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Succession Stories is an award-winning podcast guiding entrepreneurs through the journey of transition to transaction, with an exclusive limited series called The Entrepreneur Gene™Hosted by Laurie Barkman—The Business Transition Sherpa®, nationally recognized business…
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236: Stop Delegating. Start Offboarding, with Michele Hecken, Author of The Art of Offboarding (opens the original)
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Description "We build the business for freedom and then we become the slaves of it." Michele Hecken built a global language services company from a fax machine and a kitchen table in 1993, grew it while raising two kids under three, and eventually got it down to four to ten hours a week for fifteen years before selling it to a strategic buyer at seven times EBITDA in an all-cash deal. The turning point was not a strategy. It was not a system. It was a 40-foot roll of fax paper on the floor and a
235: Why Execution Beats Strategy Every Time with Patrick Thean, Rhythm Systems (opens the original)
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Podcast Episode Description "You are the leadership lid of your company. If you don't grow yourself, you will top out the growth of the company." Host Laurie Barkman sits down with Patrick Thean, co-founder of Rhythm Systems and author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Rhythm and The Journey to CEO Success. Patrick started his career at Oracle, founded Medicis — a supply chain software company — in 1991, grew it to $25 million in sales in seven years while making the Inc. 500 at #51, and sol
234: The State of Exit Planning in 2026 with Scott Snider, Exit Planning Institute (opens the original)
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Podcast Episode Description "A successful exit isn't about leaving your business. It's about leaving the world a better place after you leave it." Host Laurie Barkman welcomes back Scott Snider, President of the Exit Planning Institute — the organization behind the Certified Exit Planning Advisor designation and the Value Acceleration Methodology — for a return conversation four years in the making. Since their last episode in 2022, EPI has grown from 3,000 to 11,000 CEPAs, Scott has navigated h
233: What It Really Takes to Build a Business Ready for Transition with Alan Bennett, Trust Built Solutions (opens the original)
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Podcast Episode Description: "It's an exit plan, not an exit due." Host Laurie Barkman sits down with Alan Bennett, founder of Trust Built Solutions and exit planning coach who has lived through three very different business exits — a retail meat market that he closed in 2008, a contract catering business that a seller-financed deal and COVID unraveled in 2020, and a psychiatric practice exit to private equity where he finally got to use every lesson he had learned the hard way. Alan's story is
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