S E277: Jenny Doan Built an Empire in the Middle of No Where and So Can You
This Is Karen Hunter
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🗓️ 2 March 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The face and power behind Missouri Star Quilt was bankrupt with limited options but she didn't sit in her despair. She moved to the middle of no where and built an empire. Is it time for you to move? Karen explains why it might be necessary for you to move in order to create the life you want.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. I want to talk today about Jenny Don't. Jenny Don't. Have you ever heard of Jenny Don't? I had neither until I watched CBS Sunday morning, which is one of the best television programs in the history of television, that in 60 minutes, |
| 0:25.6 | just consistent good reporting. |
| 0:28.8 | And I was so inspired by the story of Jenny Donut. |
| 0:31.1 | And I wanted to share it with you |
| 0:32.1 | because I've been contemplating a lot about systems and how we create them and how we build the lives for ourselves that we want to live. |
| 0:40.0 | And I'm going to spend a little time in the next couple of podcasts kind of sharing content with you where I'm having these discussions and particularly with Lori Favors who was one of my favorite person to talk with. |
| 0:53.4 | But this story of Jenny Don't to me |
| 0:55.7 | is so prescriptive and instructive. |
| 0:58.3 | And if you take a little time to go online, |
| 1:01.5 | you can Google search Jenny Don, J-E-N-N-Y, D-O-A-N and CBS Sunday morning and you'll get to see the story |
| 1:09.7 | yourself but it's a story of a woman who has made an empire basically in the middle of nowhere |
| 1:17.0 | Hamilton Missouri which I've never heard of either you know in the literally in the middle of america |
| 1:24.1 | she has created what they call the Disney land of quilting |
| 1:28.2 | yes i know |
| 1:29.3 | uh... yes |
| 1:31.8 | so uh... so she has created something called the Missouri Star Quill Company and it is literally an |
| 1:39.2 | empire but what inspired me to talk about her today, |
| 1:42.5 | 20 years ago, she and her husband |
| 1:44.8 | and their seven children were really struggling in California. |
| 1:50.6 | They ended up going bankrupt, and her husband came to her and said we have to move or we're going to move and she said to where and he literally took out a map and like put his fingers he said the Midwest and she said where is that and he plucked out of nowhere this place |
| 2:08.0 | Hamilton Missouri which was in the middle of nowhere and they moved there and they were doing well until 2008 when the |
| 2:16.4 | crash happened and they lost their retirement and they were struggling again. And two of her seven children decided to get together |
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