John Felkins
speaker
3,575 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4d ago
John Felkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Just make sure to communicate the decision.
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But there is one thing that I want to call out about all of this.
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Do not depend on the sale of your business to your kids to fund your retirement.
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We see this all the time.
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I remember a company that I worked with that was in construction, and it was one of the most
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Painful examples of this that I've ever seen.
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There was a mom and a dad running the business and a son and a daughter.
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The parents hadn't put anything into their retirement, and they were 100% counting on selling the business to their children so that they could retire.
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It created all kinds of tension.
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Things were getting weird fast.
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The son, honestly, was a drama queen.
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He was in sales, no surprise there.
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And the daughter was the project manager and she wanted to buy the business, but the son didn't.
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And they were going back and forth between the two of them while the parents were just trying to sell the thing so that they could retire.
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It just causes a ton of tension.
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You shouldn't put that kind of stress on this whole interaction.
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You shouldn't put that kind of pressure on your kids.
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Save for your own retirement.
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That's something separate than your succession plan.
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These two things don't need to work together, and in fact, they shouldn't.
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