Welcome to the How of Business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. And now, here is your host.

Welcome to this episode of The How What Business. This is Henry Lopez, and my today is Rob Ridgway. Rob, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Henry. I appreciate you. Have me on. Certainly. I look forward to this conversation. It's an

interesting one and I got my attention. And so Rob's going to share his inspiring story,

rather, of turning an idea for a board game into what is now a very successful

business, including the seemingly, from my perspective, insurmountable obstacles that he

faced along the way. If you want to receive more information about the Hawa business,

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So Rob Ridgeway is an inventor and a small business owner.

He's the inventor of Spontunius, the song game, and we'll be talking about this board game

if you're not familiar with it and how he came

up with this idea about 10 years ago. At the time he was selling business insurance and decided

he was going to get into the business of selling a board game, which sounds crazy, but that's what

he's done. His game reached number one on Amazon during the holiday season, the past two seasons.

But the story's not full of all fun and games.

You get that.

Although, though it is truly inspiring for anyone interested in taking an idea like he had from nothing to a multi-billion

dollar, multi-million dollar business, probably a billion dollar soon, but to a multi-billion dollar, multi-million dollar business, probably billion

dollar soon, but to a multi-million dollar business. Rob lives in Nashville, Tennessee. And so once

again, Rob Ridgeway, welcome to the show. Thanks, Henry. I appreciate it. My pleasure. So in

clarifying some of the notes, you clarified that you grew up on a farm

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