Drones, Renters, or Owners: Leading People Through Transition
Episode Description: In this conversation, Elizabeth sits down with Mike Wettlaufer, rear admiral, U.S. Navy retired, and a serial entrepreneur who spent 38 years leading people through constant change. Mike commanded squadrons, two ships including an aircraft carrier, and a global fleet of commercial and government vessels, and he now serves on startup and space […]
How to Know When It’s Time to Transition Your Business
Most of the owners I’ve worked with knew something was shifting long before they were willing to say it out loud. It didn’t show up on a balance sheet or in a valuation, and it almost never made its way into a transition plan. It showed up as a feeling. A little restlessness. A quieter […]
The Signals Are Already There
Episode Description: Elizabeth Ledoux has spent years guiding business owners through the messy, human side of transition, the part that does not show up on a balance sheet or in a valuation. In this solo episode she steps back from frameworks and structure to talk about the early signals that a transition is coming, often […]
Strategic Business Transition Guide for Retiring Owners
What the most successful owners understand that the rest learn too late: a good transition is built, not triggered. For most of my career, I’ve sat across from owners who built something real. A company with their name on it, or their family’s name, or a culture they shaped one decision at a time. And […]
When the Only Choices Are Hard Ones, Look for the Gray
Jimmy Taylor has lived the thing most business owners are afraid of. Over his career he built three companies. Two ended in successful sales. One was, in his own words, a colossal collapse. He was a founding partner of Novotus, a Texas recruiting firm that grew into the number one mid-market RPO in the country. […]
When Partners Get Stuck, Look for the Gray
Episode Description: Jimmy Taylor has lived the thing most owners are afraid of. He spent most of his adult life as an entrepreneur, built three companies with two successful sales and one full collapse, and was a founding partner of Novotus, a Texas-based recruiting process outsourcing firm that was named the number one mid-market RPO and […]
Sprinkle Kindness and Play the Long Game: What One Founder’s Three-Transition Journey Can Teach Us All
Mark Richards has been in the advanced planning and life insurance space for more than four decades. He has served ultra-high-net-worth families, family-owned businesses, and privately held companies. And across that time, he went through not one, not two, but three major business transitions. When Mark joined us on a recent episode of the Business […]
Sprinkle Kindness and Play the Long Game: One Founder’s Three-Transition Journey
Episode Description: Mark Richards is a principal at Winged Keel Group and leads their Denver office. He’s spent more than four decades in the life insurance and advanced planning space, serving ultra-high-net-worth families, family-owned businesses, and privately held companies. In this conversation, Mark walks through three distinct transitions across his career: leaving his first firm […]
Still Building? Good. Now Build the One Thing You’re Missing.
There is something that almost every successful business owner has in common. You have built the team. You have built up the revenue. You have got your reputation. And you are still building. That is good. That is actually great. But there is one thing most founders never build: a plan for what happens when […]