Disruptive Successor Podcast

About Disruptive Successor Podcast

The Disruptive Successor Show is a podcast for next-generation leaders in family businesses and entrepreneurs who want to disrupt the status quo to grow their business and take it to the next level. We all know that what got us here isn’t going to get us there. If you are taking control over your family’s business or trying to get your business to the next level, you will need inspiration, advice and resources to help you create a massive impact. Listeners of my show include not only the millennial or Gen Z but also the Baby Boomer and Gen Y. My listeners tend to be involved in these industries: business services, construction, design-build-maintain landscape contracting, food manufacturing, property management, real estate, and technology. And are interested in issues like business coaching, branding, communication, difficult conversations, disruption, employee ownership, exit planning, financial management, leadership, innovation, intergenerational transfer, marketing, multi-generational family businesses, business operations, process documentation, security, selling, storytelling, succession, visioning, wealth management, My guests are entrepreneurs, family business advisors, multi-generational and Gen 2 family business leaders, heads of university family business programs, consultants, coaches and firms that serve those who are growth businesses. Clients of my show typically are running businesses with 10 to 200 employees and $1M to $20M in revenues. Their concerns include: scaling up, exit planning, succession, leadership development, disruption, business planning, finances, growth planning, transferring generational wealth, transferring control, ownership issues, and more. The benefits listeners receive are introductions to experts and advisors around the issues of growing and exiting a business, whether it’s a family business or entrepreneurial venture. They get a feel for the challenges other business owners and leaders face and how they overcame them. They will hear stories from people and how they came to do their work and why. My shows feature handpicked guests who engage with me in casual conversations lasting between 30 to 40 minutes. You can expect to be entertained, engaged and may even get takeaways like business tools or ideas for implementation in your business. I’ve led entrepreneurial adventures in art, clothing, a holistic health lifestyle magazine and trade show, shoe manufacturing. I’ve also led several non-profit organizations. I earned an MBA from the University of Southern California in Entrepreneurship. I’ve been advising, coaching and consulting family-owned, family-run and entrepreneur-led businesses since 1989. My love for entrepreneurship follows the closure of my family’s sizeable multi-generational clothing manufacturing company after eight decades of operation because there were no successors. After uncovering the code to scale up a family-run business - a playbook and a disruptive successor - I wrote a book called Disruptive Successor: A Guide To Driving Growth in Your Family Business. My podcast is my effort to bring interested people into the conversation to benefit disruptive successors.

Publisher

Jonathan Goldhill

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Sept 2020

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

14 of 210 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 208 - Why Wealth Transitions Fail: The Family Skills No Estate Plan Can Supply with Amy Castoro

   Host Jonathan Goldhill interviews Amy Castoro, President and CEO of The Williams Group, exploring how family skills like trust and communication are crucial for successful wealth transitions beyond financial planning.

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   5 Aug 2026

   Episode 207 - The Hidden Cost of Family Conflict: How Unresolved Tension Erodes Business Value with Phelps Wood

   Host Jonathan Goldhill interviews Senior Consultant Phelps Wood about how unresolved family conflict erodes business value and how to navigate these challenges.

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   27 Jul 2026

   Episode 206 - Why Family Business Succession Is an Emotional Problem, Not a Structural One, with Abhinav Jindal

   Jonathan Goldhill interviews Abhinav Jindal, exploring how unresolved emotions, not structural issues, derail family business succession, offering insights for next-generation leaders.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 208 - Why Wealth Transitions Fail: The Family Skills No Estate Plan Can Supply with Amy Castoro

Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] We might have to get back together and do a second one. But I think that one of the issues that I see is well-intentioned parents. I see this with a client and close friend that unintentionally created dependency. And entitlement. And, you know, I'm not sure I can identify what is it that well-intentioned parents do that creates that dependency or entitlement unintentionally. You know, I have a hunch, Jonathan. For me, it's that they can solve every problem that pops up. Right. That breaks down, they can fix it. They get yelled at by the teacher, they can fix it. They can't make payments on something that can fix that. […]

Who has been a guest on Disruptive Successor Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Amy Castoro
• Phelps Wood
• Abhinav Jindal
• Gary Preisser
• Mario Sicari

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

95

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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