In this episode, Trey Travis, third-generation leader at Bremen, Ga.-based Southeastern Hose, discusses growing up literally inside the Atlanta hose and corrugated metal fabricator his grandfather started in 1963, and why learning to communicate as a family, not just as a leadership team, turned out to be the hardest part of scaling the business.

In part 2 of our conversation with Shane Foye, second-generation president of Peachtree Corners, Ga.-based site services company DW1, he talks about the friction of building his family's own software platform from scratch and the difference between knowledge and wisdom when a younger leader pushes change on a team that's been doing things one way for decades.

Also, Jamie Shah, family business advisor and author of Family Business Magazine's FWIW column, discusses what to do when you've just been named CEO of your family's business and have to negotiate your own compensation with no board and no market benchmark to lean on.

Interested in being a guest or have a topic you’d like to hear us discuss? Contact host Zack Needles, editor-in-chief of Family Business Magazine, at: [email protected].

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In this episode, Shane Foye, second-generation president of DW1, the Atlanta site services company his father built, talks about growing up with the business literally operating out of his childhood bedroom and the pushback he faced building DW1’s own software platform instead of buying off the shelf.

In part 2 of our conversation with Mike and Jon Abt, two of the four sibling co-presidents running their family’s 90-year-old Chicago retail business Abt, they explain how they make major calls — including on AI — without a board, why they’ll let one brother run with an idea the others aren’t sold on and what they hope the fourth generation takes from the culture put in place by their father.

Also, in part 2 of our conversation with Keri Neidig and her son Ethan Neidig, they talk more about Greater Lehigh Valley Athletics, the no-travel, no-tryouts youth flag football league run by three generations of their family. They discuss preserving GLVA’s values as the league has grown to nearly 600 kids.

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In this episode, we sit down with husband-and-wife team Luke and Catherine Neumayr, seventh-generation ranchers at family-owned V8 Ranch. They discuss the unique realities of succession in agriculture, why ranchers often never truly retire, how they each found their way into the family enterprise and how they're blending tradition with modern marketing to help position the ranch for the future.

We also continue our conversation with Total Office Solutions Co-Founder Linda Monette and her daughters Amy Monette Linton and Megan Monette McDaniel, who share how their family handles conflict, balances work and family life and approaches succession.

And family business advisor and MLR Media Conference Chair Peter Begalla explains the concept of "shadow governance" and how rising-generation family members can begin practicing collaborative decision-making before formally taking the reins.

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In this episode, we sit down with two generations of leadership at Total Office Solutions, a family-owned provider of comprehensive office services from workplace planning, furnishing, and technology to moving and decommissioning. Sisters and G2 leaders Amy Monette Linton and Megan Monette McDaniel, along with their mother, Co-Founder and Co-Principal Linda Monette, discuss the ongoing transition from G1 to G2 and their approach to growing a business that has employed generations of multiple families aside from their own.

In addition, this episode features more of our interview with David Kolbe and Amy Bruske, step-siblings and G2 leaders of Kolbe Corp., a behavioral assessment company built by the descendants of Eldon Wonderlic, creator of the Wonderlic Contemporary Cognitive Ability Test. They discuss what makes their co-leadership dynamic work.

This episode also features part 2 of our conversation with Travis Hollman, G2 CEO of Hollman Inc., the world’s largest locker manufacturer whose clients include the major pro sports leagues, Apple and Nike. Hollman (who some listeners might know as the husband of “The Real Housewives of Dallas” alum Stephanie Hollman) talks more about his difficult journey taking over from his brilliant but complicated founder-father and discusses what he envisions for the future of the family business.

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In this episode, Suzanne Sengelmann, the new CEO of Lundberg Family Farms, talks about how experiences both inside and outside the company prepared her to step into the top role somewhat unexpectedly. This episode also features part 1 of our conversation with Rich and Brian Rogenski of Youngstown, Ohio-based Legacy Tire & Auto Repair, who discuss rebuilding a family business after splitting from a previous venture, bringing the next generation into leadership and balancing old-school instincts with new ideas and technology investments. We also continue our conversation with Peter Stenehjem, G4 CEO of Watford City, North Dakota-based First International Bank & Trust. Peter discusses the leadership transition at FIBT, the family’s decision to appoint a next-generation family member as CEO and how the bank’s western North Dakota roots continue to shape its culture more than a century after its founding. He also explains why the family has expanded beyond traditional banking into other entrepreneurial ventures.

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