The Family Business/Business Family podcast, from Family Business Magazine, features conversations with leaders, owners and advisors on all the things that make being part of a family enterprise so challenging – and so rewarding.
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Episode 53: From Gravel Pits to Family Trusts | The Regal Way | Hiring for the Next 30 Years
In this episode, we chat with Eric Corliss, a fifth-generation steward of Corliss Management Group, a private real estate development and investment firm that evolved from his family's sand, gravel and concrete business. He talks about buying out his uncle's stake in 2019, moving the family's ownership into trusts, and why he and his brother ultimately decided to sell the operating business they grew up around.
We also sit down with Ryan Reigle, G4 chairman of the board and CEO of cookware and kitchen product company Regal Holdings. He talks about what patient capital actually means day to day, the internal framework he built called the "Regal Way" and how 115 years of institutional memory shapes the way his company responds to a crisis.
In addition, this episode features part 2 of our conversation with Trey Travis, third-generation vice president of operations at Bremen, Ga.-based Southeastern Hose, on why investing in the next generation of employees matters so much to the business, and what taking the long view really means when you don't have to answer to quarterly earnings.
Interested in being a guest or have a topic you’d like to hear us discuss? Contact host Zack Needles, editor-in-chief of Family Business Magazine, at: zneedles@familybusinessmagazine.com (mailto:zneedles@familybusinessmagazine.com).
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15 Sept 2026
Episode 52: Flipping the Switch | When Resistance Is Really Wisdom | The Paycheck Nobody Wants to Discuss at the Dinner Table
In this episode, Trey Travis, third-generation leader at Bremen, Ga.-based Southeastern Hose, discusses growing up literally inside the Atlanta hose and corrugated metal fabricator his grandfather started in 1963, and why learning to communicate as a family, not just as a leadership team, turned out to be the hardest part of scaling the business.
In part 2 of our conversation with Shane Foye, second-generation president of Peachtree Corners, Ga.-based site services company DW1, he talks about the friction of building his family's own software platform from scratch and the difference between knowledge and wisdom when a younger leader pushes change on a team that's been doing things one way for decades.
Also, Jamie Shah, family business advisor and author of Family Business Magazine's FWIW column, discusses what to do when you've just been named CEO of your family's business and have to negotiate your own compensation with no board and no market benchmark to lean on.
Interested in being a guest or have a topic you’d like to hear us discuss? Contact host Zack Needles, editor-in-chief of Family Business Magazine, at: zneedles@familybusinessmagazine.com (mailto:zneedles@familybusinessmagazine.com).
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1 Sept 2026
Episode 51: Years of Friction, Then Trust | 4 Co-Presidents, 4 Generations, 1 Culture | 600 Kids, Same Founding Values
In this episode, Shane Foye, second-generation president of DW1, the Atlanta site services company his father built, talks about growing up with the business literally operating out of his childhood bedroom and the pushback he faced building DW1's own software platform instead of buying off the shelf. In part 2 of our conversation with Mike and Jon Abt, two of the four sibling co-presidents running their family's 90-year-old Chicago retail business, they explain how they make major calls — including on AI — without a board, why they'll let one brother run with an idea the others aren't sold on and what they hope the fourth generation takes from the culture put in place by their father. Also, Keri Neidig and her son Ethan continue discussing Greater Lehigh Valley Athletics (https://www.greaterlehighvalleyathletics.com/), the no-travel, no-tryouts youth flag football league run by three generations of their family. They discuss preserving GLVA's values as the league has grown to nearly 600 kids.
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Bryce Lundberg
Emily Griffin
Craig Stevenson
Jennifer Tombaugh
Dan Mahar
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
10 ratings
Spotify
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YouTube
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Engagement
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