Inheritance to Income

What if the success you worked so hard to achieve is starting to cost you the life you actually want? Kelly James climbed the corporate ladder, earned more responsibility and found himself getting closer to the kind of success he once thought he wanted. Then something changed. “The higher I climbed, the less enjoyable life was.” In this episode of Inheritance to Income, Kelly and I talk about what...

I’m trying to get 1% better today. Inheritance to Income is for accomplished people who are beginning to ask a different kind of question: What comes next? Maybe it’s retirement. A career transition. Succession. Purpose. Family. Legacy. Or figuring out how you want the next season of life to look. I’m not trying to build the biggest audience. I’m trying to build the right one. If these are your qu...

Leaving corporate life, retiring, getting laid off or stepping away from a long-held role can leave even accomplished people asking a surprisingly difficult question: What do I do next? In this episode of Inheritance to Income, I take lessons from my conversation with former CSX executive Arthur Adams and turn them into three practical steps you can use to begin designing your next chapter. Becaus...

How do you know when it is time to leave a role you spent years building and move toward something new? Former Congressman G.K. Butterfield joins Garrick Francis for a conversation about leadership, service, mentorship, family and life after Congress. Butterfield traces the roots of his public life back to Wilson, North Carolina, where he grew up in a civic-minded family and became involved in civ...

FREE NEXT CHAPTER READINESS WEBINAR Financially ready does not always mean fully ready. Thursday, September 10, 2026, or Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Both sessions at 7:00 PM ET Register: https://go.francislbp.com/next-chapter-readiness Leaving a corporate career can shake your confidence without erasing your value. Arthur L. Adams Jr. joins Garrick Francis to discuss career transition, life after...

Who are you building it for — and are you preparing them to carry it? Garrick Francis brings together David Shands, CJ Quinney and leaders and men from Kingdom Fellowship AME Church to explore generational wealth, family legacy, succession, leadership and preparing the next generation before the transfer ever happens. We spend enormous energy preparing what people will receive. But how much time d...

When your career changes, your circle may need to change too. Retirement, a layoff, a business sale, a career transition or simply entering a new season can change more than your paycheck and calendar. It can change the people, conversations, accountability, expertise and relationships that surrounded you every day. Sometimes what looks like a motivation problem is really a proximity problem. In t...

How much is enough? It sounds like a financial question. But the answer can shape where you live, what you give, whether you start something new, what happens to your business, and how much freedom you have to make decisions in the next chapter of your life. In this episode of Inheritance to Income and the What Comes After Success? series, Garrick Francis sits down with CPA and Personal Financial...

Success is temporary. Service endures. After a career that has included the White House, business, education, media, ministry, healthcare and entertainment, Joe Watkins has learned that success is not really about arriving. It is about what you do with what you have been given. In this episode of Inheritance to Income and the What Comes After Success? series, I sit down with my cousin Joe Watkins...

The road to success is always under construction and you are never too old to take a new direction. In this episode of the What Comes After Success? series, Garrick Francis sits down with longtime friend, entrepreneur, agency founder, author, musician, podcaster, and creative strategist Aaron Perlut. Aaron has spent his career helping companies and leaders shape their brands and communicate their...

It is not too late to build what comes next. But the next chapter will require more than motivation. In this episode of the What Comes After Success? series, Garrick Francis sits down with entrepreneur, sales leader, speaker, trainer, and 3% Mindset Podcast host Steve C. Wilmer. Steve shares his journey from a 1.9 high school GPA, to the United States Marine Corps, law enforcement, the U.S. postal...

What happens when the job, title, or professional identity you carried for decades suddenly changes? And how do you recognize the value that still comes with you? In this episode of the What Comes After Success? series, Garrick Francis sits down with career and leadership strategist Janice Coleman for a thoughtful conversation about career disruption, reinvention, purpose, faith, leadership, and w...

What happens after you reach the top? In this episode of Inheritance to Income, Garrick Francis sits down with Marcus Jones, a longtime public servant and former police chief, for a thoughtful conversation about leadership, service, success, retirement, redeployment, and what comes next after a long career of responsibility. Marcus spent 38 years in public safety, rose through the ranks, served as...

What happens after a break through? Cape Verde lost to Argentina, but when the team landed back home, thousands came out to celebrate. That moment raises a bigger question — not just for soccer, but for founders, family businesses, leaders, professionals, and families: One win can change everything. But the win is not the legacy. The work after the win is. In this episode of Inheritance to Income,...

What if retirement is not only an ending? What if the question, “What are you going to do in retirement?” is too small? The better and bigger question may be: What can I build from here? In this episode of *Inheritance to Income*, Garrick Francis explores why retirement may be the ultimate entrepreneurship — not because everyone needs to start a company, monetize every hobby, or keep working forev...

Some gaps are not personal. They are structural and they often show up when responsibility has to move. In this episode of *Inheritance to Income*, Garrick Francis continues the “What Gap Are You In?” conversation by looking at the gaps that can break family and business transitions: succession readiness, authority, relationships, and loss. Many founders, leaders, business owners, and families ass...

What gap are you in? Most of us are taught how to keep moving: build the business, raise the family, lead the team, solve the problem, make the decision, and keep going. But life does not always move cleanly from one season to the next. Sometimes there is a gap. In this episode of Inheritance to Income, Garrick Francis begins a two-part conversation about the gaps that show up when life, leadershi...

What happens when a family builds something great, but one person ends up carrying too much of it? In this episode of *Inheritance to Income*, Garrick Francis reflects on the Jackson family story — Michael Jackson, Joe Jackson, Katherine Jackson, and the broader family system — not as gossip, not as a movie review, and not as a verdict, but as a legacy design reflection. The Jackson family gave th...

Thirty-five years of marriage teaches you something. Not because everything was perfect. But because love, faith, decisions, pressure, repair, money, children, family history, and future hopes all have to live under the same roof. In this episode of the Inheritance to Income Podcast, Garrick Francis reflects on 35 years of marriage to Sheila Monique Whitaker Francis — not simply as an anniversary...

Retirement is often sold as freedom. But for many people, the first feeling is not freedom. It is disorientation. In this episode of the Inheritance to Income Podcast, Garrick Francis challenges the old retirement story and asks a better question: Not just, “What am I retiring from?” But, “What am I stepping into?” This episode explores the retirement myth, the Legacy Deployment Gap, and why the n...

Most families think inheritance begins when someone dies. Inheritance is not only about what transfers after death. Many adult children inherit something much earlier: responsibility. In this episode of the Inheritance to Income Podcast, Garrick Francis explores the inheritance no one talks about — the bills, care decisions, medical appointments, housing questions, sibling tensions, and emotional...

We’ve been talking about the retirement wave for years. Millions of Baby Boomers and experienced leaders are reaching retirement age, leaving the workforce, stepping out of leadership roles, and stepping away from businesses, teams, families, and institutions they helped build. But the real issue is not just how many people are retiring. It’s what leaves when they do. Take the Succession Readiness...

Most people think financing is just about buying a house. But in the right context, financing can become a tool for legacy design — helping families preserve property, support the next generation, access equity, and build long-term wealth through real estate. In this episode of the Inheritance to Income Podcast, Garrick Francis sits down with Elliot Weil of Equity Resources, a mortgage professiona...

Most people spend decades working, saving, and building—only to arrive at retirement and realize they don’t know how to live inside what they’ve created. In this episode of the Inheritance to Income Podcast, Garrick Francis introduces the concept of the Legacy Deployment Gap—the disconnect between what was accumulated and what is meaningfully deployed into life, family, and future stewardship. Ret...

📘 Download Your Free Guide “12 Legacy-Building Conversations Every Family Should Start Today” 👉 https://go.inheritancetoincome.com/family-legacy-conversations Most families don’t fail because of money, they experience generational drift. They break down because of unclear decisions, misaligned expectations, and undefined roles across generations. In this episode of the Inheritance to Income Podc...