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Adventure should never come with a pause button.

Remember Movie Pass?

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

he built.

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

And then boom, it's everywhere.

And that was that moment.

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

And we continue with our American stories.

And now we have one of the co-owners of Diablo Southwest Grill here to share his story. Diablo's was started by Carl Wallace and brothers Brandon and Bradwall in Augusta, Georgia. Here he is sharing his story of how this

business got started and how they operate. Luckily for me, you know, through life, all of my success has come from challenges and what seems sometimes like really bad days actually set us up for the best days.

My wife had lost her job with Verizon when they had bought out another company, and I had never cooked a day in my life.

So when she went back to work, instead of working business hours, she started working retail hours.

And then that led me to having to cook for myself because she wouldn't get home to 9 o' 10 o'clock at night.

And then I realized I had a passion for cooking.

And so actually Diablo's was born out of loss of a job for her.

And then I wanted to create a chain, not just do someone else's dreams.

I wanted to create my own dream.

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