Family Firm Institute Podcast

In this episode of the FFI Practitioner Podcast, host Jordan Rich speaks with Charles Avery Fisher about the often-overlooked personal challenges that accompany inherited wealth. Drawing on both his professional work with inheritors ages 19 to 50 and his own experience inheriting money at age 21, Fisher discusses what happens when financial freedom arrives before there is a clear sense of identity, purpose, or direction. When he inherited wealth, Fisher says there was no one to talk with about

In this episode of The Practitioner podcast, Martha Frick Symington Sanger, great-granddaughter of Henry Clay Frick, discusses the 10-year process of researching her family history and the discoveries that changed how she understood Frick’s legacy. At the center of the story is the death of Frick’s young daughter Martha, a loss from which Sanger believes he never recovered—and one she sees reflected in his art collecting. She also shares the resistance she encountered from family members who wa

Split-brain research and subliminal perception The evolution of emotion research The role and limits of the amygdala Calming automatic responses and renarrating experience The connection between neuroscience and music LeDoux’s upcoming FFI conference appearance Joseph LeDoux is a pioneering neuroscientist, author, and musician whose work has advanced scientific understanding of survival circuits, emotion, memory, anxiety, and consciousness. His early research examined consciousness and beh

Three former Family Business Review editors—Pramodita Sharma, G. Tyge Payne, and Donald Neubaum—join the FFI Practitioner podcast to discuss the evolution of the journal and the growing maturity of the family business field during their tenure. They reflect on increasing submissions, rising impact, and the ongoing effort to maintain the journal’s high standards of rigor and excellence. The conversation also tackles the emerging challenge of AI-generated submissions and what it means for preservi

In this episode, we explore the origins and evolution of Family Business Review—the leading academic journal in the family enterprise field. Join early editors Ivan Lansberg, Kelin Gersick, and Joe Astrachan as they reflect on how the journal grew from an idea into a globally respected publication. The conversation highlights the challenges of establishing legitimacy for a new field, building an interdisciplinary community, and bridging the gap between academic research and real-world practice

In this episode of the FFI Practitioner Podcast, we speak with Christopher Gibson, FFI’s 2086 Scholar in Residence, about the evolving world of mediation, arbitration, and legal education. Christopher discusses the growing role of AI in dispute resolution, and how lawyers can help family enterprise clients in an increasingly uncertain world. We also explore how legal education is shifting from traditional Socratic teaching toward skills-based learning, including contract drafting, simulations,