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Episode 013: Raising Children to be Amazing Business Owners with Paige Cornetet

January 24, 2018

Paige Cornetet is a fourth generation family business owner and she’s involved in her family’s council. She’s also an entrepreneur who runs her own business, Millennial Guru. In this episode, Paige shares what it was like growing up in the Cornetet household with parents who were very purposeful in raising business-minded children. We cover everything from family values, to allowance, athletics, education and social graces.

Paige shares so many examples of activities her parents used to share their financial, human and intellectual capital with their children. If you are raising children in a family business and you want to groom them to be amazing business owners, this episode is for you!     

A handout to accompany this episode is available in the resources below.

Topics discussed in this episode:

  •  Meet Paige (2:11)
  • About the 90+ year old Cornetet family business (3:25)
  • Learning Cornetet family sayings, laws and values (4:32)
  • Earn, save, spend and the Cornetet National Bank (10:28)
  • Saturdays with Dad (15:21)
  • Education for the Cornetet children (22:05)
  • “Don’t you dare disappoint your mother” (22:54)
  • Family traditions—daily, weekly, monthly and GUTS (26:11)
  • Choosing to be an entrepreneur over the family business (30:29)
  • Bonus questions (33:00)

Notable & Quotable:

If you’re intentional or not, you are always going to instill your values in your children. —Paige Cornetet #successfulgenerations #nextgen #familybusiness


The concept of compound interest applies to learning—it’s compound education. —Paige Cornetet #successfulgenerations #nextgen #familybusiness


Resources mentioned in this episode:

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Want more of Successful Generations? Check out our other episodes: 

Episode 012: Generous Genes with Susan Crites Price
Episode 011: Digging into the Family Business Landscape with Daniel Van Der Vliet
Episode 010: 10 Things My Family Did to Engage us in Family Philanthropy
Episode 009: Stress Management and Holistic Health with Cynthia Damaskos
Episode 008: Family, Fights and Ferry Tales with Chris Shepler
Episode 007: Raising Financially Responsible Kids Through the Holidays (and Beyond)
Episode 006: Join the Philanthropic Revolution with Michael Moody
Episode 005: Estate Planning 101 aka Estate Planning is Not Optional with Susan Gell Meyers 
Episode 004: Ginny Esposito – Engaging your Family in Family Philanthropy
Episode 003: Leadership, Wellness, and Concierge Medicine with Dr. Bill Baer
Episode 002: Douglas D Box, Texas Patriarch – A Legacy Lost
Episode 001: About Your Host Ellie Frey Zagel

 


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Ellie Frey Zagel

Ellie Frey Zagel is 3rd Generation, Vice Chair and Trustee of her family’s foundation the Frey Foundation based in Grand Rapids, MI. For nearly a decade she has been deeply involved in working with the next generation of family business, family philanthropy, and family wealth, first as Director of the Family Business Alliance and now as President of Successful Generations, a company she recently founded.

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