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Nabity on Business
At Nabity Business Advisors, we help business owners handle the “big picture” issues so they can stay focused on building for the future. Learn more at Nabity.com.
Episodes
22 episodes
22. Legacy, Land, and Next Gen: A Practical Guide for Farm Transitions
If your family operates a farm and the next generation wants to stay in the business while non-farming siblings see the land’s value and potential windfalls, this episode is essential. Dave walks through a practical, step-by-step approach to al...
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21. Dirt, Debt, and Faith: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Family Farm with Cale Carlson
What does it actually cost to feed the world and who is bearing that risk?Most people drive past fields without a second thought. But behind every pivot irrigator and tractor cab is a business owner managing millions in equipment debt, u...
20. The Incentive Strategy Most Business Owners Never Think About
What do you do when your best people help build the company… but the shares stay in the family?Every successful family business runs into this tension at some point. Your leadership team drives growth, carries responsibility, and attract...
19. Inside Estate Planning for $10M+ Families with Zach Petersen
You can build a serious company, stack real wealth, and still get tripped up by basic legal structure.Dave sits down with Zach Petersen of Dvorak Law Group to walk through the mistakes they keep seeing in high-net-worth estate plans. Ren...
18. Dad: Treating All Kids the Same Can Destroy The Family Business
Running a family business comes with pride, pressure, and a whole lot of emotion. When parents try to show love by treating every child the same inside the company, the results can stack up into resentment, dysfunction, and eventually full-blow...
17. Why Most Buyouts Look Fine on Paper and Fail in Real Life
When a founder steps away from a family business, the real question usually isn’t who takes over. It’s whether the buyout itself can carry everyone where they need to go. Retirement income, company cash flow, taxes, and human behavior ...
16. The Big Beautiful Bill: What Business Owners Need to Know with Doug Morris
Doug Morris is a CPA who lives in the weeds so you don’t have to, and he joins Dave to talk through the “One Big Beautiful Bill” in plain English, with the kind of examples business owners actually care about. They get into what stayed in place...
15. Don’t Get Bamboozled By “Family Office” Professional Advisors
Some meetings remind you that true collaboration isn’t a myth after all, and then others make you wonder how certain professionals keep their licenses. Dave walks through both extremes in this episode, pulling back the curtain on what actually ...
14. The Tough Calls Parents Face in Family Succession
Parents want their children to thrive, especially inside the family business, but sometimes the role they hope their child will grow into doesn’t match who that child actually is. In this episode, Dave shares the patterns he sees when families ...
13. Leasing vs Owning: The Wealth Move Nobody Talks About
Business owners reach a moment where paying someone else’s rent stops making sense and owning starts to look like a path to long-term wealth. Dave sits down with his son, Graham Nabity from CBRE, for a grounded, no-nonsense conversa...
12. The Questions Business Owners Pretend They Don’t Have
Every owner has that one thing that keeps poking at them. Sometimes it’s the business. Sometimes it’s the people. Sometimes it’s the “I’m-trying-to-sleep-but-my-brain-won’t-get-quiet”.In this episode of Nabity on Business, Dave pulls out...
11. The Right Order for Your Business Planning
Before you call your attorney or start drafting trusts, there’s one crucial question to answer: “What’s the right order to plan your company’s future?”In this episode, Dave breaks down why every business owner should start with successio...
10. Do You Own a Cow? The Smart Way to Pay Estate Taxes
When you’ve spent decades building a business, it becomes the cow that feeds everything else. But what happens when the IRS shows up, and estate taxes threaten to take 40% of what you’ve built?In this episode, Dave breaks down how to pro...
9. What to Do with the Money: Smarter Cash Strategies for Business Owners with Randy Jensen
What should a business owner do with the money sitting on the balance sheet—or the proceeds after selling the company? That’s what Dave Nabity discusses with his longtime business partner, Randy Jensen of Nabity-Jensen Investment Management.
8. What’s Your Business Really Worth? with Greg Harr
What’s your business really worth? That’s the question Dave Nabity explores with Gregory Harr, CPA, Accredited Business Valuator, and Certified Exit Planning Advisor. The conversation gets into how buyers actually judge value, why family dynami...
7. Profits Don’t Lie: Finding the Hidden Problems in Your Company with Andy Wolfe
Every business owner wants to see more profit, but the real problems aren’t always obvious. Dave Nabity and Andy Wolfe share what they’ve seen inside family-run companies, from messy systems and siloed departments to the wrong people stuck in t...
6. How to Make Sure Your Kids Are Right for Running Your Business
Passing a company down to your kids can be one of the most rewarding—and most dangerous—decisions you make. In this episode, Dave Nabity walks through the tough questions every family business needs to face. Who’s truly earned the right to lead...
5. How to Make Sure Your Best Employees Want to Stay
If you have built a great business, you probably have even greater people working with you, and competitors might want to steal them right away. It’s what it takes to employ talented folks.In this episode of Nabity on Business, Dave brea...
4. Estate Planning and Why Entitled Kids Shouldn’t Own the Business
Welcome to one of the few estate planning talks that’s not going to put you to sleep. In this episode of Nabity on Business, Dave is again jumping into the chaos of family-run businesses, but this time with a focus on estate planni...
3. Is Your Kid Ready to Be CEO? Dr. Kim Hoogeveen Doesn’t Think So (Yet)
Some parents see potential, but most of them see what they want to see.On this episode of Nabity on Business, Dave Nabity talks with Kim Hoogeveen, founder of BetterCulture, about what really matters when you're handing over your busines...