The Sunday Lunch Podcast
Honest conversations about family business, leadership and relationships.
Hosted by Mike Overwater and Lisa Clausen, founders of ekoYOU, The Sunday Lunch Podcast explores what really happens when business and relationships become intertwined. ekoYOU's coaching and training helps family businesses shift the partnership dynamics that are quietly costing them peace, profit, and Sunday lunches.
Having grown up in family businesses, worked in them, led them and built businesses together, Mike and Lisa understand that the biggest challenges in business are often not about strategy, systems or profit.
They're about people.
Communication.
Expectations.
Trust.
Decision-making.
Relationships.
Each week, Mike and Lis share honest conversations, personal stories, practical insights and lessons learned from decades of experience helping businesses and partnerships create more calm, alignment and momentum.
Whether you're in business with your partner, your family, or people you've known for years, this podcast will help you navigate the conversations, challenges and opportunities that come when business and relationships collide.
Because the conversations we avoid often become the challenges we face.
And the most important business conversations rarely happen in the boardroom.
They happen around the Sunday lunch table... unless, that is, people are avoiding Sunday lunches all together ;)
The Sunday Lunch Podcast
Why we started The Sunday Lunch Podcast
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Welcome to the very first episode of The Sunday Lunch Podcast! Thanks for being here.
In this opening conversation, we share why we created this podcast and the journey that brought us here.
Between us, we've spent most of our lives in and around family businesses. We've grown up in them, worked in them, led them and, at times, survived them. Along the way we've learned that while family business can be incredibly rewarding, it can also bring unique challenges because business, family and relationships are so closely connected.
In this episode we talk about:
• Why so many people feel like they're carrying concerns nobody else can see
• What growing up in family businesses taught us about responsibility, communication and relationships
• The hidden challenges that arise when family and business become intertwined
• What happened when we started working together as a couple
• Why alignment isn't about agreeing on everything
• The lessons we've learned from navigating business, family pressure and life together
Whether you're in business with your partner, your family, or people you've known for years, this episode will help you understand why the conversations we avoid often become the challenges we face.
And we'll leave you with one question to reflect on:
What conversation have you been avoiding?
The Sunday Lunch Podcast is about honest conversations on family business, leadership and relationships — because the most important business conversations rarely happen in the boardroom.
Hosted by Mike Overwater and Lisa Clausen from ekoYOU.