One Generation to Another

When family businesses first set out to capture and preserve their story, they expect to end up with a physical product—a memoir, a documentary, a coffee table book. That final product is part of the process, but what we at Journey Sixty6 actually create is something bigger: a Family Legacy Keepsake. In this episode of One Generation to Another, Melissa and Dave get to the heart of what a Family L...

Many family legacy projects begin with curiosity. The family project’s leader sifts through photographs, journal entries, newspaper articles, piecing together whatever they can find. That research is the bedrock of the entire project. But most family project leaders don’t know what type of research they actually need, or how much of it is enough. In this episode of One Generation to Another, Melis...

No family story is without its hard moments. There is conflict between generations, disagreements among siblings, and frustrations over business decisions. Most families who begin capturing their family story recognize this. They get stuck, though, figuring out what role conflict should play in the story handed down to future generations. In this episode of One Generation to Another, Dave and Meli...

Most Legacy Keepsake projects are a lengthy process. You would think that, after multiple reviews and revisions, the family would be eager to publish their Keepsake. Yet we’ve noticed the opposite to be true. As the end draws near, families tend to slow down. They nitpick over sentences, second-guess the stories, and wonder if they’re getting the overall story right. Letting go of the project ofte...

Most families assume their Legacy Keepsake is simply for the family. It’s a way to help future generations understand the sacrifices, values, and moments that shaped the family business and family wealth. Through story, those values become tangible—and motivating. But once the process of capturing a family legacy begins, something unexpected often happens: the Keepsake starts reaching a much wider...

Most families come to us with something they want to preserve for the next generation. Sometimes it’s a book or a digital archive. More often it’s just a feeling that something matters and shouldn’t be lost. What they don’t expect is how much the process itself gives back.  In this episode of One Generation to Another, Melissa and Dave explore the deeper outcomes families experience when they begi...

Every family has moments it would prefer to keep private. Many family members fear that in telling the family or family business story those private moments will be revealed. Families ask us, “What do we keep private? And what do we owe future generations to name?” In this episode of the One Generation to Another podcast, Melissa and Dave talk about: The control that you have as a family to decide...

It might never feel like the right time to tell your family story. Maybe it’s still unfolding, and the moments don’t yet feel like “history” or anything remarkable. But even in its incompleteness, the story contains meaning for future generations. In the second and final part of this series, Melissa and Dave dig into the stories families tend to overlook, dismiss, or put off. They make the case th...

What feels ordinary to you might be extraordinary to everyone else. In this inaugural episode of the One Generation to Another podcast, hosts Melissa and Dave address why the people with the most remarkable stories are often the ones who doubt they have a story worth telling. In this first part of a two-part series, Melissa and Dave explore: Why founders struggle to see their own achievements as e...