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All Episodes

Family Business Today — 104 episodes

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Episode 105: How Walton’s Jewelry Keeps their Sparkle in the Third Generation with Julie Walton Garland

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Episode 104: Why the Best Family Business Leaders Serve First

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Episode 103: 1 Family, 4 Generations, 100 Years: The Sprague Pest Solutions Story with Ross Treleven

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Episode 102: Tepi Naturals is more than skincare – It’s a family story with Brent Thomas

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Episode 101: Building Stronger Family Businesses Through Entrepreneurial Thinking

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Episode 100: Creating a Culture of Generosity in Your Family Business with Jeff Rutt

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Episode 99: What They Don't Tell You about Taking over the Family Business with Eric Corliss

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Episode 98: Building a Sellable Business Even if You are Not Selling It Yet with Tyson Ray

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Episode 97: How Inherited Trauma Shapes Financial Decision-Making in Family Businesses

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Episode 96: High Performance Motors with Christophe Cloitre, Ashland Electric Products

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Episode 95: Southern Hospitality in a Bottle with Morgan Weinstock and Jackson Wetherington

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Episode 94: How an Independent Board of Directors and a Non-Family CEO Helped this Family Business Grow with Matt Nielsen at Nielsen-Massey Company

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Episode 93: How a NextGen Prepares for Leadership in His Family Business with JC Carr, World Emblem, Inc.

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Episode 92: Learn to Live, Speak and Lead from the Brand You Were Born With

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Episode 91: Two Sisters Committed to Helping Women Live Their Life on Their Own Terms

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Episode 90: Growing Vidalia Onions is a RealSweet ® Family Business with John Shuman

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Episode 89: Care for Visionaries in a Family Business with Jaime White

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Episode 88: Getting Acquainted with Mergers and Acquisitions for Family Businesses with Rick Calabrese

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Episode 87: Preserving Your Family Business through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

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Episode 86: How Pivoting a Family Business Can Lead to Long-Term Success with Ben Hertzman

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Episode 85: How Hiring a Non-Family CEO may Ensure Success for Your Family Business

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Episode 84: Bringing Together Faith and Business to Impact Culture in Your Family Business

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Episode 83: Plan for the Future, Preserve the Legacy with Jim and Bill Stranberg

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Episode 82: 100 Years and still going strong at Chattanooga Bakery, MoonPies have never tasted so good as now

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Episode 81: What Questions Should You Ask Yourself Before Considering Selling your Family Business?

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Episode 80: Optimizing and Transforming Your Family Business with Tammy Rodgers

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Episode 79: Achieve the Best Version of You by Actively Taking Action with Jason Yarusi

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Episode 78: A Century of Style, A Heritage of Service - M. Dumas & Sons

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Episode 77: The Original Precast Plunge Pool, Crafters of Your Comfort

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Episode 76: Embracing Sustainability in Your Family Business

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Episode 75: Jumpstart your Exit with Ivan and Mariana Polic

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Episode 74: Scaling Up your Family Business with Jonathan Goldhill

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Episode 73: The Role Empathy and Understanding Play in Resolving Conflict, with Dr. Darlene Williams-Prades

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Episode 72: A husband and wife team, Kay Lee and Robert Fukui, offer tips on helping family businesses deal with conflict at home and in their business

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Episode 71: The Power of Legacy in a Family Business

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Episode 70: A Legacy That Lasts – Preserving and Transferring Your Family Values

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Episode 69: Leading with Emotional Power with Dr. Julia DiGangi

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Episode 68: Entrepreneurial Family Business: From Survival to Success with Dr. Dianne Welsh, Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina Greensboro

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Episode 67: Join me at a storied family-owned pub, Bumpa’s, located in the historic French Quarter, Charleston, South Carolina, where everybody knows your name

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Episode 66: Planning Your Family Business’ Path to Long Term Success with Pete Walsh, Master Coach, with the Family Business Performance Center in Peoria, Arizona

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Episode 65: What is the Role of Spouses in a Family Business? with Sara B. Stern

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Episode 64: The Multi-Generational Family Business Behind Some of the Biggest Concert Productions in North America Today with Bob Romeo, Chairman of Romeo Entertainment Group in Nashville, TN

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Episode 63 : A Five Generation Family Business Shaping Solutions for Tough Raw Materials with Mac Steele, President, JC Steele & Sons

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Episode 62: The Soul of Family Business; Creating and Preserving a Truly Healthy Family in Business with Tom Hubler, Hubler for Business Families

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Episode 61: Economic Outlook for 2023 – Greg Young, Senior Investment Strategist, Bernstein Wealth Management, Dallas, TX

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Episode 60: Buy-Sell Agreements, The Last Will & Testament for Your Business with Paul Hood

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Episode 59: Why do Family Businesses need a Board of Directors? with Tom Bakewell, author of Claiming Your Place at the Boardroom Table

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Episode 58: Combining Irish and German Approaches to Education of Next Generation Family Business Leaders with Dr. Susan Walsh

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Episode 57: How a Virginia Peanut Changed an Industry and Created a Family Legacy, Hubbard Peanut Company with Marshall Rabil

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Episode 56: What’s in Your Cup? A Cup of Coffee/Tea and a Conversation with Bill Smith, Royal Cup Coffee & Tea and Double Iron Consulting

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Episode 55: How to Be a Leader in the Boardroom and the Living Room with Deena Chochinov

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Episode 54: Living Your Vision Now with Larry Olsen of Aperneo

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Episode 53: Tailoring the Family Business Legacy with John and Daniel Stewart of Stewart Leadership

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Episode 52: Preserving Families and Perpetuating Family Businesses with Dave Specht

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Episode 51: Optimizing Your Family Business Exit with Marvin Storm

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Episode 50: Guiding a Family Business Through a Family Divorce with Karen McMahon

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Episode 49: Preserving Your Legacy and Wealth with Steven Goodman

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Episode 48: Transition Tips for Family Business with Anthony Chen

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Episode 47: Where Every Traveler Has a Friend with Stephanie Stuckey of Stuckey's Co.

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Episode 46: Facing the Unexpected and Keeping on Trucking with Crissy Wieck of Western Express, Inc.

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Episode 45: A Company That Helped to Mechanize the Mid-South with the Morgan Family of John Bouchard & Sons, Co.

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Episode 44: Arranged Careers: When the Family Business Isn’t Always the Right Fit for You with Dr. Michael Klein

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Episode 43: Changing with the Times Has Resulted in a Century-Old Family Business with Ben Grossman of Grossman Marketing Group

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Episode 42: Cultivating a 100-Year Family Enterprise with Aggie Johnson of WillKate Family Enterprise

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Episode 41: Ownership and Optimism: The Competitive Advantage of Family Businesses with Dr. Josh Baron of BanyanGlobal

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Episode 40: Relying on Technology, Your Team, and New Business Development Opportunities in the New Norm with Laurie Guzman of The Inside Story, LLC

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Episode 39: Each Tiny Effort Builds on the Next so that Brick by Brick, Magnificent Things Can Be Created with Andy Sneed of WASCO, Inc.

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Episode 38: What Family Business Owners can do to Survive and Thrive During these Chaotic Times with Barbara Roberts

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Episode 37: Seeing the Blind Spots when Planning a Family Business Transition with Peter Bloom, The Bloom Group

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Episode 36: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine with Rocky Lalvani, the Profit First Man

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Episode 35: Lawrence Mize – The Heimansohn Family nears 125 Year Milestone in Business

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Episode 34: NashvillePrinting.Com– The Coolest Family Printing Company in Town

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Episode 33: Leading a Life of Excellence with Aaron Walker

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Episode 32: Goo-Goo – A 100 year old American Candy Bar wrapped in Family Tradition

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Episode 31: There’s No Business Like Family Business…..A Marketing Perspective

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Episode 30: Creating a Charitable Giving Strategy for Your Family and Your Business

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Episode 29: Surviving the Death of a Spouse in your Family Business

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Episode 28: The Family Farm – Obstacles and Opportunities Farmers are Facing Today

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Episode 27: Managing Stress in the Family Business

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Episode 26: Meet powerhouse mother-daughter duo, Eileen and Anne Huntington, who work together in their family business, Huntington Learning Centers.

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Episode 25: Business Valuation: What it is and why is it important for your family business to have one in your business transition plans?

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Episode 24: Sibling Success: When brother and sister work together in a family business with Laurie Straus Aronoff and Andy Straus, Goldner Associates, Nashville, Tennessee

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Episode 23: Practical ways for family business leaders to communicate authentic appreciation with Dr. Paul White, co-author of The Five Languages of Appreciation

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Episode 22: Surviving the Business Transition with Brad Franc

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Episode 21: Gary Ringger, Founder/President of Lifesong for Orphans and author of Radical Business, From Ownership to Stewardship.

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Episode 20 The King of Clarity, Steve Woodruff, shares his secret weapon for generating the one source of revenue that will most effectively fuel your business: referrals

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Episode 19 Chris Paulk discusses his family agri-business, Muscadine Products Corporation

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Episode 18 Charles Hatcher discusses his 5-generation family dairy operation since 1831 in the College Grove, Tennessee community.

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Episode 17 Aaron Flinn discusses real-life family business case studies

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Episode 16 Cal Turner, Jr. discussing his recent book, My Father’s Business, the Small-Town Values that built Dollar General into a Billion Dollar Company.

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Episode 15: Greg Lewis with David Wells on “Family Governance – What it is and Why it is important for a family business to have a governance model”.

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Episode 14: JK Elkin – Attorney at Law, Spicer Rudstrom PLLC – What I Learned from Working with my Dad in Business

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Episode 13: Tim Jamison – Vice President, Prairie Capital Advisors…Developing an ESOP Plan for Your Family Business

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Episode 12: Dr. Jacob Avila – Developing Healthy Family Relationships...A Vital Component to Family Business Success

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Episode 11: Dana Holmes – Tips for Planning and Funding a Successful Family Business Transition

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Episode 10: Matt Bodnar, A Son's Viewpoint on What Makes it Work When Working with Dad in the Family Business

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Episode 8: Bill Bellet, The Legacy Consulting Group

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Episode 7: Jenny and Evan Owens of Reboot Combat Recovery

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Episode 6: Dana Holmes of 2nd Generation Capital

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Episode 5: Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, author of Start, Love, Repeat: How to Stay in Love With your Entrepreneur in a Crazy Start-Up World

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Episode 4: Steve Richards of Richards and Richards, Office Records Management

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Episode 3: Jamie Fritz, Dabble Studios

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Episode 2: Andy Marshall, A. Marshall Hopitality

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