#576 How to Set Up a Family Office Without Being Ultra-Rich

Main Street Business

Mark J Kohler and Mat Sorensen

Tax Reform, Entrepreneurship, Business, Irs Updates, Tax Tips, Legal Compliance, Business Structure, Tax Prep, Accounting, Tax Strategies, Management, Financial Reporting, Estate Planning

2.4 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In this episode of the Main Street Business Podcast, Mark J. Kohler shows how simple board meetings and a strategic plan can supercharge your finances. He explains how to turn ordinary family gatherings into legitimate, tax-deductible business meetings that strengthen your entity structure. Get inspired to organize your goals, sharpen your decision-making, and create a family office that supports real wealth-building. Here are some of the highlights: Mark explains the concept of a family offi...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Main Street Business Podcast with your distinguished hosts, Mark J. Kohler and Matt Sorensen.
0:05.3	Both are best-selling authors and have over 25 years of industry experience with 10,000 client consultations,
0:12.1	making them the leading tax and legal experts in the nation. Together, they'll unpack the most
0:17.0	complex tax, legal, and financial strategies, crucial for saving more, stressing less,
0:22.2	and building generational wealth. Today, they're your personal advisors, ready to break it down
0:28.5	for you and make the tax and legal game easier than ever. Here is Mark and Matt.
0:33.9	When you have a board meeting, you might go to a resort and say, we're going to have a board meeting.
0:38.3	And you fly your family in, your kids, your best friend, brother, sister, mom, dad, who you're going to write off 100% of the travel, can write off the dining, and you're going to have a board meeting.
0:46.3	And when you hold your board meeting, that's the meeting minutes to legitimize your LLC or your corporation.
0:55.1	What is a family office?
0:57.0	Let's get this off the table.
0:59.3	According to the financial industry's definition,
1:02.6	it's like, I'm a billionaire, I got $100 million,
1:06.2	I'm a family office, I can negotiate bigger deals,
1:09.5	I have full-time employees, I've got a kick-ass team. La-la-la-la.
1:13.5	And everybody is like, tries to get on social media and brag. I got a family office. I'm like,
1:18.4	whatever. So, and it's true. To me, my definition is you all have a family office.
1:30.2	It's the third bedroom down the hall with a hide-a-bed in it, okay?
1:34.5	And so the big takeaway I want all of you to have today.
1:35.8	I literally mean this.
1:40.7	This is the biggest, this is my message today, is every one of you.
2:01.7	I'm going to give you some action items of setting up your own freaking family office by next weekend. And I want you to have your own board, your own board of advisors, board of directors. It's your family. It's your best friend. It's your mom. It's your dad. It's your kids. You need to have a family office for tax write-offs, better asset protection, building wealth.
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