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Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business Transition
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…
Episodes
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionThis Is Where Most Transition Plans Die | Inside the Transition 4 of 11
The document exists. The intentions were good. The hard conversations happened. And then nothing changed. Implementation is the phase most families…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionA Roadmap Isn't Something Your Parent Hands You | Inside the Transition 3 of 11
There's a difference between a plan that was built for you and a plan you helped build. One you'll follow. The other you'll tolerate until you don't. Andrea…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionThe 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…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionYou 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…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionThe 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…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionThe Voice Telling You You're Not Worthy Might Be Your Own
What if the person doubting your readiness isn't your father at all? In this episode, Andrea sits down with Abhinav Jindal, an empowerment coach who works with…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionWhat a Real Two-Generation Transition Looks Like from the Next Gen Seat
What does a real two-generation transition feel like when you're the one waiting on a timeline? In this special replay episode, Andrea Carpenter and Elizabeth…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionBuying the Family Business and the Flywheel Every Family Has
What does it take to go from working in your parent's business to owning it? In this episode, Andrea Carpenter sits down with Michael Palumbos, founder of…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionNot an Inheritor. A Steward: Alex Radler on Identity, Wealth, and What Comes Next
What if the label "Gen 2" was never the point? In this episode, Andrea Carpenter sits down with Alex Radler, who grew up watching his family's wealth multiply…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionYou're Going to Sit on the Opposite Side of the Table From Someone You Love
There's a moment in every family business transition where you're going to look at someone you love and realize you want something different than what they…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionI Was an Unprepared Inheritor and I'm Not the Only One
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…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionEntitlement. Isolation. Plans.
Season 2 is here. Andrea kicks things off solo with a look at what she's been hearing from next gens over the past year, across dozens of calls and…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionHow a Fourth-Generation Successor Earned the Keys to a 70-Year-Old Business
What happens when the family business you joined for the long haul loses a huge piece of its revenue, and you are the one who has to figure out what comes…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionShould I Stay or Should I Go? What No One Tells You About Leaving the Family Business
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…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionTransition 3.0: Why Successors Need a Seat at the Table
What if succession planning wasn’t something that happened to you—but something you helped design? In this solo episode, Andrea introduces Transition 3.0, a…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionGrowing Into the Seat While Honoring the Legacy
What does it really mean to earn your seat in a family enterprise—especially when legacy, identity, and personal ambition are all intertwined? In this candid…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionDesigning the Handoff: Clarity, Calm & Co-Leadership with Aviva Kosansky
What if the hardest part of succession isn’t the business strategy—it’s the conversation? In this episode, Andrea talks with Aviva Kosansky, a…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionNaming Growth at the Start of 2026
The year has come to a close—and with it, a lot of reflection. In this short solo episode, Andrea shares what the past year revealed through her work with…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionNo Questions on Sundays: Boundaries, Identity, and Working With Dad in the Family Business
What do you do when you’re grateful for your last name… but you don’t want it to be the first thing people see? In this episode, Andrea talks with Brecken…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionThe Emotional Side of Succession: How Mitch Gambert Navigated a Third-Generation Handoff
What really happens when the business you’re buying belongs to your parents — and everyone has an opinion about what’s “fair”? Today’s episode dives into the…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionIMAP 101: Know Your Wiring to Lead Like You
Ever felt like you’re wearing someone else’s leadership suit? In family business, it’s easy to inherit roles, patterns, and assumptions that don’t fit. In this…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionA Letter That Changed Everything with Adam Hatcher (Part 1)
What does clarity really look like in a family business? In this episode, Andrea talks with third-generation leader Adam Hatcher, who shares how a simple…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionBumpers for the Business: How EOS Gives Successors Clarity
What happens when successors finally have a system that helps them lead with clarity instead of chaos? Andrea sits down with Adam Hill and Jacqueline Jensen to…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionGeneration 1.5: How JR Ramji Is Building Legacy and New Playbooks at 20
What does it mean to be Generation 1.5—old enough to remember the drywall dust, young enough to build the next playbook? At just 20 years old, JR runs leasing…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionSteward the Seat: AJ Treleven on Family Governance That Grows
Ever felt like the transition timeline is moving impossibly slow—while your career clock is ticking fast? AJ Treleven (EVP, Sprague Pest Solutions) walks us…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionChoosing What Not to Inherit: Andrea on Legacy, Identity & Becoming
This solo episode is a little different. Andrea shares her personal answers to the three reflective questions she now asks every guest on the podcast—designed…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionYou Are Not the Business: Legacy, Energy & Leadership with Anne Bauer
What if stepping into family business leadership meant putting on someone else’s suit every day—literally and figuratively? In this episode, Andrea sits down…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionRole, Vision, and Power Shifts for Business Successors
What if I told you that business transition isn't just about changing ownership—it's about six fundamental transformations that happen to both the successor…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionThe Four Fears I Had Before Saying Yes to Succession
What goes through your mind when someone asks you to be their successor? For Andrea, it wasn't immediate excitement—it was a flood of very real fears and…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionWhen You're Next: Navigating the Weight of Succession
Andrea tackles one of the most loaded phrases in family business: "You're next." Whether it's taking over the family business, stepping into leadership…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionTaking Ownership: From Inheritance Shame to Empowerment with Suzy Riedman
In this candid conversation, Andrea and Suzy explore the complex emotions that come with inheriting family wealth. Suzy, a third-generation wealth inheritor…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionBecoming Your Next Gen Friend
After launching with a powerful three-part series on sibling dynamics, Andrea takes listeners behind the scenes of her own story in this deeply personal…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionSibling Dynamics in Family Business: Intentional Relationships (Part 1)
This is the first episode of a three-part series on sibling dynamics in family businesses, featuring three thoughtful leaders with vastly different experiences…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionSibling Dynamics in Family Business: The Messy Middle (Part 2)
This is the second episode of a three-part series on sibling dynamics in family businesses. The conversation dives deeper into the complexities of family…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionSibling Dynamics in Family Business: Trust, Legacy, and Leading Differently (Part 3)
This is the powerful conclusion to the three-part series on sibling dynamics in family businesses. The conversation moves beyond day-to-day challenges to…
Your Next Gen Friend: A Successor's Guide to Business TransitionIntroducing Your Next Gen Friend: Where Legacy Meets Leadership
Hey friend, I'm Andrea Carpenter, and I get it — that feeling of being caught between what's been built and what's next for you. Your Next Gen Friend is where…