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Conversations with the best thought leaders on the non-financial side of family office work. Join host Joe Reilly as we learn from the top thinkers around wealth in families, inheritance, philanthropy and issues of wealth in the larger society. Great stories, insights and inspiration for the family principal or family office executive.

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May 22, 2026Episode 441 min

Peter Moustakerski - The Five Stages of Family Enterprise

Today we are exploring the evolution of the family enterprise with one of the foremost experts in the field, Peter Moustakerski.As the CEO of Family Office Exchange, Peter sits at the center of a global network of over 400 ultra-high-net-worth families. In this interview, we break down the five stages of family office growth — from the early-stage business family to the advanced enterprise. We also discuss the human side of wealth: why preparedness and happiness often matter more to families than tax structures and ROI.Peter shares fascinating stories from his thirteen entrepreneurial years in China and his time spent building the Dalio family office, offering a rare look at how the world’s most successful families transition from managing a business to managing a legacy.Please enjoy my conversation with Peter Moustakerski.NOTE: This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing said by the guests or host should be construed as legal or investment advice. Thanks for listening.Joe Reilly runs Circulus Group and is the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast.Follow Joe:X / TwitterWebsiteThanks for listening. If you enjoy the podcast, please share it with your friends and take a minute to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. We appreciate it.S5E4©2026 Joe Reilly

April 25, 2026Episode 358 min

Ed Goodman - The Bergdorf Legacy

Today’s guest sits at the unique intersection of Manhattan’s fashion history and the high-stakes world of venture capital. Ed Goodman is the grandson of Edwin Goodman, the man who built the Bergdorf Goodman empire at 58th and Fifth. But Ed’s story isn’t just about inheriting a legacy; it’s about the evolution of American business.In this episode, Ed takes us inside the decision to sell the family’s retail business in 1972 while making the brilliant, and incredibly lucrative, bet to keep the real estate. We also dive into Ed’s second act: a decades-long career in venture capital where he was an early investor in Apple and a partner to industry legends like Alan Patricof. From his time in the Marine Corps to his philosophy on raising responsible children in the face of great wealth, Ed shares a masterclass on adaptability, transparency, and what it really means to be an entrepreneur. Please enjoy my conversation with Ed Goodman.NOTE: This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice. Thanks for listening.Activate Capital: https://activatevp.com/team/ed-goodman/Joe Reilly runs Circulus Group, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast. FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjrWEBSITE: circulus.substack.comPRIVATE CAPITAL PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-capital/id1644526501Thanks for listening. If you like the podcast, please share it with your friends and take a minute to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. We appreciate it.S5E3©2026 Joe Reilly

March 1, 2026Episode 252 min

Jill Shipley - The Need for Autonomy

“I don't think the system, the family system, can thrive until you focus on the individual.”Jill Shipley is one of the most thoughtful people working today in the family wealth space. She has been working closely with substantial families for years and has many interesting takes on family unity, prenups, secrets, and baggage, how to train wealth advisors, and what the shows Succession and Billions get wrong.Jill Shipley is Managing Director and Head of Family Governance and Education at AlTi Tiedemann Global. Prior to joining Tiedemann, Jill was Senior Managing Director at Cresset Capital, leading the firm’s governance and education practice, and prior acted as Managing Director in the Institute for Family Culture at Abbot Downing, where she was a family wealth consultant focused on family dynamics, education & governance, family business transitions, and social impact analysis. Jill has been on the faculty with Stetson University’s School of Business, where she taught courses on family businesses. She also served as an invited faculty member with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Executive Education Wealth Management Program. Jill holds both an MBA and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Stetson University. Please enjoy my conversation with Jill Shipley.WEBSITE: https://alti-global.com/people/team/jill-shipleyNOTE: This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice. Thanks for listening.Joe Reilly runs Circulus Group, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast. FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjrWEBSITE: circulus.substack.comPRIVATE CAPITAL PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-capital/id1644526501Thanks for listening. If you like the podcast, please share it with your friends and take a minute to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. We appreciate it.The views expressed herein are those of Jill Shipley and do not necessarily reflect the views of AlTi Global, Inc. or its affiliates (“AlTi”). This is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, an offer to buy or sell any financial product, a solicitation to become an advisory client of AlTi or an investor in any AlTi-advised fund, or an endorsement of AlTi, its advisory services, or investment strategies, including AlTi-advised funds. While the information and views presented are believed to be accurate and expressed in good faith, there is no assurance that they are correct, complete, or will not change over time. All investments carry risk, including loss of principal. Past performance is not indicative of future results.S5E2©2026 Joe Reilly

January 20, 2026Episode 153 min

Fredda Herz Brown - Sustaining the Family Enterprise

Today we have a special guest, veteran family enterprise advisor Fredda Herz Brown. I’ve been wanting to interview Fredda for a while because she is a leader in the space, and her career goes back to the roots of the current theory and practice of family wealth advising. She talks about the evolution of family systems theory going back to Murray Bowen and Nathan Ackerman, the collaborative nature of the field’s development, the importance of self-awareness for consultants, raising children amidst wealth and avoiding entitlement, and balancing separateness and connectedness in the family. We had a very rich conversation, and Fredda offered a great deal of wisdom on these crucial topics. Fredda has been a pioneer and continual innovator in the family enterprise field. She co-founded Relative Solutions to address the complexities and challenges enterprise families face at the intersection of their economy and family. She is the author of several books, including Reweaving the Family Tapestry and The Essential Roadmap: Navigating Family Enterprise Sustainability in a Changing World. Fredda has received numerous industry awards recognizing her work. She is the recipient of awards from the Family Firm Institute (FFI), where she is a Fellow and founding board member, and the Family Office Exchange, where she was honored as a thought leader. In 2002, she received the Beckhard award, named for one of her mentors, which acknowledged her contribution to practice in the field. In 1996, she received the Hollander award for her contribution to the community of family enterprise. Fredda holds a PhD in Psychology, Master’s degrees in Psychology and Psychiatric Nursing, and received a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing. Please enjoy my conversation with Fredda Herz Brown.WEBSITE: https://www.relative-solutions.com/bio-freddaNOTE: This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice. Thanks for listening.Joe Reilly runs Circulus Group, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast. FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjrWEBSITE: circulus.substack.comPRIVATE CAPITAL PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-capital/id1644526501Thanks for listening. If you like the podcast, please share it with your friends and take a minute to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. We appreciate it.S5E1©2026 Joe Reilly

September 16, 2025Episode 11 hr 0 min

High Performing Family Offices with Jay Hughes, Kirby Rosplock and Scott Saslow

In this special episode, we gathered three leading voices to share practical guidance on what makes a family office truly work. Kirby Rosplock, PhD (Tamarind Partners and Tamarind Learning), Scott Saslow (One World Investments), and James E. “Jay” Hughes Jr. (James E. Hughes Foundation) discuss clear purpose and governance, the right balance of family and independent talent, defining the true “client,” setting operating cadence and boundaries, preparing rising generations for stewardship, and building learning systems that enhance family well-being. Attendees hear real examples, research-informed insights, and actionable takeaways for founders, trustees, and beneficiaries seeking a more durable, values-aligned family office.Website: https://theinheritanceproject.com

October 4, 2024Episode 244 min

Jay Hughes - Wealth is Well Being

We have a special treat today, an interview I conducted live with Jay Hughes at the recent Southeastern Family Office Forum, or SEFOF, in Atlanta. SEFOF is a remarkable non-profit family office and family enterprise network that is now 14 years old. I had a wonderful time there and met many nice folks. My thanks to Brian Hughes, Bryn Monahan and Betsy Brown and all the volunteers for making this keynote interview possible. The interview was conducted over a livestream in front of an audience of three hundred, and I do want to address some minor audio issues you might notice. While there may be a few slight fluctuations in sound quality, rest assured, these issues are not significant and should not detract from your listening experience. Jay Hughes is an author, advisor to families, and founder of a law partnership in New York that represented private clients throughout the world, and now retired from the active practice of wealth advisory. His wonderful book, Family Wealth, Keeping it in the Family, has become a classic in the family wealth space, and he warns that the shirtsleeves proverb is a warning and not a curse. Jay’s wisdom is on full display in this engaging interview, and it is readily apparent why this man has had such a large impact on many families and individuals over the last thirty years. This interview is part of a series done in partnership with the James E. Hughes Jr. Foundation. Please listen to my previous interview with Jay in 2023, as well as Christian Stewart, John Warnick, Gunther Weil and Keith Whitaker. WEBSITE: https://jehjf.org/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/Family-Wealth-Keeping-Intellectual-Financial-Generations/dp/157660151X NOTE: This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice. Thanks for listening. Joe Reilly is the CEO of Circulus Group, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast. FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjr WEBSITE: circulus.substack.com PRIVATE CAPITAL PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-capital/id1644526501 Thanks for listening. If you like the podcast, please share it with your friends and take a minute to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. We appreciate it. ©2024 Joe Reilly

July 15, 2024Episode 455 min

Christian Stewart - Succession as a Design Process

Christian Stewart is a consultant in Hong Kong who started Family Wealth Legacy to help successful Asian families establish communication platforms and decision making structures for their family enterprise. Christian works with enterprising families as a process consultant, coach and family meeting facilitator. He helps families to form their own family council, family constitution and family policies, often in the context of planning for succession. He is a prolific author of excellent articles, which are available on his website, and the winner of many awards recognizing his thought leadership. We had a rich conversation. Christian thinks succession should be thought of as a design process that breaks down the succession plan down into manageable components. For patriarchs consumed with management succession, Stewart gently reframes the narrative: “You have to invest in developing the human, intellectual, and social capital within the family.” He talks about the deep influence of Jay Hughes on his work, and elaborates on the interesting idea of co-regulating emotionally with his clients and the importance of meditation to his own work. Succession for Christian is not a transaction, but a multigenerational architectural feat. Christian Stewart is the founder of Family Legacy Asia. He was previously a managing director at JP Morgan Private Bank, and head of wealth advisory in Asia. He was at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Hong Kong, as partner and head of the trust and private client group, and practiced law in Australia before that. Christian holds a bachelor of laws from the University of Adelaide. Please enjoy my conversation with Christian Stewart. WEBSITE: https://www.familylegacyasia.com/christian_stewart.htm NOTE: This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice. Thanks for listening. Joe Reilly is a family office consultant, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast. FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjr WEBSITE: circulus.substack.com PRIVATE CAPITAL PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-capital/id1644526501 Thanks for listening. If you like the podcast, please share it with your friends and take a minute to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. We appreciate it. ©2024 Joe Reilly

April 11, 2024Episode 352 min

Keith Whitaker - Cycle of the Gift

Keith Whitaker is an educator who consults with leaders and rising generation members of families with significant wealth. We had an interesting conversation touching on Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, but also on Keiths long practical experience working with the wealthy. We talk about the cycle of the gift in families, the concept of magnificence, and his work on books with Jay Hughes, Paul Schervish on Wealth and the Will of God and his recent collaboration with Tom McCullough on the Wealth of Wisdom books. Keith is Managing Director of Wise Counsel Research. He is the co-author of Wealth and the Will of God, The Cycle of the Gift, The Voice of the Rising Generation, Family Trusts, Complete Family Wealth, Wealth of Wisdom: the Top 50 Questions Wealthy Families Ask, and Wealth of Wisdom: the Top Practices of Wealthy Families and their Advisors. Keith has served as a Managing Director at Wells Fargo Family Wealth, an adjunct professor of management at Vanderbilt University, and an adjunct assistant professor of philosophy at Boston College. Keith holds a Ph.D. in Social Thought from the University of Chicago, a BA and MA in Classics and Philosophy from Boston University. Keith is one of the most thoughtful people in the family wealth world, and his knowledge of philosophy and respect for tradition made him a real pleasure to talk to. Please enjoy my conversation with Keith Whitaker. AUTHOR PAGE: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Keith-Whitaker/author/B001HOPVCA WEBSITE: https://www.wisecounselresearch.com/ KEITH'S PODCAST: https://www.wealthofwisdombook.com/podcast NOTE: This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice. Thanks for listening. Joe Reilly is a family office consultant, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast. FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjr WEBSITE: https://www.circulus.co/ PRIVATE CAPITAL PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-capital/id1644526501 Thanks for listening. If you like the podcast, please share it with your friends and take a minute to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. We appreciate it. ©2024 Joe Reilly

February 15, 2024Episode 252 min

John A Warnick - Purposeful Planning

“Generativity is the human impulse to nurture, to do good things for the next generation and to see myself, my life, in a sense, being extended through the possibilities in my children and grandchildren.” Today, in conjunction with the James E Hughes Jr. Foundation, I’d like to present my interview with one of Jay’s longtime collaborators John A. Warnick. John A., as he is known, is the founder of the Purposeful Planning Institute, which trains lawyers, financial planners, trustees, and wealth managers to work with clients on their planning that is congruent with their core values and vision. He was a long-time trusts and estates lawyer himself in Colorado with the firm Holme Roberts and Owen, where he chaired the Private Clients Services Group. He left the firm and began collaborating with Jay Hughes and Tim Belber, and began to focus on ensuring that the affluence of his clients was a positive force in the lives of their following generations. John A received his bachelor’s magna cum laude from Brigham Young University and his JD from George Washington University with honors. Please enjoy my interview with John A Warnick. Purposeful Planning Institute: https://purposefulplanninginstitute.com NOTE: This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice. Thanks for listening. Joe Reilly is a family office consultant, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast. FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjr WEBSITE: https://www.circulus.co/ PRIVATE CAPITAL PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-capital/id1644526501 Thanks for listening. If you like the podcast, please share it with your friends and take a minute to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. We appreciate it. ©2024 Joe Reilly

January 19, 2024Episode 11 hr 8 min

George Marcus - Lives In Trust

George Marcus wrote a book you probably haven’t heard of, but should. It is called Lives in Trust and it was published in 1992 and is $146 on Amazon right now. Professor Marcus is an anthropologist who studied tribes in Tonga and then applied what he learned to study dynastic wealth in families starting in Texas. The book has great essays on the HL Hunt family, who tried to corner the silver market in 1980, the Bingham family, who fought over a newspaper chain in Kentucky, a study of two very different family fortunes in Galveston Texas, and an analysis of one of my favorite books, Old Money by Nelson Aldrich. He discusses the importance of your image of your ancestors and the creation of family ideology, the emptiness at the center of the Getty fortune, and a great essay by his collaborator the late respected philanthropic scholar Peter Dobkin Hall on the efforts of the Rockefeller family to control the narratives told about the family over decades. In our discussion today, we talk about his career, the book, his interesting concept that he calls the “dynastic uncanny” and his fascinating dive into the meaning of nobility in the current-day Portuguese aristocracy. I hope you enjoy my conversation with George Marcus. Biography: George Marcus is one of the world’s leading anthropologists. He is the Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irving, and previously chaired the anthropology department at Rice University for twenty-five years. He is the author of dozens of books and articles including Ethnography Through Thick and Thin and Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth-Century America. Professor Marcus received a B.A. from Yale in 1968 and a Ph.D from Harvard in 1976. NOTE: This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice. Thanks for listening. Joe Reilly is a family office consultant, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast. FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjr WEBSITE: https://www.circulus.co/ PRIVATE CAPITAL PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-capital/id1644526501 Thanks for listening. If you like the podcast, please share it with your friends and take a minute to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. We appreciate it. ©2024 Joe Reilly