Episode 27

Family Stories Part 2

Purpose of Wealth Podcast

About the episode

In Episode 24 Family Stories: the Heart of Legacy, host Narelle Hooper spoke to historian Dr Stella Barber about documenting the story of your family, and why it’s so important to family legacy for future generations.

In this episode, Narelle returns to the topic with journalist Damon Kitney, who has intimate experience telling the stories of the challenges and triumphs behind some of Australia’s best-known families (James Packer, Warren Anderson, Lindsay Fox, Carol and Alan Schwartz, Kerry Stokes, Jennifer Nason, the Wilson family and many more).

They chat about the motivations and tensions in documenting and preserving intergenerational wealth, entrepreneurial resilience and the role of humility and communication in successful wealth transfer.

Featuring

Narelle Hooper - Host

During more than 25 years as a business and finance journalist and editor Narelle has worked for Australia’s leading media groups including the ABC, Fairfax Media and SBS TV. She’s a former Editor of the Australian Financial Review’s BOSS Magazine and was founding co-chair of the Financial Review’s Women of Influence Awards.

Narelle is also a member of the board of the The Ethics Centre. She has held a number of non executive director roles over the past decade, including with the Tasmanian Development Board, the Documentary Australia Foundation and with women's entrepreneurship accelerator SBE Australia, which runs the Springboard Enterprises program.

Damon Kitney - Guest

Damon Kitney has spent three decades in financial journalism, including 16 years at The Australian Financial Review and 12 years as Victorian business editor at The Australian. He specialises in writing the untold personal stories of the nation’s richest and most private people and now runs his own writing and advisory business, DMK Publishing. He has published four books – “The Price of Fortune: The Untold Story of being James Packer; “The Inner Sanctum”, “The Fortune Tellers”, and “Heroic Humility: The Story of Ron Manners”. He has also written 10 private business memoirs.