I Was an Unprepared Inheritor and I'm Not the Only One

Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business Transition · Jun 18, 2026 · 36m

What happens when you grow up knowing your family is comfortable but nobody ever tells you what that actually means? And then one day in your thirties, you start learning about trusts and structures and tax implications that have been there the whole time?

Celine Fitzgerald lived that. She's a G3 family member whose dad was CEO of their family's bank when a liquidity event happened in 1994. She was eight. Everyone kind of went their own way after that, and the conversation about what it all meant just never really happened. Celine spent her twenties in New York and Milan, working in fashion…