Family Business
ByA second generation family business was prospering and doing well. Then unfortunately the father passed away and left the business to the mother. There were five brothers and sisters working the business and had a challenging relationship with their controlling and unloving father. When the mother took over the business, she had decided she had had enough and decided to sell the business. This left the entire family looking for work. The son had a six figure income prior to the sale of the business. Having a wife and five children and unemployed for seven months brought him to the realization that he did not really have the skills to make things work in an “outside” job situation. He also came to the understanding that because of the unloving relationship he had with his father, his self-esteem had bottomed out and he truly did not have the people skills he needed to be effective in a job interview. The biggest issue was that he did not “have a plan” and he did not know where to turn for help or really what kind of help he needed.
The plan we laid out was to get the support of his wife for the five day program and to speak truth to her. When I asked him if his wife knew how he felt, he said no, I have never spoken to her about anything like this before.
Tune in tomorrow to hear the rest of the story…..
