Darragh Connor - Taking Over Dad’s Business Without Becoming Dad

So tell us, Dara, a little bit, you know, when we think about family business, what does it look like for you? Yeah, like it's...

I'm trying now and kind of getting better at kind of, you know, trying to separate out, you know, the family business, my job and the personal life, because when you run a business, particularly family business, it can it can be really easy to know, you know, blurred lines and things can be kind of all all encompassing and consuming, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

You know, you know, I'm blessed to work.

You know, in a professional industry that I love with very kind of competent family members that we all get on really, really well with.

That being said, you know, it still has its trials and tribulations.

And I yeah, I think it's.

It is an identity thing, you know, and that's one thing I think it's kind of the family business.

It can be quite kind of an identity of who you are.

And I'm kind of trying to separate them out to say, yeah, look, there's kind of business mode and then there's personal mode.

And we're slowly kind of getting better at that.

And I think that's kind of part of as you kind of learn as you're growing a business, it's developing into the kind of the person that you are.

And one of the things I've kind of tried to learn is to kind of, you know, is is to kind of create that kind of separation um but what is it it's it's it's a joy it's you know it's it's a challenge but you know we've great pleasure it's a joy to be able to take over a business that my father had started you know 30 years ago i had kind of you know practice as a kind of a you know a small operator which was most people at that time one or two kind of man bands and we've thankfully kind of scaled the business up reasonably well now so um I think the question was, what does family business mean? Yeah.

And it kind of means everything, really.

You know, it does.

You know, it's even now within my wife.

It's, you know, because I think as a business owner and most business owners know this, like it's, you're never off.

You're never off, so it's important to ensure that you like what you do.

But no, it's a joy.

Great.

It's great to hear it's a joy.

A lot of people have their struggles, have their challenges, and we want as much as the people who are giving the advice around the challenges, we want to hear...

For the people who are really enjoying that journey of being in business with family, what makes it joyful? So give us, if you will, a bit of a background.

You touched on it there.

Business started 30 years ago.

And then maybe bring us through where the family element came from, where it was and where it is today.