About this episode

Alan Franks discusses how business owners can regain control of their lives and businesses through effective financial planning and exit strategies.

Is your business working for you, or have you become its most underpaid employee? Alan Franks has spent 15 years working with business owners who are successful by every external measure and quietly trapped. Trapped by time, by decisions only they can make, by a financial life that's been entirely reinvested back into the machine they built. As a Certified Financial Planner and founder of the Business Planning Institute, Alan helps business owners reverse-engineer a plan that puts their life back at the center before they're forced to. In this episode, David Carr and Alan break down the Freedom Framework: a practical system for moving from entrepreneur as prisoner to entrepreneur as owner, and why the most important financial decisions most business owners keep postponing are the exact ones that determine whether their business ever actually sets them free. In this episode: Why successful business owners are often broke in ways that don't show up on a balance sheet The E.X.I.T. framework: how to build a business that's ready to sell before you think you need to Why your professional team of advisor, attorney, and accountant may be working in silos and costing you more than you…

People in this episode

Host: David W. Carr

Guest: Alan Franks

Topics covered

• business ownership
• financial planning
• entrepreneurship
• business exit strategies
• personal finance

Keywords

• Freedom Framework
• E.X.I.T. framework
• business worth
• financial decisions
• entrepreneur as owner

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Business Planning Institute

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