Business consultant and founder Maurice Pennington Brown snakeskin leather shoes and slacks
Pennington Perspective Founders Alisha and Maurice Pennington wear black and white blazers by chic white lamp.
Pennington Perspective Founder, Alisha Pennington wears olive turtleneck and gold jewelry with hands crossed on chest.

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Business has allowed so much for our lives.
This is where we share our perspective on everything in between.

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We’re (Finally) Building Our House

If you’ve been following me over on Instagram, you know that we sold our home back in November of 2020. We’ve since built a house that we intended to live in, but ended up becoming an investment property due to it taking 26 months to finish, costing much more than originally planned, and providing substantial margin. But, you’d also know that home has officially SOLD!! Which means, we can FINALLY move on and I can tell you all about the house that will become our new home. It’s been a long time coming. Tatum was just 5 months old when we sold our home. She is about to be 3 and will have a 6 month old little sister by the time we get in!

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Mother’s Day Gift Guide for The Business Owner Mama

As a mother and a business owner, you are one of the busiest people out there. Between running your business and caring for your family, finding the time to shop for the perfect gift can be challenging. That's why we've put together this gift guide specifically for business-owning moms like you. Whether you're looking for a gift for yourself, your own mother, or a fellow mompreneur, we've got you covered with a range of thoughtful and practical gift ideas that will make her feel appreciated and valued.

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How I Structure My Schedule for Max Productivity

Alisha here and I'm pulling back the curtain on the logistics of how we run several businesses, have a toddler at home, and still manage to spend time together as a married couple. These are strategies that have been built over time, with much testing and application, though continue to be modified as life changes. These are equal part productivity/life hacks and also suggestions on how to manage it all while staying sane.

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Married + In Business: Financial Alignment

As a husband and wife duo, we are required to be aligned in more things than just our business model and role delineation for household or parenting tasks. We truly are partners in business and life, so there is one area that we must be willing to work together on: finances. There are multiple ways for partners and spouses to split the responsibility on income & expenses, we want to share our way to be an example of how two people who are married and in business together make this work!

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How To Use Business To Write Off Your Life

One of the most common questions we get asked in business is "how do I pay myself?" And we have a unique approach to this, one that optimizes the tax code, and ensures that the maximum amount of our life's expenses are paid by the business (with zero taxes paid!) before we start taking a paycheck. This is a strategy any business owner can utilize and in this article, we will share our top tips on how to make it work for you!

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3 Homes In 3 Years

Home ownership is a dream for many, and we were no exception. In fact, Alisha had the expectation that she would be a homeowner at the age of 25. Even though this was a completely arbitrary date, it was something she had dreamt of for most of her life and was unwilling to relent on the deadline, even when life hadn’t lined up with it.

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Top 3 Tips for Working with Your Spouse

What is it like working with your spouse? We get this question ALL THE TIME. The truth is, it's complicated.

We wanted to share how we make it work and what we've done to find our flow working together; including our top tips for maintaining your sanity while working alongide your significant other.

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