"It's not easy to realize that it all depends on us, and that in fact we have a choice." In ENVOL, a life-changing podcast produced by Europe 1 Studio with Ticket for Change and Ground Control, Salomé, 30, tells how she left her job as a civil servant to create a supermarket with her husband. drive ", zero waste. A few months after the launch of her blooming project - the couple has already recruited four people - she delivers three keys to succeed in entrepreneurship as a couple.
1. Clearly divide tasks
"People said to me, 'you are completely crazy.' But we said, 'why not?'", Says Salome. To avoid possible conflict, the young woman recommends first to "clearly distribute the tasks of each". "It was very important for us that everyone has decision-making power in their field," she explains. "That does not prevent, both of them, to give an attentive ear: when Pierre built a range with 70 beers out of 200 products, I said to him: 'maybe you exaggerate a little, 'You have to expand.' And the same, when I do things that seem insane to him he tells me so. "
2. Preserve time off work
Setting up a business as a duo also means taking the risk of blurring the boundaries between work and private life. "You have to try, and I say try because it is a balance that is not easy, to guard the moments when we exist outside of [the company]," Salome breathes. With her husband, Pierre, she set up "love Thursdays". "Every Thursday night we try to keep a moment to ourselves: an aperitif, a restaurant ... We have, at least, a day of weekend."
3. See the glass half full
To succeed as a couple, another key lies, according to Salome, in ... the ability to be positive. "I'm incredibly lucky to have a husband and partner who always sees life with pink glasses," smiles the young woman. "It can have an annoying side sometimes: when the dishwasher is blocked, billions of dirty jars accumulate, that was not delivered in time ... It puts the nerves of times" she admits. "But I say to myself: 'what a chance, to see the world through the half-full glass all the time ...' 'I recently realized that happiness really depends on you.'
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