Episode 3

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27th Jul 2021

Optimizing Your Financial World - Episode 3 (Five Critical Planning Mistakes of a Successful Family Business)

In the third installment of Optimizing Your Financial World, Mark and Ryan examine successful family businesses and the critical wealth planning mistakes they are making on a regular basis.

Running a successful family business takes a tremendous amount of working hard and working smart, while navigating family dynamics along the way. This is no easy task, which is why even the most successful family business neglect to fine-tune their wealth planning strategies periodically. This allows for mistakes to creep into the picture.

Listen as Mark taps into his nearly four decades of experience and outlines each of these pivotal mistakes! This episode is bound to leave you with clear insights to consider for your own family business.

Timecodes:

0:06 - Overview on the topic of the episode

1:28 - Why the need for wealth planning among family businesses is paramount

3:21 - How the risk for mistakes enters the picture with family businesses

5:38 - The first mistake Mark is seeing by family businesses

7:17 - The second mistake surrounds proper tax planning

10:30 - How the third mistake encompasses the communication among family members

13:41 - The fourth mistake of thinking a family's wealth planning is "done already"

16:17 - How a family should go about updating their wealth plan

18:12 - The fifth mistake surrounding the sale of the family business

19:46 - How you can reach out to Mark and his team for more information

21:08 - Closing remarks


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About the Podcast

Optimizing Your Financial World
It's about how much you get to keep!
Welcome to Optimizing Your Financial World, where we tackle an array of financial strategies and wealth management topics to help better position you, your family, or your business for a better future.

Each episode features Mark Wade, President of Echelon Family Office, who brings over four decades worth of experience in wealth management and investment planning to the show. Mark regularly works with affluent families and entrepreneurs to help better position their portfolios given their personal and professional goals.

Listen as Mark explores a new financial topic each episode and offers guidance on navigating these complex circumstances. At the end of the day, it's not about how many assets you have or how much income you create, it's about how much you get to keep!

So sit back, relax, and allow Mark to shed some light on countless financial strategies and his methodologies for helping four decades worth of clients optimize their financial world.