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In 2017 Fawn Weaver launched a premium American whiskey brand, Uncle Nearest. It became the fastest growing and most awarded whiskey brand in America, despite the challenges Weaver faced as a Black woman and outsider to the spirits industry, which is capital-intensive, highly regulated, competitive, and male-dominated.

Since the beginning of his NFL tenure, which started five seasons ago, the 2020 Rookie of the Year has also been involved with the Chargers’ biggest sponsor partner, SoFi, to help young people and new professionals learn about the value of money and think about the future.

Fawn Weaver, founder of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, joins host Jeff Berman to share scale lessons from building one of the fastest-growing spirit brands in history.

There is no shortage of competition in the $144 billion skin care industry. Still, Rachel Liverman, 39, knew she had an original idea when she founded Glowbar...

Jack Daniel's is a famous whiskey brand, but Daniel didn’t create the method for distilling Tennessee whiskey. He learned it from a formerly enslaved man named Nearest Green.

Never mind that on the other side of the Atlantic, the 2024 Summer Olympic Games are in full swing.

The Celtics star recently signed an NBA-record contract extension and hopes to use his background to help others prepare for life after basketball.

Fawn Weaver founded Uncle Nearest to honor the formerly enslaved master distiller who taught Jack Daniel the secret to making great whiskey. Seven years later...

Chef Michael Mina discusses the importance of the guest experience, how he built a restaurant management company, and the importance of embracing tech.

Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, owner of one of the fastest-growing whiskey brands in the US, will buy vodka maker Square One Organic Spirits, cementing its founder’s vision to own a bigger share of the bar.

The women behind America's favorite cookie, Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald, have a different view of scaling.

Quilt’s sleek new heat pump is aimed at convincing more consumers to switch from fossil fuels.

Former guest Fawn Weaver, founder of Uncle Nearest Whiskey, joins Guy for an “Advice Line” edition of HIBT Lab. Three early-stage entrepreneurs call in for advice on telling their brand story.

Room & Board, the Minneapolis-based modern furniture retailer, is giving employees a financial stake in the company via a new employee stock ownership plan.

The office is notably cushier, but working from a sofa can get awkward (and be bad for your back)...

The founder of Uncle Nearest spirits is doing more than just raising a glass—she's raising awareness.

Want to talk pressure? Imagine making dinner for your boss every night. Now, imagine said boss being Patrick O’Connell, the world-renowned chef...

Minnetonka first started selling its “Thunderbird” moccasins in 1965. Now, for the first time, they’ve been redesigned by a Native American designer.

Earlier this month, the NBA player and the bank announced the SoFi Generational Wealth Fund, a $1 million donation to "promote financial literacy and create family-sustaining wealth."

Andréa and Robin McBride followed their shared love of wine into business — but it hasn't always been easy.

The fast facial bar is quickly entering new markets and expanding its clientele through its ultra-streamlined approach.

Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum's foundation has joined forces with SoFi in a groundbreaking partnership aimed at empowering children with financial literacy and assisting families in at-risk communities towards home ownership.

The Sweetgreen Infinite Kitchen system robotically assembles the salads and bowls Sweetgreen customers crave—up to 500 of them an hour, 50% faster than humans can.

Some people look forward to their lunch break or 3 p.m. coffee at the office — but Liz Martin eagerly awaits her afternoon pickleball match against her co-workers.

Reneé Rapp is serious about her salad. The “Snow Angel” singer is partnering up with Sweetgreen to give fans a taste of her go-to order, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal.

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Actor, producer, and gin maker Ryan Reynolds is unanimously lauded for being a nice guy. And a lovely dude. And a normal human. And so when it came to dreaming up the office for his production company, Maximum Effort...

If you ask a generative A.I. tool to create an image of a wealthy person, a successful investor, or someone who makes smart decisions about money, there's a good chance the you'll see in the A.I.-created image won't be a woman.

The new product is a response to SoFi members increased spending on travel, which is up 54 percent from last year.

The roughly 5,800-square-foot unit atop the Amaris condominium overlooks a channel of the Potomac River

Jeni's Ice Cream is teaming up with "Ted Lasso" in the perfect match ahead of Season 3.

Furniture outlet Room & Board is turning New York’s iconic water towers into accent pieces for the home.

Future Family, a startup combining fertility financing and care support, raised $25 million in Series B funding.

The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program forgives federal student loans of US government and nonprofit workers after 120 qualifying monthly payments.

The planned community of Columbia, Maryland, is trying to add urban-style density, without losing its suburban soul — or its founder's utopian ideals.

While traveling abroad with her husband in 2016, Fawn Weaver became fixated on a New York Times article telling the little-known story of Nearest Green, a formerly enslaved man who taught Jack Daniel—yes, that Jack Daniel—how to make Tennessee whiskey.

After nearly a year and a half of COVID-19, Americans are looking to prioritize living and playing over work in the post-pandemic age.

A favorite lunchtime destination of many urban office workers weathered the pandemic thanks to its digital savvy. It’s confident more people will be returning to their offices soon.

Learn how Sallie Krawcheck refused to let the wheel of Wall Street crush her career and how she is now fulfilling her mission to close the gender gap in investing.

Over 160 years ago, the legendary name in whiskey, Jack Daniel, learned a secret ingredient for whiskey from a formerly enslaved man named Nearest Green. Now, Fawn Weaver and one of Green’s descendants, Victoria Eady Butler, are telling Green’s story and starting a distillery to honor his legacy.

A women-run company led by investing titan Sallie Krawcheck, known as "the most powerful woman on Wall Street," is taking on the ambitious role of narrowing the gender wealth gap.

Survey the literature on workplace romances, and you’ll find broad consensus: It’s risky, messy and possibly unethical. But for Daniela Moreira and Andrew Dana, co-owners of the District’s Timber Pizza and the “Jew-ish” deli Call Your Mother...

At 450,000 square feet, The St. James offers enough to keep you busy all day.

Rob and Whit discuss what foods your pets will enjoy as well as what to avoid feeding them.

A single pedicure typically uses somewhere between 13 and 18 gallons of water. To put that into perspective, one flush of a toilet is 1.6 gallons of water. The average shower is about 17 gallons.

From her morning routine to how she runs her female-focused financial platform.

A dinner “pawty” for canine influencers at the Wilson featured human-grade food for dogs and Brussels-sprout tacos for their owners.

The profitable salad chain Sweetgreen was on track to IPO. So why did its founders decide to pivot to tech?

This one showcases a female ringmaster and the ‘strongest mom in the world.’

Despite the sport's declining popularity and aging tracks, and new opportunities to gamble, Belinda Stronach is betting that her company can remake horseracing.

A federal agency more commonly associated with its Smokey Bear mascot and tips on preventing forest fires thinks it may have part of the solution in big cities' fight on crime: urban wood.

The pastry chef and David Chang protégé now runs a profitable, 12-location national business, where she oversees more than 200 employees.

Tossed-salad star Sweetgreen gives Inc. an exclusive, in-depth look at its secret weapon: the small farms and food suppliers that fill its hip, healthy bowls.

A struggling waterfront along the Potomac River will morph into a long-awaited commercial and residential destination known as when it opens next month.

Is the fanciest new pet hotel in town plush enough for a human guest? Our intrepid correspondent checked in to find out.

Keith Clemson, a psychotherapist focused on couples therapy in Washington, worries about his dog when he goes away. A chow chow, Ripley looks like a fluffy bear and can be sweet, but he can also be stubborn and a bit mean...

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The flowers will be in bloom, the sun (God willing) will be shining, and more than 100,000 fans will enjoy the Preakness, the second leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown. Inside the Owner’s Chalet...

Unilever, the giant food and consumer product company, is buying Sir Kensington’s, a small condiment maker that has muscled its way on to grocery store shelves long thought impervious to disruption.

How to turn a collection of cult-status salad joints into a national fast-food chain? First you have to fix the supply chain.

Prairie Fruits Farm & Creamery in Champaign makes cheese from its herd of 75 milking goats. The 13-year-old organic farm is the primary regional supplier of goat cheese for salad chain Sweetgreen, which opens its first Chicago location...

Patrons of Sweetgreen are very particular about their salads. When the company recently removed bacon and sriracha from the menu, customers took to social media to complain.

Vegans are, by necessity, a creative bunch. They grind almonds for milk and spin soy into cheese, ice cream and even some passable meat substitutes. But replacing the egg, in particular the egg white, has proved especially tricky.

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Eric Hilton has backed a string of restaurants and bars that have been credited with helping transform pockets of the city’s night life.

“No cuts. No color. Just blowouts.” It’s the maxim chalked on the Rococo-esque blackboard at the entrance to Drybar, and it reminds me of the David Letterman bit in which he walks into a store called Just Shades and asks, “But seriously, what can you get besides just shades here?”

It's a little before 10:45 a.m. on a recent Friday and a song by Eminem is blasting from an army of speakers studding the walls of SoulCycle's West End studio.