What steps have to be taken to pass your business to the next owner? Russ Brown joins Jim Blasingame with tips and best practices on the process of grooming a member of your team to take over your small business when you’re ready to retire.

Have you made plans for divesting of your small business? Russ Brown joins Jim Blasingame to recommend that every small business owner develop an internal succession plan.

Make sure the stories you tell yourself are true. Ed Kopf joins Jim Blasingame to encourage us to make sure the stories we believe about ourselves, including the ones we tell ourselves, are true and focused on the positive.

Don't let negative stories hurt a business relationship. Ed Kopf joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how allowing the wrong kind of stories to get started and perpetuate can be detrimental to a business.

Using stories to sell your products or services is the opposite of manipulation. Ed Kopf joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the power of using stories to sell your products or services and make customers feel a part of your story.

How you deal with family employees impacts company performance? Ellen Rohr joins Jim Blasingame to the many elements of managing a family member in a small business, including when you have to fire a relative.

You're not going to live forever. Bob Kustka joins Jim Blasingame to talk about why one of the most important management steps a small business owner can take is to have a well-planned succession strategy.

Are you afraid to think about a succession plan? Bob Kustka joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that fear of letting go and our own mortality is a great impediment to having a succession plan in place.

Why do we lie to ourselves about important decisions we haven't made? Bob Kustka joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that making false assumptions is one of the reasons most small business owners don't have a succession plan.

Hire key employees who share your values. JJ Ramberg joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the process of finding and working with a CEO to grow the company you founded, including the importance of shared values.