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| Economic freedom, the last frontier |
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| Liberty, freedom,
and democracy are all a deep- seated thrust within life itself to exercise our
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Owners of their destiny. Small
business owners are driven by ownership. Early on they thought to themselves,
"I want to own my own business." Often they are the first to own their own
home. They already own their retirement account, even though most never plan to
retire. We've heard so many say, "That's the shortest path to death." Today
most of these small business owners even own their health savings plan and they
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| By risking the status quo, exploring new ideas,
and charting the creation of new products, processes and jobs, small business
owners lead by example. They are quiet heroes in their communities.
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| There is a special magic to being small. In
one episode of the show we explore some of the facets of this magic in depth.
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| Let us Teach economic freedom |
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First, let's put the 'right' people on TV.
"You're
fired" is Donald Trump's real signature and represents not only his
callousness, but the shallowness of all business when it comes to understanding
the very nature of business. |
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| "The Apprentice" and all so-called "Reality TV"
manipulate reality. With so much of commercial television and our cinema,
exploitation is lifted up as an art form; by cleverly shaping every second,
they encourage the weak and poor in spirit, confuse the marginal, and weaken
the strong. |
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| There can be tough love in the workplace that
truly nurtures and empowers people. |
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| There can be companies of hard-working people
moving toward a common goal that "win" just because they are doing something
good for people, constructive within their industry and positive for the world
and her environment. |
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| Since 1994, we have told the stories of hundreds
of small business owners. Today our goals is to turn over the future
productions to the best local producers around the country -- 100 local shows,
13 episodes per year. That's no less than 1300 profiles of wonderful small
business owners each year. The best of these productions would air
nationally.
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| That's a goal and a mission! We invite you to nominate very special small
business owners who are quietly helping the rest of us to change this world for
the better. Let's explore the depths of free enterprise, democracy, respect,
risk, value, and good work. Let's turn off the bad examples and lift up people
who are "loved by their community and respected within their
industry." |
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| A global
television series, each week since 1994 |
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coming to America... |
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| ...where there is freedom of expression, freedom
of religion, and freedom to be creative. |
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| Ahmad
Chebbani came with his younger brother from Lebanon and now teaches
the essentials of democratic capitalism to new arrivals. |
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Frank Jao family came from Vietnam
with just the clothes they wore that day and today they're back in China and
Vietnam teaching by demonstrating the power of capitalism. |
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Thanh
Lam family left Vietnam in a small boat. Today they're quietly
transformed the bread industry in Hawaii. |
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Lee family came from China through
Brazil and today continue to redefine an old industry. |
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Luis & Jose Navarro families
escaped Cuba's dictator; they started over again from nothing and today they're
creating jobs for hundreds of others. |
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Bob
Sakata family came from Japan and then from the WWII interment camps
in Colorado. |
| Sohrab
Vossoughi was sent from Iran to grow up in religious freedom and
today his firm exports creativity from within diversity. |
| The
Zubizarreta family escaped tyranny of
Castro and today they capture the spirit of the Latin heart and soul and
sensitize us all to it. |
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| There are many more episodes of the show that have
spent time with people who have broken the poverty of economic dependencies.
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| Help birth new democracies |
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Go global. |
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| People who are doing good things need to be
engaging more of our world. Do a roots journey and find a distant cousin with a
business like your own. Follow your imported products back to their
manufacturer. |
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Translate your web site. |
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| Most think about Spanish first. Do it. But, if you
have no Spanish-speaking customers, think about starting with
Arabic. |
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Understand innovation. |
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| It is who we are. Nurture innovation.There are
dozens of other episodes that are linked from these pages. |
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Study these stories. |
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| Overcoming every adversity imaginable, these
people all inspire by doing. |
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Sample Arabic page |
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| We have just begun. The show has aired on Dubai
Business Channel and now it will move to Iraqi TV. |
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Become a producer. |
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Join your station. |
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Tell your story. |
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