What America Can Learn From Ohio’s Amish Country: John Miller

American Thought Leaders

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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John Miller is the CEO of Superb Industries. He resisted mounting pressure to move his production overseas to China, and instead innovated and grew a thriving made-in-America component manufacturing business.

“Do you make decisions based on the long-term benefit that are principle-based, or do you make decisions for financial gain in the short term, at the cost of the long term?” he asks, rhetorically. “[Other businesses] made a lot of money by outsourcing to China over a short period of time, but then lost their ability to make stuff, and now they’re paying the price.”

Miller has close ties to Ohio’s entrepreneurial Amish community and is an advocate for what he calls “food freedom.”

“We joined forces and started what we call the Food Independence Summit that basically brings specialists together to teach people how they can become self-sustaining on food, even if it’s only on a fractional basis,” says Miller. “To change culture, you have to change the structure.”

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Day's Coffee, crafted for coffee lovers who want smooth energy without the jitters.
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0:11.8	They made a lot of money by outsourcing to China over a short period of time, but then lost their ability to make stuff and now they're paying the price.
0:20.5	John Miller is the CEO of superb industries.
0:23.6	He resisted mounting pressure to move his production overseas
0:27.6	and instead innovated and grew a thriving Made in America component manufacturing business.
0:33.6	Do you make decisions based on the long-term benefit that are principle-based, or do you make
0:40.5	decisions for financial gain in the short term at the cost of the long term?
0:47.5	Miller has close ties to Ohio's entrepreneurial Amish community and is an advocate for what
0:52.7	he calls food freedom. We joined forces and started what we call the Food Independence Summit that brings specialists
1:01.1	together to teach people how they can become self-sustaining on food, even if it's only
1:08.4	in a fractional basis.
1:10.0	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick.
1:14.5	John Miller, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
1:18.1	It's a pleasure to be here. It's been nice talking to you backstage and look forward
1:22.1	to our conversation. Absolutely. So I've heard for years that it's frankly almost impossible to do manufacturing well in America.
1:35.3	For a whole suite of reasons. What do you say to that? That's not actually true. And my company's superb industries in Sugar Creek, Ohio has proven that
1:45.3	that is not the case. It requires, however, a commitment to technology and automation and
1:54.1	competitiveness if you're going to be successful. And we faced that when it became popular
2:00.4	to move everything to China.
2:02.4	And we're able to successfully stay in a business and now manufacture over a billion parts a year,
2:10.5	386 different distinct part numbers, and 57% of that gets exported to Mexico competitively.
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