Have you had a situation where you created something and you go, man, I love this.

And in the testing, the audience went, no thanks.

No.

Never.

I'll tell you why.

We were in our hotel room doing blends of whiskey right up until the time we were going downstairs to present our whiskey

for the first time. At that moment, we felt like we had what we needed. And that was...

He started his career in a mailroom and eventually built Angels envy into a bourbon icon.

Now Wes Henderson is revealing the secret behind legacy and why his new chapter had to be written.

You're a death investigator. How does that happen? I started out in emergency services as a volunteer firefighter.

I think that what they saw with me and the fire service and my business, I'm good at solving puzzles.

Has that affected you psychologically? It's, yeah, it's it.

So, Wes, one of the things i love about your story and there's so much about your story that i love but i love that you started in the mail room and you know

we remember the secret of my success i think it was i'm not sure if that was the michael j fox

movie or not i'm really dating myself.

But the mailroom of Brown Foreman, how did you get that gig? And then how long were you in that?

Because I also, my research team tells me you were also driving the CEO around. So take us back to the earliest days, starting really low on the poll.

I think I learned more about the industry, probably working in the mail room.

How so? You're in the belly of the beast. Nobody pays attention to you. And you're all over the company. And so you hear these things that you wouldn't typically hear. But then you're seeing how

things work. It's just a great way to start. And that's where a lot of the executives' kids started.

And really, I got the job because of who my dad was at the end of the day. He made, so tell,

so introduce the audience to your dad, where he was the master distiller at Brown Foreman for about 40 years.

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