents operate without a strong why, they get stuck in:
🚩 Constant conflict over the small stuff
🚩 Communication breakdowns rooted in past resentment
🚩 Short-term wins instead of long-term stability for their child

But when we Start With Why, co-parenting transforms into a mission-driven approach that centers on our child’s well-being.   Read more “Week 1: Entrepreneurial Mindset for Co-Parenting Success– Start With Why”

How My Entrepreneurial Journey Shaped the BeH2O™ & The Layne Project’s Hard Pivot

🔹 Entrepreneurship & Co-Parenting: An Unexpected Connection

When I started my journey as an entrepreneur, I never expected the business world to transform the way I think about co-parenting, conflict resolution, and systemic change.

Yet, over time, I realized that the same principles that build successful companies—strong leadership, accountability, clear systems, and a mission-driven approach—are exactly what’s missing in many co-parenting dynamics.

The more I studied entrepreneurial strategy, the more I saw parallels between scaling a business and co-parenting effectively.

✅ Businesses thrive when they have a strong mission. Co-parenting improves when parents define their shared purpose (even if they don’t get along).
✅ Businesses implement systems to reduce inefficiency. Co-parents need repeatable communication strategies to avoid unnecessary conflict.
✅ Great companies measure success beyond short-term wins. Great co-parents think about long-term impact on their children, not just immediate disagreements.

These insights directly shaped BeH2O™—a co-parenting model that combines leadership principles, behavioral psychology, and systems thinking to create real, scalable solutions for families.

Read more “From Entrepreneurial Insights to Co-Parenting Transformation”