In this episode of Excellence Across Generations, Steve and Moira Forbes sit down with Stew Leonard Jr. and his daughter, Blake Leonard, to uncover the raw, unfiltered reality of managing a multi-generational grocery empire. Thrust into the role of President at just 35, Stew Jr. had to learn how to run the business—and fast. He candidly discusses navigating a highly publicized IRS raid that sent his father to prison, and how an unimaginably tragic personal loss profoundly reshaped his approach to leadership, fatherhood, and business survival.

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