The Our Family Office Podcast

In this special episode, host Adam Fisch sits down with Our Family Office Chief Investment Officer and Co-Founder Neil Nisker for a 2025 year in review. They discuss investment performance over the last year, concerns around equity market concentration, AI as both a business and an investment, and how the current market might rhyme with some turbulent periods in the past. Our Family Office's annua...

On the season finale of the Our Family Office podcast, host Adam Fisch speaks with Jenny, a fifth generation member of a successful European family, and a longtime Our Family Office client. Jenny is a member of the rising generation, having begun to assume management of the family's assets after a long journey of discovery. Jenny discusses growing up with wealth (02:10), the succession process in...

On this episode, host Adam Fisch sits down with Tim Yeung, a Family Enterprise Advisor who is himself, a member of the third generation of an UHNW family. Tim spent 10 years at his family’s commercial real estate company, before leaving to eventually pursue family enterprise advising and coaching. He draws on his personal experience to connect with business owning families and help them create a v...

On this episode, host Adam Fisch sits down with Jess McGawley, the founder of Dallington Associates, a London based firm that provides discreet, highly tailored mentoring and psychological consulting for young inheritors, helping them step into adulthood with confidence, clarity, and a deeper understanding of their role within the family system and the wider world.    With over 16 years of experie...

On this very special episode, host Adam Fisch speaks to author and investor Morgan Housel, the New York Times Bestselling author of The Psychology of Money and Same As Ever. His books have sold over ten million copies and have been translated into more than 60 languages. His new book is called the Art of Spending Money, and was released on October 7. Adam and Morgan discuss how the wealthy think a...

On this episode, host Adam Fisch sits down with Sharna Goldseker, the founder and vice president of 21/64, a non-profit practice serving next gen and multigenerational philanthropic families. Sharna has also been named to the New York business journal’s women of influence list. Sharna is the co-author of the award-winning best seller, Generation Impact: How Next Gen Donors Are Revolutionizing Givi...

On this episode of the Our Family Office podcast, host Adam Fisch discusses how the rising generation invests with Charlie Scharfe, a portfolio manager at Our Family Office. Their conversation covers the similarities and differences of investment approaches between generations (00:50), the challenges and complexity of ESG investing (03:00), and how Our Family Office works alongside the rising gene...

In Episode 2, host Adam Fisch sits down with Dr. James Grubman, an internationally recognized consultant to families of wealth, family enterprises, and the wealth advisory industry, for part 2 of their conversation. They discuss parenting with wealth (00:33), answering the most difficult question that kids ask about money (03:19), different perspectives about wealth preservation (14:58), and how t...

In the Season 2 premiere, host Adam Fisch sits down with Dr. James Grubman, an internationally recognized consultant to families of wealth, family enterprises, and the wealth advisory industry, to kick off a season all about the rising generation. They discuss debunking the "shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves" myth (02:07), immigrants vs. natives in the land of wealth (08:08), and the different ways tha...

In this special episode, host Adam Fisch sits down with Our Family Office Chief Investment Officer and Co-Founder Neil Nisker for a 2024 year in review. They discuss investment performance over the last year, concerns around equity market concentration (01:39), the uncertainty of a Trump presidency (09:36), and the Canadian economy (12:30). Our Family Office's annual investment commentary can be f...

On the season finale of the Our Family Office podcast, Our Family Office CEO Tim Cestnick speaks with Sam Mercanti, an award-winning entrepreneur, former leader of CARSTAR Canada, and Our Family Office client. Sam talks about immigrating to Canada and his start in the business world, how he built his company (06:05), and the ways that Our Family Office has helped his family (18:00). For more infor...

On episode 6 of the Our Family Office podcast, host Adam Fisch speaks with Our Family Office Managing Partner Kevin Tran about risk management. Adam and Kevin talk about the unique financial and non-financial risks that the wealthiest families face. They cover the ways that families can come to rely on a key person and how integration with a family office can reduce the risk of that person no long...

On episode 5 of the Our Family Office podcast, host Adam Fisch speaks with Our Family Office Managing Director of Tax Henry Shew to discuss tax. Adam and Henry distinguish between tax preparation and tax planning, and the benefits of family office integration in developing tax strategies. They offer examples of additional complication that naturally arises among the ultra-wealthy, and the consider...

On episode 4 of the Our Family Office podcast, host Adam Fisch speaks with Our Family Office Co-Founder and CIO Neil Nisker about family administration. They address the ways in which administrative responsibilities fit into broader family office services, and the privilege enjoyed by wealthy families to be selective about how they spend their time. For more information about Our Family Office, vi...

On episode 3 of the Our Family Office podcast, host Adam Fisch sits down with fellow Client Advisor Connor Kelly to discuss philanthropy. Adam and Connor walk through the “capital pyramid” and what it means to engage in strategic philanthropy (maximizing personal impact, charitable impact, and tax efficiency). They also discuss the benefits for families in establishing family foundations, and the...

On episode 2 of the Our Family Office podcast, host Adam Fisch speaks with Our Family Office Managing Partner Kevin Tran about family continuity. Adam and Kevin work through the definition of what “family continuity” means, and the ways families can determine if the next generation is prepared to look after the family’s wealth. This episode includes a conversation about the unique continuity needs...

On episode 1 of the Our Family Office podcast, host Adam Fisch speaks with Our Family Office Co-Founder and CIO Neil Nisker about investments. Neil and Adam discuss the philosophical difference between “getting rich” and “staying rich”, the ways in which the ultra-wealthy should be thinking about risk when making investments, and the importance of due diligence in finding superior investment manag...

In the pilot episode of the Our Family Office podcast, host Adam Fisch sits down with Our Family Office CEO and Co-Founder Tim Cestnick, to define the concept of a “Family Office”. They describe the benefits of integrating services around an affluent family’s wealth, the ways in which a good family office should be able to work with outside professionals, and questions to ask when considering a mu...