
30: Bobby Finan, Tommyrotter Distillery
Bobby Finan started in the craft distillery business when he was 21, and co-owned his Tommyrotter distillery at 23. From failed early busine...
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Bobby Finan started in the craft distillery business when he was 21, and co-owned his Tommyrotter distillery at 23. From failed early busine...

Jeff Coleman and Jules Lambert run PROBAR in Salt Lake City, Utah. Sign up for our newsletter to get bonus stuff from each episode. Thanks t...
Robert Mermin is a clown who ran away from home and started his own circus, Circus Smirkus . It's an incredible story from pitching Dr. Seus...

Jason Fried is the CEO of Basecamp . Sign up for our newsletter to get bonus stuff from each episode. Thanks to our friends at MailChimp for...

Almost any time you walk into Piccolo's Restaurant in Hoboken for a cheesesteak, you can hear Patty lumbering around, coming out of the kitc...

Laurie Woolever is a writer and Anthony Bourdain's assistant. She and Anthony are releasing a cookbook called Appetites this fall. Pre-order...

Paula Varsalona has designed and made over 60,000 dresses during her long career in New York City. Originally from Independence, Missouri, P...

Marty Raney runs the Alaska Stone and Log Company in Wasilla, Alaska. He's also on Discovery's Homestead Rescue. His site is MartyRaney.com....

Stephanie Rothstein Bruce is an inspiration to a lot of athletes because of her real stories of being a mom and a professional athlete. Some...

Aaron Draplin runs the Draplin Design Co. in Portland, Oregon. His new book, Pretty Much Everything, is available at ddcbook.com . Sign up f...

Dave Nevogt is on his "third or fourth" online business, he doesn't really remember. And it is not as if the previous companies have failed,...

Peter Metcalf ran Black Diamond Equipment from 1989 to 2015. Sign up for our newsletter to get bonus stuff from each episode. Thanks to our...

Allison Robicelli moves fast. The woman who got engaged only 6 weeks after meeting her husband and co-owner has opened a store in Brooklyn,...
Chris Linton came to this country from Trinidad as an illegal alien in 1990. After spending 7 years working as a day laborer starting at $40...

James Nelson and Jeremiah Tallerine run Bravado Spice, a hot sauce company in Houston, Texas. Sign up for our newsletter to get bonus stuff...

Freddy Zeideia started and runs The King of Falafel and Shawarma in Astoria, Queens. Sign up for our newsletter to get bonus stuff from each...

Peter Shankman stumbled upon a multi-million dollar business when he started e-mailing his journalist friends from his couch. Founder of Hel...

Ashley Albert and Jonathan Schnapp are the founders of the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club in Brooklyn, NY. Sign up for our newsletter to get...

Michael Miqueli is the founder of San AntonioBrokerServices, a trucking company in North Bergen, New Jersey. Sign up for our newsletter toge...

Brad's an electrician in Dorset, Vermont. He employs 10 people, has 1600 customers, and has a masterful command of the English language when...

Will's a rancher from Bluffton, Georgia. He's the fourth generation owner of White Oak Pastures. Will transitioned White Oak from a traditio...

Audra grew up changing oil and swapping tires. She's a fourth generation mechanic and owner of Great Bear Auto Repair in Queens, NY. Since t...

Joe Ray thought he was pretty tough at 18. So tough, he thought, that he might have a career as a boxer. He hired a boxing coach and quickly...

After being fired from her corporate job and with a new six-month old, Harriet Mills needed to find work, fast. So she did the logical thing...

Luke Holden & Ben Conniff started a restaurant in the East Village with $30,000 and one product in 2009. Since then, they've expanded into B...

Nonpoint is a heavy metal band that originated in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Robb Rivera is the drummer and founded the band in 1996 when he...

Amy Simmons is the founder and president of Amy's Ice Creams in Austin, Texas. She opened her first store in 1984, picking the location afte...

Fred Forsley is the co-founder of Shipyard Brewing Company , which in 2014 sold over 18 million bottles of their Pumpkinhead Ale. His story...

Jim Andaloro is the owner and CEO of Metal Tronics in Georgetown, Massachusetts. They make sheet metal products and generate over $10M annua...

Joe De Sena is the co-founder of Spartan Race , a military-inspired obstacle race series. At 13 he started a pool cleaning and construction...

We talk with gritty, hilarious people who run successful small businesses. Season one will feature conversations with loggers, ranchers, ele...