Family Business/Business Family

In this episode, we chat with Sarah Lodge Tally, a G5 board member at Lodge Cast Iron, the South Pittsburg, Tenn., cookware maker her great-great-grandfather founded in 1896, and one of our 2026 Transformational Women in Family Business honorees. She talks about taking her father’s seat on the board after he stepped down, bringing truly independent directors onto the board and founding Lodge’s gov...

In this episode, we chat with Tammy Sons, G2 owner of TN Nursery, the Altamont, Tenn., native plant nursery her father started in 1959. She talks about the 2012 move online that shifted the business from wholesale to retail and took it from a dozen or so wholesale orders a day to roughly a thousand retail orders a day, and how she’s preparing her son and daughter to lead when she retires in a few...

In this episode, we chat with Eric Corliss, a fifth-generation steward of Corliss Management Group, a private real estate development and investment firm that evolved from his family's sand, gravel and concrete business. He talks about buying out his uncle's stake in 2019, moving the family's ownership into trusts, and why he and his brother ultimately decided to sell the operating bus...

In this episode, Trey Travis, third-generation leader at Bremen, Ga.-based Southeastern Hose, discusses growing up literally inside the Atlanta hose and corrugated metal fabricator his grandfather started in 1963, and why learning to communicate as a family, not just as a leadership team, turned out to be the hardest part of scaling the business. In part 2 of our conversation with Shane Foye, seco...

In this episode, Shane Foye, second-generation president of DW1, the Atlanta site services company his father built, talks about growing up with the business literally operating out of his childhood bedroom and the pushback he faced building DW1’s own software platform instead of buying off the shelf. In part 2 of our conversation with Mike and Jon Abt, two of the four sibling co-presidents runnin...

In this episode, Mike and Jon Abt, G3 sibling co-presidents of Abt, share the philosophies behind their family’s 90-year-old Chicago retail business: say yes to any reasonable customer request, “grow or die" and never lie. In addition, this episode features more of our conversation with Abhinav Jindal, a G2 leader of Jindal Group’s hospitality portfolio. He makes the case for treating mental healt...

In this episode of the “Family Business/Business Family” podcast, we chat with Abhinav Jindal, a G2 leader of family-owned Jindal Group's hospitality portfolio. He discusses why his father talked him out of taking an outside job before joining the company. He also opens up about learning to separate his self-worth from his last name. Also in this episode, we continue our conversation with Camille...

In this episode, we sit down with Camille Johnson, family liaison at HF Capital, the Haslam family's family office. She discusses the office's 2020 founding amid the family’s sale of Pilot (which operates the Pilot Flying J travel centers and truck stops), how it's grown from three employees to a team serving 43 family members across four generations and why she believes in starting imperfectly ra...

In this episode, we sit down with husband-and-wife team Luke and Catherine Neumayr, seventh-generation ranchers at family-owned V8 Ranch. They discuss the unique realities of succession in agriculture, why ranchers often never truly retire, how they each found their way into the family enterprise and how they're blending tradition with modern marketing to help position the ranch for the future. We...

In this episode, we sit down with two generations of leadership at Total Office Solutions, a family-owned provider of comprehensive office services from workplace planning, furnishing, and technology to moving and decommissioning. Sisters and G2 leaders Amy Monette Linton and Megan Monette McDaniel, along with their mother, Co-Founder and Co-Principal Linda Monette, discuss the ongoing transition...

In this episode, we sit down with Travis Hollman, G2 CEO of Hollman Inc., the world's largest locker manufacturer whose clients include the major pro sports leagues, Apple and Nike. Hollman (who some listeners might know as the husband of “The Real Housewives of Dallas” alum Stephanie Hollman) shares how he helped transform the business his father built into a global leader in the space. He also o...

In this episode, Ross Lazaroo-Hood, leader of the Lazaroo-Hood Group, explains how his family office backs founder-led businesses by investing not just in ideas, but in the resilience, hunger and character of the people behind them. We also hear more from Lundberg Family Farms' new CEO Suzanne Sengelmann, who discusses leading the multigenerational family business through its next chapter while ba...

In this episode, Suzanne Sengelmann, the new CEO of Lundberg Family Farms, talks about how experiences both inside and outside the company prepared her to step into the top role somewhat unexpectedly. This episode also features part 1 of our conversation with Rich and Brian Rogenski of Youngstown, Ohio-based Legacy Tire & Auto Repair, who discuss rebuilding a family business after splitting fr...

In this episode, Peter Stenehjem, CEO of First International Bank & Trust, reflects on leading a fourth-generation, $6 billion family bank founded in 1910. This episode also features part 2 of our conversation with Brent Thomas of Tepi Naturals, who talks more about building a family-owned natural skincare business from the ground up and gives his perspective on scaling the business while main...

In this episode, Brent Thomas, co-founder and CEO of Tepi Naturals, shares the company’s unconventional founding story of a son-led startup-turned-multigenerational family business. Thomas discusses how the family turned a discarded coffee byproduct into a skincare business built on shared purpose and complementary strengths. We also hear more from sibling co-leaders Micaela Tuohey-McDonald, Sean...

In this episode, Kala Tuohey-McDonald, Sean Tuohey and Mary Tuohey-Fahy discuss the next-generation leadership transition at The Collins Companies, a family-owned industrial distributor of pipe, valves and fittings and engineered specialties with more than a century of history. The siblings reflect on the 15-year succession planning process that culminated in them taking over for their father, how...

In this episode, Mitchell Kaneff, the third-generation chairman and CEO of premium packaging company Arkay, and his sons Josh and Max, discuss the evolution of the company and its approach to succession. Also in this episode, Heath Ochroch, president of Werner Bus Lines, reflects on the history of the business and stepping into leadership after his father’s passing. In addition, this episode featu...

In this episode, father and daughter Ed and Danni Dikes, of Florida-based Weston Jewelers, discuss growing their second-generation company from a 1,000-square-foot store in 2001 to a multi-location luxury brand preparing to open a 40,000-square-foot flagship on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. This episode also features part 2 of our conversation with Clarissa Surianello, third-generation pr...

In this episode, Kristin Anthony and her father, M. Pope Anthony Jr., of Anthony’s Ladies Apparel trace their family’s retail roots to 1895 and discuss balancing a brick-and-mortar legacy with a growing e-commerce business. Clarissa Surianello, third-generation president of construction company Surianello Concrete, shares how hands-on experience shaped her leadership as she modernizes operations w...

In this episode, Michael LaVecchia, vice president, operations at fourth-generation LaMonica Fine Foods, and Danielle Rauso, his niece and sales manager at LaMonica, trace their family seafood business from a Brooklyn fish store founded in 1923 to a multigenerational operation in New Jersey that remains one of the last independent clam processors in the country. They also discuss how they’re...

In this episode, brothers John and Joe Gaither, second-generation leaders of premium performance sock maker Feetures, reflect on building a brand out of a legacy of family entrepreneurship. This episode also features part 2 of our conversation with Port Blakely’s newly installed CEO Mike Warjone and his cousin, Chairman and outgoing CEO René Ancinas, who delve deeper into their succession process...

In this episode, Port Blakely’s newly installed CEO Mike Warjone and his cousin, Chairman and outgoing CEO René Ancinas, discuss the carefully planned leadership transition at the company that became official at the end of 2025. This episode also features part 2 of our conversation with fifth-generation co-presidents Jeannie Cullen Schultz and George Cullen of JP Cullen, who explain how a “field-f...

In this episode, we sit down with Matthew Powell, fourth-generation CEO of safety and security service provider Century Companies. Matthew talks about what stewardship means to him, navigating succession at every level and why, even after more than century in business, leadership still requires a day-one mindset. Check out Matthew's newsletter, Steward's Journal , on his website . This episode als...

In this episode of the “Family Business/Business Family” podcast, Jeannie Cullen Schultz and George Cullen, siblings and fifth-generation co-presidents of 133-year-old construction firm JP Cullen, reflect on their distinct paths into the business and how a thoughtful succession process equipped them to lead together while honoring the company’s legacy and keeping family dynamics out of the boardro...

In this episode, we sit down with Corinne Burton, G2 president of Teacher Created Materials, who shares how her family built a global company rooted in a love of learning, balancing innovation with tradition through a flexible and age-inclusive governance model. We also chat with Transformational Women in Family Business 2025 honoree Karen Alko, fourth-generation steward of ABC Recycling, who refl...