The media has given a lot of attention to the stay-at-home aspects of my book.  And while I do spend a good amount of time looking at wives who help their husbands from home, I also profile a number of women who are their husbands' business partners in a more official capacity.  Thousands of successful small businesses around the country were the result of a dream of a husband-wife team.  And without the "wife" part of the equation, the dream never would have become a reality.

Today I read about yet another such couple.  18 years ago, Mike Walden was a police officer in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  His wife, Amy, was a police dispatcher.  Good, solid middleclass jobs, to be sure.  But the Walden's wanted more.  They wanted to pool their policing expertise to launch a security company.  So with Mike landing the clients, and Amy managing the books and other financial aspects of the business, they launched Walden Security.  Today Walden guards high-level operations all around the United States and will bring in about $92 million in revenue this year.

You can read more of their story here.

Many of the husband-wife teams I profile in Beside Every Successful Man are just like the Waldens.  Together, they combined their talent, ambition, and skills to reach a level of success many would never have considered possible.  A biblical proverb tells us "iron sharpens iron."  As I repeatedly found while researching my book, this is especially true when husbands and wives team up in business.