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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#12 Gus has the drive!
Calgary Story: Gus is working at the Palliser when he has a great idea!
#276 - Its a Crime
Mario was godawful at being a writer but he refused to give up and got better. His first two novels sold a few thousand copies. For his third novel, Mario’s publisher suggested he write about gangsters … except he didn’t know any. Yet the novel became a “hit” and sold over 20 million copies.
#292 - Dressing for Success
Paul loved making salads and his own dressing. One Christmas he gave his friends and family a bottle of his salad dressing as a gift. Two months later when they had used it all up they asked Paul for more.
#185 - A Thrust for Life
At 96 years of age Henry was thrust into a life or death situation, but that was nothing new for Henry.
#258 - Coming Up with a Cool Name
Reuben was a Polish immigrant who grew up in the Bronx selling his family’s homemade desserts. Believing New Yorkers would be willing to pay more for a better quality dessert, Reuben just needed to come up with the right name.
#291- Guys Who Delivered
Chris worked in IT in Saskatchewan, Canada and Josh was an investment banker in London, England. One day Josh was working late at night and thought about skipping out to get some food. There had to be a better way.
#259 - A Bright Idea
John was a psychology student at Stanford University in California … and one day he witnessed something that shook him to his core … a gruesome, multi-car accident on a San Francisco freeway. He was so shocked, he took time off from his PhD work to see if he could come up with something to help prevent car accidents.
#62 - The Middle Name
Leroy and his wife had a drive-in restaurant called the Green & White in their Montana hometown. When a new highway interchange forced its closure, they luckily ended up with more money than they likely would have had otherwise, so they took a big risk and moved their young family north to Edmonton to start a new restaurant.
#121 - Room for Growth
Brian and Joe were designers, roommates and unemployed. They desperately needed money to pay the rent.
#155 - Tornado Sale
Richard was living an absolute nightmare. Over 15 years he had carefully built up a small chain of hifi audio equipment stores across Minnesota called the Sound of Music. But now he was staring at a pile of rubble as a tornado had destroyed his best and biggest store.
#250 - Pay Up
One rainy night in Toronto staring out of his condo window David was captivated by a major traffic jam on Highway 401 … thousands of cars literally going nowhere with their drivers bored to tears … and that’s when he had a great idea and got really serious.
#72 - The Aristocrat Sandwich
Jim is a fast food franchisee in blue collar Pittsburgh who creates his own sandwich he calls the Aristrocrat. But sales for the sandwich are poor. So he changes the name a few times until sales take off.
#167 - Not Waffling
Frank specialized in turning farm fresh eggs into mayonnaise, breakfast batter, salad dressings and noodles … but, to maintain freshness, could only deliver quality food products a certain distance from his factory. How to grow?
#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!
#35 - Tired of the Lake
Tom starts a service station in Vernon, BC on a shoestring. After struggling for 18 months he and his partner realize their one bright spot is selling tires. So they convert their store and then convince other tire dealers in other cities to adopt their brand so that they all could share buying power and branding.