Suing to Sell Soup: One Woman’s Fight Against Government Overreach
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, for years, Danielle Mickelson poured her energy into building a small but growing food business. Then, a wave of regulations stopped her in her tracks. What followed was an unlikely legal battle that pitted a single entrepreneur against a web of rules and administrative overreach. But with the Institute of Justice, Danielle fought back.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. |
| 0:08.5 | Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? |
| 0:15.1 | Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. |
| 0:18.5 | From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi. |
| 0:23.6 | What difference at this point does it make? |
| 0:26.6 | Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.6 | You know, And we return to our American stories. |
| 0:49.2 | And now it's time for another rule of law story as a part of our rule of law series where we show you |
| 0:55.5 | the absence or presence of the rule of law in our lives. |
| 1:00.3 | Here's our own Monty Montgomery with a story. |
| 1:08.6 | Danielle Michelson's story begins in Rala, North Dakota. |
| 1:12.8 | So I'm a North Dakota native. |
| 1:15.6 | I grew up about 30 miles from where I currently live. |
| 1:20.1 | I married my high school sweetheart. |
| 1:23.6 | I went to the University of North Dakota to be a high school English teacher, which I immediately started doing when I graduated in 1994. |
| 1:36.3 | So I was an English teacher for 22 years, but the entire time that I was doing that and raising my kids, I was always gardening. |
| 1:47.0 | It was in my blood. My grandmother was a gardener. My mom and dad were gardeners. |
| 1:52.0 | It just seemed like the thing people did. You know, you had to have a garden. You had to produce your own food. |
| 1:58.0 | You had to save it for the winter. You had to can and |
| 2:03.6 | process and then of course cook homemade meals. So we were always food producers, but food producers |
| 2:10.6 | just for our family. In 2014, I was still teaching and still gardening, and my sons, who were then 14 and 12, wanted to make a little money to go visit their grandparents who live in Las Vegas in the wintertime. |
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