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Angela Goldstein
BY SASHA ROGELBERG
How do you balance a
professional and personal
relationship with your husband?
I can’t tell you how in sync and in harmony and
peace we are every day.

Communication is number one. I’ve learned
through him how to communicate better, how
to express my needs. And at the end of the day,
we always have a powwow: How did the day go?
And how can we improve?
And then, more importantly, we both
understand that we are different, and we respect
our different opinions. We are really secure in
each other’s relationship, where we can allow
ourselves to have differences in opinions and we
can still get along.

What is one challenge of
being married to your
business partner?
When we were both on vacation, we were
both gone! The challenge would be when we
both need to be at a place…but somehow we
make it work.

I guess sticking to the schedule, respecting
the home life — while we’re working, let’s
not focus on the laundry. House distractions,
keeping those at bay so that we can focus on
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work, that’s a challenge. That’s an everyday
challenge for sure.

How do you set boundaries
between your work life and your
family life?
I feel like as we learn more and more, we
continue to evolve in that area. There’s the kids
being home during COVID, when they’re off
at school—all of that can disrupt the flow. And
also, we have four dogs at home, in our house.

But I think we all have the same goal— that we
want a peaceful house, we want to succeed. The
kids understand that when we’re in the office,
we’re in the office, and we respect that time.

We also have just started using it this year—
it’s been really helping—but we also create block
schedules for ourselves. It’s been doing wonders
for us, where we actually respect our time.

‘Okay, this is work time, and this is family time,’
because obviously, we work from home, too.

Other than going out to see clients and houses,
most of the time, we’re here.

What is a lesson that you hope
your kids learn from you?
I think that lesson is that you can do anything
you put your mind into doing, as long as you’re
doing it for the good of everybody. As long as
your intentions are good.

I hope that they see that there are ways to
make a living in the world and be happy at the
same time. You don’t have to get on that hamster
wheel if you don’t want to. There’s other ways.

What advice would you give to
other parents who own their
own business?
Time management has been a big thing for us:
Putting everything on the calendar, having an
organized system of sorts.

I use something called the Productivity Planner,
which is, basically, every morning, I have a list of
[things] that I need to do for the most important
[tasks], and I don’t make that list too big. I keep
it to five things. And that’s the maximum: I do
five things. And I feel like I can check them off
my list, and then I feel more accomplished than
if I had a list of 25 things and then I never feel
like I actually do a single one. T
PROVIDED PHOTOS
M ost people like to compartmentalize
their work and home lives, but Realtor
Angela Goldstein isn’t most people.

The Bethesda, Maryland resident is the
co-owner of Northgate Realty with her husband,
Lee, and with 30 years of combined real estate
experience, the two define their business by the
friendships they form with their clients.

With their personal life and private life so
intertwined, the couple is constantly having
to balance work and home life, but they find
joy in the hustle. Even on the couple’s March
honeymoon, relaxing on the beach, the two took
a couple business calls: “We both understand
that real estate happens, any time, any moment.

So rather than getting upset, we just embrace it.

It’s just part of our lives," she says.

When the couple isn’t busy selling homes,
they’re spending time with their four children
in their blended family: Jared, 24, Sofia, 19,
Valentina, 16, and Oliver, 6.




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WHAT IS YOUR FAMILY’S
FAVORITE …
Meal I make the best tortilla soup. That’s a winner
for everybody.

Activity Get together and eat. Have dinner together.

We don’t get to see Jared, Lee’s son, all the
time because he lives at his own apartment
now. And my daughter’s in college (one of
them), so just being able to get together
for dinner.

TV Show
“[The] Big Bang Theory” is probably on in our
house all day long.

Vacation Spot
I want to say Palm Springs because that was
where we just got married, and we loved it
so much. 1
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