The Sunday Lunch Podcast
Honest conversations about family business, leadership and relationships.
Hosted by Mike Overwater and Lisa Clausen, founders of ekoYOU, The Sunday Lunch Podcast explores what really happens when business and relationships become intertwined. ekoYOU's coaching and training helps family businesses shift the partnership dynamics that are quietly costing them peace, profit, and Sunday lunches.
Having grown up in family businesses, worked in them, led them and built businesses together, Mike and Lisa understand that the biggest challenges in business are often not about strategy, systems or profit.
They're about people.
Communication.
Expectations.
Trust.
Decision-making.
Relationships.
Each week, Mike and Lis share honest conversations, personal stories, practical insights and lessons learned from decades of experience helping businesses and partnerships create more calm, alignment and momentum.
Whether you're in business with your partner, your family, or people you've known for years, this podcast will help you navigate the conversations, challenges and opportunities that come when business and relationships collide.
Because the conversations we avoid often become the challenges we face.
And the most important business conversations rarely happen in the boardroom.
They happen around the Sunday lunch table... unless, that is, people are avoiding Sunday lunches all together ;)
Episodes
9 episodes
9. Good Conflict, Bad Conflict: Why Avoiding the Argument Is Never the Answer
Most people in family businesses have the same instinct when conflict shows up — avoid it, smooth it over, tell yourself it's not worth the drama. In this episode, Mike and Lisa make the case that this instinct, however understandab...
8. The Trust Question: What It Actually Means to Trust Someone in a Family Business
Trust is one of those words that gets used constantly in family business — and yet when it breaks down, most people struggle to say exactly what's gone wrong. In this episode, Mike and Lisa explore why that is, unpacking trust into ...
7. The Money Conversation: What You're Really Arguing About
Money is everywhere in a family business — and yet the real conversations about it almost never happen. In this episode, Mike and Lisa go beneath the surface of financial conflict to explore what money actually means to the people i...
6. The Role Trap: When Roles Don't Get Chosen - They Just Happen
In most family businesses and partnerships, roles don't get chosen, they just happen. Someone picks up what needed doing, and over time that arrangement becomes permanent. In this episode, Mike and Lisa explore what happens when the...
5. The Unspoken Rules: What Nobody Says But Everyone Knows
In every family business and partnership, there are rules that everybody follows but nobody ever wrote down. Rules like — Dad makes the final call, always. Or — we don't bring a problem unless we already have the solution. Or — we simply don't ...
4. The Vision Illusion: Are You Actually Building The Same Future?
You've had the conversations and you've agreed on the goals. You're working hard and as business partners you both, or all, care. So why does it sometimes feel like you're not quite moving in the same direction? Most family business...
3. When Something Needs To Change & You Notice First
Change in a family business almost always starts with one person.The person who senses something isn't quite right before anyone else is ready to acknowledge it.If you've ever found yourself lying awake at 2am wondering whe...
2. The Year Everything Fell Apart (And What It Taught Us)
Where did the Abundance in Business Method™ come from?In this episode, Mike and Lisa share the real story behind the framework that now underpins all of their work with family businesses and business partnerships. The story begins during...
1. Why we started The Sunday Lunch Podcast
Welcome to the very first episode of The Sunday Lunch Podcast! Thanks for being here.In this opening conversation, we share why we created this podcast and the journey that brought us here.Between us, we've spent most of our...
