Should I Stay or Should I Go? What No One Tells You About Leaving the Family Business

Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business Transition · May 7, 2026 · 44m

If you work in your family's business, there's something worth sitting with: one day, you won't. Whether you're the one leaving or watching someone else step away, a parent, a sibling, a cousin, it's going to happen. And the emotional weight of that exit is unlike anything you'll go through in any other job.

In this Part 2 conversation, Andrea sits back down with Adam Hatcher, family business consultant, former 13-year veteran of his own family's company, and author of The Chaos Proof Family Business. They get into the question that keeps successors up at night: should I stay or should I go?…