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Legacy / Perspectives
We need
to talk.
The inheritance conversation starts long before an inheritance.
What do you want the people you love to know, and what have you left unsaid?
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Founder.
And then?
You built a business. Does it have a life beyond you?
The next chapter deserves as much intention as the first.
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Our house.
Our future?
“We should talk about the house.” Now what?
A familiar place. Different expectations. A conversation worth having.
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Who gets what. A family question.
The kindest hard question a family can ask, and the three ways everything you own actually moves.
- Legacy / Perspectives
We need to talk. The inheritance conversation starts long before an inheritance.
How to start the family conversation about what happens next, with words you can actually use.
- Legacy / Perspectives
Founder. And then?
What happens to a business when its founder steps away, and how to build one that can stand without you.
- Legacy / Perspectives
Our house. Our future?
The family home holds memories and most of the family's wealth. Here's how to keep it from becoming a fight, or a loss.
- On the agenda / 01 / The family business
You're the founder. Who's next?
Choosing a successor for the family business: family, team, or buyer, and how to prepare whoever it is.
- On the agenda / 02 / First conversations
Talk about money. Skip the family feud.
Eight ground rules for a family money conversation that stays kind, useful, and short enough to try again.
Send this to the family group chat
Somebody has to
start the conversation.
You don't need all the answers to ask a better question.
This week's conversation starter
“If something happened to me, would you know where to start?”
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