Building Family Together

Reggie and Tanora Polk

Building Family Together is a weekly podcast on marriage, business, faith, and the long work of building a family that lasts. Hosted by Reggie and Tanora Polk, founders of Polk & Associates Construction in Nashville, Tennessee, the show is for couples who are trying to do all of it at the same time. Build a marriage. Build a business. Build a family. Hold onto faith through every season. Stay aligned when life gets full. Reggie and Tanora have spent the last fifteen years building something most couples only talk about. They started Polk & Associates in 2011 and grew it into a full service construction firm trusted by federal, state, and commercial clients across Tennessee. Reggie is President and CEO. Tanora is Vice President. Together they have led the company through every season a marriage faces, every test a young business meets, and every chapter a growing family walks through. This show is the conversation behind the conversation. Every week Reggie and Tanora open up about what most couples never say out loud. The cost of building. The grace of growing. The fights that taught them something. The wins that almost broke them. The ordinary moments that turned into the foundation of everything. The topics range. Money, parenting, communication, ambition, rest, faith, and all the places those things collide. Sometimes the topic is what is keeping a marriage from feeling alive. Sometimes it is what it looks like to run a business as a couple without losing each other. Sometimes it is just a story from the week that landed. If you are a couple in the middle of building together, whether that is a household, a business, a ministry, or a calling, Building Family Together is a weekly seat at the table with two people who are still in the work themselves. The show is for you whether you have been married six months or thirty years. New episode every Wednesday. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, iHeartRadio, and wherever you stream your podcasts. Watch the full conversations on YouTube. Follow @buildingfamilytogether on Instagram for behind the scenes, postcard quotes, and weekly drops.

Episodes

  1. MAY 13

    Marriage, Business, and the 3 Cs | Building Family Together | Ep. 1

    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

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About

Building Family Together is a weekly podcast on marriage, business, faith, and the long work of building a family that lasts. Hosted by Reggie and Tanora Polk, founders of Polk & Associates Construction in Nashville, Tennessee, the show is for couples who are trying to do all of it at the same time. Build a marriage. Build a business. Build a family. Hold onto faith through every season. Stay aligned when life gets full. Reggie and Tanora have spent the last fifteen years building something most couples only talk about. They started Polk & Associates in 2011 and grew it into a full service construction firm trusted by federal, state, and commercial clients across Tennessee. Reggie is President and CEO. Tanora is Vice President. Together they have led the company through every season a marriage faces, every test a young business meets, and every chapter a growing family walks through. This show is the conversation behind the conversation. Every week Reggie and Tanora open up about what most couples never say out loud. The cost of building. The grace of growing. The fights that taught them something. The wins that almost broke them. The ordinary moments that turned into the foundation of everything. The topics range. Money, parenting, communication, ambition, rest, faith, and all the places those things collide. Sometimes the topic is what is keeping a marriage from feeling alive. Sometimes it is what it looks like to run a business as a couple without losing each other. Sometimes it is just a story from the week that landed. If you are a couple in the middle of building together, whether that is a household, a business, a ministry, or a calling, Building Family Together is a weekly seat at the table with two people who are still in the work themselves. The show is for you whether you have been married six months or thirty years. New episode every Wednesday. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, iHeartRadio, and wherever you stream your podcasts. Watch the full conversations on YouTube. Follow @buildingfamilytogether on Instagram for behind the scenes, postcard quotes, and weekly drops.