Why is knowledge alone not a remedy to fix financial stress when couples lack alignment, communication and emotional clarity around money ... which leads to your legacy? How are even high-achievers trapped by generational cycles of confusion, conflict as well as overwhelm? What are the real problems keeping couples and families stuck and how do you move to create that path forward to your legacy built on unity, pace and the intentional wealth?

In this episode, hostess Angelina Carleton speaks with Dr. Nicholas Michels to expose the hidden financial wounds many successful individuals carry from childhood—fear, instability, and patterns of scarcity that quietly shape adulthood, your relationships as well as your legacy. He reveals how growing up in a fractured home creates unresolved money trauma that later resurfaces in marriage no matter the professional success. Tune in to hear how through his personal story—including turning down an $8.1M signing bonus—he uncovers what he really needed to do to design his pioneering legacy plan.  

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At Legacy Planning©, we work with rising entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and family stewards who are ready to turn their success into lasting contribution. Our co-active coaching and advisory services help you clarify what truly matters—beyond balance sheets and the four corners of a document. We guide you in aligning your values, relationships, and influence into a living legacy you can lead with confidence today, and pass on with intention tomorrow.

Whether you're navigating a personal transition, succession planning, or seeking deeper meaning after financial success, we provide the structure and space to ask life's most important question: What will you leave in the hearts and hands of others? Because legacy isn’t what you leave behind—It’s how you show up now.

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Looking for a meaningful gift for the visionary in your life? Give the gift of clarity, purpose, and legacy with a personalized coaching session from Design Your Legacy©. Perfect for birthdays, milestones, or major life transitions—this gift card opens the door to deeper impact and intentional living. www.angelinacarleton.com/gift-card

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Misaligned spaces can create stagnation, overwhelm, and even self-doubt, especially during life transitions like succession, divorce, or the receiving of an inheritance. Most people have no idea that their homes are silently shaping their confidence, clarity, and ability to create their ideal legacy—and Kim Costa has spent three decades decoding that connection. How can aligning your environment with your core values become a foundational step in designing your legacy with intention, purpose, and long-term clarity?

In this episode, hostess Angelina Carleton speaks with Kim to reveal why so many high-achieving individuals feel “off” in spaces that look beautiful but don’t support who they are becoming. She shares how her Wheel House Assessment blends psychology, human needs, and environmental design to help homeowners break free from environments that are holding them back. Listeners will walk away with practical tips to transform their homes into launchpads for legacy building—so their physical space finally reflects the vision they want to live and leave.

Learn more about Kim at https://lifestylefoundations.com.

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At Legacy Planning©, we work with rising entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and family stewards who are ready to turn their success into lasting contribution. Our co-active coaching and advisory services help you clarify what truly matters—beyond balance sheets and the four corners of a document. We guide you in aligning your values, relationships, and influence into a living legacy you can lead with confidence today, and pass on with intention tomorrow.

Whether you're navigating a personal transition, succession planning, or seeking deeper meaning after financial success, we provide the structure and space to ask life's most important question: What will you leave in the hearts and hands of others? Because legacy isn’t what you leave behind—It’s how you show up now.

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Looking for a meaningful gift for the visionary in your life? Give the gift of clarity, purpose, and legacy with a personalized coaching session from Design Your Legacy©. Perfect for birthdays, milestones, or major life transitions—this gift card opens the door to deeper impact and intentional living. www.angelinacarleton.com/gift-card

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/design-your-legacy-life-lessons--6631446/support.

What are the unique pressures facing today’s affluent families, where complexity—not lack of resources—is the true adversary?  Rising wealth fragmentation, global mobility, and multi-jurisdictional assets have made succession planning more overwhelming than ever. Affluent individuals often find themselves isolated, unsure whom they can trust, and hesitant to discuss money, purpose, or legacy—even within their own families.

In this episode, hostess Angelina Carleton speaks with guests Ben Ulrich, Dan Kertesz and Maxim Jardai to bring clarity to these challenges by bridging wealth, psychology, and human connection in a way that helps families design legacies—not just portfolios—that endure. Their insights reveal that legacy is no longer about assets alone; it’s about continual communication and cultivating emotional intelligence across generations.

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At Legacy Planning©, we work with rising entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and family stewards who are ready to turn their success into lasting contribution. Our co-active coaching and advisory services help you clarify what truly matters—beyond balance sheets and the four corners of a document. We guide you in aligning your values, relationships, and influence into a living legacy you can lead with confidence today, and pass on with intention tomorrow.

Whether you're navigating a personal transition, succession planning, or seeking deeper meaning after financial success, we provide the structure and space to ask life's most important question: What will you leave in the hearts and hands of others? Because legacy isn’t what you leave behind—It’s how you show up now.

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Looking for a meaningful gift for the visionary in your life? Give the gift of clarity, purpose, and legacy with a personalized coaching session from Design Your Legacy©. Perfect for birthdays, milestones, or major life transitions—this gift card opens the door to deeper impact and intentional living. www.angelinacarleton.com/gift-card

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/design-your-legacy-life-lessons--6631446/support.

In a world where wealth is growing faster than wisdom, affluent individuals as well as families face an invisible crisis: How do you turn prosperity into purpose — and build a legacy that transcends geography, politics as well as generations?

In this podcast episode, hostess Angelina Carleton speaks with Naava Mashiah, a global connector and CEO of ME LINKS, known for mobilizing capital across Israel, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. With a background in diplomacy and a lifelong commitment to cross-cultural dialogue, Naava helps family offices and 'rising generation' family members move from preserving wealth to activating it. Tune in as this conversation gives listeners a clear roadmap to transform their wealth into meaningful continuity!

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At Legacy Planning©, we work with rising entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and family stewards who are ready to turn their success into lasting contribution. Our co-active coaching and advisory services help you clarify what truly matters—beyond balance sheets and the four corners of a document. We guide you in aligning your values, relationships, and influence into a living legacy you can lead with confidence today, and pass on with intention tomorrow.

Whether you're navigating a personal transition, succession planning, or seeking deeper meaning after financial success, we provide the structure and space to ask life's most important question: What will you leave in the hearts and hands of others? Because legacy isn’t what you leave behind—It’s how you show up now.

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Looking for a meaningful gift for the visionary in your life? Give the gift of clarity, purpose, and legacy with a personalized coaching session from Design Your Legacy©. Perfect for birthdays, milestones, or major life transitions—this gift card opens the door to deeper impact and intentional living. www.angelinacarleton.com/gift-card

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/design-your-legacy-life-lessons--6631446/support.

Most individuals and families want to pass on more than money, but legacy is slow food for the soul — it requires intention, preparation, and steady nourishment. Like sex education class, talking about your legacy can be awkward — but avoiding the discomfort only guarantees confusion later.

In this episode, hostess Angelina Carleton speaks with Simon Holzapfel of CrowBox Partners to reveal why you can’t build on chaos, and why individuals and families must first create emotional order before they can create generational continuity. He explains how legacy isn’t a single event but how it happens one conversation at a time, especially when those conversations feel unfamiliar or uncomfortable. Simon offers tools to practice fighting fires, so all parties at the table learn to manage tension, conflict, and responsibility long before a crisis arrives. Ultimately, he reminds us that legacy may invite awkwardness, but it also invites transformation — and that’s where lasting stewardship truly begins!

Learn more about Simon at https://www.l-eaflab.org/.

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At Legacy Planning©, we work with rising entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and family stewards who are ready to turn their success into lasting contribution. Our co-active coaching and advisory services help you clarify what truly matters—beyond balance sheets and the four corners of a document. We guide you in aligning your values, relationships, and influence into a living legacy you can lead with confidence today, and pass on with intention tomorrow.

Whether you're navigating a personal transition, succession planning, or seeking deeper meaning after financial success, we provide the structure and space to ask life's most important question: What will you leave in the hearts and hands of others? Because legacy isn’t what you leave behind—It’s how you show up now.

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Looking for a meaningful gift for the visionary in your life? Give the gift of clarity, purpose, and legacy with a personalized coaching session from Design Your Legacy©. Perfect for birthdays, milestones, or major life transitions—this gift card opens the door to deeper impact and intentional living. www.angelinacarleton.com/gift-card

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/design-your-legacy-life-lessons--6631446/support.

Most affluent individuals excel at building wealth but struggle to build emotional continuity, because unprocessed trauma quietly drives control, perfectionism, and isolation.

In this episode, hostess Angelina Carleton speaks with licensed therapist and TEDx speaker Marcy Pusey about how unresolved pain becomes an unintentional legacy that gets passed down through silence, avoidance, and emotional distance. She explains why success cannot protect anyone from the “freeze patterns” of PTSD—and how those patterns sabotage succession planning, family unity, and true fulfillment. You’ll learn practical tools to break generational cycles, shift from survival mode into intentional design, and build emotional capital equal to your financial capital. Marcy shows that the most valuable inheritance isn’t just financial wealth—it’s the healed and integrated version of you. If you’re ready to stop letting your past define your future, this episode gives you a roadmap to transform trauma into a legacy of strength, connection, and wisdom.

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At Legacy Planning©, we work with rising entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and family stewards who are ready to turn their success into lasting contribution. Our co-active coaching and advisory services help you clarify what truly matters—beyond balance sheets and the four corners of a document. We guide you in aligning your values, relationships, and influence into a living legacy you can lead with confidence today, and pass on with intention tomorrow.

Whether you're navigating a personal transition, succession planning, or seeking deeper meaning after financial success, we provide the structure and space to ask life's most important question: What will you leave in the hearts and hands of others? Because legacy isn’t what you leave behind—It’s how you show up now.

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Looking for a meaningful gift for the visionary in your life? Give the gift of clarity, purpose, and legacy with a personalized coaching session from Design Your Legacy©. Perfect for birthdays, milestones, or major life transitions—this gift card opens the door to deeper impact and intentional living. www.angelinacarleton.com/gift-card

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/design-your-legacy-life-lessons--6631446/support.

In multi-generational families of wealth, dyslexia can quietly challenge the very ideals of achievement, confidence, and continuity. A child who struggles to read may internalize shame or feel they’ve disappointed the family. Parents, driven by high expectations, often oscillate between guilt and overcorrection—seeking to fix rather than understand. Grandparents may misinterpret the struggle through outdated notions of discipline, unaware of the opportunity for growth it presents.  

In this episode, hostess Angelina Carleton speaks with Russell Van Brocklen about his personal struggles as well as his latest research project. When a family can reframe dyslexia as difference instead of defect, it can transform frustration into empathy and innovation...and Russell offers a few ideas on how to leverage both AI as well as the craft of research as tools.  These insights can shift results as well as opportunities —from perfect performance to creative problem-solving and resilience. Ultimately, acknowledging dyslexia early on can strengthen the family legacy, humanizing what we all bring to the table with compassion and new perspectives.

Learn more at https://dyslexiaclasses.com.

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At Legacy Planning©, we work with rising entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and family stewards who are ready to turn their success into lasting contribution. Our co-active coaching and advisory services help you clarify what truly matters—beyond balance sheets and the four corners of a document. We guide you in aligning your values, relationships, and influence into a living legacy you can lead with confidence today, and pass on with intention tomorrow.

Whether you're navigating a personal transition, succession planning, or seeking deeper meaning after financial success, we provide the structure and space to ask life's most important question: What will you leave in the hearts and hands of others? Because legacy isn’t what you leave behind—It’s how you show up now.

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Looking for a meaningful gift for the visionary in your life? Give the gift of clarity, purpose, and legacy with a personalized coaching session from Design Your Legacy©. Perfect for birthdays, milestones, or major life transitions—this gift card opens the door to deeper impact and intentional living. www.angelinacarleton.com/gift-card

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/design-your-legacy-life-lessons--6631446/support.

Many affluent parents struggle with teaching their children the true value of wealth beyond material possessions. Without guidance, kids can grow up thinking money alone defines success, missing out on lessons in generosity, gratitude, and emotional richness. So where do you start … so your legacy can be passed on as well as your values, alongside their personal development beyond consumerism?  

In this episode, hostess Angelina Carleton speaks with Suzy Riedman who shares actionable strategies for helping children understand money, happiness, and privilege. You’ll learn how to guide your children to make thoughtful choices with money—whether to spend, save, or share—while building character and empathy. Suzy reveals ways parents can cultivate wealth that isn’t measured in dollars, but in love, security, and meaningful impact. If you want your children to inherit not just assets, but values and wisdom that endure for generations, this conversation is a must-listen!  

Buy Suzy’s book at https://bit.ly/suzyreidman.

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Suzy Riedman is a writer, coach, mediator, and real estate investor who has always loved finding creative ways to earn and discuss money. She holds a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from the University of Redlands. Suzy’s love for honest money conversations began when she was ten years old and saved up to buy a cash register. She ran an office supply store out of her bedroom – selling envelopes, stamps and pencils she’d found on her parents’ desks.

After college, Suzy lived in Hawaii and worked as a personal trainer and Crossfit coach before returning to Oregon and entering the world of real estate investing and financial independence. Inspired by her own journey of taking ownership of her financial life, Suzy writes books to help families start money conversations that are engaging, age-appropriate, and meaningful. Her goal is to give kids confidence about earning, saving, and using money—while giving parents the tools to guide them.

Suzy lives on a little farm with her family, a menagerie of animals including a trick horse named Whistle, and 46 very busy chickens. When she isn’t writing, Suzy can be found riding bikes with her husband and son, hiking, or hanging out in the barn.

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At Legacy Planning©, we work with rising entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and family stewards who are ready to turn their success into lasting contribution. Our co-active coaching and advisory services help you clarify what truly matters—beyond balance sheets and the four corners of a document. We guide you in aligning your values, relationships, and influence into a living legacy you can lead with confidence today, and pass on with intention tomorrow.

Whether you're navigating a personal transition, succession planning, or seeking deeper meaning after financial success, we provide the structure and space to ask life's most important question: What will you leave in the hearts and hands of others? Because legacy isn’t what you leave behind—It’s how you show up now.

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Looking for a meaningful gift for the visionary in your life? Give the gift of clarity, purpose, and legacy with a personalized coaching session from Design Your Legacy©. Perfect for birthdays, milestones, or major life transitions—this gift card opens the door to deeper impact and intentional living. www.angelinacarleton.com/gift-card

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/design-your-legacy-life-lessons--6631446/support.

Many business owners waste money on marketing that looks good but doesn’t actually bring in qualified leads — Wes Towers knows why. For over two decades, he’s helped builders and trades cut through the noise, turning their websites and SEO into tools that earn market share and generate steady work. In a world drowning in digital fluff, Wes shows founders how to stand out authentically and connect with real people.

In this episode of Design Your Legacy, Wes shares his field-tested strategies for building trust at scale, simplifying what really moves the needle, and keeping your brand human in an AI-driven age. You’ll hear his hard-won lessons from growing Uplift 360 from scratch, along with practical steps you can use to make your marketing work smarter. Tune in to learn how to design a business legacy built on authenticity, results, and relationships that last.

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At Legacy Planning©, we work with rising entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and family stewards who are ready to turn their success into lasting contribution. Our co-active coaching and advisory services help you clarify what truly matters—beyond balance sheets and the four corners of a document. We guide you in aligning your values, relationships, and influence into a living legacy you can lead with confidence today, and pass on with intention tomorrow.


Whether you're navigating a personal transition, succession planning, or seeking deeper meaning after financial success, we provide the structure and space to ask life's most important question: What will you leave in the hearts and hands of others? Because legacy isn’t what you leave behind—It’s how you show up now.


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Looking for a meaningful gift for the visionary in your life? Give the gift of clarity, purpose, and legacy with a personalized coaching session from Design Your Legacy©. Perfect for birthdays, milestones, or major life transitions—this gift card opens the door to deeper impact and intentional living. www.angelinacarleton.com/gift-card


Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/design-your-legacy-life-lessons--6631446/support.

Many affluent individuals want to leave a meaningful legacy, but they often feel overwhelmed by the complexity of wealth, taxes, and family dynamics. So what are the hidden challenges wealthy individuals and families face, from the “No Talk Rule” around money (as the #1 reason around financial failure) to fears of not having enough, and fears around ‘doing the wrong thing’. What are a few steps to move from being completely paralyzed to aligning your wealth with your actions, turning your answers to key questions as the framework for your legacy plan?

In this episode, hostess Angelina Carleton speaks with Peter Mu, CFP® ChFC® and Founder of Wealth Cairn, to explain why wealth management is not limited to just money management—it’s about your dreams, purpose and legacy. Listeners will discover how to avoid the most common mistakes in legacy planning – including the ‘illusion that you have to do everything right’. If you’ve ever wondered how to turn your anxieties around money into a legacy that truly matters, this conversation will guide you forward.

Learn more about Peter Mu at www.wealthcairn.com. 

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At Legacy Planning©, we work with rising entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and family stewards who are ready to turn their success into lasting contribution. Our co-active coaching and advisory services help you clarify what truly matters—beyond balance sheets and the four corners of a document. We guide you in aligning your values, relationships, and influence into a living legacy you can lead with confidence today, and pass on with intention tomorrow.

Whether you're navigating a personal transition, succession planning, or seeking deeper meaning after financial success, we provide the structure and space to ask life's most important question: What will you leave in the hearts and hands of others? Because legacy isn’t what you leave behind—It’s how you show up now.

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Looking for a meaningful gift for the visionary in your life? Give the gift of clarity, purpose, and legacy with a personalized coaching session from Design Your Legacy©. Perfect for birthdays, milestones, or major life transitions—this gift card opens the door to deeper impact and intentional living. www.angelinacarleton.com/gift-card

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/design-your-legacy-life-lessons--6631446/support.