For the past 5 years or so I have been working alongside the brilliant Dr Jamie Weiner on a research project that has been asking members of the rising generation "what is it like to grow up in the Land of Giants?"
In this series we bring you the findings from the research project and share stories from those we spoke with during this ground-breaking research.
Jamie has written an amazing book called The Quest for Legitimacy: How Children of Prominent Families Discover Their Unique Place in the World which has brilliantly captured the unique challenges of growing up around significance.
The podcast is entirely self-funded by me. I am not looking for sympathy as it is something that I love to do and I have a passion for providing great content for family businesses across the world. Some listeners have asked for ways in which they can support the show, be that through reviews, sharing with friends or a donation. As such I have set up a page that outlines all the ways that you can support what I am doing.
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Transcripts
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to this preview episode of the family business podcast.
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I'm going to introduce you to what topic we're going to be covering
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over the next few episodes.
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And I'm really excited to be bringing you information.
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On a project that I've been working on for a number of years.
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And I'm.
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I'm going to explain in this episode,
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A little bit about how that came about.
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Um, but the topic of this series of the podcast is going to
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be the quest for legitimacy.
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And that is the title of a book that has been written by
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a fantastic colleague of mine.
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Dr.
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Jamie Weiner.
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Jeremy.
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And I have been working on this project for around about five years now.
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And we came to be working together.
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Through an introduction.
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Bye.
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, a mutual friend called Judy Green, who heads up the family firm Institute.
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And the podcast itself has been going for around about five years.
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And just after it started, , Jamie.
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was looking to start a research project that required the.
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Interviews to be recorded.
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Utilizing software, which now looking back, when we look
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at how much we use zoom and.
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All that kind of stuff is pretty commonplace now, but back then
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it was less so and so Judy.
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Judy thought it might be useful.
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For Jamie to be introduced to me.
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Because, and we joke about this quite often.
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Um, I had the, uh, skill of being able to press record.
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Uh, which proved very handy.
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Uh, in capturing some of the interviews.
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So at that first.
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Introduction with Jamie.
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He explained.
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That he wanted to interview a number of writing gen family members.
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From all over the globe.
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And ask them about their experience of growing up around
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significance or prominence.
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And he termed it and used a fantastic phrase, which your
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hair throughout this series.
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Called the land of giants.
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Now, if you've grown up in a family enterprise around
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achievement around success and perhaps around significant wealth.
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You may feel as if you're growing up in the shadow of a giant.
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It may be that you are a giant and you are concerned about
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the generation following you.
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, and how they are going to.
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, react to, to growing up in that environment and the research
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project that we undertook.
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Here's the stories of people who have grown up around significant
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achievement around significant wealth.
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And through hearing their stories, we were able to spot patterns.
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We I say we, I wasn't there.
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Jamie went to a conference, I think in Miami.
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He went into an elevator.
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There was a chap in the elevator with him.
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You said.
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So, what do you do?
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, and by the time they came out of the elevator, they had agreed to form.
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, what became a,, Researcher practitioner team.
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Um, and it allowed us to add some academic rigor to the data that we'd seen.
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And allowed us to identify commonalities between those that we
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had spoken to . Irrespective of the backgrounds that these people had.
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So.
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It was really exciting.
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It's been such a fantastic seem to be involved in.
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And now it is kind of becoming far more public with the publication
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of Jamie's book, which is, as I say, the quest for legitimacy.
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, how children of prominent families
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Um, it's a fantastic book.
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I highly recommend it.
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You can order the book via the quest for legitimacy website.
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Which is quest for legitimacy.com.
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There is also a separate newsletter.
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You can sign up to where we'll be sharing articles.
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We are going to be doing a separate podcast on this topic and
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do some really deep dive stuff.
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Into the topic.
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And so if you want to be kept in the loop on all of that, please do go
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over and sign up for the newsletter.
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So as a reminder, that's quest for legitimacy.
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Dot com.
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In this series, I'm going to be talking to Jamie a lot about what
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we discovered through the research.
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So the first episode.
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Is us looking at sort of how it came about the story.
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Of why it was started.
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Some of Jamie's background, which is very relevant in terms of the topic
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that we're covering in this series.
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And then we give you, , a brief introduction to the
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four phases of the quest.
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In the second episode.
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We're going to be talking much more about those four phases.
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Of the quest.
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, and exploring those and what they might look like and feel like.
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And then in episode three, we're going to be looking at particular
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elements of the research and things called breaking moments.
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, which will be absolutely fascinating.
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Don't miss that episode.
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And then the fourth episode in this series will be how we use the
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research, what we can take away from it and apply in either our own
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lives or if you work with families.
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, in the family enterprise, family business, family office space.
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How you can apply the findings on the research.
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To what it is that you're doing.
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So, as I say, it's a really exciting.
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Project we listened to the experiences of those that we are trying to help
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with this research and through the academic weaker, we were able to pick up.
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Consistencies and patterns and commonalities.
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And then Jamie has translated those stories into a fantastic book.
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Which captures everything.
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So.
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, I hope you enjoy this series.
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, if you want to find out any more about it.
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, Do feel free to get in touch.
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, you can either do that in fire.
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The quest for legitimacy website, which again is quest for legitimacy.com.
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Or you can email hello@questforlegitimacy.com.
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As always, if you're enjoying the show, please do leave a review on iTunes.
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It really does help.
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Other people discover the show.
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It's also quite nice to read the reviews.
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Uh, if you're looking at ways to support the show, there are
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other ways that I've outlined.
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A dedicated page on the podcast website, which is . Fam.
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podcast.com forward slash support.
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Mike that's enough for me on this preview episode.
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Really excited about this series.
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I got more planned coming for you later in the year, but this one is really the focus
