I Worked Out of Workaholism… And My Life Is Working Better
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Steve Trice, the founder of Jasco Products, tells the story of why serving his employees is much more rewarding than serving the dollar.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
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| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
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| 0:44.7 | Music or wherever you get your podcast. This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, and we tell stories about everything |
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| 1:04.1 | And now we bring you another story from Steve Trice, and he's the founder of a leading electronics |
| 1:09.8 | company called Jasko Products who |
| 1:12.6 | tells us the story of his marriage and in light of an upbringing of many divorces and |
| 1:18.6 | alcoholism. Here's Steve. |
| 1:22.6 | When Nianne and I talked about getting married when we were 23, 24 years old, I told her at one point. |
| 1:36.3 | I said, you don't want to marry me. I don't think you like it. And she said, what do you mean? I want to marry you. And I said, |
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