Most business owners have a great team around them:

A CPA. An attorney. A wealth manager. Maybe even an exit planner.

But why do things still feel fragmented?

That's the gap Chris Cousins has spent 30 years trying to close.

Chris is the co-founder and President of Freedom-First Pathway, a company built around one uncomfortable truth: the advice industry is siloed by design, and owners are paying the price. Not just financially. In their leadership. In their families. In what happens to them when the business they've built becomes the only thing they are.

The stories he shared hit close to home. Owners who sold their company and found themselves in the regret statistics three years later. Founders who bought a $250,000 Porsche they never wanted because something had to fill the space the business left behind. High-per ...