Harley Finkelstein attends couples therapy with his wife every two weeks
Harley Finkelstein · Shopify President, Harley Finkelstein on What is Being a Good Husband | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Mar 11, 2022 · at 39:16
Harley Finkelstein is the President of Shopify. He discusses his personal relationship management routines alongside a high-stress tech leadership career.
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“We've been seeing a couples counselor almost since like day one. We've been seeing, we've been going to couples therapy and we initially did it because on the advice of someone that one of these mentors that I think has a great relationship who only started seeing a couples counselor years after they got married, after they had a traumatic experience they started seeing a couples counselor and they're like, Hey, this has been an amazing thing. And so Lindsay and I adopted it fairly early on in our marriage. And the way we sort of looked at it was, you know, in the same way that it is always easier to start going to the gym and seeing a trainer before you sort of need to, and when you're still kind of in good shape as opposed to waiting till you're totally out of shape and it's really, really difficult to get into shape at that point. That's kind of the way we looked at couples therapy and we still see a couples therapist every two weeks.”
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