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What We Pass On.

What generations of builders owe each other.

with Adam Fridman

Episode one

What are we supposed to pass on?

I want to start where it actually starts. Not with a company, not with a handover, but with the principles a person is handed before they are handed anything else. Once we agree on those, the businesses are easy to talk about. If we skip them, nothing we say about the businesses will hold.

The advisor.TV studio table in Ponte Vedra, where What We Pass On is recorded.

The advisor.TV studio, Ponte Vedra.

The conversation

Seven things the first conversation covers, in the order they tend to come up.

01What a tradition of teaching says about raising capable children
02The line between guiding and controlling
03Work, responsibility, patience and ambition
04Why every generation believes the next one is moving too fast
05Building wealth without making wealth the purpose
06What parents owe their children beyond opportunity
07What the next generation owes the ones before it

In conversation

Rabbi Mendel Sharfstein

Co-director, Center for Jewish Life at Chabad of St. Johns County

The arc

Three conversations, in order.

Principles first

What should be passed on at all, before anyone talks about a company.

Then the people receiving it

The next generation building now, in their own words, on their own terms.

Then both sides at the table

A parent and a young builder, comparing notes on the same questions.

The advisor.TV studio room, where What We Pass On is recorded.

Two chairs, one table, no audience in the room.

The premise

Every generation inherits something. Every generation changes it.

Adam Fridman sits down with the people shaping Jacksonville's next generation of builders to ask what should be carried forward, what should be questioned and what must be earned.

Conversations with Jacksonville's founders, business owners, faith leaders, parents, mentors and emerging entrepreneurs about the values, lessons, relationships and responsibilities that shape the next generation of builders.

Editorial territory

What should we pass on, and what must the next generation discover for itself?

Values and ambition

What is worth wanting, and what wanting costs.

Guidance and control

Where support stops and steering begins.

Tradition and reinvention

What is kept, and what is rebuilt.

Responsibility and opportunity

What comes with the door being open.

Business and faith

The beliefs that sit underneath the decisions.

Succession and independence

Handing something over, or letting it go.

Experience and speed

The case for patience against the case for now.

The format

One guest at a time. The guest may represent either generation. Adam brings the other perspective through his own experience building alongside his sons.

The boundary

Every conversation connects to building, leading, enterprise or meaningful contribution to Jacksonville. General parenting without that connection does not fit the show.

Status

Casting guests.

Nothing has been recorded yet. The first conversation is confirmed and no date is set. When it publishes it appears on Watch and in The Record newsletter.

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The host

Adam Fridman.

Founder of advisor.TV. Co founder of Mabbly. A father building alongside the next generation, not an expert claiming to have solved it. He started the long form interview format in Chicago in 2014 and recorded 410 documented conversations in the Chicago era. Inc.com contributor. Author of The Science of Story and The Lost Audience.

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