Welcome to the inaugural episode of Rogue Wealth, the podcast built for leaders, entrepreneurs, and family business owners who are serious about building and protecting real wealth.

In this first conversation, we’re diving into one of the single biggest wealth killers of our time: noise. From market updates, social feeds, and endless “productivity hacks,” the constant barrage of information is designed to distract, not empower. The truth? Even accurate information can derail your focus and become a hidden tax on your decision-making.

In this episode, we’ll unpack:

• The Signal-to-Noise Tax — why not all inputs are equal.
• How to Build Your Personal Filter — the decision framework that protects your focus.
• Silence as a Skill — guarding your brain real estate from distractions.
• Why Today’s Rate of Change Demands Preparation — and how ignoring it puts your future at risk.

Along the way, I’ll share real stories — from navigating messy partnerships to making bold investments when panic ruled the market — to show how discipline, focus, and silence create the space where wealth is built.

If you’re ready to filter out the noise, stop reacting, and start moving the needle on what matters most, this episode will give you the tools to do it.

Learn more at ProsperiFi.com, or schedule a Power-Up session to get your family business on track to excellence.

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction

1:00 - Noise paralyzes you from making decisions

4:17 - Signal to Noise Tax

6:28 - Rogue Wealth Rule #1

10:32 - Silence is a tough skill to utilize

17:19 - Noise impacting a business partnership

21:02 - Key takeaways

23:11 - Closing remarks

In this episode of Rogue Wealth, host Kris Garlewicz tackles one of the most destructive—and least discussed—forces in family business: emotional friction.

Building on Episode 1’s theme of Blocking Out the Noise, this conversation exposes the emotional tax that quietly drains productivity, clarity, and growth. The toughest consultant your business will ever face isn’t a Wall Street analyst—it’s often sitting across from you at the dinner table.

Kris breaks down the frameworks used by successful family enterprises to transform dysfunction into discipline, and emotion into clarity. You’ll learn:

• How to define your family charter and core values — the unbreakable commandments guiding every decision.
• Why everyone is watching — how your behavior sets the standard for every generation that follows.
• What professional governance really looks like — and how to enforce systems that transcend last names.
• How to identify your “bodyguards and sounding boards” — the people who keep you accountable when decisions get emotional.

Through powerful stories and real-world lessons—including the fallout of a $400 million family business collapse—Kris reveals how even the most successful families can lose everything when emotion overrides structure.

A struggling family business isn’t always a product of circumstance—it’s often a reflection of choice.

In this episode, Kris Garlewicz breaks down The Family Business Performance Hierarchy—a five-tier framework that helps you diagnose exactly where your organization stands today… and what it takes to climb higher.

From “Obsolete” operations to “Apex” performance, Kris explores the mindset, leadership, and systems that separate legacy-building businesses from those treading water.

This episode delivers clarity, challenge, and a call to action for any family-owned business ready to move from mediocrity to mastery.

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction

2:18 - The Family Business Performance Hierarchy

5:38 - What it means to be a "struggling" business

9:11 - Who are truly "Game Changers" in their industry?

12:09 - The Apex Family Business

16:39 - Rethinking core business models to reduce distraction

19:41 - Growth solves all problems

22:01 - Closing remarks

In this hard-hitting episode of Rogue Wealth, Kris Garlewicz tears apart one of the biggest myths in family business:

“The tax code is designed to take your money.” Wrong. It’s designed to reward specific behaviors — and family businesses are the single most advantaged group in the entire system.

Kris breaks down how the tax code actually works, why your CPA is probably costing you more than they’re saving, and how even simple, legal, IRS-approved strategies can unlock six to seven figures in wealth every year.

From the Augusta Rule, to hiring your kids, to the power of corporate structure, advanced retirement plans, cost segregation, and energy credits — this episode is a masterclass in turning taxes from a burden into a business accelerator.

If you are a family business owner, founder, or entrepreneur, the government has already written a 70,000-page playbook directing you toward tax-free wealth.

The only question is whether you’re going to use it.

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction

2:05 - The Tax Code is a set of instructions on how to play the game

3:45 - The Tax Code is actually your business plan

6:38 - The Family Business Advantage

9:30 - Advanced strategies your CPA forgot to mention

12:30 - Rogue Wealth Rule #4

16:20 - Key takeaways

19:50 - Closing remarks

Most families believe they’re prepared for a crisis. They’ve signed the documents. Checked the boxes. Completed the estate plan.

And yet, almost none of them are ready for the disaster that actually comes first.

In this episode of Rogue Wealth, Kris dismantles the dangerous myth that death is the real emergency. The true crisis is the three to seven year marathon before it — cognitive decline, long-term care, caregiver burnout, family conflict, and financial hemorrhaging — all unfolding while the person you love is still alive and decisions still have to be made.

This is the episode your advisory team never mentioned.

We explore why families don’t “rise to the occasion” in emergencies, why the government’s default plan creates chaos, and why most estate documents fail when incapacity lasts years instead of weeks. From the hidden toll of caregiving to the devastating impact on family businesses, this conversation reframes preparedness as protection — not pessimism.

This is about running the fire drill before the smoke fills the room. Because communication isn’t just advice. It’s lubrication. And the hardest conversations are where the breakthroughs are hiding.

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction

1:47 - Communication is lubrication

6:30 - Don't let your kids lose both parents

11:00 - Define your plan and identify these key concerns

17:18 - A client's life is turned upside down

24:10 - Do your fire drill so you're prepared when something happens

26:00 - Things you can do right now!

28:15 - The critical choice you need to make