Episode Highlights With Chris and Melissa

• How they got into the work of helping families and doing family brand
• The biggest challenges families face today and how they navigate those challenges
• “More is caught than taught” - importance of modeling
• How to keep values from coming across as a list of dos and don'ts and how to do values well
• Ways to identify and incorporate your family values
• Every family has a culture… was your created by default or by design?
• Either you can define what your family stands for or the world will do it for you
• How to do a weekly family check-in around culture with: What you are grateful for, Who in the family did something really kind for you this week, Who has something going on this week (calendar syncing), and Does anyone have a challenge or problem they’d like the whole family’s help in solving?

Resources We Mention

• Family Brand website
• Family Brand Podcast
• Family Brand Podcast - My episode
• The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
• The Go Giver
• Byron Katie's The Work Journal
• We Are All the Same Age Now: Valuegraphics, The End of Demographic Stereotypes by David Allison
• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz