Story written by Kevin Miller, story told by Eddie Kennison, #87-Wide Receiver, Kansas City Chiefs My wife was rushed to the hospital on a Thursday night. She had started experiencing some strange symptoms the previous evening. Now she was unconscious. Things were getting serious fast. One day passed, and then another. The doctors ran all [...]

Profile on Norm Miller, Chairman, Interstate Battery System of America, Inc.

In the small town where I grew up, there weren’t a lot of religions to choose from. People either believed in God or they didn’t. And if they did, they went to church, as my family did. When I went to college though, my neatly ordered world suddenly exploded. For the first time in my [...]

Imagine if someone walked up to you and said, “I’m going to give you more money than you ever dreamed of, absolute freedom in how you spend it, and oodles of time in which to do it.” That’s pretty much what happened to me last spring when I was drafted into the NFL. You may [...]

Profile on: Bobby Dobson, Tax Lawyer Born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina – a town named by Entrepreneur magazine as one of the 30 best cities for small business in America – Bobby Dobson seemed destined for business success. Sure enough, he eventually rose to the top of his game as a tax lawyer. [...]

Ruth and Paul Lindholm could not have met under less ostentatious circumstances. Her father, being a traveling pastor, Ruth’s family did not have a lot of money. So Ruth spent four summers working as a hired hand for Paul’s mother on the family farm in Minnesota. It was not long before the two teenagers caught [...]

Profile on Mike and Brian McCoy, co-owner of McCoy’s Building Supplies

Profile: Jim Blankemeyer, Chairman of the Metokote  Corporation It’s no secret that starting your own company can be tough, sucking up all of your time, energy and attention and causing you to neglect other things, such as family and friends. That’s exactly what happened to Jim Blankemeyer, Chairman of the Metokote Corporation. Thankfully, he realized [...]

Profile on: Doug Hesse, Founder Hesse Financial Advisors If you heard a story about a guy who was selling Bibles door-to-door only to become a Christian once one of his customers finally explained what the Good Book was about, you’d probably think somebody made it up, that it came from a movie or somewhere. Well, [...]

Patricia Fong was enjoying a typical workday at Amcore Investment Group on January 27, 2002 when she received a phone call that would change her life forever. The call was from her eighteen-year-old daughter, Megan, who was a freshman at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. An outstanding tennis player, Megan had earned a full athletic [...]