Are you worried that because your life has been a series of failures that great success might never be in your future? Think again! McKee Foods and the Little Debbie snack cake brand are the perfect example of how determination, creativity and hustle will yield abundance if you keep getting up after you’ve been knocked down. McKee Foods and Little Debbie started as merely a dyslexic man selling snack cakes from the back of a 1928 Whippet car in the Great Depression and eventually bloomed into America’s #1 snack cake brand, generating $1.4 billion in sales. The current President and Executive Vice President of this family-run mega business will share their past and present challenges, key life lessons and advice they’ve learned along the way, how they define success, what makes up a successful entrepreneur and how they’ve turned their family partnership into their greatest strength instead of their greatest weakness.

WHAT YOU WILL HEAR IN THIS EPISODE:

• How McKee Foods and Little Debbie came to be and the many failures and struggles it took to reach their success
• How Mike and Chris McKee came into the family business and what their journey looked like
• An interesting new method they implement as a strategy to introducing future family members into the business
• Insight into the challenges Mike and Chris face in leading the company today as opposed to in the past
• How to balance big corporation responsibilities and family life
• Their method to handling stress and anxiety and the outlets they use to release negative energy
• Working with family members as partners: how they use this as their greatest strength and not their greatest weakness
• How to pass the torch of power between a father-son relationship in a family business: concepts of where this responsibility lies and how to keep it as smooth as possible between each generation
• Qualities they feel make up a successful entrepreneur 
• How they define success
• What’s a lesson it took them a long time to learn but has made a big difference for them in their lives
• How they keep their brand creativity alive to remain leaders in their industry
• How important giving back is in the formula of abundance and some of their favorite giving experiences
• Two pieces of advice they would give their younger selves knowing what they know now in life 
• What living an abundant life means to them and what’s their recipe for tapping into abundance

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