What happens when the project you bet your company on takes a six figure loss?

In Episode 2, Reggie and Tanora Polk pull back the curtain on the part of business nobody posts about. Early in Polk and Associates Construction, they underestimated a project and ended up owing six figures. It almost broke the company. Years of beans and rice, lean payroll, and praying through Friday paychecks followed. What pulled them through was a line of credit they had set up before the storm, a personal house already in order, a wife who chose encouragement over bashing, and a faith that did not remove the pressure but gave them the strength to endure it.

This is the conversation about marriage, business, and the long road of building something that lasts when the wins are still years away.
In this episode:

00:00 Intro
01:02 Welcome back. Bridesmaid duty, baby fevers, life check in
05:10 Why we wanted to talk about what nobody else posts about
06:18 Trust the process. But the process has to be accurate
08:48 Entrepreneurship magnifies your personal weaknesses
09:53 Let me tell you about the potholes I stepped in
11:11 Marriage and business is the ultimate pressure cooker
11:32 The six figure loss
13:48 The business line of credit that saved us
16:23 Having your house in order
17:11 The beans and rice years
22:53 Sometimes your best bid is a no bid
23:38 Overhead rates and the true cost of running a business
28:23 Sometimes trying to save money will cost you money
30:03 Faith didn't remove the pressure. It gave me the strength to endure it
33:50 We get to provide a life for other people. That's humbling
36:34 Legacy takeaway: Proverbs 22:1, a good name is rather to be chosen than riches
40:00 Wrap

Building Family Together is hosted by Reggie and Tanora Polk, married 25 years, parents of nine, founders of Polk and Associates Construction in Nashville, Tennessee. New episodes every two weeks.

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How do you work together, live together, raise nine kids together, run a company together, and still like each other at the end of the day?

Welcome to Building Family Together. In Episode 1, Reggie and Tanora Polk introduce themselves and the show they have been building for years. After 25 years of marriage and 15 years running Polk and Associates Construction in Nashville, they open up the real rhythm of couplepreneurship. How they got started. The tension of working side by side. The framework Tanora calls the three Cs. What they do when they hit gridlock. And why their marriage will always be the bigger build.

In this episode:
01:02 Welcome to the podcast
02:38 Why we named it Building Family Together
03:51 The most asked question we get
05:05 A logo sketched on a paper tablecloth
07:34 Five kids, custom homes, and stepping back
09:12 The transition from residential to commercial
11:06 How we still manage all of this
14:04 Mama Tea, structure, and running the office like the house
17:18 The morning Reggie had to start making his own coffee
18:30 Zoning out at the office and what it did to the marriage
19:30 The three Cs: communication, collaboration, consideration
21:08 The realities nobody likes to talk about
22:11 How many times Tanora has quit the company
23:27 What we do when we are gridlocked
25:28 Who does what, and why
27:43 If the business failed tomorrow, would the marriage hold
29:30 Legacy takeaway: when you find your people, you find your purpose

Building Family Together is hosted by Reggie and Tanora Polk, married 25 years, parents of nine, founders of Polk and Associates Construction in Nashville, Tennessee. New episodes every two weeks.

Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. Tap save and share with the couple in your corner.

Follow on Instagram: @buildingfamilytogether

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, and wherever you get your podcasts.

#BuildingFamilyTogether #BFTpodcast #ChristianMarriage #Couplepreneurs #FamilyBusiness #MarriagePodcast #FaithLedFamily #NashvillePodcast

Building Family Together is a new weekly podcast from Reggie and Tanora Polk on marriage, business, faith, and the long work of building a family that lasts. The conversations behind the conversations. The kind of talk we wish we had heard a decade ago. Episode 1 drops Wednesday May 13. Follow now so it shows up in your feed automatically.