Nuclear Family Business

Both Ray and Mike have extensive experience - good, bad, and ugly - with traditional broadcast radio, which lends itself to the discussion of family business from many perspectives - ownership, manage...

20 Jun 202432min

An inherent feature of family businesses - your mom or your brother is often also your boss or your assistant. And they're not always appropriate, and they're not always convenient - but romantic rela...

6 Jun 202426min

Monica Ballard is a renowned creative marketing juggernaut with the Wizard Of Ads collective and Austin's Brand Guys agency, with whom she has guided many family businesses to heights of marketing suc...

1 Mai 202429min

What do you do when there’s an employee or a manager in your business whose behavior and performance are an issue that no one wants to talk about? Mike and Ray talk through how to look at the problem ...

5 Mar 202423min

Family members behaving badly in a small business can look like a lot of things: laziness, dishonesty, problems with drugs and alcohol or just personal drama that gets dragged into the workplace. Mike...

27 Feb 202431min

Family businesses come with the likelihood that mom-and-pop are eventually going to hand the keys over to the next generation. Mike and Ray talk about how founders and their children can prepare for t...

20 Feb 202426min

Brad Casebier of Radiant Plumbing has written the book, literally, about successfully running and growing a business with your spouse. Mike and Ray learn some lessons from Brad’s book The Survival Gui...

13 Feb 202438min

In any business, one of the key pitfalls is when everyone has a different idea of who’s doing what. Mike and Ray share the lessons they learned from setting boundaries in a family business and why suc...

6 Feb 202419min