My Shout
Over the next decade, close to 90% of family businesses will change ownership. There will be no shortage of advice about strategy, structure, and numbers. But that's not where the real headaches are. Most people get tripped up by the stuff they didn't see coming. The hidden dynamics, unspoken tensions, assumptions, and blind spots that only show up once you're in it. It's the stuff you'd normally unpack over a drink with someone you trust, after the meeting, after the decision, after it's already played out. Shane Williams wants to have that drink now. Each fortnight, Shane sits down with the owners, investors, operators and advisers who've lived through it. They pull apart what actually happened, and surface the questions worth asking before you need them. Charge a glass, pull up a stool. Cheers.
Episodes
Sara Pantaleo was already CEO of La Porchetta when her brother Rocky unexpectedly passed away. But nothing could have prepared her for the phone call from a journalist asking her to confirm what had happened.
Rocky was more than the co-founder of La Porchetta. He was the family patriarch, the face of the business and the person whose relationships held its shareholders together.
Over a glass of Cabernet, Sara tells Shane how the cris...
How do you tell buyers you're selling when you can't tell anyone you're selling? Not the staff, not the suppliers, not the customers. And what does that look like from the buyer's side of the table?
Will Strange has sat on both sides. He pitched Three65 undies on Shark Tank, built sports GPS company SPT from a watch taped to his back at local footy and sold it to Italy's K-Sport in a deal that fell over, then came back, just after h...
Kate's dad was close to the end of his life when a physio asked him when he'd retired. His answer? "Farmers don't retire".
Kate grew up the youngest of six on the family farm at Elmore, which has been on her father's side since 1870. Her two eldest brothers became the farmers. Kate was steered towards an academic career, spent 20 years advising farming families and then bought some land of her own.
Over an Irish nitro stout, Kate tal...
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