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In this episode, we chat with Sarah Lodge Tally, a G5 board member at Lodge Cast Iron, the South Pittsburg, Tenn., cookware maker her great-great-grandfather founded in 1896, and one of our 2026 Transformational Women in Family Business honorees. She talks about taking her father’s seat on the board after he stepped down, bringing truly independent directors onto the board and founding Lodge’s governance committee. This episode also features part 2 of our conversation with Tammy Sons, G2 owner and CEO of TN Nursery. She discusses learning to give her kids room to try new things and the three things she asks them to show her before they take a risk. In addition, Family Business Contributing Editor Dennis Jaffe returns to discuss his latest column, “From Owner to Steward.” 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]. Don’t miss an episode! Follow Family Business/Business Family on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we chat with Tammy Sons, G2 owner and CEO of TN Nursery, the Altamont, Tenn., native plant nursery her father started in 1959. She talks about the 2012 move online that shifted the business from wholesale to retail and took it from a dozen or so wholesale orders a day to roughly a thousand retail orders a day, and how she’s preparing her son and daughter to lead when she retires in a few years. We also feature part 2 of our conversation with Eric Corliss, G5 steward of Corliss Management Group, on how his family held on to its sense of identity after selling the sand, gravel and concrete business it ran for generations, and what it took to get everyone in the same room for regular family meetings. In addition, in part 2 of our conversation with Ryan Reigle, G4 chairman of the board and CEO of cookware company Regal Holdings, explains how patient capital can turn into slow capital when a family stops watching the competition, and how a 2023 study of global manufacturing costs led Regal to commit an eight-figure investment to U.S. manufacturing. 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]. Don’t miss an episode! Follow Family Business/Business Family on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we chat with Eric Corliss, a fifth-generation steward of Corliss Management Group, a private real estate development and investment firm that evolved from his family's sand, gravel and concrete business. He talks about buying out his uncle's stake in 2019, moving the family's ownership into trusts, and why he and his brother ultimately decided to sell the operating business they grew up around. We also sit down with Ryan Reigle, G4 chairman of the board and CEO of cookware and kitchen product company Regal Holdings. He talks about what patient capital actually means day to day, the internal framework he built called the "Regal Way" and how 115 years of institutional memory shapes the way his company responds to a crisis. In addition, this episode features part 2 of our conversation with Trey Travis, third-generation vice president of operations at Bremen, Ga.-based Southeastern Hose, on why investing in the next generation of employees matters so much to the business, and what taking the long view really means when you don't have to answer to quarterly earnings. 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]. Don’t miss an episode! Follow Family Business/Business Family on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Trey Travis, third-generation leader at Bremen, Ga.-based Southeastern Hose, talks about the culture his dad and uncle built running the company for three decades, and what it's taken him and his brother to carry it forward as the business has nearly doubled in size. 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, G2 president of Chem-Impex and an adjunct faculty member at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, discusses her latest "For What It's Worth" advice column, which tackles 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]. Don’t miss an episode! Follow Family Business/Business Family on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Mike and Jon Abt, G3 sibling co-presidents of Abt, share the philosophies behind their family’s 90-year-old Chicago retail business: say yes to any reasonable customer request, “grow or die" and never lie. In addition, this episode features more of our conversation with Abhinav Jindal, a G2 leader of Jindal Group’s hospitality portfolio. He makes the case for treating mental health as a boardroom issue and discusses his own experience learning to speak calmly with his father instead of bracing for conflict. Also, mother and son Keri and Ethan Neidig discuss building Greater Lehigh Valley Athletics, a family-first youth football league with no fundraising or tryouts. They discuss the origins of the league and what it's like running it alongside three generations of family. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the “Family Business/Business Family” podcast, we chat with Abhinav Jindal, a G2 leader of family-owned Jindal Group's hospitality portfolio. He discusses why his father talked him out of taking an outside job before joining the company. He also opens up about learning to separate his self-worth from his last name. Also in this episode, we continue our conversation with Camille Johnson, Haslam Family Liaison at HF Capital, the Haslam family office. Camille discusses how she gets the youngest members of the family invested in its history long before they're old enough for ownership decisions, why educating the senior generation can matter just as much as educating the next one and what she's found to be both the hardest and most rewarding part of her job. And we’re joined once again by Contributing Editor Dennis Jaffe, who returns to unpack his latest column on the responsibility of ownership. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we sit down with Camille Johnson, family liaison at HF Capital, the Haslam family's family office. She discusses the office's 2020 founding amid the family’s sale of Pilot (which operates the Pilot Flying J travel centers and truck stops), how it's grown from three employees to a team serving 43 family members across four generations and why she believes in starting imperfectly rather than waiting for the perfect plan. We also continue our conversation with husband-and-wife team Luke and Catherine Neumayr, G7 ranchers at V8 Ranch. They discuss how their business differs from the version of ranching most people know from “Yellowstone,” how they're raising their son to a G8 rancher and why patience matters more than boldness in their industry. Also, Jamie Shah, G2 president of Chem-Impex and an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business returns to talk about her latest column on "hat switching" in a family enterprise. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. 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]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we sit down 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) shares how he helped transform the business his father built into a global leader in the space. He also opens up about the often harsh realities of working alongside a larger-than-life founder. We also interview 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 the company's roots, lessons learned from founder Kathy Kolbe (David’s mother and Amy’s stepmother) and how a carefully planned leadership transition helped the company continue its mission following her passing. And in Part 2 of our conversation with single-family office founder Ross Lazaroo-Hood, we explore how passion, purpose and impact shape both his investment philosophy and his philanthropic focus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Ross Lazaroo-Hood, leader of the Lazaroo-Hood Group, explains how his family office backs founder-led businesses by investing not just in ideas, but in the resilience, hunger and character of the people behind them. We also hear more from Lundberg Family Farms' new CEO Suzanne Sengelmann, who discusses leading the multigenerational family business through its next chapter while balancing sustainability, regenerative farming and the expectations of 43 family shareholders. In addition, this episode features part 2 of our conversation with Rich and Brian Rogenski of second-generation Legacy Tire & Auto Repair, who talk about adapting to increasingly high-tech vehicles while maintaining a culture built on transparency and trust. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Peter Stenehjem, CEO of First International Bank & Trust, reflects on leading a fourth-generation, $6 billion family bank founded in 1910. This episode also features part 2 of our conversation with Brent Thomas of Tepi Naturals, who talks more about building a family-owned natural skincare business from the ground up and gives his perspective on scaling the business while maintaining quality, sustainability and long-term family ownership. In addition, we chat with Jamie Shah, G2 president of Chem-Impex and an adjunct faculty member at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, about the latest entry in her “For What It’s Worth” advice column. She discusses how NextGen leaders can determine if they’re ready to step into leadership roles within their family enterprises.   Need some guidance on a family business issue? You can anonymously submit a question to Jamie right here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Brent Thomas, co-founder and CEO of Tepi Naturals, shares the company’s unconventional founding story of a son-led startup-turned-multigenerational family business. Thomas discusses how the family turned a discarded coffee byproduct into a skincare business built on shared purpose and complementary strengths. We also hear more from sibling co-leaders Micaela Tuohey-McDonald, Sean Tuohey and Mary Tuohey-Fahy of The Collins Companies, who reflect on growing into their roles with the help of mentorship from family and non-family leaders, building trust across the organization and preserving culture as they grow the business. This episode also features a conversation with Contributing Editor Dennis Jaffe, who discusses how families can run more effective meetings by focusing not just on what they talk about, but how they communicate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.