The AgriCoach Podcast by The Financial Bloke

You’ve seen the accountant. Spoken to the lawyer. Sorted some paperwork. Finally, succession feels like it’s moving. 

That relief feels bloody good. But what if it’s letting you off the hook too early? 

In this short, sharp Mini Episode, Ben Law tackles a trap he sees farming families fall into: taking some action on farm succession planning, then assuming the hard work is handled. 

Using a rusty truck...

Family conflict doesn’t stay at the kitchen table. It follows you into the boardroom, the paddock and every important decision the business needs to make.

A farming family may look productive from the outside while resentment, avoidance or unresolved tension quietly slows decisions and limits what the business could become. The cost is not always a failed deal or a lost property. Often, it is years of lost momentum that never ...

Most farming families have thought about wills, powers of attorney and succession. Far fewer have answered the more uncomfortable question:

If you carked it tomorrow, would your family actually know what to do?

Not just who gets what.

Who do they call? What did you want to happen? What happens with the business? Did you want the farm kept together? And what are the hundreds of smaller decisions your family will suddenly be forced to m...

Sometimes the dads doing the most for their family are the ones who feel they’re getting it most wrong.  

In this Father’s Day Mini Episode, Ben gets personal about a moment with his daughter that landed harder than he expected — and the uncomfortable contradiction a lot of driven dads know well.  

You work flat out to provide for the people you love. You carry the responsibility. You try to give your kids...

Australia is heading into one of the biggest beef production years in its history — record tonnage leaving the gate. By every rule the market has ever run on, that wall of supply should be dragging the price down. It isn't. So what's quietly holding the floor up, and how long can it hold?

That's the puzzle at the centre of Episode 133, recorded live on the ground at the 3R Beef pre-sale dinner at the historic Goonoo Go...

What if the moment you've quietly dreaded for years is actually the one you've spent your whole life training for?

Most farming families treat succession like a storm on the horizon — something to brace for, delay, and hope passes without taking the roof off. Ben Law sees it differently. After two decades sitting at kitchen tables across rural Australia, first as a financial adviser to some of the country's most succes...

Two people can shake hands, nod, and walk away completely certain they agree — and only discover, years later when it truly matters, that they never did. That quiet gap is where family fortunes quietly come undone.

In Episode 132 of The AgriCoach Wealth & Wisdom Podcast, Ben Law sits down with Susanne Bransgrove, Partner in Family Office Advisory at Mutual Trust — a firm that has looked after some of Australia's weal...

Most farming families aren't avoiding the hard conversations because they don't care. They're avoiding them because there's always something more pressing — a pump to fix, a mob to shift, a season to get through first.

But here's what that costs you.

In this mini episode, Ben Law draws on one of the oldest lessons in grazing country to reframe something that quietly unravels even the strongest family operations. It's not dramat...

There's a particular kind of farmer Paul Omodei can spot from across the kitchen table. Calm, clear-eyed, and somehow sleeping well at night while diesel prices spike and margins tighten. What separates them from the families quietly unravelling isn't luck, and it isn't the size of the balance sheet. It's a single mental shift Paul has watched play out again and again, sitting at the table with some of the country's highest-perform...

The best young operator in your district has already decided whether they'd work for you — and they made that call from their phone, long before any job ad went live.

In Episode 130, Ben Law sits down with Lavinia Wehr, Founder and Creative Director of AgSocial, the socials-first agency built specifically for agricultural businesses. Lavinia grew up on a sheep and broadacre property in Esperance, backed herself into business a...

You've built something worth protecting. You've made the sacrifices, reinvested when others spent, and stayed the course when the easier path was right there. That discipline shaped everything. But what if the very thing that made your operation extraordinary is quietly becoming the thing that holds it back?

In this mini episode, Ben Law opens with a moment that will feel uncomfortably familiar to anyone sitting on either side of th...

Ask most farming families when succession actually begins and you'll hear a number — fifty-eight, sixty, "once the debt's down." In Episode 129 of The AgriCoach Wealth & Wisdom Podcast, succession facilitator James Hamilton of Cultivate Advisory offers a very different answer, and it reframes almost everything families think they know about handing on the land.

James isn't a consultant who parachutes in with theory. He's a...

What if the reason you can't find good people has nothing to do with where your farm is — and everything to do with how you're showing up?

Finding and keeping top talent in agriculture is one of the most pressing challenges facing farming families today — and it's only getting harder. With a retirement cliff looming, a shrinking pool of skilled workers, and a generation that thinks and works differently than any before i...

Most farming families have a good year, watch the money come in — and then quietly wonder, sometime in March, where it all went. Not because anyone was reckless. Not because anyone wasn't working hard. But because profit without a plan doesn't stay put. It gravitates toward whatever's urgent, whatever's default, whatever no one got around to deciding.

In this mini episode, Ben Law — The Financial Bloke — puts a nam...

What separates the farming families who build something that lasts from those who simply survive? If you're honest about it, the answer rarely comes down to rainfall averages or commodity prices. It comes down to the decisions made by the people running the show — and the mindset they bring to every one of them.

Tim McGavin grew up off-grid in western Queensland, raised by a semi-literate father who could barely read but under...

Markets are behaving in ways that don't seem to match the headlines. Conflict in the Middle East, the Strait of Hormuz under threat, oil briefly pushing $120 a barrel, inflation creeping back, interest rates moving the wrong way — and yet equity markets keep printing fresh all-time highs. If you've been watching your superannuation balance climb while quietly wondering what on earth is actually holding the whole thing togethe...

Most farming families don’t fall apart because of one bad decision.
They fall apart because of a conversation that kept getting put off.

In this short, straight-shooting mini episode, Ben Law tackles a habit that quietly drains momentum, trust, and future options in family businesses — not through drama, but through delay. The kind that feels sensible at the time. The kind that buys comfort today and creates pain late...

She walked Valentino runways at $10,000 a day, built a media career that spanned some of Australia's biggest brands, and was awarded Gold in Fashion & Textiles and Silver in Agriculture & Farming at the Women Changing the World Global Awards in London, 2025. And then she moved to a sheep station in Walcha, New South Wales.

But here's what makes Vanessa Bell's story genuinely worth your time: this isn't a fish-out-of-water ta...

 What if the most underutilised tool in your family business isn't a piece of machinery, a management software, or a new hire — but a structured room full of the right people, asking the right questions?

In this episode of the Agricoach Wealth & Wisdom Podcast, Ben Law sits down with Mike Logan AM — farmer, business coach, and one of Australia's most respected advisory board chairmen — to unpack why some o...