25th September, 2007
The Big Idea
Daily dose of inspiration
One of my favorite television programs is The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. Donny’s show is about inspiring success in both business and in life. He features guests that range from every-day, down-on-their-luck Americans who have turned their lives around to people that have started multi-million dollar businesses with less than $500. Donny’s guests also include business moguls such as Bill Gates and John Paul DeJoria. From selling encyclopedias and living out of his car, John Paul DeJoria started not one, but two billion-dollar companies in Paul Mitchell Systems and Patron Tequila.
One of my favorite spots featured a woman (I cannot recall her name) who found herself pregnant and in the welfare office at 15. Deciding she did not want to live on welfare, against what everyone told her she could do, she struggled to make it through community college, completed an engineering program at the University of Ohio, then a PhD, and became a faculty member at MIT. As if that weren’t enough, she went on to start a successful defense contracting firm with a fellow professor and her daughter as COO.
The Big Idea airs on CNBC weeknights 10 PM / 1 AM ET.
Popularity: 28% [?]
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