Jeff Houghton is passionate about making something where you are—that you don’t have to be on a coast, or in a big city to pursue your dreams. Make Something Where You Are started simply as a video, but Jeff found many others passionate about the same thing. Jeff, the host of The Mystery Hour late night talk show sits down with other people creating amazing things in surprising places. It’s part small business, part motivational, and part being honest about the hard parts.
Emma’s sister, Elsie created a scrapbooking blog/website because she liked scrapbooking. Along the way, Emma came on board and their website A Beautif...
Brandon Goodwin built a successful production company called Blend. They’ve worked with a lot of national clients and create very beautiful work. They...
It wasn’t that long ago that Shawn Askinosie was a successful defense attorney that was deciding if he should drop all of that and create a chocolate ...
Shaun Munday has an incomparable sound as a musician, a solo act playing electric bass. He was raised in Springfield, but went to the Berklee College...
Molly and Jeff grew up with each other as backyard neighbors. Molly still lives in Iowa City and also lives with Cystic Fibrosis, a genetic degenerati...
Dante LaCivita runs 1906 Gents, a custom woodworking company that makes beautiful work and Dante knows he’s doing the right thing in pursuing it, but ...
The idea for True/False Film Festival began in 2003 in Columbia, Missouri and since then the festival has grown steadily to the point that it is one o...
Melissa Young Millsap and her husband, Adam, created Urban Roots Farm, a small farm in an urban, low-income neighborhood of west central Springfield. ...
The Fastest Woman Alive. Sprinter Carmelita Jeter won gold, silver, and bronze medals at the 2012 London Olympics. Oh, and she’s also nicknamed the “T...