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Today, I'm excited to speak with Justin Papadakis, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Real Estate Officer at the United Soccer League (USL). Justin joined the USL in 2014 and has held various roles including President of Commercial Ventures and Chief Operating Officer and has led its expansion efforts across the USL Championship, League One, and Super League, and most recently, the announcement of USL's plans to launch a Division One men's professional league in 2027-2028. Prior to the USL, Justin served as leasing director, and later business development director, at DDR Corp, now called SITE Centers. While earning his dual degree in Public Policy and Economics at Duke University, Justin also played four seasons for the Blue Devils' Men's Soccer program. He has been recognized on America's Power List and Florida Trend's Florida 500, a list of 500 most influential business leaders in Florida. With Justin's help we delve into the world of soccer. He describes how the sport – and the business of soccer – has evolved in recent years and points out what sets soccer apart from other major sports. He also paints a picture for our audience of the soccer landscape today and how the USL fits in that landscape. We then take a look at soccer as an asset class in the broader category of sports and entertainment investment properties. Justin provides an educational overview of the unique investment attributes of soccer and soccer teams, highlighting how they are distinct from other major-league sports and what makes soccer franchises particularly attractive right now. Justin talks about the purpose and the mission of the United Soccer League (or USL) and explains how his organization helps UHNW clients and their family offices invest in and operate soccer franchises. Finally, he shares some practical considerations and risks family offices need to consider when they contemplate investing in sports in general and in soccer in particular. He offers valuable tips on how families and family offices should educate themselves and what resources exist for them to lean on in this growing and specialized segment of sports investing. Don't miss this educational conversation with a leading expert and experienced practitioner in sports franchise investing and operations.

Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Emily Bouchard, founder of Bouchard Bespoke Consulting. Emily is an author and speaker with over 20 years of experience coaching multigenerational families, with a focus on blended family dynamics and family business succession. As a coach and consultant assists clients in effectively communicating about complex situations and building, maintaining, and repairing trust across generations. As a fractional Chief Learning Officer, she designs personalized learning experiences that focus on lifelong growth, emotional intelligence, and financial acumen. In the world of family wealth, and more generally wealth and money, trust – building trust, earning trust, inspiring trust – is of paramount importance. Emily shines a light on why there is such an inextricable connection between trust and money, and talks about this fundamental, yet contentious, relationship between trust and wealth. Emily suggests that trust is multi-layered, and there are four dimensions to trustworthiness. She describes this framework and the four assessments that can establish the different ingredients of trust and trustworthiness. One common area within family wealth where trust and money collide is in relationships and marriages – and the controversial realm of prenuptial agreements. Emily specializes in this space and has coined the term "purposeful prenup". She shares a definition of this term and offers her tips on how couples can navigate the treacherous terrain of prenups while still earning and keeping each other's trust. Another context where trust and money clash is in the world of blended families. Emily describes the dynamics of blended families and provides her suggestions for how best to earn trust and build harmony in these complex situations. Please enjoy this highly practical conversation with a highly recognized strategic advisor to enterprise families and family offices.

Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Marcy Brajkovic and Stephanie Rosenberg. Marcy is the President and Owner of Chatfield Global LLC, a boutique consulting firm specializing in Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness. And Stephanie is the Director of Talent Development at Chatfield Global. With over 20 years of experience at companies like Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SC Johnson, W.W. Grainger, Anixter (now Wesco), and Hospira (now Pfizer), Marcy has helped organizations — from family-owned manufacturers to Family Offices to Fortune 50 enterprises — align human resources practices and talent development with organizational strategy. A certified Senior Professional in Human Resources, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and Kaizen facilitator, she brings a "build, grow, and serve" mindset and practical expertise to workforce development, organizational change, and leadership coaching. Stephanie has over 16 years of experience in talent development and business transformation and brings deep expertise in career coaching, leadership development, and change management. She has led programs in early careers, succession planning, and training for teams of 10 to 500+, as well as large-scale business initiatives at a major retailer. Today, she partners with family offices and professional services firms across the full employee lifecycle, helping them attract, develop, and retain high-performing teams. Marcy and Stephanie, and their firm Chatfield Global, are Specialist Advisor members for FOX and we are grateful to have their expertise within our membership community. We start with Marcy and Stephanie's collective view on the HR function in family offices today. They describe how family offices are designing and structuring their HR departments, how the function has evolved in recent years, and outline the most prominent trends that are reshaping HR and people strategy at family offices. Talent development is particularly challenging for family offices, given their small size and limited career paths. Marcy and Stephanie talk about how family offices handle talent development, including coaching, goalsetting, and performance management, and highlight the key challenges and opportunities families and their internal teams face in this realm. Marcy and Stephanie share their insights on some of the external resources available to family offices that they can leverage to strengthen their HR capabilities, develop and coach their people, and build a vibrant culture. They also offer for family office owners and leaders on how best to promote staff engagement, provide advancement opportunities, coach their executives, and promote a culture of both loyalty and excellence. Don't miss this highly insightful conversation with two of the most experienced and trusted human capital thought leaders and practitioners in the family office space.

Today, I am delighted to speak with Dr. Paul Hokemeyer, founding principal of Drayson Mews and author of Fragile Power: Why Having Everything is Never Enough and Fragile Power 2.0: Wealth, Narcissism & Mental Health, the leading resources for individuals, couples, and families of wealth seeking culturally respectful and clinically effective mental health services. Dr. Paul serves as the Senior Wellness Expert to Ispahani Advisory, a London-based consulting firm specializing in multijurisdictional, ultra-high-net-worth families. He is an Associate Member of the American Association for Addiction Medicine and holds a Clinical Fellow designation with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. In addition to his academic and clinical work, Dr. Paul has extensive experience in the realm of philanthropy. He has stewarded over three million U.S. dollars to enhance the delivery of direct mental health services to disenfranchised communities across America, as well as through the Yale School of Public Health, and he serves as a trustee of the Palm Springs Art Museum, one of the world's premier centers for mid-century art, architecture, and design. Dr. Paul's research in the realm of wealth and mental health has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of Wealth Management, the International Family Offices Journal, Globe Law and Business, and Lambert Academic Press. His work has been featured in a wide variety of international media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The World Economic Forum, the Johns Hopkins Newsletter, Harvard Business Review Arabia, CNN, Men's Health, The Guardian, Tatler, WebMD, Psych Central and others. Dr. Paul starts by explaining what intersectionality is. He tells us about the origins of the construct of intersectionality and highlights some of the key premises underlying the term and the studies behind it. He then describes how intersectionality plays in the UHNW and family office space, and how it manifests itself in the lives and wellbeing of UHNW clients. Dr. Paul offers his practical tips for wealth owners, family wealth principals, and UHNW family members? He offers his advice on what they should know about intersectionality and how they should incorporate this knowledge into their lives and their relationship with wealth. He also provides practical suggestions for family wealth advisors and how they should integrate this concept into their advisory practice and utilize it to strengthen their relationships with their UHNW clients. Enjoy this illuminating conversation with one of the leading academics and practitioners at the complex intersection wealth management and personal health and wellness.

Today, it is my pleasure and honor to speak with His Excellency Mohammad Ali Rashed Lootah. His Excellency is the President and CEO of Dubai Chambers, one of the largest economic development arms in Dubai. In his current role, he oversees the implementation of Dubai Chambers' strategic initiatives and plans, which aim to improve ease of doing business in Dubai, support businesses expanding globally, attract foreign companies and investment and advance the digital economy. Previously, he served as CEO of the Commercial Compliance & Consumer Protection for Dubai's Department of Economy and Tourism, where he was responsible for overseeing consumer protection, business protection, intellectual property protection and commercial compliance. He also held several other leadership positions at the Department of Economic Development, namely Deputy CEO of the Commercial Compliance & Consumer Protection Sector, Deputy CEO of the Dubai Export Development Corporation, Executive Director of Corporate Quality and Excellence and Deputy Director of Information Technology Department at Dubai Land Department. Dubai has seen tremendous transformation and growth in the past couple of decades, which seems to only have accelerated in the recent 5 years since the COVID-19 pandemic. His Excellency gives our listeners an overview of Dubai as a regional center and highlights some of the benefits and policies that have contributed to its growth and popularity among global businesses and investors. Industry data shows that, in the past couple of years, the United Arab Emirates – and Dubai in particular – have seen tremendous influx of wealthy individuals and families, with many choosing to establish or relocate their family office there. His Excellency describes why family offices are flocking to Dubai and talks about the factors that are driving this rising interest and attraction among wealthy families and family offices. Within the umbrella Dubai Chambers organization exists the Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy, which is dedicated to positioning Dubai as a global hub for advanced technologies. His Excellency elaborates on Dubai's digitization strategy, the investments and transformation it entails, and its benefits and attractions for global families and their family offices. Dubai's geographic location and relative proximity to many key international markets is another strategic asset. His Excellency explains how and why global families of wealth should consider Dubai as a potential launchpad to neighboring markets and a hub for their regional and global strategies. Do not miss this exclusive conversation with one of the foremost leaders and supporters of the Dubai business and investment community, H.E. Mohammad Ali Rashed Lootah.

Today, I am delighted to welcome Dan Veitkus, CEO & Managing Partner of Corsica Partners, LLC, a global executive search and strategic talent management firm specializing in recruiting executive leadership for private equity, venture and family office backed companies. Dan grew up in a family business and started his first company at the age of 13. Prior to entering the field of executive search and coaching, he served 20+ years as a business leader and executive for private and public companies ranging in size from $10M - $1B annual turnover in the telecom, software/SaaS and corporate learning sectors. Dan is an active advisor to CEOs and boards and a former distinguished mentor & executive coach for the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship, an organization founded by Richard Branson to support entrepreneurs by providing leadership development, mentoring and coaching to help launch and grow their businesses. Dan is the author of the Amazon Best Seller Straight Talk Your Way to Success. He also produced a Broadway Show, Dream Big: The Rudy Ruettiger Story, now available on Amazon Prime. Succession is easily one of the top three evergreen topics and challenges that UHNW families and their family offices contend with all the time. Dan explains why it is important that succession happens in the family office in a planful and smooth way. He highlights how succession in the family office is different from traditional corporate succession and business continuity practices and points out the unique distinctions of family office transitions and successions. Based on his extensive experience advising and recruiting talent for family offices, Dan offers his practical suggestions for family offices and family principals looking to hire key executive talent as part of their succession planning. He also offers practical tips for all the other stakeholders in the succession process, including the candidates looking to land the key role at a family office, but also the advisors, family office employees, and family members who participate in or are impacted by the leadership transition. Enjoy this insightful conversation with a leading talent and operations practitioner and advisor in the UHNW and family office space.

Today, I am excited to speak with Teresa Leigh, owner and founder of Teresa Leigh Home + Family Office an award-winning, nationally recognized boutique firm advising UHNW clients on staff and service vendors for the home, property and family office. Teresa has worked with high-net-worth clients for over 39 years, and is a passionate educator, speaker and author of multiple published white papers, educational videos and articles focused on helping high net worth clients make the best decisions for their homes and family offices. Teresa is often quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Institutional Investor, The New York Times, and Worth Magazine. Teresa offers our listeners an overview of in-home elder care for families and highlights some of the challenges family members and family offices face when they seek and employ such in-house support. She describes the different options for in-home elder care services family members and family offices should consider and evaluate, and enumerates the pros and cons of these different solutions that families should be aware of and know how to compare. For families who are in need of in-home support and are in the early stages of this journey, Teresa provides some practical tips for how they can get started and then how they should manage all the change and the steep learning curve they are facing. There are many risks associated with in-home elder care – personal safety and financial fraud are just two common examples. Teresa explains how families should protect themselves and their elder family members and emphasizes what they should watch out for as they explore these in-home services. Don't miss this highly practical conversation with a recognized leader and practitioner in the field of household management for UHNW families.

Today, I am delighted to speak with Joe Pellegrino, co-founder of The Pantheon Group, a bespoke residential management company. Joe partners with leading family offices to transform how their clients' residential estates are managed. He has pioneered a comprehensive residential estate management approach that seamlessly integrates with family office operations, reducing property management complexity to near-zero. Serving ultra-high-net-worth families with multiple properties across the United States, Joe and his team act as the dedicated real estate arm for discerning family offices, ensuring their clients' properties are managed with the same level of sophistication as their investment portfolios. Joe and his firm, The Pantheon Group, are a Specialist Advisor member of FOX, and we are thankful to have his expertise within our membership community. The luxury property space is unique and there is a lot of operational complexity and risk involved. And yet, it is also the home or a place UHNW clients really should enjoy rather than worry about operating. Joe talks about the interplay between the risks involved and the experience clients seek, and how estate managers, like his firm, navigate and simplify this complex equation. Family offices are increasingly being asked by their clients to do more and handle a broader scope of services, including lifestyle and concierge services. Joe shares his views on the role of the family office when it comes to working with the estate management specialists who support the family and handle their luxury properties and everything the family needs and expects in that aspect. One important decision in luxury estate management is selecting the right vendors and partners. Joe offers practical tips and advice for families and their family offices on how to best evaluate and select the professional firms they work with to manage their properties. Finally, Joe provides his suggestions for estate management vendors and specialists serving UHNW families. He emphasizes the importance of building connections with the family, and uses the term "anticipatory excellence", which he unpacks in detail for our audience. Don't miss this deeply informative conversation with one of the leading innovators and service providers in the luxury estate management space.

Today, I am delighted to speak with Tomas Hurcik, Co-Founder and CEO of ORCA AG, a Swiss based SaaS company focused on building legal technology to support and automate the growing amount of legal, tax and compliance to-do's that modern families with complex legal structures face. Tomas co-founded ORCA in 2017 after gaining first-hand insight via his wife's family business and family office into the difficulty of assembling, analyzing, and sharing structure charts, entity management, and compliance reporting information. Prior to co-founding ORCA, Tomas spent his entire working life in startups in investment banking, private banking, and e-commerce. Two IPO-ed, one failed. Tomas and his company ORCA are a FOX technology resource partner, and we are thankful to have his expertise as part of our membership community. Families and their complex enterprises have – and constantly generate – a lot of information, and organizing, storing, and retrieving this information is an ever-growing challenge. Tomas talks about this challenge and describes the relevance of organizing important information to families and their family offices. When Tomas decided to create ORCA, he perceived a specific opportunity based on a common pain point that most families experience with their data and information – a pain point that he and his wife also experienced. He describes this experience and shares the pain points he set out to solve. The company Tomas created, ORCA, is gaining ever greater recognition in our space. He tells us what ORCA is – what it does, what problems it solves for families and family offices, and how it solves them. For family office owners and executives in our audience who are focused on managing their enterprise information needs, Tomas offers his advice on how best to do that. He elaborates on how they should think about their information needs and plan to organize, manage, and deliver information to their increasingly diverse and dispersed user base. Don't miss this eye-opening conversation with a leading entrepreneur and thought leader in the family office technology ecosystem.

Today, it is my pleasure to speak with Debbie Bond Dear and Whitney Dear-Reyes. Debbie is the Founder & Executive Director of Vanguard Landing, a purpose-planned community designed to offer a safe, intentional, interactive, and inclusive community where persons with intellectual and developmental differences can thrive and achieve their life's full potential. Whitney is Board Chair of Vanguard Landing and serves as the organization's Development and Resource Director. First, Debbie and Whitney orient our listeners to the basics of this very important topic. They define the term "intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)", describing what conditions fall within this umbrella label, and what are the most common challenges faced by people living with IDD. IDDs most commonly have a very early onset, affecting children from a very young age. Debbie and Whitney talk about the challenges faced by children with IDD and their parents, while also covering some of the opportunities that perhaps today largely remain unrealized. Debbie and Whitney describe the vision and objectives of Vanguard Landing and what they are looking to achieve with this ambitious project and how they plan to realize these goals. They also share their thoughts on how others can get involved with this noble cause – what businesses, families of means, philanthropies, and other organizations need to know or do to help and contribute to the wellbeing of people with IDD. Please take a close listen to this impactful and important conversation with two of the leading innovators and visionaries in the sphere of helping people with IDDs lead a full life.

Today, I am delighted to speak with Mohamed Elzomor, Co-Founder of Nines, a household management platform trusted by hundreds of family offices around the world. He and his co-founder Jacco de Bruijn created the company and lead its mission to bring ease, structure, and innovation to the world of household management. Mohamed and his company Nines are a FOX technology resource partner, and we are excited to have their expertise as part of our membership community. Mohamed focused his entrepreneurial attention and creativity on the niche segment of managing the private estates and household operations of UHNW families, and he gives us an overview of this space, highlighting the unique aspects of luxury estate management. He helps our audience understand what is considered a top-notch client offering and service – what does good look like – in this unique market niche. Mohamed explains how most UHNW families are managing their private properties today – whether most attempt to self-manage or they turn to professional property managers – and he paints the picture of the major pain points they UHNW clients commonly experience. When Mohamed founded Nines, he and his co-founder set out to alleviate many of the pain points experienced by both UHNW owners and their luxury property managers. He gives us an overview of the Nines platform, describing its key functionalities and the main problems it solves for families, family offices, and estate manages. One practical advice Mohamed has for UHNW families and their family offices is to learn and understand the world of estate managers – how it works and how to best engage with the professionals in this space. He shares his views on why this is important and offers his recommendations to families and their staff on what they should know on the subject. Enjoy this highly illuminating conversation with one of the most prominent disruptors and technology providers in the UHNW estate management space.

Today, it is my pleasure to speak with Brian Adams, Partner at Mack International, where he specializes in C-suite executive search and human capital consulting for family offices and enterprises. Brian serves on the board of Sirrom Partners LP, a single-family office, and is the host of the Mack Podcast, which provides expert insights for family office professionals. Alongside his family office expertise, Brian co-founded two real estate private equity firms and was a former practicing attorney. Mack International is a former long-time member of FOX. Talent – especially top leadership talent – continues to be among the top evergreen needs of enterprise families and their family offices. We begin with Brian's insights on talent search for family offices. He paints the picture of the current landscape for identifying and attracting leadership talent to SFOs and covers the most prominent trends he sees in the marketplace. Another persistent challenge for family offices is holding on to the top talent they have – especially, since most SFOs tend to be small, flat organizations without much of a career path or growth options for their key people. Brian shares his view on the key talent retention strategies and tools utilized by family offices and how they have evolved over time. An interesting, and somewhat counterintuitive, consideration family offices face when they think about attracting and retaining talent is their location strategy. Brian talks about why and how the choice of where the office is located can have a significant practical impact on SFOs' ability to recruit and engage their key people. Another practical tool that families and family offices have at their disposal – yet don't always deploy fully in their talent management strategy – is their values, governance, and mission. Brian describes how these foundational elements of governance and collective decision-making that families establish and follow come into play when it comes to recruiting and retaining top talent. Don't miss this highly insightful conversation with one of the top executive recruiting firms serving the family office space.

Today, I am pleased to welcome Craig Armstrong, Managing Partner of Veridian, a Miami-based tax, audit, accounting, and advisory firm. Craig has over 25 years of public accounting experience, including serving clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to local or middle market companies, as well as high net worth family offices and individuals. He began his career with the firm of Williams, Cox, Weidner, and Cox in Tallahassee, Florida, and held prior roles as Senior Manager of Corporate Accounting Special Projects with Ryder System, Inc. and South Florida Site Leader for audits of employee benefit plans at PwC in Miami. Craig co-founded CAPA, a certified public accounting firm in 2004 and merged with Hancock Askew in 2020 prior to forming Veridian in 2025. He serves on the audit and finance committee of the Board of Directors for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami and is a member of the University of Miami's School of Business Accounting Advisory Board. Craig and his firm, Veridian, are advisor members of FOX and we are thrilled to have their expertise available within our membership community. In recent years, technological advancements have transformed the role of the advisor serving UHNW families. Craig talks about how the role of the advisor has evolved alongside technology, and particularly how the role of the CPA has changed. With the rise of AI, we are beginning to witness the next-stage transformation of the family advisor role. Craig shares his thoughts on what is likely to happen to the role of the fiduciary advisor in the era of AI – how will CPAs, estate planners, and wealth planners will coexist with the AI tools. One practical consideration advisors and families need to navigate is the increasingly divergent preferences between older-gen and rising-gen clients. Craig offers his tips on how professionals and clients can best manage the "generational tug of war" caused by their different values and preferences. Finally, Craig provides his and suggestions for UHNW clients on how best to interact with their CPA – especially given all the self-serve tools and AI solutions that are increasingly available in all professional services fields. Please enjoy this highly informative conversation with a leading expert and experienced UHNW advisor serving enterprise families.

Today, it is my pleasure to speak with Debbie Wilkerson, President & CEO of Greater Horizons, one of the nation's largest and most experienced providers of philanthropic services, with more than $6 billion in charitable assets. Since 1998, Debbie has helped build Greater Horizons and its local counterpart, the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, into trusted partners for individuals, families and companies using donor-advised funds and other charitable vehicles to support the causes they care about. With a background in estate and tax law, Debbie was introduced to philanthropy through her work on Ewing Kauffman's historic donation of the Kansas City Royals in the 1990s—the first and only time a major league sports team has been gifted to charity. Debbie became President & CEO in 2012 after serving as General Counsel and COO, and under her leadership, Greater Horizons offers a comprehensive giving platform and world-class service, with expertise in complex charitable gifts including private business interests and cryptocurrency. Debbie and her organization work with families and their enterprises to devise their giving strategies, and she tells us how they help donors identify the assets they want to or should deploy in their philanthropic strategy. Debbie has extensive experience with donors gifting to charity some exceptional assets, such as the Kansas City Royals team. She highlights the considerations and lessons learned related to deploying unique, non-traditional assets as part of a family's philanthropic vision and strategy. Going into the practical aspects of her work with clients, Debbie unpacks the various structures – foundations, DAFs, supporting organizations, etc. – that donors can choose from when it comes to operationalizing their philanthropic vision and plans. Finally, Debbie offers some useful tips and suggestions to our listeners with regard to the practical tools, frameworks, or resources families and their family offices can engage when devising and implementing their philanthropic giving strategies. Don't miss this highly instructive and illuminating conversation with a leading expert and practitioner in the field of family giving and philanthropic strategy.

Today, it is my pleasure to speak with Eric Hohauser, President of Harvey Hohauser & Associates, a firm specializing in the assessment, identification, integration, and placement of culturally aligned and strategically adaptive C-Suite & Vice President level leaders. Prior to joining Harvey Hohauser & Associates in 2008, Eric worked at a multi-site distribution and retail business, where he was responsible for the management of cross-functional operations, merchandising, recruitment, and training teams. Eric, and his firm Harvey Hohauser & Associates, is a valued and generous advisor member of FOX, and we are fortunate to have his expertise available to our membership community. Recruiting executive leaders and expert staff for family offices continues to be one of the top priorities, and challenges, for enterprise families. Eric talks about what it takes to successfully recruit and assimilate senior leaders into a family office, as well as what the family office recruiting landscape and marketplace looks like today. Beyond identifying and recruiting talented leaders, building a strong culture in the family office is really important – and has its own unique challenges. Eric points to what wealth owners and family leaders should be doing to foster a vibrant and attractive culture within their family offices, and how they can imbue the family office with a strong purpose and vision that attracts and retains top talent. One practical tip Eric has for family leaders is to link the family office design, governance, and even culture with those of the family. He describes how that can be done and why it helps strengthen the bonds between the family and its family office staff. Another strong suggestion Eric has for family leaders is to engage in continuity planning for the family office in a systematic and intentional manner – actively managing the organizational design of the family office and aligning it with the needs and values of the family. Eric paints the picture for our listeners of how to do that and what are some of the best practices you see families apply to achieve this goal. Please enjoy this very relevant and illuminating conversation with one of the most experienced thought leaders and practitioners in the world of family office talent recruiting and development.

Today, I am pleased to welcome Christopher Rim, founder and CEO of Command Education, a top college admissions consultancy based in New York City. Command Education helps students pursue their passions and navigate the college process. Before founding the company in 2015, Christopher worked on inspirED at Meta with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and served on advisory boards for organizations like Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation. A Yale graduate in psychology, he developed an EQ-based mentoring approach that has helped hundreds of students gain admission to top schools, with a 94% acceptance rate to at least one of their top three choices. Christoper helps families with what is almost always the #1 objective for parents across the globe – providing the best education, and the best opportunities, for their children. He talks about the importance of helping young rising-gen members to enter top schools and elite colleges and why this is so high up on the list of critical priorities. The college prep space has transformed significantly in recent years. Christopher shares his insights on how the landscape has changed – how the selection process has evolved among leading schools and what it takes nowadays for a college applicant to stand out and succeed. One practical tip Christopher has for our listeners is the importance of extracurricular activities and projects that showcase the values, passion, and interests of the rising gen members. He elaborates on that and highlights why these activities and undertakings matter more and more. Finally, Christopher offers his views on some of the most important practical resources for students and their parents that can help them navigate and excel throughout this process – from consultants to tutors to coaches and other quantitative and qualitative tools. Enjoy this highly informative conversation with a trailblazer in the college admission consulting and coaching space.

Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Patricia Angus, Founder and CEO of Angus Advisory Group, an independent consulting practice serving enterprise families. A former international trusts and estates lawyer, Patricia is a thought leader in the field of multi-generational family governance, wealth and philanthropy. She has been advising global families and their companies, family offices, and foundations, for three decades and is the author of The Beneficiary Primer, among numerous publications. She founded the Global Family Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School, where she teaches graduate and executive education courses, and is a Fellow and board member of the Family Firm Institute and a frequent speaker at industry and family events. Patricia is a long-time friend and collaborator of FOX. Patricia is one of the pioneers in the family wealth space and has been at the forefront of the industry for over 3 decades. As she reflects on the past 30 years, she shares what she believes has changed significantly and what has stayed the same. As Mark Twain famously said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." Today, we find ourselves once again in a time of significant geopolitical and economic shocks, armed conflicts at home and abroad, and the return of populism and authoritarianism even among western democracies. Patricia offers some of the lessons she has learned and would like to pass on to families and their advisors on how to best weather such times of conflict, instability, and disruption. Throughout her career, Patricia has developed a number of practical tools for families – one prominent example of a tool she utilizes with her clients is the Trustee and Beneficiary Primer. She tells us more about these tools, what is in them, and how families and their advisors can benefit from them. In the family wealth space, there is a mix of practitioners and academic programs aimed at helping families of wealth achieve success throughout their multigenerational journey. Patricia provides her insights into how families should think about utilizing practitioners vs. academics, highlighting the utility and limitations of each of these resources and offering tips into how families can achieve the right balance between the different kinds of knowledge and tools both academia and practitioners provide? Do not miss this deeply insightful conversation with one of the veterans and original thought leaders of the family wealth space.

Today, it is my pleasure to speak with Samantha Reynolds, Founder & CEO of ECHO Storytelling Agency. Since 1999, Sam and her firm have been trusted by hundreds of prominent families and global companies to preserve their legacies in books and videos. In 2005, Sam was named one of British Columbia's "Top 40 under 40" and is also a Forbes Magazine Council Member and writes a monthly article on how to use authentic storytelling to drive business results. Sam and her firm, ECHO, are Specialist Advisor members of FOX, and we are excited to have her expertise and thought leadership within our membership community. In the family wealth space, we are increasingly talking about the importance of telling the family story and passing the history down to future generations. Sam talks about the neuroscience behind sharing authentic stories – both stories of success and of adversity. Can you talk about this and connect it with how you see the significance of the family's story throughout their journey. There's a delicate balance between sharing enough and sharing too much – both among family members and with external constituents. Sam shares her views on how families should navigate this balance and determine how much to share internally and with the public and their employees. One practical tool Sam has developed and uses with her clients is a list of questions rising-gen members can ask of their elders. She tells us about this list and highlights the top questions to ask and the best settings in which to ask them. Sam also describes some of the modern technology-enabled tools and resources she recommends to families to help them with their effective communications and storytelling – or as she calls it "memory insurance." Enjoy this insightful conversation with one of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the storytelling and legacy preservation space.

Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Elizabeth Clubb, Founder and CEO of myFloc, an innovative fintech company addressing the unique financial needs of the aging population and their families. Prior to myFloc, Elizabeth was President and Chief Strategy Officer at an innovation and growth consultancy serving Fortune 500 clients across a broad range of industries. Elizabeth is on the Board of Directors of Lenbrook, a nationally renowned Continuing Care Retirement Community, where she serves on the Strategic Planning Committee and the Marketing Committee. She is an active member of the AARP Agetech Collaborative and The Business Collaborative for Brain Health and an Advisory Board member of The Famtech Collaborative. Across our society, there are lately more conversations about and recognition of the impact of age on financial decision-making and the associated risks. Elizabeth talks about how the topic is being broached and addressed in the wealth management space in general, and in the world of wealthy families and family offices in particular. A related, and unfortunately relevant and frequent, topic is financial fraud targeting older people. Elizabeth describes the latest trends and developments in the space and elaborates on how the threats and risks evolving are and how the risk-management, education and protection strategies and tactics are developing to respond to those threats. One practical tip Elizabeth offers is that, in addition to all the technical and quantitative solutions and strategies, families and their family offices should also focus on the human element of fraud prevention – specifically, talking to and educating family members about fraud sooner than later. She shares the best practices and approaches for families she has observed in that area. Finally, she provides her top list of useful fraud prevention tools for families and family offices that can help them protect family members from financial exploitation. Please enjoy this highly informative conversation with a leading expert and practitioner specializing in the unique financial needs and risks among the elderly and their families.

Today, it is my pleasure to speak with Roy Moëd, Co-Founder of LifeBook Memoirs, a company dedicated to helping parents and grandparents preserve their life stories in beautifully crafted, private autobiographies for their families. The inspiration for LifeBook Memoirs came from Roy's own experience when he helped his ageing father rediscover a sense of purpose at a difficult time in his life. Since then, Roy and his company have created over 20,000 private memoirs for families in more than 40 countries. Prior to that, Roy co-founded Pourshins Limited in 1978, which grew into a global enterprise employing over 600 people in 4 countries around the world. Throughout his career, he has built businesses not just with commercial success in mind, but with a heartfelt desire to connect and impact people and families in ways that matter. Roy begins by explaining it is important for families to share their history with their children and future generations and for founders and family leaders to tell the story of their life and achievements in their own words. Nowadays, there are so many storytelling formats to choose from, yet in his business, Roy has adhered to a single traditional format – the autobiographical printed book. Roy talks about why the physical book is still the best medium for older generations to share their life story with their progeny. Many family leaders may feel overwhelmed by the notion of writing a book that captures the essence of their life's journey and achievements. Roy offers his advice on how to get started on the journey of writing an autobiography that will speak to and be appreciated by future generations. Roy provides some practical resources that he recommends to families and family leaders who wish to consider embarking on a book-writing journey to memorialize the family's origins, values, and stories. Enjoy this illuminating conversation with a veteran storyteller and publisher of limited-edition biographies exclusively serving enterprise family leaders and founders.