The story of how Jack Daniel’s began his distillery through the help of an enslaved African-American, Nearest Green is no longer an open “secret”. Fawn Weaver, Owner and CEO was in Singapore and read a New York Time article written by Clay Risen (who has some amazing articles btw) that forever changed Fawn’s life and the…
152: Sober Curious? Creating a Sober Bar Business One Step at a Time
Anyone who has stopped drinking — either temporarily or permanently — knows the decision is often met with questions, curious looks, or after-school special-style challenges. It can be enough to make you throw in the proverbial cocktail napkin. But Chris Marshall, the visionary behind Sans Bar, wants to make it easier. Sans Bar, billed as…
Addictions and Entrepreneurship
On the Inside The Marketplace podcast #97, Priest talked to Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow. Mike’s story has some of the familiar sounds of other rags to riches successes where he got a great idea, worked tirelessly to perfect it and then tried and initially failed to get retailers on board with the product so…