The Enlightened Family Business Podcast

Jane Johnson is the President and Co-Founder of Business Transition Academy, Inc.  As a former business owner who successfully guided her business for 14 years until it was acquired in 2004, Jane discovered how much time, planning, and preparation were necessary to consummate the sale of her business, achieve her goals, and ensure business continuity. This experience fueled her desire to assist ot...

Rodrigo Himiob is an Advisor and Managing Director at Generation6, a global family business advisory firm. He also serves as an Advisor to the BCBR Program at Santa Clara University. Prior to this, he served as the VP of Operations and Partner of Houston Anodes, as an Advisory Board Member of the Corrosion Technology Program at Houston Community College, and as the Manager of Corrosion Services at...

Trey Taylor is the Managing Director of Threadneedle, the Taylor Family Office, Chief Executive Officer of Taylor Insurance Services, Managing Director of trinity | blue consulting, and Founding Partner of Ascend Partners. He is also an investor, the Author of A CEO Only Does Three Things , a frequently featured keynote speaker, a private pilot, a WSET-Certified sommelier, and the Co-Founder of Ty...

Click HERE , for the original episode on the Seek Go Create podcast, listen here:   Reasons to Listen: Explore pathways to reach new heights in personal and career growth. Recognize the importance of aligning with core values for intentional living. Tap into the dynamics of family businesses and the obstacles they may encounter. Realize the essential nature of self-awareness in coaching scenarios...

    David Karofsky is a principal consultant with The Family Business Consulting Group , specializing in advising family businesses around the challenges and opportunities inherent to the family business.   Prior to working with The Family Business Consulting Group, David worked in his own family business consulting practice with his father for eight years. The father-son team are the authors of ...

Richard Wolkowitz is Founder of Xylogenesis | Family Office Advisory and serves as a family advisor with 25+ years of first-hand, inner working experience of multiple family offices (of all types). Rich's background is in law, business, independent board of director service, management, operations, financial services, and professional service firm leadership with a focus on serving multigeneration...

West Herford, President and CEO of On Ideas began his advertising career with DDB Paris, and later spent time in leadership roles at Grey, DDB London and Arnold. He introduced Budweiser and Westin Hotels & Resorts across Europe and led global branding for Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey including its launch into China. His brand experience also includes working with globally recognized brands incl...

Jonathan Goldhill is a masterful business coach and personal strategist specializing in guiding next-generation leaders of family businesses to scale up their business as they take control over the leadership and ownership of the family business. Jonathan left New York for California at age 20 after hisfamily's large, privately-held men's apparel manufacturing company- started by his great-grandfa...

In this episode, Chris talks to Eric Goodwin, who believes in attracting the best possible talent to his family business. He attributes his success to his focus on core values, putting people over profit, and being an amazing father. Eric's company was recently ranked #1 by Glassdoor, a testament to the importance of attracting great people to build a sustainable and vital business.    Timestamps...

Thanks to 14+ years as a mental health therapist and time in 50+ countries, Brie knows how to design seamless itineraries for her clients from start to finish. Brie believes in matchmaking her clients to destinations, properties, and cultures that meet each client's needs and spends more time abroad than at home to keep up with the latest trends. While Brie specializes in many spots like Africa, I...

Shane Carter is the CEO of Hampshire Capital. He has been an active real estate investor for over 25 years. He has acquired, renovated, and managed more than $305M in multi-family and commercial assets, and built over $110M in real estate through his construction and development firm. Shane holds a BSc in Forestry and Wildlife Biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.     What You'll L...

Doug Gray, Ph. D., PCC, is a consultant with the Family Business Consulting Group, www.theFBCG.com , co-founder of  www. AssessNextGen.com , and founder of  www. Action-Learning.com , who wishes he still lived in New Hampshire near Chris Yonker. He is the author of Objectives + Key Results (OKR) Leadership .   What You'll Learn ●               What is organizational readiness? ●               How...

Nancy Phillips is founder and principal of Nancy Phillips Associates, Inc. With over 30 years' experience appraising and marketing auto dealerships, Nancy is uniquely qualified to confidentially advise dealership principals on identifying their present and future goals and the best options for achieving them. Nancy's career includes a wealth of integrated automotive industry experience, including...

Jane Eigner Mintz, MA, LPC, is the CEO and Chief Clinical Strategist of her international consultancy firm, Realife Intervention Solutions, LLC, offering strategic direction for addiction, mental health, and life concerns. A veteran treatment provider and thought leader in the addiction and behavioral health industries, Jane authored The Field Model of Intervention, the first-ever clinical model o...

Jennifer Strom, MBA, MA, is a consultant with The Family Business Consulting Group (FBCG), specializing in helping multi-generational enterprising families navigate complex family dynamics. An accomplished entrepreneur with a retail, design, and wholesale background, she merges her business strategy experience with her formal training and private practice as a Marriage and Family Therapist. She un...

Dr. Jaffe, a San Francisco-based advisor to families about family business, governance, wealth, and philanthropy, is Senior Research Fellow at BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors. He is author of Borrowed from Your Grandchildren: The Evolution of 100-Year Family Enterprises; Finding Her Voice and Leaving a Legacy; Cross Cultures: How Global Families Negotiate Change Across Generations; Stewardsh...

Donald Thompson is CEO and co-founder of The Diversity Movement and the author of Underestimated: A CEO's Unlikely Path to Success. He is an entrepreneur, public speaker, author, podcaster, Certified Diversity Executive (CDE), and executive coach. He serves as a board member for Easterseals UCP, Vidant Medical Center, Raleigh Chamber, TowneBank Raleigh, and several other organizations in the field...

ROCKiT Architects founding Principal Brian DiPietro brings over seventeen years of multifamily experience to any project he's involved in from his tenure at WTW Architects where he was an associate for seven years and principal for two years. He was an integral part of many of their residential multifamily projects and student housing numbering over 15,000 designed and built, with 30,000 master pl...

Sarah Brassard, author of Inside: A Guide to the Resources Within, is a 30+ year spiritual teacher, trauma worker, and life coach. She runs an online community, a mastermind group, and group coaching to help women heal and grow through hardships. She also hosts the annual Trauma Recovery Summit .     What You'll Learn:   How to recognize our own trauma and why it matters Unpacking generational tra...

Vikas Shah MBE is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is also a published author. His 2021 book Thought Economics released features his interviews with the people shaping our century. Including conversations with Nobel prize winners, business leaders, politicians, artists and Olympians, he has been in the privileged position of questioning the minds that matter on the big issues that...

What You'll Learn:   What does it really mean to eat "healthy" and how to maintain our relationship with food Why a "balanced diet" looks different for everyone and should be built individually Strategies to make changes in our health that actually stick The power of tracking your water intake and what type of water is most impactful to health Is organic food really important? How much of our food...

To use business as a force for good, Derek Lundsten leads LifeGuides, as a transformative platform for conscious leaders and values-driven cultures.  In addition to successfully building companies over the past decade, Derek has been a frequent speaker at key industry events around the globe on innovation. He is an invited contributor for the trades and a sought-after guest for renowned national p...

What You'll Learn:   Why and how our brain operates against is for a large portion of our lives What happens to your brain when it's in survival state and what to do about it The three phases if going from autopilot into executive state How to identity when you are in reactive behavior Some examples of fight, flight and freeze responses that are often missed A really simple trick to help you emoti...

What You'll Learn: How our childhood experiences become the undercurrent of our relationship with wealth How to talk to your kids about money in a way that eliminates fear How to find passion and motivation in children in a family business Why Kjartin recommends low-income, high-impact jobs for children of wealth Holding a family conversation about individual and shared purpose How to build suppor...

Many companies today have studied Patrick Lencioni's The Five Dysfunctions of a Team , but few that I have come across have implemented it in a permanent, sustainable way. I am excited to present Matt Wool, CEO of Acceleration Partners as his company is one of the few who have. In 2012, he was the 4th employee of the company who now has well over 300 employees. During his time there, he has been a...