From the Family Firm Institute, this podcast features interviews and discussion with thought leaders in professional advising and consulting, legal and financial services, and behavioral and management sciences.
In this episode of the FFI Practitioner Podcast, host Jordan Rich speaks with Charles Avery Fisher about the often-overlooked personal challenges that accompany inherited wealth.
In this episode of the FFI Practitioner Podcast, host Jordan Rich speaks with Charles Avery Fisher about the often-overlooked personal challenges that accompany inherited wealth.
Drawing on both his professional work with inheritors ages 19 to 50 and his own experience inheriting money at age 21, Fisher discusses what happens when financial freedom arrives before there is a clear sense of identity, purpose, or direction. When he inherited wealth, Fisher says there was no one to talk with about questions of self-worth, relationships, or the challenge of deciding what to do with his life when so many choices suddenly seemed available.
Fisher explores five of the most important areas facing people with inherited wealth, including questions of identity, purpose, relationships, and belonging. He also addresses one of the greatest risks for inheritors: social isolation. The conversation offers family enterprise advisors insight into the emotional and developmental issues that may exist alongside financial wealth—and why creating space for these conversations matters.
Fisher will continue the discussion as a presenter at the 2026 FFI Global Conference, FFI at 40: Paradigm Shifts, October 28–30 in New York City.
23 Aug 2026
What We Inherit: Martha Frick Symington Sanger on Family Trauma, Art, and Legacy
In this episode of The Practitioner podcast, Martha Frick Symington Sanger, great-granddaughter of Henry Clay Frick, discusses the 10-year process of researching her family history and the discoveries that changed how she understood Frick’s legacy.
At the center of the story is the death of Frick’s young daughter Martha, a loss from which Sanger believes he never recovered—and one she sees reflected in his art collecting. She also shares the resistance she encountered from family members who wanted to protect Frick’s reputation and what she learned about the emotional power of objects passed through generations.
For Sanger, examining the past offers families an opportunity to recognize inherited patterns, break destructive cycles, and avoid passing unresolved trauma to the next generation.
The conversation previews themes she will explore during her pre-conference session on narratives at the 2026 FFI Global Conference in New York City. (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__digital.ffi.org_narratives-2Dshifting-2Dparadigms-2Din-2Dfamily-2Denterprise_&d=DwMFaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=Ur_L726RTe2i4GPCOb2uEyxbf1OBuIT8AI31QF7-4zY&m=4tY-oeq5PIn08YPjmz-ji2o4zlr0sroLZuy4Hz_n_khyp6LzztlqQ6ZfheXYPLYW&s=mWcshS0URXqFq2lzYeZ87iBFDS1ijKSD5Z8Q0xGBlZ0&e=)
4 Aug 2026
In this episode of the FFI Practitioner Podcast, Jordan Rich sits down with neuroscientist, Joseph LeDoux to explore:
Split-brain research and subliminal perception
The evolution of emotion research
The role and limits of the amygdala
Calming automatic responses and renarrating experience
The connection between neuroscience and music
LeDoux’s upcoming FFI conference appearance
Joseph LeDoux is a pioneering neuroscientist, author, and musician whose work has advanced scientific understanding of survival circuits, emotion, memory, anxiety, and consciousness. His early research examined consciousness and behavior in split-brain patients before he turned to the neural systems involved in threat detection and defensive responses.
LeDoux is also the lead singer and songwriter for The Amygdaloids, a band known for what it calls “Heavy MeNtal”—original music about the mind, brain, emotion, and mental disorders. The band has released multiple albums and performed in the United States and internationally.
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