Kate and Andy Spade maintained boundaries by working on separate floors
Kate Spade · Kate Spade: Kate & Andy Spade (2017) · Jan 8, 2018 · at 31:12
Kate Spade, co-founder of the Kate Spade fashion brand, explains how she and her husband Andy Spade balanced running a business together with their marriage.
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“We actually worked on separate floors for that very reason, because I had a tendency to go into his office, and he'd be on the phone, and I'd say, get off the phone, I have something to tell you, or ask you. And that, we had to really, I had to myself find boundaries, and we had to make a conscious effort not to talk about it twenty-four-seven, which is, as you can tell by how quickly I talk, my tendency.”
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