🎧 Episode 32: Navigating Life & Conflict In The Family Business with Nike Anani

📝 Episode Summary:

Do you work in the family biz? Nike Anani is a speaker, author, and consultant for NextGens who seek to lead their family businesses. She helps NextGens rise above operations with credibility and connection, so that they can lead and become effective change agents. Our conversation today is fascinating, as we talk through Nike's personal experience in her family's business from a very young age, and how she has learned to help other NextGens step into massive leadership roles while managing the ebbs and flows of mixing work with personal. You'll enjoy this one!

💬 Episode Notes:

• Empathy takes effort — it often requires suspending rational thought to truly understand another’s experience.

• We are emotional beings who sometimes think, not purely rational beings with emotions as a byproduct.

• Founders and business heads often experience a deep loss of identity when transitioning out of leadership roles.

• Meeting people where they are emotionally allows for smoother and more respectful business transitions.

• “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

• The old belief that work and emotion should be separate no longer holds true — emotions are integral to leadership.

• Emotional dynamics are amplified in family businesses due to overlapping personal and professional relationships.

• It’s easier to project family issues onto work disagreements than to address the real emotional roots.

• Women often internalize confidence as competence and must intentionally evaluate their own capacities and limits.

• Mindfulness and realism about personal responsibilities are essential for sustainable leadership.

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