In this lessons episode, discover how poor succession planning can tear family businesses apart.

Learn why leaving clear instructions and legal structures is essential for preserving both the business and relationships.

Learn how miscommunication and power struggles damage the legacy built over generations

and learn why purpose and tradition can keep you going even after setbacks and loss.

Oh, my love. and tradition can keep you going even after setbacks and loss.

Because there's a lot of, so I'm just looking over some of the things that obviously was the transition of power away from your father.

That was very stressful.

There was a battle over Grant's Farm as well, and that was stressful for the family.

If you think about all these events, and you can touch on even, like, give like a little bit of context as to what these stories mean and what happened.

But what did these events teach you about family business?

Or how did these events sort of shape your perception of family business?

Well, I did learn a lot from it.

I will say, I think in any family business, I think when you go to pass the baton to the next generation, the leader of that company, they really need to do

everything black and white. I think my father, I think it was time. He had lost his oldest

daughter, or excuse me, his youngest daughter, and that was very traumatizing to him.

And he wasn't making the greatest decisions any longer.

Not that it was right for my half-brother to form a coup in the board and have him removed from his position,

because I don't think that was right.

But I think there would have been a much better way to go to my father, our father, and say,

hey, this is getting too hard on you and you need to step back and allow me to run things now

or something along those lines. And I think, you know, every business

owner should realize that when a time, when their time's up and they should pass it on and they

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