Put Your Adult Children on the Board

An underused asset sits at your dining table on festival weekends: adult or nearly-adult children who know technology, know you, and — awkward truth — will inherit the consequences of your decisions. Most builders hide the venture from them, then wonder why the generations talk only about marks and marriages.

Invite them in deliberately: a quarterly 'family board meeting' where you present the venture like a professional — what happened, what's working, what's stuck, the numbers you're willing to share. Ask for their view on the things their generation genuinely reads better: the website, the pricing page, the content, the tools.

Watch what it does beyond the advice. They see you as a builder, not just a provider. You model risk-taking with safety lines — the most valuable financial education they will ever get. And conversations open that decades of dinner-table small talk never produced.

You spent twenty-five years advising them. The apprenticeship reverses beautifully — if you have the humility to convene it.