Most owners plan their transition around money. Pete Walker thinks that's why so many of them end up with regret.Watch on YouTube Pete grew up on a 100-acre potato farm in a community of 90 people in Prince Edward Island. When his dad shut the farm down, 15 neighbors lost their seasonal jobs, local businesses lost a customer, and the tax base shrank. That story is now playing out across thousands of communities in the U.S. and Canada as owner-operators approach retirement without a plan. Pete spent 14 years at TD Bank, served in Canadian government economic development, and now runs Boughton Riverview Consulting, where he helps owners figure out what they actually want before a crisis forces a binary choice. We got into his "story of you" framework, why employee ownership is gaining traction in Canada, and how to normalize the hardest conversation most owners will ever have.Top 10 Takeaways If you don't decide what happens to your business, someone else will. And you probably won'...