Claire worked in the marketing department for an up-and-coming artisan bakery.

Unfortunately, the artisan bakery in question was so up-and-coming.

Nobody actually knew it existed.

But then she had the really good idea to use Canva to create a business plan.

It looked good, really, really good. Their investors thought so too.

And now their hot cakes are selling like, well, exactly.

Thanks, Canber.

Welcome to the Moth podcast. I'm your host for this week, Angelica Lindsay Ali.

This episode, we have a story from the Moth main stage.

Jamie Trowbridge told this in Portsmouth, New Hampshire,

where the theme of the night was The Ties That Bind.

Here's Jamie, live at the moth. When I was 12, my father bought a 36-foot.

When I was 12, my father bought a 36-foot sailboat called the Paragy. It was really exciting when I learned we were going to all go sailing, but I was a little

surprised because as far as I know, my father's never sailed, not even a small boat.

It all started right here in Portsmouth. We got on board. We started to motor away from the dock,

and the motor died, and we had to be towed back.

An inauspicious beginning.

But I knew that sailing with my dad was going to be great because he was so good at everything

he did. Even at 12 years old, I knew he was an accomplished man. He was a graduate of Princeton.

He was the president of our family business. And he'd recently been elected to the New Hampshire State Senate.

I was the only kid in my school with a trobridge for state senate bumper sticker on his lunchbox.

Naturally, I wanted to be just like him, but so far wasn't working out so great.

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