Journey To Legacy

Your calendar’s full. Your boss walks in with one more thing that needs to happen today. What do you say when you’re already at capacity?

On this episode of Journey to Legacy, I talk with Sharri McIntyre, executive coach and founder of The McIntyre Collective, about what she calls the “collective no.” She walks me through how to show your boss what’s already on your plate and decide together which priority should move.

We also talk about why founders need quiet time to think, how watering her plants became a way for Sharri to switch off after a long workweek, and what changed when she started planning around her grandson’s football games instead of trying to squeeze them in.

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Jeff Emalaba had already put more than $11,000 into a property deal when the inspector told him to run. That costly experience became the starting point for InvestFusion, a platform designed to help real estate investors uncover potential risks before committing their money. In this episode of Journey to Legacy, Wayne Veldsman sits down with Jeff, an entrepreneur and risk specialist who previously analyzed financial markets on CNBC Africa.

Jeff shares how he started his first business as a teenager, found guidance through mentors and turned a problem he’d experienced into a business of his own.

We explore:

• How to identify a problem worth building a business around

• Why passion matters when the work gets difficult

• How reading and mentorship shaped Jeff’s entrepreneurial journey

• Why changing direction can bring you closer to your goal

• What building a legacy means in someone else’s everyday life

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Jonathan Domsky learned how to invoice after making his first sale. More than two decades later, a familiar walk beside Lake Michigan helped him recognise that he wanted to become a coach.

In this episode of Journey to Legacy, Wayne Veldsman talks with Jonathan about finding your purpose, recognising your strengths and starting before you feel fully ready.

Jonathan co-founded Kidorable at 24, building a children’s accessories brand whose products have been sold in over 5,000 stores across more than 20 countries. Today, through Untangled Coaching, he helps entrepreneurs build businesses and lives that feel more meaningful.

In this conversation:

• Why Jonathan calls life a curriculum for discovering your purpose

• How your core values, purpose and natural strengths can guide your work

• What your favourite compliment can reveal about what you value in yourself

• Why “profit fuels purpose” and how receiving support can help you keep giving

• How the way you treat people today contributes to your legacy

  
  

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At the height of his success, Graham Skidmore was also at the height of his misery. Graham spent 20 years helping Quicken Loans, now Rocket Mortgage, grow from around 400 people to 20,000.

He reached the C-suite, led a smaller company as CEO and earned a high six-figure income. Then, sitting in Starbucks with his CEO, Graham admitted he no longer knew who he was. In this episode of Journey to Legacy, Wayne Veldsman and Graham explore what happens when your identity becomes wrapped up in your career and performance.

They discuss:

• Why achievement stopped feeling good

• The physical warning signs Graham ignored

• How leaving corporate life shook his identity

• The Vegas golf trip that changed his view of career setbacks

• What eight years of therapy and coaching taught him about authenticity

• Why people thrive when they understand their individual wiring

This conversation is for anyone who has reached a goal and quietly wondered why it didn’t feel the way they expected.

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Rob Ferguson spent thirty years climbing to CEO of a $400 million company, then walked away to turn around a hundred-year-old family business with seventeen cousins on the cap table, selling it for more than $100 million.

At fifty, standing on what looked like the top of the ladder, he realized there was no top, only more ladder.

That question sent him into sixteen years of studying why family businesses, which create 78% of new jobs in America, so often fail, not for lack of capital or talent but because nobody in the family is willing to have the hard conversation about what comes first, the family or the business.

In this conversation with Wayne, Rob unpacks the difference between a family first business and a business first family,

why neither is wrong but confusing the two creates years of friction,

and the governance rules he wishes he'd set before firing his own wife from a job she'd only started that morning.

He also gets into how purpose changes across a lifetime: his purpose at eighteen was beating his mentor to a Cadillac and a swimming pool, his purpose at fifty is helping family businesses last long enough to matter.

To learn more about Rob and the work he's doing at Ferguson Alliance, visit ferguson-alliance.com or connect with him on LinkedIn, search Rob Ferguson Alliance.

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Everyone tells you to get out of your comfort zone. Almost nobody tells you what to physically do on a Tuesday morning.

Neil Thubron spent thirty years at IBM, from typewriter engineer to senior executive, before leaving to build his own coaching practice. He also became the first Briton to win the 300 mile Yukon Arctic Ultra, a self-supported race across frozen Canadian wilderness where competitors risk frostbite and amputation.

He entered it roughly ten weeks before the start, then began training. In this conversation Neil breaks down the method behind that.

How to find the actual border of your comfort zone, why you will never feel ready in advance, and how putting a date on something forces the preparation that makes it possible. We also get into what he does when everything goes wrong at once, and why legacy is not a retirement project but something you are already building in the conversations you are having this week.

What we cover:

-The three sentences that tell you where your comfort zone ends

-Why "I'm not that type of person" is a decision, not a fact

-Entering first and training second, and why the deadline does the work

-Fear as preparation rather than obstacle

-Controlling the controllables when everything breaks at once

-Why the people who leave a legacy behind were never trying to

Connect with Neil:Website and free book: https://neilthubron.com/

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Everybody works hard, but not everybody gets ahead. Rebecca Irey, founder of Blue Skye Financial, has spent 35 years in the industry watching the difference come down to strategy, not effort.

In this episode, you'll learn:

-Why avoiding your own business numbers is costing you more than you think (the "fat girl, get on the scale" moment)

-The three life events that leave women solely responsible for their finances, and how to prepare before they happen

-Why entrepreneurs need to treat their own savings as a cost of doing business, not an optional extra

-The three rules of the money game most people were never taught: how your debt is structured, how your income is taxed and why timing risk is real

-What legacy actually means when the money runs out, the stories, the values and the memories you build now

-If you've been grinding without a plan, or you've handed off the money decisions to someone else and hoped it'll work out, this one's for you.

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Scott Barnes spent 25 years inside traditional financial planning before he realized the entire model was built on one assumption: that you will have children, and that the point of building wealth is to hand it over.

Roughly 25% of US adults are childfree. There is no chapter in the financial planning curriculum for them. Not a module, not a paragraph.

Scott is a advisor at Childfree Insights, working exclusively with childfree clients across all 50 states. He joins Wayne to unpack what actually changes when nobody is waiting at the end of the handover, and why it is a mechanical difference rather than a sensitivity one.

In this episode:

-Childfree vs childless, and why the planning conversation is different

-The missing curriculum: why advisor training has nothing on clients without children

-Why 80% of Childfree Wealth clients had never worked with an advisor before

-Die with zero, and giving while you are alive instead of leaving it behind

-The assets under management problem nobody talks about-Retiring before 60, the taxable brokerage bridge, Rule of 55 and 72(t)

-Why power of attorney matters more than a will if you are childfree

-The mistake of naming your own parents on your documents-Solo agers, long term care and the professional fiduciary

-Pets, pet trusts and care documents-The gardener and the rose for childfree couples

-Legacy as something you build today, not after you are gone

If this made you rethink what legacy means, share it with one person who needs to hear it.

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A scammer calls. The number is your daughter's. The voice screaming for help is your daughter's.

Except it isn't - it's AI voice cloning, and it's good enough to make a parent wire thousands of dollars to a stranger.

In this episode, Wayne sits down with Robert Siciliano, CEO of Protect Now LLC, a cybersecurity expert and private investigator with 30+ years teaching people how to recognize and outsmart fraud.

Robert breaks down why our instinct to trust is the exact vulnerability criminals exploit, and gives you a simple framework to protect your family, your money and your legacy.

What you'll learn:

• The "human blind spot" that makes almost everyone a target
• Why manufactured urgency shows up in 95% of fraud - and how to spot it instantly
• How AI deepfakes and voice cloning have erased the old scam red flags
• The Strategic Human Firewall mindset that turns you from a target into a detector
• The AAA Protocol (Analyze, Authenticate, Act) - your break-the-fake playbook
• Out-of-band verification: the 10-second habit that stops nearly every scam

The story Robert tells about the cloned-voice kidnapping scam will change how you answer your phone.

Learn more about Robert and his work at protectnowllc.com.

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Rick Lowe showed up to Portobello Market in 2003 with a suitcase full of Space Invaders T-shirts and spent nine hours in the cold London rain trying to sell them.

He sold one.

Most people would have gone home. Rick looked at that single sale and thought: "Good. Now I just need to find more people."

That reframe is the foundation of everything he's built since.

Today, Rick's company ships hundreds of thousands of units a year under licensing deals with Disney, Warner Brothers, Netflix, The Rolling Stones, Mötley Crüe, and some of the most recognizable brands in entertainment.

He didn't inherit it.

He didn't get a lucky break. He failed his way there, one no at a time - and in this conversation, he breaks down exactly how.

We get into why failure is a tool, not a setback.

Why your business is a vehicle, not the destination.

Why the only person you're actually competing with is yourself.

And what legacy really looks like when you're still in the middle of building it.

This is one of the most honest conversations I've had on this show.

Rick holds nothing back.

What we cover:

How he went from $300 in his pocket in Miami to global licensing deals.

Why getting made redundant was the best thing that ever happened to him.

The two things that will make or break any entrepreneur: people and finance.

How to find and seize the right opportunities.

Why failure is a motivational tool, not a stop sign.

What legacy means when you're still in the middle of building it.

Connect with Rick:

Website: ricklowe.co.uk

Podcast: Maverick Mindset

Journey to Legacy:

Website: journeytolegacy.org

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WayneVeldsman

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