Successful Generations Coaching

Bonus Episode: Philanthropy Focus on Human Trafficking with Mitzi Perdue

Recently, Mitzi Perdue (featured in episode 065) heard a lecture on human trafficking that changed her life. She learned about sting operations taking place to save hundreds of women and children from leaders including Tim Ballard from Operation Underground Railroad and Paul Hutchinson from The Child Liberation Foundation. The stats and stories were so devasting that she was moved to action.

Mitzi has dedicated herself to raising awareness about human trafficking and promoting organizations fighting to end it. She’s also organizing an enormous global anti-trafficking auction to raise millions for the cause.

Learn more at www.AntiTraffickingAuction.com.

In this episode:

  • Mitzi passion for ending human trafficking (1:40)
  • How to reach Mitzi and get involved in the global anti-trafficking auction (23:13)
  • Bonus questions (24:40)

Resources from this episode: 

mitziperdue.com

www.AntiTraffickingAuction.com

Notable and Quotable:

At this moment there are roughly 40 million people in slavery.

Human trafficking is number three in terms of money sources for criminal enterprises, only behind weapon and drug trades.

Guest Bio:

Author, speaker, and businesswoman Mitzi Perdue holds a BA with honors from Harvard University and an MPA from the George Washington University.  She is a past president of the 35,000-member American Agri-Women, She’s also a former syndicated columnist for Scripps Howard and her column, The Environment and You, was the most widely-syndicated environmental column in the country. Her television series, Country Magazine, was syndicated to 76 stations. She’s the founder of CERES Farms, the second-generation family-owned commercial and agricultural real estate investment company that has owned rice fields, commercial and residential real estate, and today, the family vineyards sell wine grapes to wineries such as Mondavi, Bogle, Folie a Deux, and Toasted Head.
Mitzi combines the experiences of three long-time family businesses.  Her father Ernest Henderson co-founded the Sheraton Hotel Chain and her late husband Frank Perdue was the second generation in the poultry company that today operates in more than 100 countries. She herself founded CERES Farms in 1974.
She loves to point out that the Henderson family business began in 1840 with the Henderson Estate Company and they have been having yearly family reunions since 1890. If you combine the 179 years since it began, and the 99 years that Perdue Farms has been in business, and the 45 years since the founding of Ceres Farms she represents more than three centuries of family business history.

Recently she authored HOW TO MAKE YOUR FAMILY BUSINESS LAST, Techniques, Advice, Checklists, and Resources for Keeping the Family Business in the Family.

Mitzi Perdue likes nothing better than to share tips for what worked in the long-running families that she’s a part of.

 

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