There comes a time in everyone's life....

Salt Lake City: In this show you meet Lorraine Miller long after she invested $2,000 to start the business of her dreams. When she opened for business in 1976, she sold house plants.  Today this business provides indoor and outdoor landscaping to hundreds of customers and you'll find a perfectly exquisite retail store and greenhouse full of plants and gifts.

In 1994 she was named Utah's Small Business Person of the Year then went on to become the first woman to win the national award from the US Small Business Administration. In 1997 Lorraine was named by Ernst & Young as one of Salt Lake's outstanding entrepreneurs. In 2002 she harvested (sold) because she was made an offer that was hard to refuse. More...

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We all have a special sliver of genius.

In the earliest days of the broadcasts of this show (back in 1994-1995), there was a special segment called "the Sliver of Genius." Then we began to realize virtually every successful business is built on that special focus.

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