An interview podcast with Mike Boyd
Multigenerational wealth creation involves so much more than just capital accumulation.
The most successful families cultivate and collect values, stories, knowledge and resources to pass on to the next generation.
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The archive
Recent conversations
What the show covers
The ground every business family has to cover.
Family governance
Constitutions, charters and family councils. The structures that hold a family together.
Succession planning
Preparing the next generation to lead, and the transitions that make or break the third.
Family-office investing
How enduring families allocate, steward and preserve capital across decades.
Raising the next generation
Bringing up grounded, enterprising children amid significant wealth.
Resolving conflict
The hard conversations, and the frameworks that keep them from fracturing a family.
Selling or separating
When to hold, when to let go, and how to part without losing the family.
The Business Family Diagnostic
Where does your business family stand?
Most of what holds a family together is never written down. Thirty-three statements across eleven areas show you where yours is solid and where to start. About twelve minutes, free, and you choose whether to save your result.
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Who this is for
The conversations that usually happen behind closed doors.
Guests are family members and chief executives of significant family businesses, talking candidly to their peers. The show grew out of those conversations in YPO, where Mike is an active member.
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The families who keep it together don't do it by accident.
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“We all feel stronger if we are part of a tapestry. One thread alone is weak, but woven into something larger, surrounded by other threads, is more difficult to unravel.”