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How former family business leaders from Sioux Falls, Le Mars found purpose in retirement

How former family business leaders from Sioux Falls, Le Mars found purpose in retirement   Not only did Joe Kirby want to retire by age 40, but he never planned to work for the family business in the first place. “I had little intent of being pulled into the family business,” said Kirby, former CEO […]

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Modeling Joy in Work to Perpetuate a Family Business

Modeling Joy in Work to Perpetuate a Family Business – Maggie (Baker) Groteluschen, Fiduciary Services Manager, First National Wealth Management I look forward to attending the annual Prairie Family Business Conference every year. This year, one of the speakers talked about how he had recently sold his family business. Upon being asked if any of

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Hefty Seed Company co-owner Darren Hefty shares lessons from family business, farm life

“Growing up on a farm in the 1980s, money and the lack of money were talked about a lot. So every expense was scrutinized, and every opportunity to make some extra money with livestock or crops or different things we were doing was definitely important.” A farm kid from Baltic, Darren Hefty has long been

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