This is an IHeart podcast.

This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories,

and we tell stories about everything here on this show, including yours. Send

them to Our American Stories.com. They're some of our favorites. Brittany Ruby Miller is CEO of

Jeff Ruby Culinary Entertainment, where she leads a team of more than 500 employees across seven

luxury steakhouses in Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Brittany is the author of Five Star Life, the faithful fight to overcome obstacles and pursue excellence.

Let's take a listen to her story.

I'm Brittany Ruby Miller.

I'm the CEO of Jeff Ruby Cullininary Entertainment. And we operate seven family-owned

steakhouses, USDA Prime Steakhouses, kind of a white glove approach, not a corporate chain

steakhouse. These aren't commissary. Everything's made in house. We have incredible chefs. And my dad just

grew up in restaurants. He had very little family, didn't really

know who his dad was.

He had four fathers at one point.

He calls him his forefathers, stepfathers.

And, you know, once he found out his, who he thought was his uncle, actually was his father.

And so it's just a really crazy story he has. And he went

from failing grade school to, I think he was all state wrestling and got a full right scholarship

to Cornell University. And when he came out of Cornell, Weingardner Hammond's hospitality

gave him two choices, Syracuse or Cincinnati. And he was a Reds fan, so he chose Cincinnati.

He was running at one point a few holiday ends as an innkeeper and also though was really involved in promotions and marketing and started making relationships with the Big Red Machine and through through those relationships, Johnny Bench and Pete Rose,

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