Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's Twice Weekly Podcast. I'm Scott Miller,

hosting the On Leadership with Scott Miller podcast that airs every Tuesday and Friday,

now for six years 400 plus

episodes taped and released where each week twice weekly we like to bring to you interesting

conversations on the broad topic of leadership sometimes we take detours to operations and supply

chain and economics and personal finance and you name it all

of these conversations designed to make you a better leader. Franklin Covey, of course, the world's

most trusted leadership firm founded in part by Dr. Stephen R. Covey, who wrote the seminal book,

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People now,

and it's nearly, gosh, almost 40 years since he penned that book, and I am privileged to serve as

the host of Franklin Covey's podcast. Today, our guest is a remarkable woman of a variety

of talent. She holds a world record hold. She has run a world record. She has authored books. She is an entrepreneur, speaker. She holds a world record, she has run a world record, she has authored books,

she is an entrepreneur speaker. She is known as Fawn Weaver. And her most recent book, which I just

saw in the airport a few weeks ago, is called Love and Whiskey. Intriguing topic for Franklin

Covey, I know. The remarkable true story of Jack Daniel his master

distiller nearest to green and the improbable rise of uncle nearest Fawn Reaver

welcome to on leadership thank you for having me Scott so Fawn you have had a

remarkable life you have set out and earned a world record. We'll talk by that in a moment. You own and founded what is I believe the nation's fastest growing whiskey company in the U.S. You are one of, I think, the first black women to found a billion dollar company outside of the sports and entertainment world. Today we're going to talk a lot

about the things you've done. You've had a very renowned TED Talk. You are a best-selling author.

Would you indulge me for a few minutes and rewind a couple of decades? Would you reorient yourself to all of our

listeners and viewers around the world? Some of your business enterprises, how you became so interested

in the whiskey business. You have a TED talk on a very different topic that people know about

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