My Uncle Was Stealing From Our Business for Years

The EntreLeadership Podcast

Ramsey Network

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today, we’ll hear about: • A business leader struggling to fire a family member who stole • Creating a strong, values-driven culture in a large, dispersed organization • Setting expectations and leading across multiple generations without losing culture • Managing company savings wisely, avoiding low returns, and investing with confidence Next Steps: · 📞 Have a question for the show? Call 844-944-1070 or send us a message: ⁠https://ter.li/ask-us⁠ · 📚 Learn about the EntreLeadership System™: ⁠https://ter.li/system-p⁠ · 💻 Get EntreLeadership Elite™ for your business: ⁠https://ter.li/elite-p⁠ · ✉️ Sign up to receive tactical tools, advice and resources in your inbox every week: ⁠https://ter.li/enl⁠ · 🏢 Attend EntreLeadership Summit: ⁠https://ter.li/summit⁠ · 🎤 Attend EntreLeadership Master Series: ⁠https://ter.li/masterseries⁠ · 📖 Order Dave’s new book, Build a Business You Love: ⁠https://ter.li/b4kru2⁠ · 📃 Build your KRA for free: ⁠https://ter.li/ks4jnp⁠ Connect With Our Sponsors: · 💼 Go to ⁠Belay Solutions⁠ or text ENTRE to 55123 for their free resource! · 💻 Visit ⁠NetSuite⁠ today to learn more. · 🧾 Visit ⁠Payority⁠ for a free consultation! · 📈 Grab ⁠Sales Gravy's⁠ free resource to help you hire and lead better. Listen to More From Ramsey Network: 🪑 ⁠Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman⁠ 🎙️ ⁠The Ramsey Show⁠ 💸 ⁠The Ramsey Show Highlights⁠ 🧠 ⁠The Dr. John Delony Show⁠ 🍸 ⁠Smart Money Happy Hour⁠ 💡 ⁠The Rachel Cruze Show⁠💰 ⁠George Kamel⁠ ⁠Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From the headquarters of Ramsey Solutions, this is Entree Leadership, where I take calls from leaders like you about what it takes to win at any stage of business and leadership.
0:20.7	I'm Dave Ramsey, your host, with over 30 years of experience leading in the trenches,
0:24.9	right alongside you.
0:26.2	If you got a question you want to ask, well, if you want to be on the show,
0:30.4	fill out the form at entreleadership.com slash ask,
0:33.8	or call and leave us a voicemail at 844-944-1070.
0:39.1	That's 844-944-1070.
0:44.2	Lee is in North Dakota.
0:46.4	Hi, Lee.
0:46.8	How are you?
0:48.6	Hi, Dave.
0:49.3	Thanks for giving me an opportunity to speak.
0:52.5	Sure.
0:53.0	How can we help?
0:55.3	Well, I am an owner-operator of a service industry business, and we turn about $4 million in revenue a year.
1:08.0	What's unique is I am a fourth generation in the industry.
1:14.5	My great-grandfather started the business in 1954.
1:18.3	Very cool.
1:19.5	After my, yeah, yeah, a lot of people love the context of that after I work for them.
1:27.4	It's a real good opener for conversations.
1:30.1	I bet.
1:31.7	But anyways, so I'm now in the process of taking over the business from my father.
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