Your Next Gen Friend is the podcast for successors—whether you’re stepping into a family business, a privately held company, or simply the expectations tied to someone else’s legacy.
I’m Andrea: G2, a successor in a privately owned business, and a guide for the next generation navigating identity, pressure, and purpose inside family systems.
This show is for those of us in the in-between... honoring what came before while trying to build something that’s truly our own. Whether you’re blood family or the trusted non-family leader stepping in, this is your space for real conversations about what it actually means to succeed, on your terms.
You’re not alone in this. And I hope that makes all the difference.
The Six Questions Every Family Skips | Inside the Transition 2 of 11
Most families answer two of the six Compass questions and assume the rest. Those four unanswered questions don't disappear — they fill up with assumptions, and assumptions are expensive. Andrea breaks down what the Compass actually is, why the order of the questions matters, and what changes when successors are in the room when it's built instead of handed the finished version after.
Connect with Andrea Carpenter and Your Next Gen Friend:
Website: https://yournextgenfriend.com/ (https://yournextgenfriend.com/)
Spotify: https://yournextgenfriend.com/open-spotify (https://yournextgenfriend.com/open-spotify)
Apple Podcasts: https://yournextgenfriend.com/apple-podcast (https://yournextgenfriend.com/apple-podcast)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yournextgenfriend/ (https://www.instagram.com/yournextgenfriend/)
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@yournextgenfriend (https://www.youtube.com/@yournextgenfriend)
Andrea on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreakcarpenter/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreakcarpenter/)
🎙️ Our Sister Show: The Business Transition Roadmap
Hosted by Elizabeth Ledoux, The Business Transition Roadmap is for business owners planning the transition of their company. If you're the generation on the other side of the table, this show is for you.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3MxSYA2 (https://spoti.fi/3MxSYA2)
Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3IhMMux (https://apple.co/3IhMMux)
🎵 Music Credits
Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm.
24 Sept 2026
You Can't Build a Transition on a Story | Inside the Transition 1 of 11
Before any plan gets built, someone has to find out what's actually true. Not the story the family has been telling itself — the real picture. In this episode, Andrea walks through the first phase of the Evolve program: Current Profile. What the IMAP reveals that a personality test won't. Why individual interviews matter before any group conversation happens. And why the families who resist this phase are usually the ones who need it most.
Connect with Andrea Carpenter and Your Next Gen Friend:
Website: https://yournextgenfriend.com/ (https://yournextgenfriend.com/)
Spotify: https://yournextgenfriend.com/open-spotify (https://yournextgenfriend.com/open-spotify)
Apple Podcasts: https://yournextgenfriend.com/apple-podcast (https://yournextgenfriend.com/apple-podcast)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yournextgenfriend/ (https://www.instagram.com/yournextgenfriend/)
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@yournextgenfriend (https://www.youtube.com/@yournextgenfriend)
Andrea on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreakcarpenter/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreakcarpenter/)
🎙️ Our Sister Show: The Business Transition Roadmap
Hosted by Elizabeth Ledoux, The Business Transition Roadmap is for business owners planning the transition of their company. If you're the generation on the other side of the table, this show is for you.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3MxSYA2 (https://spoti.fi/3MxSYA2)
Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3IhMMux (https://apple.co/3IhMMux)
🎵 Music Credits
Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm.
10 Sept 2026
The Weight of a Secret You Never Asked to Keep
When Meredith Lowe was seventeen, her dad's company went public and her family became wealthy overnight. She was also told the family didn't talk about it, so she carried the secret alone through college, friendships, dating, and decades of adult life. In this conversation, Andrea and Meredith compare notes as fellow G2s on what secrecy does to a young person's sense of belonging, why the legal paperwork is only half the plan, and what it costs a family when the emotional side gets skipped.
Meredith shares the story of her dad's fall six years ago and the crisis her family walked into without his wishes written down. That regret now fuels her work as a somatic coach helping new money families open their communication lines before something forces the conversation. She and Andrea also name something inheritors rarely hear out loud, that wealth doesn't disqualify you from struggle, and your trauma isn't less real because you have money.
In this episode:
Why "we don't talk about it" shapes an inheritor's identity long after childhood
What Meredith's dad got right with estate planning and the one piece that was missing
How somatic coaching accesses what the logical mind talks itself out of
The crisis plan conversation every family owes itself before a health event forces it
One self-reflection exercise a Next Gen can try this week
Connect with Meredith:
Website: safehavenlegacyadvisory.com (safehavenlegacyadvisory.com)
LinkedIn: Meredith Leigh Lowe - https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithleighdotcom/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithleighdotcom/)
Connect with Andrea Carpenter and Your Next Gen Friend:
Website: https://yournextgenfriend.com/ (https://yournextgenfriend.com/)
Spotify: https://yournextgenfriend.com/open-spotify (https://yournextgenfriend.com/open-spotify)
Apple Podcasts: https://yournextgenfriend.com/apple-podcast (https://yournextgenfriend.com/apple-podcast)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yournextgenfriend/ (https://www.instagram.com/yournextgenfriend/)
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@yournextgenfriend (https://www.youtube.com/@yournextgenfriend)
Andrea on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreakcarpenter/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreakcarpenter/)
🎙️ Our Sister Show: The Business Transition Roadmap
Hosted by Elizabeth Ledoux, The Business Transition Roadmap is for business owners planning the transition of their company. If you're the generation on the other side of the table, this show is for you.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3MxSYA2 (https://spoti.fi/3MxSYA2)
Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3IhMMux (https://apple.co/3IhMMux)
🎵 Music Credits
Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm.
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