About
More than a decade of listening to families who last.
The Business of Family is a podcast from Enterprising Families, hosted by Mike Boyd, an Australia-based adviser and entrepreneur who has spent more than a decade in conversation with business families and the people who serve them.
How it began
The show grew out of a simple frustration: the most valuable conversations about family, wealth and succession were happening privately, between peers, and almost never written down. Mike was having them himself, as a member of YPO's global community of family-business leaders, and realised how much was being lost for want of a record.
So he started asking. Across over fifty conversations he sat down with 7th-generation principals, single-family-office investors, succession advisers and next-generation leaders, many of them fellow members he'd met along the way, and asked the questions families rarely get to ask each other out loud.
“Every family thinks their situation is unique. The gift of these conversations is discovering how much they share.”Mike Boyd
Who the show is for
It's made for the people it's about: chief executives of significant family businesses, family-office principals, the advisers who serve them, and the next generation, whatever role each of them chooses. Peers talking candidly about what it takes to last.
Inspired by the YPO community
Mike is a YPO member, now Regional Chair for Australia and New Zealand, and many guests are fellow members.
The Business of Family is independent, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by YPO as an organisation.
Working with Mike
Alongside the show, Mike is someone in the room for a small number of business families, through Enterprising Families: an adviser on strategy, succession and governance, and an independent chair of the family council. See how Enterprising Families works.
Enterprising Families, a trading name of MILC Holdings Pty Ltd (ABN 68 163 567 048).
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.
See where you stand
Your family's story, in their own voices.
Mike built Enduring Stories to record the voices, values and history that hold a family together: a guided voice conversation with an AI interviewer, from home, in as many sittings as you like.