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THIS BOOK REVEALS ONE OF THE GREATEST SECRETS IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY Structure can be built for our emotional lives, just as structures can be built for an organization. When we set a course for a positive emotional future, establishing a new and constructive emotional legacy for our children and future generations, we create emotional wealth. This incredible and innovative form of wealth can be passed down to descendants just like money. It is a timeless gift that helps secure both the emotional certainty, relational peace and quite possibly, even the financial security we want for ourselves and our families. ** What Your Parents Didn't Tell You is a thoughtful and deeply reflective exploration of how the emotional patterns we inherit shape our lives, our families, and the legacies we leave behind. Francesco Lombardo challenges the idea that financial success alone creates security - and shows why emotional wealth is the true foundation of long-term wellbeing and continuity. This is a powerful read for founders, family-business leaders, and anyone who wants to understand the invisible forces shaping their decisions, relationships, and future generations. James Laughlin, International Best-Selling Author of Habits of High Performers - New Zealand Lombardo's book explores the hidden architecture of family dynamics. This book provides an interesting read for anyone who wants to think differently about the reasons family businesses may succeed or fail across generations, and more importantly, how to ensure yours thrives. Megan W. Gerhardt, Ph.D. Professor of Leadership, Miami University and Author of Gentelligence: The Revolutionary Approach to Leading an Intergenerational Workforce - United States of America A fascinating exploration of our real legacy - the emotional inheritance we leave behind once we're gone. It's the best investment in your family's future I can think of. James Kerr, Elite Performance Coach and Best-Selling Author of Legacy, 15 Lessons in Leadership - United Kingdom As a leading global expert on the emotional impact money and wealth have on relationships within family businesses, Franco is committed to assisting families create and maintain emotional safety for the stability, continuity and sustainability of the family, its wealth and its legacy.

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Francesco Lombardo masterfully explores the emotional legacies families unknowingly pass down through generations. This book sheds light on how financial security often fails to guarantee emotional well-being, with negative emotional traditions and harmful behavioral patterns perpetuating a cycle of silent pain. Francesco unearths the subtle but powerful ""ecology of beliefs"" that shape family dynamics, revealing how rules and narratives become normalized, ultimately affecting future generations. Through this eye-opening work, Francesco offers a path to healing generational wounds and creating a new, positive emotional legacy. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to break free from inherited emotional burdens and build a healthier future. Olivier de Richoufftz, Secretary General, Family Enterprise Foundation-Switzerland The blend of narrative story telling with actionable frameworks makes the ideas resonate whether you are seeking personal growth, improving family harmony or guiding a family business through succession. If you want to understand how past generations subtly shape present choices, this book offers a thoughtful starting place. Anton Oliver, Former New Zealand All Blacks Captain and Co-Founder of Athletes Trust - Thailand Francesco Lombardo brings a rare blend of honesty, practical wisdom, and deep compassion to the subject of family legacies and emotional inheritance. This book gives readers the tools to identify and break negative patterns. Francesco weaves together personal stories (including his own, where he shows incredible insight, bravery and vulnerability), historical and real life examples. At the end of each chapter he pauses with questions to ponder which invite real self-reflection. He tackles tough topics - shame, addiction, grief, and the 'impostor' within - with clarity and empathy. Catherine Sayer, CEO, Family Business Association Australia-Australia This book is for anyone who wants to understand how inherited emotional patterns influence identity, relationships and decision-making. It interacts with the reader in a very personal way and has much actionable material that is relevant to any family that is hopeful of building a lasting legacy, one defined by connection as much, if not more than, wealth Iain Blakeley, Founding Chair, New Zealand Family Business Association-New Zealand Francesco Lombardo names the hidden inheritance that shapes identity, relationships, and long-term continuity: the emotional traditions we normalize-and the truths we avoid. This is not a sentimental book about feelings. It is a serious framework for emotional governance, and a timely reminder that no amount of financial sophistication can compensate for an unaddressed emotional legacy. If you care about the future of a family-read this. Ryna Mi, Architect of Sovereign Wealthcare and Founding Steward of The Wealth School-Switzerland Honest, authentic and real insights into family dynamics and how experiences growing up inevitably shape our thoughts and influence behaviours throughout a lifetime. Real insights. Real perspectives. Real questions. Paul Andrews, CEO, Family Business United-United Kingdom Franco brings together decades of experience, insight, and compassion. He reveals how emotional legacies-those invisible traditions and patterns passed down through generations-shape our lives, our relationships, and our futures. This book is not just a guide for families of means; it is a call to anyone seeking to understand the deeper currents that influence their decisions, their sense of belonging, and their capacity for growth. Hilton Sacks, EVP, Head of International Development at Cidel Private Bank-Canada

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For more than twenty years, Francesco Lombardo has been a family business advisor to some of the world's most successful and affluent families. His early years spent in the corporate world, in tandem with his own journey of emotional self-discovery, gave Franco a deep insight into the unique pressures facing high-net-worth families and the complexity of not only sustaining their financial wealth, but their emotional wealth. It was these observations that inspired Franco to set up Veritage, his coaching and advisory firm for wealth-owning families, that exclusively focuses on emotional governance.As a leading global expert on the emotional impact money and wealth has on relationships within family businesses, he is committed to assisting families find, create, and maintain emotional safety by developing new models for cultural governance, which contributes to the stability, continuity and sustainability of the family business enterprise, its wealth and its legacy.Franco is an avid rugby fan and loves nothing more than sharing a good bottle of wine with friends and family.

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