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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#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.
#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?
#311 - Evelyn takes the cake
Evelyn lived in Detroit and one day she made a dessert for her husband’s boss. It was a hit. So naturally she opened a dessert shop and it was all a massive success. The End. Well, not really.
#119 - A Sign of Things to Come
Shoults and Woodruff were real estate partners who built a grand real estate development in the hills overlooking their city. They built a crazy big, temporary sign to promote the development that was 50 feet tall and had over 4,000 lights. Then the sign took on a life of its own.
#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.
#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.
#301 - Trailing After Others
Sam and Anna were moving from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon. They packed their car to the brim with everything they could haul buthad to leave other stuff behind because they just didn’t have enough room.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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?
#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.
#28: On Track to Victory
Phil loved to run and when his career ended he started selling running shoes made in Japan from the trunk of his car.
#2: Needed a Printer Cartridge
Thomas was unemployed and really frustrated. All he needed to finish his proposal was a printer cartridge. But the stores were closed for the holiday weekend.
#1: Never Too Old To Start Something New
Ray was 52 and a milkshake mixer salesman when he heard about two brothers who ran a restaurant with 8 milkshake mixers and line-ups around the block.