Brianna Johnson

When business owners start thinking seriously about selling, one of the first questions they ask is some version of: “Who actually knows how to get me through this?” It's a fair question. Exit planning touches everything from valuation to tax strategy to succession and not every advisor has formal training across all of it.

Two buyers are interested in your business. One offers $8 million. The other offers $6.5 million. Which one do you take?

There's a particular feeling that shows up every August: backpacks by the door, school supply lists taped to the fridge, color-coded folders for every subject. For a few weeks, entire households run on structure again.