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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They should be separate.
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So if you find yourself in that situation today, I want you to stop right now because the best time to have started this was 20 years ago and fund your retirement.
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The second best time to start this is now.
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Start setting aside for your own retirement separate from the
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Sale of the company.
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Think about it.
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Expecting the sale of your company to fund your retirement is like investing in one business on the stock market and just watching that go up and down, hoping that you can time it perfectly so you can have the retirement that you've always wanted.
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It's a terrible idea for a lot of different reasons.
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Don't do it.
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But even the best transition plans fail when people make the transition.
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All about themselves.
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Which leads to the most important and the most overlooked part of running a family business, and that is having a higher calling.
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At the end of the day, the difference between the family businesses that last and family businesses that don't often comes down to whether or not they have what we call a higher calling.
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That means putting the mission and generational survival of the company above your own personal needs.
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The healthiest family businesses don't think of themselves as owners, they see themselves as stewards.
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They recognize that their job isn't simply to own the business.
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Their job is to protect it and eventually pass it on in better shape than they found it.
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Now, for those of us who are Christians, this perspective goes even deeper.
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We believe we're managing something that ultimately belongs to God.
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We're stewarding his resources and his blessings.
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