StoryLens Podcast

About StoryLens Podcast

The StoryOne StoryLens Podcast puts the focus on you. We believe your wealth is about more than numbers; it's about your story, your values and the legacy you want to leave behind. Each episode explores how stewardship, structure and story come together to shape meaningful wealth management for families with complex needs. Whether we're talking estate planning, business succession, charitable giving or building a cohesive advisory team, the goal is to share insights grounded in heart-led strategy. At StoryOne Family Office, your story isn't just part of the plan — it's at the center of everything we do. StoryOne Family Office, LLC is a Registered Investment Advisor, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Registration as an investment adviser does not imply a certain level of skill or training, and the content of this communication has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or by any state securities authority.

Publisher

StoryOne

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Jul 2025

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   Vet the Deal, or Trust Your Friend?

   Most families of multigenerational wealth allocate a portion of their balance sheet to venture capital. However, whether to allocate is only the first decision. The harder ones are how much, where the opportunities come from, and how each deal is evaluated. We are grateful to Mark Meyerdirk, co-founder of Collaborative Capital, for joining us to work through some of these questions. Mark has spent four decades as a securities attorney forming and counseling growing companies, and close to a decade introducing venture capital opportunities to some of Kansas City's most successful families. Since 2017, his club has placed close to $90 million in roughly thirty companies, applying a clear standard: no company presents unless a member has already invested, the company must have revenue or contracts in hand, and the member who brings the deal answers on the record for their own stake. This episode looks at venture capital with eyes wide open: most companies never return investors' capital, the horizon runs a decade or more, and the path to exit is rarely straight. We discuss how deals reach families, how valuations are tested, why patient capital is a requirement rather than a virtue, and how to size each position so that a loss leaves the plan intact.

2. 

   15 Sept 2026

   What Story Are You Living?

   Allen Arnold has spent the last fifteen years as Executive Producer of Content with Wild at Heart, the ministry founded by John Eldredge, and published roughly 500 novels in the decade before that. He is the author of The Eden Option (the book that gave StoryOne its name), The Creativity Glitch, and a few others. Most families who love God are doing a great deal for God. Far fewer, however, are doing any of it with Him. That is the distinction between Story One, the story God intends for your family, and Story Two, the life built on the culture's terms with God set aside. The difference isn't trivial. It shows up in how capital is deployed or buried, whether the rising generation is invited into the work or merely notified of it, and whether a family's charitable giving is just a line item or a joyful participation in something God is already doing. In this faith at work conversation, Arnold, John Christensen, and Cameron Bond sharpen the framework the StoryLens podcast has carried since Episode 2. That is, knowing which story a family is living in isn't a matter of guessing but of looking honestly at what the family keeps choosing.

3. 

   18 Aug 2026

   Before the Letter of Intent

   Pat Trysla has been doing deals for forty years, the first stretch as a mergers and acquisitions attorney and the last twenty-two as founder and CEO of Frontier Investment Banking. His firm is referral only. Its clients have run as large as $75 million EBITDA, and one of them sold to a Berkshire Hathaway company last year. In this conversation with John Christensen, JD, CFP®, and Cameron Bond, CFP®, Pat describes what a competitive process actually looks like at that scale. On one recent recapitalization his firm took the company to more than 1,500 potential buyers, drew roughly 200 interested parties and over 75 offers, and worked the field down to three finalists. He also walks through arithmetic most owners have never seen: a $100 million valuation, an 80/20 structure, $80 million to the owner at closing, and, because of leverage and tax-deferred rollover treatment, 30 to 35 percent of the go-forward company still owned by the family. For a family whose net worth sits almost entirely inside one operating business, that arithmetic is the center of the conversation because a sale does not simply convert a company into cash. It permanently restructures the family balance sheet, resets who owns what across generations, and closes a set of planning options that cannot be reopened once a letter of intent is signed. The through-line is that LOI signature. Before it, nearly everything is still available: price, terms, structure, how the family holds ownership, and what has been committed to charity. After it, though, the list of what can be changed is short.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

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