What It Really Takes to Build a Multi-Generational Family Business | Shane Foye

Well Shane, it's great to have you here.

I appreciate you taking the time out of your busy day, um, to make time for me and kind of share your story about, you know, who you are and the business that you're in and how you've created what you've created, um, alongside of your family.

So, thank you for being here.

Thanks for having me.

I'm really excited to have the opportunity to sort of share my experience and, and tell our story.

Amazing.

Um, well as I always do, I like to start out every conversation with my guests, um, helping, you know, listeners understand how you define a vibe in the workplace.

Yeah.

Um, I think it's a great question.

I like the way that you framed it, um, around the word vibe, a more casual type of framing.

Um, for me, a vibe in the workplace is an energy, so it's something that you can feel.

It's, it's so hard to quantify for me, but when you're walking around the office, the way that someone looks at you, making eye contact, making sure that you're acknowledging them, you're asking them about maybe what's going on in their life so that it's not just a pass-through, um, and very transactional.

So it's like getting to like that deeper, um, understanding of what, what allows each individual to have a purpose.

Um, and I think in life, purpose is so crucial, um, not only in the workplace, but also just in general.

And without everyone having a purpose and a vision, uh, it's really hard to create that sort of vibe or that energy where everyone's in a place when, when they show up, they're engaged, and they're...

I mean, it's work, but they're excited to be there and, uh, they're enjoying sort of that chemistry they have with their team.

And there's so many different dynamics and things that can affect how someone feels.

And so, overall, I think a vibe in the workplace is, is just an energy.

It's a feeling.

When it's off, you can really sense that.

So, it's so interesting that you say that about eye contact and like how people talk to one another, 'cause I was having a conversation with my 16-year-old, um, uh, on Sunday afternoon, and she had hung out with some friends that she doesn't go to school with anymore, and she was saying that, um...

And they were her friends in middle school, right? And so they go to different high schools, and she was saying how...

She's like, "Mom, I really realize that like how they talk to each other is, um, different, and they're almost like always annoyed with one another.

And like my friends that I have now, like we, while we don't always see eye to eye, we, uh, appreciate how the, a- another perspective." And so, um, it's interesting that you bring that up, right? Like the eye contact and, and they go to different schools and there is a marked difference between how kids interact at one school versus another just based on the, um, [lips smack] the purpose and like the mission of the two schools are very different.

And that...