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220 | Why I Walked Away from a Business Partnership (Part 2 of 3) · Your Money, Your Rules | Financial Mastery, Wealth Mindset, Leadership Principles, Intuitive Decision-Making, Human Design

• 0:01
  Erin Gray: Welcome back to the podcast.
• 0:03
  Erin Gray: In last week's episode, I started a three-part series where I shared what I learned from being involved in my family's construction business and helping them navigate the dissolution of that partnership between one of the uncles and my dad and other uncle.
• 0:19
  Erin Gray: And today I want to share my own perspective, a different perspective.
• 0:22
  Erin Gray: This time I wasn't the one helping others navigate, you know, a dissolution of a partnership.
• 0:27
  Erin Gray: I was actually the one that was involved in it.
• 0:30
  Erin Gray: And so after reflecting on lots of things that I did, things that I wish I would have done differently, the experience that I had, what it taught me about expectations, about seeing the highest in people, the seeing the greatest potential in other people, and recognizing when something is no longer what you want.
• 0:52
  Erin Gray: Something that I wanted to share with you today and give you my perspective on that.
• 0:55
  Erin Gray: So let's dive in.
• 0:58
  Erin Gray: So when I decided to go into partnership with this person, one of the things like I mentioned on the previous episode is that I always see the highest in everyone.
• 1:10
  Erin Gray: Maybe it's the sixth line in human design.
• 1:12
  Erin Gray: I don't know what it is, but I always see everyone's gifts and their potential and the vision of what could be.
• 1:19
  Erin Gray: And the partnership originally started, I shouldn't even say it was a partnership originally, but there were the idea, let me say it that way.
• 1:27
  Erin Gray: The idea started when there was probably six or seven of us.
• 1:31
  Erin Gray: And in my body at that time, I was like, there's no way that I'm gonna be in partners with six or seven people because it's just too many people wanting to make decisions.
• 1:39
  Erin Gray: And I know you can structure it, you know, for silent partners and general partners and things of that sort, but I just was like, there's no way I want to be in business with six people.
• 1:46
  Erin Gray: And so as that kind of vision or that idea, you know, kind of dwindled or I should say worked itself out to where it was just me and this one other woman, when we decided that we were going to go in business together and create a coaching company.
• 2:04
  Erin Gray: I envisioned that because I had had the experience with my dad and my uncles, I knew some of the things that I didn't want to do.
• 2:11
  Erin Gray: And I knew some of the things that I did want to do.
• 2:14
  Erin Gray: And I was very clear on delineation and boundaries.
• 2:19
  Erin Gray: And, you know, what attracted me to this person was at the time it appeared that she and I were on the same wavelength, that we wanted the same thing for our business.
• 2:30
  Erin Gray: We saw the the strengths of each other and we balanced each other in that regard.
• 2:37
  Erin Gray: She was very much so more of the face of the company.
• 2:40
  Erin Gray: I kind of like to do and lead behind the scenes.
• 2:43
  Erin Gray: You know, obviously I still brought all of my, and that was one of the things I did.
• 2:47
  Erin Gray: Like I did all of the behind-the-scenes stuff with like the attorneys and the CPA and the planning and all of that kind of stuff.
• 2:56
  Erin Gray: And I thought at the time that it was going to be an amazing fit because I had already experienced what I didn't want with my family's construction business.
• 3:06
  Erin Gray: And I thought that, you know, by us both doing the work, you know, what I believed at the time, naively, probably still, I've come full circle now, I feel like, but what I believed at the time was like if someone is showing up and doing the work, doing the mindset work, doing the somatic work, that they're going to walk the walk.
• 3:29
  Erin Gray: They're going to practice what they preach.
• 3:32
  Erin Gray: And so the expectation that I had was I was going in eyes wide open with someone who was fully aware and conscious and awake and ready to take responsibility for what she contributed and also maybe what she didn't.
• 3:48
  Erin Gray: And I assumed that, you know, we wanted the same things.
• 3:51
  Erin Gray: We talked about that.
• 3:52
  Erin Gray: We had very in-depth conversations about what we wanted and where we wanted to see the business go and what we wanted to contribute, and what her strengths were, and what my strengths were, and what I was willing to do, and what she was willing to do.
• 4:06
  Erin Gray: So I felt like in the very beginning that we were on the same page and I went in with eyes wide open and willing to have those tougher or harder conversations that maybe I didn't see, and maybe my dad and my uncles did have these conversations, but I didn't see them occur.
• 4:23
  Erin Gray: And so maybe I thought that I was coming in with eyes wide open.
• 4:27
  Erin Gray: I was ready to grow something with someone together.
• 4:30
  Erin Gray: Like that is one of the things that I've recognized in myself.
• 4:33
  Erin Gray: I genuinely like doing business with not just my clients, but with other people.
• 4:38
  Erin Gray: Like they're maybe it's the generator in me, I'm not sure.
• 4:41
  Erin Gray: But I genuinely enjoy doing business with other people.
• 4:45
  Erin Gray: And so I assumed because we had had very frank conversations, that we were on the same page and that we were going to be moving in that same direction and that she was willing to put in the work and I was willing to put in the work and the operating agreement that we created and what would happen if we decided that we weren't going to be in business together anymore.
• 5:06
  Erin Gray: Like all of that was very thought out and planned because obviously I had had an experience in the past that wasn't from that energy of love, like I talked about on last week's episode.
• 5:18
  Erin Gray: And so I felt like that I had really done my due diligence and been very upfront and forthright and willing to have those harder conversations around what we expected of each other and what we were willing and not willing to do.
• 5:35
  Erin Gray: And I think that what I didn't understand then, that I definitely understand now, is that Aaron, you do see the highest in people.
• 5:46
  Erin Gray: You do see the end and where they could be.
• 5:50
  Erin Gray: And also when they are showing you, I think there's this Oprah quote.
• 5:55
  Erin Gray: When like someone shows you who they are, like believe them.
• 5:59
  Erin Gray: I think I was still naive back then when I believed someone was telling me one thing, but then doing another, I didn't take that at face value, and I really truly held her still at this level.
• 6:13
  Erin Gray: It's almost kind of like when I was in high school, you know, and I'd have a boyfriend who would be like, you know, I'm gonna call you, I'm gonna do this thing, and then he wouldn't show up.
• 6:21
  Erin Gray: That was the feeling that I started to feel of like, okay, you said you were gonna do all of these things.
• 6:27
  Erin Gray: And then when it comes time for you to actually do those things, you're not doing those things, but I am.
• 6:32
  Erin Gray: And not that I didn't have any responsibility in this 100%.
• 6:36
  Erin Gray: I had 100% of my responsibility.
• 6:38
  Erin Gray: But when I say that I'm going to be in partnership with you, when I say that I'm gonna bring my gifts to our partnership, and you're gonna bring your gifts and you're gonna do what you say you're gonna do, but then you end up not doing it.
• 6:50
  Erin Gray: How I allowed her to explain her way out of situations.
• 6:56
  Erin Gray: And I think where I was naive and where I recognize it now is that when once or twice, you know, we all have a bad day, but if it is a continuous theme, then that is something that needs to be looked at.
• 7:13
  Erin Gray: And I don't know if I was willing at the time to see what actually was going on.
• 7:20
  Erin Gray: I don't know if because I allowed my friendship with her to cloud that business partnership, I also was not in the same empowered, you know.
• 7:30
  Erin Gray: Like I think over the last seven-ish years of me getting into this work, I've really become more empowered and owned my power and I'm a powerful person.
• 7:41
  Erin Gray: And not from the standpoint of like I overpower people, right?
• 7:44
  Erin Gray: We are all powerful, but me recognizing my power and recognizing when people want to use my power because they believe that they aren't as powerful versus seeing that in me and being like, oh, if it's in her, then it's in me.
• 7:57
  Erin Gray: Where do I need to own my power?
• 7:59
  Erin Gray: And so what occurred over months of me recognizing, like, I'm standing by what I say I'm going to do, and you keep changing timelines, you keep changing when you're going to do what you say you're going to do.
• 8:16
  Erin Gray: And I think this is when we really have to go back to our intuition.
• 8:20
  Erin Gray: We always have to follow our intuition, but I think that there were moments where my intuition was like, this doesn't feel right.
• 8:27
  Erin Gray: And obviously, my intuition has gotten so much stronger over the last couple of years than it was back then.
• 8:34
  Erin Gray: I think I was really tapping into my intuition and feeling what my my sacral and and the how I respond to my intuition back then.
• 8:41
  Erin Gray: So I would probably say I was a little wobbly then with my intuition.
• 8:47
  Erin Gray: And I think that looking back, I was getting some inklings and I wasn't paying attention to them because my mind, the rational part of me that wanted to make this partnership work, would make excuses or reasons as to why things were happening the way that they were.
• 9:07
  Erin Gray: And so I wasn't honoring my intuition and really looking at it from that place.
• 9:12
  Erin Gray: And I also recognize where I was a no for certain things.
• 9:17
  Erin Gray: If you notice a theme, right?
• 9:18
  Erin Gray: This is probably my work because I just did a podcast a couple episodes again about like how ignoring your intuition is costing you in your business.
• 9:26
  Erin Gray: Like I still, you know, f up on some of this stuff.
• 9:29
  Erin Gray: But where my intuition was really asking me and where I was saying no to certain things, and she was having, she was coaching me into a position of a yes.
• 9:42
  Erin Gray: And at the time, I was much more docile, is the word that comes to mind, but more easy to persuade than I am now.
• 9:53
  Erin Gray: And I definitely wasn't as locked into my intuition.
• 9:56
  Erin Gray: And so when I would say no, then she would come back and say things like she would coach me to get me to a yes.
• 10:05
  Erin Gray: And instead of saying my no is a no, I don't want to be coached, I don't need to be coached, and this is where I stand.
• 10:12
  Erin Gray: And I think that's definitely where I am in my life now, but I wasn't back then.
• 10:17
  Erin Gray: And I think I still had some wounding around being harsh or telling people the way that it is because I had a belief around I'm harsh, then when I said no, it was very firm and that upset her.
• 10:32
  Erin Gray: And so then I felt bad because maybe I was being too harsh versus no, I'm honoring what I feel and what my intuition is telling me.
• 10:41
  Erin Gray: And I am not going to be persuaded because you don't like my answer.
• 10:45
  Erin Gray: And I see how there's similarities between me and my dad where we have done that, where we don't necessarily want to rock the boat, we don't want to upset the other person.
• 10:55
  Erin Gray: And what we really we end up doing is we are the ones that become frustrated and we feel frustration and we feel anger and we feel betrayed and we feel like we've been taken advantage of when really, when I look back, I allowed that to occur because I wasn't anchored in into what I wanted and what I was willing and not willing to do and sticking to my deadlines with her.
• 11:19
  Erin Gray: And so I think looking back on the experience, it was, you know, when I decided, I remember I asked myself, I was in the garage and I asked myself, like, do you want to be in business with her anymore?
• 11:31
  Erin Gray: And I got a no.
• 11:32
  Erin Gray: And I just was like, oh gosh, what does this mean?
• 11:36
  Erin Gray: How, how is this gonna affect?
• 11:38
  Erin Gray: Like, we've literally changed all of these things.
• 11:40
  Erin Gray: I've told my family that this is what the route we're going, and now I'm literally blowing up a business, walking away, saying, No thanks.
• 11:50
  Erin Gray: I'm gonna go do my own thing.
• 11:52
  Erin Gray: And so there was some of that unsettling that I had to sit with.
• 11:56
  Erin Gray: And when I asked myself, do you even want to be friends anymore?
• 11:58
  Erin Gray: I gotta know.
• 11:59
  Erin Gray: And I was like, okay, so now where does this leave us?
• 12:03
  Erin Gray: And I let it sit for a while.
• 12:05
  Erin Gray: You know, this isn't something I think if you are in this position where you're like, I have heard my intuition and I do not want to be in business with this person.
• 12:14
  Erin Gray: Like I said in the last episode, I don't think that we need to rush anything.
• 12:18
  Erin Gray: I think allowing you to ride your wave and to take your time and to figure it out what's the most loving thing for you and for them.
• 12:25
  Erin Gray: So I don't think you need to rush.
• 12:26
  Erin Gray: And I also believe that we need to honor what our intuition is telling us.
• 12:31
  Erin Gray: And so as a couple of weeks went by and I rode my wave and I still, you know, I sought some counsel and I still was a no when I came to her and I told her, you know what, I don't want to be in business with you anymore.
• 12:44
  Erin Gray: That's really when I got to see who she truly was.
• 12:48
  Erin Gray: And I think that what I have recognized is sometimes, Erin, you don't actually see who the real person is because you actually haven't honored and stuck to your boundaries.
• 13:03
  Erin Gray: You know, if you are people pleasing someone and you are choosing to not say how you truly feel, then you're also not giving them the opportunity to say how they feel and what they think.
• 13:16
  Erin Gray: And I don't want to say necessarily like show their true colors, but I do think that there is that part.
• 13:20
  Erin Gray: It's a little bit of like I was probably trying to control the situation because I knew it might make her upset and angry and or she might feel upset and angry, right?
• 13:30
  Erin Gray: Like nobody does make you feel any way.
• 13:32
  Erin Gray: And I really had to own, like, you've been going along, you haven't been saying how you really feel because she gets angry when you stand up and say what you want, and you don't like that feeling because that reminds you of childhood, versus owning, you know what, Erin, it's okay that she's angry, it's okay that she's upset, it's okay that she's not gonna get what she wants because that is a betrayal to you and your intuition and standing up and doing that.
• 14:02
  Erin Gray: And so when I decided, okay, I no longer want to be on this path with you, like I said, that's when it really started to get nasty.
• 14:12
  Erin Gray: And I chose, you know, going, looking at what the experience was with my family's construction business.
• 14:20
  Erin Gray: I knew I had a choice.
• 14:21
  Erin Gray: I knew I had a choice to either play her game and be involved in it energetically, financially, emotionally, or I could literally change what, like you have a fork in the road, right?
• 14:35
  Erin Gray: You can either go on the path that maybe you've been taught, right?
• 14:39
  Erin Gray: I could go down the same path that my dad and my uncle went with my other uncle, or I could decide, you know what, I'm gonna take the higher road.
• 14:47
  Erin Gray: Not that I'm better, right?
• 14:48
  Erin Gray: But I could just take a different road and be like, I'm not going to be involved in any of this and what you games you want to play.
• 14:56
  Erin Gray: And the word that comes to mind is manipulation.
• 14:59
  Erin Gray: And I don't think that I realized how I have allowed people to, you know, because I think it's very disempowering when someone says, like, oh, I was manipulated, or oh, they're a narcissist, because there's an energy that we are in that we attract those type of people.
• 15:16
  Erin Gray: So I want to be very mindful here.
• 15:18
  Erin Gray: And when I say tread lightly, right, I think sometimes we can gaslight ourselves, and that's not what I want us to do.
• 15:25
  Erin Gray: And I also want us to be from a very empowered place of like, oh, I see where I was in the energy of allowing someone in my orbit that saw my power and wanted to use my power.
• 15:38
  Erin Gray: And because I didn't want to be too harsh, I was able to manipulate some things, and I allowed that to occur.
• 15:46
  Erin Gray: And so it wasn't necessarily, you know, I decided I tried to have a conversation with her on multiple times.
• 15:53
  Erin Gray: And what I felt like, and obviously this is my perspective, but what I felt like with her is the only answer she wanted was for me to stay.
• 16:02
  Erin Gray: And I did not want to stay, and I wanted a clean break.
• 16:05
  Erin Gray: And because I wanted that, and that's not what she wanted, then what I got to see was how she truly was when she didn't get what she wanted.
• 16:16
  Erin Gray: And I think also what I came to understand is that when you are with someone and it's not panning out the way, you know, from a partnership standpoint, and it's not panning out the way that you want it to, you always have a choice.
• 16:33
  Erin Gray: You know, I chose not to say things in a text message.
• 16:37
  Erin Gray: I chose not to react to her when she was trying to bait me, trying to get me to say things that could continue the energetic fighting, I guess if you want to say that.
• 16:50
  Erin Gray: And I chose to go silent.
• 16:53
  Erin Gray: I chose to really respond with thoughtfulness, with lack of, I want to say lack of feeling, right?
• 17:02
  Erin Gray: Like I wasn't charged.
• 17:03
  Erin Gray: I wasn't going to come down to that level and fight and argue about things.
• 17:08
  Erin Gray: And I think what I had to realize and and what was hurtful to me is that someone can say one thing, but they can do another, which is so counter to what I believe in.
• 17:23
  Erin Gray: Like I always believe that like one of my values in my business is like I go first, right?
• 17:28
  Erin Gray: I'm not gonna sit here and say that we should come from the energy of love.
• 17:33
  Erin Gray: And then every person that you run into that I've worked with is like, she's a terrible person, right?
• 17:38
  Erin Gray: Like there's there's that incongruence there.
• 17:40
  Erin Gray: And I think that that was difficult for me to see because I truly in I'm not a perfect human, and I really do move from the energy of love, even when I am upset.
• 17:53
  Erin Gray: And it was heartbreaking to see that someone that you could have said, because I believe a partnership is like a marriage, right?
• 18:02
  Erin Gray: We were going through a divorce, we were going through a breakup of a friendship too.
• 18:06
  Erin Gray: So there were so many things that were in intertwined here.
• 18:09
  Erin Gray: And I know that it probably came from her feeling hurt, and that's why maybe she wanted to lash out, and also seeing for me where I didn't have to respond and get down to the level and fighting like she wanted me to, and also what occurred with my uncle and my or my two uncles and my dad in the construction business.
• 18:31
  Erin Gray: And so, you know, one of the things that I think I had to finally get to the place of acceptance or allowance is that obviously everyone is on their own journey.
• 18:41
  Erin Gray: Everyone gets to feel how they feel, and also we don't have to be the punching bag while it's occurring.
• 18:53
  Erin Gray: And I think that that's probably a role I have taken on.
• 18:56
  Erin Gray: It's always been there's something wrong with me, and then I need to fix everyone.
• 19:00
  Erin Gray: So if you are listening or watching and you are in a partnership and you are the one that believes that, because that's typically the type of people that I attract, of like we take over responsibility for ourselves and for everyone else, is that you're not responsible for everybody else, and that they can have their feelings and they can be mad at you, and you can still honor and love yourself through the process.
• 19:25
  Erin Gray: And that you saying no to someone and honoring what you want, it is not a betrayal to them.
• 19:33
  Erin Gray: It is an honoring and it is an act and a form of self-love to yourself, and it is a form of self-love to them too.
• 19:39
  Erin Gray: It may not look like that, but I think for a lot of us, because I've helped several clients through dissolution and some of the partners have gotten feisty as well, because they've always said yes, right?
• 19:51
  Erin Gray: My clients have always been the person that has said yes and kept going.
• 19:54
  Erin Gray: And what else can I do?
• 19:56
  Erin Gray: And maybe there's something else that I need to take care of that I'm not doing.
• 20:00
  Erin Gray: Like we're always trying to, you know, figure out what else do we need to be doing.
• 20:04
  Erin Gray: And I think for a lot of us, because like I said, I attract the people that I am that are like me, and that we sometimes need to say, where is their responsibility in this?
• 20:14
  Erin Gray: Where's my responsibility?
• 20:15
  Erin Gray: We always have a responsibility, and where's their responsibility?
• 20:18
  Erin Gray: And I allowed my people pleasing and my when I say kindness, what I mean is like, oh, I'll do it, oh, I'll take care of it, oh, you're not doing it, okay, I'll do it.
• 20:29
  Erin Gray: I allowed that to be the standard so that when I finally did stand up for myself and say, I'm not doing this anymore, of course she was upset because the standard had been set where I would just take care of it all.
• 20:41
  Erin Gray: And so I think if you are in a place where you're contemplating getting out of your partnership, you know, where is your responsibility where we have said yes more than what we should have?
• 20:53
  Erin Gray: And where do we want to take that back and own our power and own the boundaries that truly we set in the get-go, you know, from the get-go with our partnership.
• 21:02
  Erin Gray: And I think that this has been it, it wasn't a fun time in the moment because I did have that belief of there's something wrong with me.
• 21:10
  Erin Gray: Like, why is she acting so mean and vicious and malicious?
• 21:16
  Erin Gray: And that that was the same experience that I had with, you know, my dad and my uncle, or my two uncles.
• 21:24
  Erin Gray: And I just was like, I just don't understand how someone could be so upset and angry, and then that caused them to take action from that angry place.
• 21:34
  Erin Gray: Like, I get why we do the things we do, but at the end of the day, like my heart still feels like, but we're all human and we're all here.
• 21:41
  Erin Gray: And like, I know you're angry and you're upset, but how can we move through this in a loving way instead of an angered place?
• 21:50
  Erin Gray: And I think that it really anchored in for me that we always have a choice.
• 21:57
  Erin Gray: We always have a choice of how do we want to.
• 22:00
  Erin Gray: Show up from a place of love.
• 22:01
  Erin Gray: Even if we're hurt, right?
• 22:03
  Erin Gray: Even if we're hurt, we can still show up from a place of love and for care and consideration for myself and for the other person.
• 22:11
  Erin Gray: And I think that that is so we're talking about business partnerships, but I've also helped people go through divorces and all of that untangling and unraveling.
• 22:20
  Erin Gray: Cause I also experienced that 20 plus years ago.
• 22:23
  Erin Gray: And I think that we always get to choose.
• 22:25
  Erin Gray: I think that's the most empowering thing or belief that we can have is like we always get to choose in the moment how do we want to respond?
• 22:34
  Erin Gray: How do we want this person, not that we care what people think about us or talk about us, but how do we want them to feel about us after it's all said and done?
• 22:43
  Erin Gray: Do we want them to feel like, you know what?
• 22:45
  Erin Gray: And we can't control what they think.
• 22:47
  Erin Gray: And maybe they might even, no matter if, you know, everything went amazingly for both sides, they still might think that they, you know, got the raw end of the deal because of their mindset.
• 22:57
  Erin Gray: And maybe that is true, but we can leave knowing that we did everything from a very loving and energetic, you know, loving and just compassionate place.
• 23:08
  Erin Gray: So next week I'm gonna talk about how all of these partnerships that I've been in or helped dissolve has actually really formed the relationship that I have with my husband in our tree business.
• 23:20
  Erin Gray: And I'm grateful being able to help my family's construction business go through that dissolution.
• 23:27
  Erin Gray: It set me up to be in a partnership with my previous business partner and to really know to come from a loving place.
• 23:33
  Erin Gray: And I'm so grateful that I had that experience with her because one of the things that it taught me was to recognize and own my power.
• 23:42
  Erin Gray: And I think that when you are someone, which if you're listening, you are because we listen to people that we are very similar to or attract.
• 23:52
  Erin Gray: And a lot of us are very powerful.
• 23:55
  Erin Gray: And I know all of us are powerful, but when I say a lot of us are very powerful, what I mean is we see that we are, and there are other people that may not feel that they are powerful.
• 24:06
  Erin Gray: And so they either try to overpower to get power versus actually seeing the power that is within us is actually within them too, and they can access it.
• 24:15
  Erin Gray: And I think that when we start to own our brilliance, you know, I think for a long time I didn't own my gifts, I didn't own my brilliance and what I brought to the table because I just thought it was so easy and everybody does this.
• 24:29
  Erin Gray: But what I've learned is no, not everybody does this.
• 24:32
  Erin Gray: Not everybody can see the things that you can see, Erin.
• 24:35
  Erin Gray: And that is why people want to be with you, in business with you, in partnerships with you, in, you know, as clients, right?
• 24:43
  Erin Gray: Like you bring, you are valuable because of who you are and because of what you can see that others can't.
• 24:50
  Erin Gray: And I think when we really start to own our gifts, and like I said, all of us have gifts, and some of us have downplayed that because we didn't want to be too bright or we didn't want to, you know, rock the boat, or whatever it might be.
• 25:06
  Erin Gray: And so I just want to encourage you that if you are in a partnership where you're like, you know what, I feel like it's time, it's been time.
• 25:13
  Erin Gray: I want to encourage you to first and foremost take care of yourself and what would you need?
• 25:21
  Erin Gray: What do you need?
• 25:22
  Erin Gray: What is honoring your intuition look like?
• 25:25
  Erin Gray: What would love do if you were to dissolve it and to break up?
• 25:30
  Erin Gray: And having compassionate, loving conversations with your partner from a place of just pure neutrality.
• 25:37
  Erin Gray: Like once you've decided that that's what you want to do, moving from that place and honoring that, and also knowing that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
• 25:47
  Erin Gray: I know it feels like because I've, you know, advised some clients about like, oh gosh, you know, like what's it gonna look like?
• 25:55
  Erin Gray: And, you know, we built this over so many years and and it'll all work out.
• 26:00
  Erin Gray: I know it doesn't feel like it in the moment.
• 26:02
  Erin Gray: I know that fear can really take hold if you allow it, but if your intuition is telling you that it's time to go, then it's time to go.
• 26:10
  Erin Gray: And you need to honor that and respect that and have love for what you guys built together and also know that it's time to create something by yourself or with someone else or whatever it might be.
• 26:24
  Erin Gray: But it's it's honoring what your intuition is telling you because I really truly believe that is a form of self-love.
• 26:33
  Erin Gray: And when we ignore our intuition, it is an act of betrayal.
• 26:37
  Erin Gray: So next week I will talk about the business partnership that me and my husband are in now and lessons learned and what we are looking forward to growing together.
• 26:51
  Erin Gray: And I'm really grateful for the experiences that I have had with partnerships because now I feel like I'm creating the exact one that I've always wanted.
• 27:02
  Erin Gray: So I'll see you in the next episode.