Hosted by Heidi Olson · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 49 episodes
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Welcome to the Pathfinder Legacy podcast, where we dive into the crucial conversations around succession planning, retirement, and navigating major life transitions for farm families. Hosted by Heidi Olson, Certified Farm Succession Planner, each episode offers practical advice, real stories, and expert insights to help you secure your legacy and plan for the future with confidence.
Heidi Olson hosts Pathfinder Legacy, a business show with 49 episodes published.
Most farm transitions fail not because families lack a plan, but because they can't align authority with responsibility, define what retirement actually means, or separate advice from control. In this episode, Heidi dive
There's something about Memorial Day weekend that makes a person stop and remember. Whether it's seeing flowers at the cemetery or hearing a name you haven't heard in a while, memories come flooding back. This military t
What if I told you families have been handed million-dollar farming legacies and still lost it all? Not because the land wasn't there. Not because grandpa didn't work hard enough. But because entitlement got mistaken for
In this final chapter of the Pathfinder Legacy Podcast family legacy series, Heidi wraps up her conversation with Lance, Patty, and Blythe with the kind of stories that only come out when everyone's comfortable and the l
In Part 2 of this Pathfinder Legacy Podcast family legacy interview, Heidi continues her conversation with Lance, Patty, and Blythe, a multi-generation Mississippi farming family, and the stories just keep coming. From T
In this episode, Heidi sits down with sisters and cousins from a multi-generation Mississippi farming family to capture the stories that don't live in deeds or documents but live in memory. From mule-plowed fields and su
You carefully choose your attorney, banker, and advisor team… but are you choosing your successor with the same level of scrutiny? In this episode of the Pathfinder Legacy Podcast, Heidi Olson tackles one of the most ove
In this episode of the Pathfinder Legacy Podcast, we tackle one of the most costly and damaging assumptions in agriculture: "They'll figure it out after I'm gone." The truth? Most families don't figure it out—they fall a
You think your family won't fight. They will. Every family does — and here's what it actually looks like. When someone dies on a family farm, what follows isn't just grief — it's grief mixed with money, old resentments,
What happens to your farm the day after you're gone? If your estate plan isn't airtight, the answer could devastate everything you've built. In this episode of Pathfinder Legacy Podcast, we're pulling back the curtain on
In this episode of the Pathfinder Legacy Podcast, Heidi Olson sits down with Erica Lantz to talk about the evolving role of women in agriculture and how leadership is changing across farm families and operations. From fi
In this episode of the Pathfinder Legacy Podcast, Heidi Olson dives into one of the most common and misunderstood issues in farm succession planning: the difference between fair and equal. Drawing from more than two deca
In this episode of the Pathfinder Legacy Podcast, Heidi Olson shares why so many farm families avoid the succession conversation—and why waiting only makes the problem worse. Drawing from more than 20 years of experience
In Part 3 of this series, Heidi and Tom brings it all together with practical guidance on how to move forward. What does a healthy succession plan actually look like? How do you balance fairness with viability? And how d
In Part 2, Heidi and guest Tom dives into the emotional undercurrents that quietly shape farm transitions — obligation, guilt, loyalty, and unspoken expectations. When succession depends on pressure instead of clarity, i
In Part 1 of this 3 part series, Heidi opens the door to one of the most uncomfortable — and most important — conversations farm families need to have. Why do so many families avoid talking about succession until it's to
In Part 2 of this Pathfinder Legacy Podcast conversation, Heidi Olson continues her discussion with longtime family friend Pete Hanebutt, diving deeper into how real-life experiences shape the way families approach plann
In this episode of the Pathfinder Legacy Podcast, Heidi Olson sits down with longtime family friend Pete Hanebutt to explore how family history, faith, and lived experience shape the way we think about legacy and plannin
In Part 2, the conversation turns practical. Heidi and Dr. Bruce Pedersen dive into what happens after loss, the realities of administering an estate, and why even well-crafted plans still require clarity, communication,
In Part 1, Heidi Olson sits down with Dr. Bruce Pedersen to explore multi-generation legacy through the lens of family, farming, and vocation. They reflect on what it means to inherit more than assets — values, identity,
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Pathfinder Legacy is hosted by Heidi Olson. The show is categorised under business (investing) and has published 49 episodes.
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