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This podcast series will interview leaders in a variety of businesses who found their life, their business, or their world upended in one day. How did they react? How did they shift direction? How did they move forward to continue with the success of their company?
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Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Kai Adams was in Colorado in school for geology and working at a brewery when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Kai returned to Maine for post-treatment rest, which eventually resulted in his meeting future business partners Tim Haines and Brad Monarch — thus Sebago Brewing was born. Kai talks about how Sebago Brewing came about, how he feels about Maine’s craft boom, and how investing in Maine is at the heart of what Sebago is all about.
Monday Sep 27, 2021
Monday Sep 27, 2021
ShipRight Solutions started as an order fulfillment company for direct marketing organizations. When it partnered with Wayfair in 2017, the business grew exponentially, and owners Drew Graham and Todd Flaherty had to scale the business quickly and learn from a few bumps along the way.
Monday Sep 13, 2021
Monday Sep 13, 2021
When Carolyn Delaney launched Journey magazine in March 2019 to amplify hope for Mainers in recovery from addiction, it also marked a new chapter for her after a career in IT consulting—and her own sobriety journey that began on Feb. 12, 1993. Carolyn shares how she started a publication that aims to change the conversation around addiction and how it is evolving.
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Monday Aug 30, 2021
When Nisha Dearborn moved to Maine with her family, she left the world of big consumer brands to start a niche skin-care company called Fresh Chemistry. After an unexpected opportunity to showcase the products on the QVC home-shopping channel, viewers responded in a big way, and sales of Fresh Chemistry products took off. Hear from Nisha about how her TV appearance influenced her startup journey.
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Erin Flett started her design company in her basement before moving into an old textile mill in Biddeford and then her current location in Gorham. Erin's profile was raised when she garnered the attention of high profile brands like L.L. Bean and Anthropologie who wanted to partner with her and when she won the highly coveted Greenlight Maine competition. Hear from Erin about how those high profile partnerships affected her business.
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Monday Aug 02, 2021
In early 2021 at the start of the vaccine rollout, the property development team at The Downs in Scarborough stepped up to transform a former harness-racing grandstand into a high-volume vaccination clinic for MaineHealth. They accomplished that in under three weeks amid ongoing construction at The Downs, a mixed-use development spread out over 525 acres. Hear business partners and childhood friends Bill Risbara and Peter Michaud talk with Mainebiz writer Renee Cordes about what it took to build a clinic quickly to get Mainers vaccinated.
See the time-lapse video of the grandstand transformation HERE
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Amy Bouchard had been making whoopie pies since childhood when she decided to try selling them. With no business experience and armed with the local phone book, she started making the rounds to see who would be interested in buying her sweet treats. Within a few years Amy was getting some pretty impressive national attention including coverage by the Oprah Show, Good Morning America, and Associated Press. Mainebiz Director of Sales Andrea Tetzlaff talks with Wicked Whoopie Owner Amy Bouchard about what she learned from all of this national attention and how saying no to opportunity isn’t always bad.
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Monday Jul 05, 2021
When a catastrophic bicycle accident rendered IDEXX CEO Jonathan Ayers quadriplegic, he was forced to leave the company he led for 17 years. Devoting himself to wild-cat conservation has given the former business leader new purpose in life, both through a foundation he and his wife established before his accident and a New York-based nonprofit called Panthera. Ayers talks to Mainebiz writer Renee Cordes about what motivates his philanthropy and how it’s also therapy for the self-proclaimed “cat guy.”
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
The Holy Donut is a Portland-based maker and seller of fresh Maine potato donuts at its own retail shops. When it partnered with Hannaford Supermarkets during the pandemic it had to quickly shift gears and craft a distribution system for grocery-store shelves without sacrificing product quality. Hear co-owner and CEO Jeff Buckwalter talk to Mainebiz journalist Renee Cordes about how the company navigated these challenges to find a winning recipe with Hannaford.
Monday Jun 07, 2021
Monday Jun 07, 2021
As the landscape of higher education was shifting, Unity College President Melik Peter Khoury had planned to move the school to a hybrid model of in-person and remote classes. But the pandemic changed everything and put those plans into overdrive. What's more, Unity had to deal with an FBI investigation of an employee who later was convicted of embezzlement. Hear Dr. Khoury talk about how he and his team brought Unity College through these days that changed everything.