Our Radio Series
Here are some episodes from our 300+ library of stories. Every 90 second story is about an everyday person who had a great idea, took action, overcame hurdles and created a business, brand or invention we all know!
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#269 - A Big Musical
Margo was at home nursing a cold when she saw a 1980s cult movie on TV. After licensing the rights from the studio for next to nothing she turned it into a big musical. But how to finance it?
#287 - Exciting & New
Geraldine was a former model who became a hostess on a cruise ship. Every week Geraldine would write her mother a letter telling her about what had happened aboard the cruise ship with the passengers. Unbeknownst to Geraldine, her mother sent the letters to a book agent who promptly asked for more.
#273 - Running Out of Ideas
Carolyn was a graphic design major at Portland State University. To make ends meet she did some work for a professor who ran a company on the side and often needed charts and graphs done up when he met with executives. One day he needed a logo.
#148 - The Winner Takes It All
Judy fell in love with a single song. She sang it all the time and it became her anthem. When she unexpectedly got to work with the song’s writers she took a chance and pitched them on turning their music into a full-fledged musical.
#188 - Write On
Tabby and her husband struggled to get by. She worked at Dunkin Donuts and he was a high school teacher who wrote short stories & magazine articles to earn a few extra dollars for groceries or to fix their used car. One day her husband came home excited about a possible promotion that would give them a little extra money. Tabby’s first great idea? Don’t accept it and just keep on writing.
#298 - Intermission
Moya has to come up with a seven minute performance to play during the intermission between acts for a major show. The resulting intermission performance outperforms the main acts and becomes its own event!
#290 - Educating the Masses
James was fortunate enough to grow up traveling the world and became a rich and renowned scientist. When he died, he left his sizeable fortune to country he had never been to before with instructions to build an institution in their capital city for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.
#308 - Never The Bride
After directing a couple of modestly successful movies, a studio executive tells Rob he can choose any project he likes … except the one Rob mentions really wants to do!
#64 - An Enterprising Woman
After a major television network rejects the first pilot for a potential television series, Lucy (a rare female Hollywood studio executive at the time) greenlights a second, expensive pilot despite company cash flow issues and major objections from her Board of Directors.