The Other Side of Potential

Human beings are complex; we have needs, desires, and psychological biases. We have also, over time, developed an emotional relationship with money. Functional MRIs show that the way we feel about money is the same way we feel about life-or-death situations. Each of us has a “money script;” a narrative relating to money which has formed as a result of various influential factors in our lives, some...

There is a wide range of adverse childhood experiences which can negatively impact people for the rest of their lives. Today’s guest, social worker turned lawyer, Debbie Ausburn, has spent the majority of her adult life caring for children who have gone through some form of trauma. She has fostered approximately 30 children, and was the step-mother of five more, all while running a law firm! We ar...

Today Dr. Sharon Spano presents us with a short solo cast to announce an exciting new body of work that she is creating called The Alchemy of Humans. This is starting with the launch of a private Facebook group of the same name. While this podcast often focuses on the systems and family dynamics within family businesses, The Alchemy of Humans will look at how human beings make decisions and transf...

Today’s guest on The Other Side of Potential is Dr. Massimo Bau, Senior Associate Professor in Family Business and Ownership at the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden and Director of the Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO).  Dr. Bau’s focus on family embeddedness and entrepreneurial entry is likely not something that family business owners in the United States a...

As a business person listening to this podcast, you are likely to have heard of valuations, but what you are perhaps less aware of is the nuances that exist within this field, and how important of an exercise it is to undertake, no matter the size or scope of your business. Our guest on today’s show is Bharat Kanodia, a valuations expert who has signed off on assets worth $2.6 trillion, including...

Today’s guests on the show are Russ and Sky Stephens, father-daughter team and co-founders of the Association of Professional Builders, a business coaching company dedicated to improving the residential construction industry for both builders and consumers. APB is a firm believer that residential home builders deserve to be earning more money for the service they are providing and that consumers d...

Dealing with the IRS can be terrifying for someone who has never had to do so before. Having fought his own battle with the IRS, today’s guest knows all about it! Ben Golden is CEO and Founder of IRS Trouble Solvers, LLC, an organization helping individuals and businesses with wage garnishments, tax liens, delinquent tax returns, advisory bankruptcy services, and more. Tax resolution is not just a...

Today’s guest is Bill Carriere of Carriere Family Farms in California. Bill is a fourth-generation farmer who grew up on the family farm in Glenn California, which is located in the Sacramento Valley. The family business is over 125 years old, with ten family members currently involved. Carriere Farm grows walnuts, almonds, rice, and oil olives. They also operate two walnut hauling and drying faci...

Today’s guest on The Other Side of Potential Podcast is Eboney Byrne, a certified financial educator, and money coach. After a protracted divorce left her buried in legal bills and credit card debt, Eboney created a five-step system to reshape her own money story and rebuild her relationship with money. She founded Liberty Financial Services because she saw a need for women to have a deeper unders...

Today’s guest is Krister Ungerböck, former CEO of a global tech company, leadership language expert, in-demand keynote speaker, and author of the hit bestseller, 22 Talk SHIFTs . His insights have appeared in numerous national and international publications, including NPR , Forbes , and Entrepreneur Magazine. Prior to exiting corporate life at age 42, Krister was CEO of one of the largest family-o...

Michelle’s earliest memories from childhood all relate to money. And yet, the stories and lessons learned from different branches of her family tree couldn’t be more dichotomous! Michelle has used the money lessons from her life to rethink how financial advisors and their clients have traditionally worked together. Rather than thinking of her role as a gatekeeper of portfolios, she sees real value...

If you're a family business owner, how do the dynamics in your own family impact your ability to be successful in the business and build generational wealth? Today’s guest is Molly Grubb, and she has a wealth of experience in this subject! Molly is the Founder of Grubb Wealth, the premier personal CFO firm for helping family business owners become even more successful. Grubb Wealth is designe...

As an ever-increasing portion of the population becomes vaccinated and fewer people are required to wear masks, it can be difficult to process the changes in COVID protocols and what constitutes a safe environment on a day-to-day basis. Other accompanying changes such as crowded public spaces and a rise in traffic can trigger anxiety, irritability, and feelings of being overwhelmed.  In today’s Co...

Today’s guest on The Other Side of Potential is Ramia El Agamy Khan, the CEO of Orbis Terra Media, which is a global content marketing studio based in Switzerland. The goal of the company is to empower other companies to grow through content and to cut through all the other voices out there so that these companies can better reach and serve their customer base. Ramia is also the Editor-in-Chief an...

Murs Tariq is a certified financial planner and partner at Peace of Mind Wealth Management. With over a decade of expertise in retirement planning, Murs is dedicated to helping clients pursue their ideal retirement. Heis also an author and co-host of the Secure Your Retirement Podcast , where he speaks on investing with risk management, income planning, and tax planning for and during retirement....

After more than a year in isolation, many of us are likely feeling anxious to reenter society in what is being described as a ‘post-COVID world’. The focus for today's Conscious Community Segment is navigating the collective trauma we are feeling as we make that transition. We are, after all, a collective society, a fact that the pandemic has proven even to those who still cling to individual...

Kate MacKinnon is the President and Owner of Creative Feng Shui, a consulting company for businesses and individuals who understand the value of bringing feng shui into their offices and home spaces. Kate has been a certified feng shui practitioner for over 20 years and her expertise goes beyond homes and offices to include building and land, both locally and globally. She is also a former Vice Pr...

Tsitsi Mutendi is the founder and lead consultant at Nhaka Legacy Planning and is also the co-founder of African Family Firms, a nonprofit African Family Business Association. Additionally, she is an award-winning businesswoman with over 12 years of experience building successful publishing and education companies.  She has coupled her business acumen and passion for family firms with her expertis...

Today we welcome Tracey Bissett onto the show. Tracey is the Chief Financial Fitness Trainer of Bissett Financial Fitness Inc, and her mission is to empower young adults and entrepreneurs to take the reins of their financial lives. She believes that financial literacy can help people take charge of their money and focus on what really matters in life. To educate her clients, Tracey offers one-on-o...

Steve Legler is a family business specialist who helps enterprising families create the harmony they need to support the legacy they want. He is also the author of SHIFT Your Family Business, and Interdependent Wealth. Steve was born into a family business, and as the only son of an immigrant entrepreneur, it became clear very early on that he was expected to follow in his dad’s footsteps. Every s...

Dr. Kristen Donnelly wears many hats in her life, including being the COO for her family network of companies, Abbey Companies, which serves a variety of industries worldwide. Started by her father, Roger Nielsen, the torch has been passed to Kristen and her brother, Brian, who are eager to expand the mission of promoting excellence and providing great experiences for their customers and team memb...

Today we welcome serial-entrepreneur Stacey Brown Randall onto the show. As the award-winning author of Generating Business Referrals Without Asking , Stacey has an intimate understanding of how critical referrals can be in growing your business. As she explains in today’s conversation, a lack of referrals is what broke her first business.  Stacey honed her expertise in landing referrals from work...

Today we welcome Nike Anani, an award-winning family business strategist, entrepreneur, and consultant. Rated as a top-100 family business consultant globally, Nike’s mission is to help her clients bridge the gap between senior and younger generations. As a result, her clients walk away with better communication skills and are able to collaborate collectively to gain clarity.  To increase client p...

Carl Allen is a world-class entrepreneur, investor, and corporate dealmaker who has worked on more than 330 transactions worth close to $48 billion. In his nearly 30-year career, Carl has analyzed thousands of businesses, big and small, in 17 different countries across nearly every business sector, including technology, pharmaceuticals, transport and logistics, engineering, manufacturing, aerospac...

Today we are bringing you another solo cast as a part of the Conscious Community Segment, and our focus for today's show is strategies for managing conflict within family structures and businesses. These ideas are applicable to multiple contexts and can be useful to all family enterprises as well as any size of entrepreneurial endeavor. Although this is a broad and complex subject with many f...