Check Your Ego

Is there someone in your family with whom you disagree politically?  How do you handle that?  Do you allow them to speak freely while you listen with an open mind?  As you know, that’s the Our Voices Matter mantra. It’s a mantra this week’s guest actively practices in his own family, as well as among the 500 employees who staff his restaurant business, including its signature concepts, The Tasting Room and Max’s Wine Dive.  Jerry Lasco, CEO of Lasco Enterprises, sits down with me to share how his midwestern values and growing up in the military play a role in how he shows up in the world today, as a husband, father and entrepreneur whose life trajectory changed on 9-11.