Lemonade Stand Stories

After losing her husband suddenly at 23 years old, Katie Bunnell faced a choice: retreat into grief or lean into purpose. In this emotional and inspiring episode of Lemonade Stand Stories, Katie shares how service became the turning point in her healing journey, and how that choice eventually led to the creation of the Live Your Dream Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping single moms gain e...

Jeanette Bennett made it happen. All of the things she didn't know how to do but knew she wanted to do... She made happen. She wanted to publish a magazine, so she made her own! It was truly inspiring chatting with Jeanette, she radiates joy, ambition, and positivity! If you haven't heard her speak, you need to check her out: https://jeanettebennett.com/ In this conversation, Jeanette sh...

Morgan Snyder is the Executive Writer at Thought Leader Today helping executives who want to scale their digital presence through written content. He is a phenomenal content writer, husband, and father to six kiddos in Utah. If you want to know any little details about Morgan, check out his "About" section on his LinkedIn profile. He describes all of his favorite things in a big list dow...

Krista Andersen shares the journey she went through while battling breast cancer, her attitude and approach, and what she learned from it. Dr. Krista Andersen is an entrepreneur with experience in healthcare administration, financial services, conflict resolution, mediation, and organizational leadership. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, a Master’s degree in Negotiation and Co...

Paul Shin is a builder.  He is a builder of community. He is a builder of people. He also knows how to build tacos. The bottom line, things are better together with Paul! We are all inspired by the way that Paul has been building and bringing the startup and tech communities together here in Utah! Like all entrepreneurs, Paul Shin has been through the wringer. After making the decision to live, he...

Kevan Miller played hockey the right way. His journey to the NHL went from being cut multiple times, grinding through tryouts and the minors, and then laying his body on the line night in and out to earn a successful career and the respect of Boston Bruins fans everywhere. However, that success didn't come without a price. His body took a beating and injuries robbed years from his career and...

​ @TheKingofRandom is one of the most popular channels on YouTube with almost 13 million subscribers.  But did you know the heartbreaking story behind TKOR?  Grant and Janae Thompson had a picture-perfect relationship. They were both ambitious, had insanely wild dreams, and went after them! They started a YouTube channel called "The King of Random" where Grant would host all kinds of sci...

After enlisting in the Marines, David Helling had profound experiences in the Bible that truly made the scriptures come alive to him. He could see the characters, experience their emotions, etc. He felt the desire to help everyone feel and see what he was feeling and seeing. This desire led him down the path of filmmaking, with the specific desire of telling Biblical stories.  After years of pract...

The curse is broken! In 2016, the Chicago Cubs broke their 108-year postseason curse by winning their first World Championship in Major League Baseball since 1908... the longest championship drought in professional sports history. The man that was the MVP of that World Series run was Ben Zobrist and he joined Charan Prabhakar on the Lemonade Stand Stories Podcast to talk about life before, during,...

If there ever was a man meant to direct movies, it would be Rocco. Rocco and I have crossed paths over the years, but thanks to his gracious invitations to hang with his film family, we’ve become great friends. I first saw Rocco’s work when I watched the Flyboys in 2008. My mind was blown. It was so cinematic and amazing. A total family adventure. Rocco talked about his crazy adventures directing...

Founder of Muunifi, Taylor Perkins shares the purpose behind Muunifi and how it provides a place for people to connect to successful entrepreneurs, learn from them, and support others in the community along the way. Normally as a teenager, kids are into cars, rock’n’roll, etc. Taylor may have been into those, but he also had an incredible obsession with the financial market. The idea of investing...

Johnny Hanna is one of the Co-Founders of Homie . If you’ve driven on I-15 in Utah, you can’t miss their witty billboards. Homie's mission is to simplify home buying and selling with a one-stop-shop experience with Homie Real Estate, Homie Loans, Homie Title, and Homie Insurance. Prior to Homie, Johnny was President and Co-Founder of Entrata , a real estate software company that he started wh...

Dave Austin is all about going for it. From an early age, he discovered the power of creating life with His Creator. His life has been a cascade of amazing events because he knew if he could vision it in his mind, it would transpire in his life. His career has taken him to many heights. He is a mental high performance coach that has coached many athletes around the world. His docuseries "Moon...

Bennett Maxwell started as an investor in Dirty Dough before buying the cookie company right in the middle of a pandemic. Since then, he’s taken the company from a small cookie-making endeavor to a massive nation-wide operation. However, the rise to success hasn’t been easy as Bennett’s team has been fighting an unexpected lawsuit from a “Big Cookie Co” that has started the #UtahCookieWars trend....

Chad Willardson is a fan favorite here at Lemonade Stand. This is his 2nd appearance with us. Being an epic financial guru, he has now come up with an incredible app to teach kids how to have the proper mindset to become financial gurus themselves. Gravy Stack will be launching either the end of the year or the beginning of next year, and he already has thousands of families on as beta testers. Ch...

Does life just magically work out for those who have a plethora of gratitude in their heart? Raquel's life certainly seems to indicate that. Growing up in Iowa, with very limited financial resources, Raquel set out to follow her dreams of being an epic dancer at a young age. Her dad supported her incredible dreams and she started teaching at a studio at age 14.  She moved to NYC, worked on so...

Ahh the bond Chris and I have shared have extended past the beginning of time. Growing up with his family, I remembered Chris as a tiny guy. When I was 18, he was 8. I remembered spinning him around while he was in his batman pajamas. We have often thought about recreating those memories. But through the years, as Chris has found his voice as a performer, we found our paths were more aligned than...

Nicole Tanner is the founder of Swig , an original soda shop that began in St. George, Utah in 2010, and has since expanded to 40 locations. Growing up on a dairy farm, Nicole was blessed with the gift of hard work. This gift translated well into the way she has created and grown her business. Another foundational pillar that supports Swig is the strong sense of culture. Nicole created Swig to do...

Kim Whatcott, a BYU graduate, is a speech pathologist who is, quite literally, helping people find their voice. She has worked with medical patients who have sustained brain injuries, among other situations, to learn to use their voices again or find another form of communication. Going into the profession, she felt inadequate in many ways. People always expect the professionals to have all the an...

Chris is known best for his work in Netflix's No. 1 show "The Lincoln Lawyer". A few of his other well known projects are "The Other Side of Heaven",  "We Love You Sally Carmichael",  "Ugly Betty", and "Covert Affairs". Chris talks chats with us about the good times and the struggles involved in the world of acting and directing.  Every lemona...

Benton Crane shares his path to success and how it started out by him dropping out of high school because he saw a problem and made his own solution. From there, he took it upon himself to learn more about the things he was interested in which led to him traveling to nationals in an automotive repair competition! Years later he is now the CEO of Harmon Brothers, the incredible ad agency behind the...

Bryan Clayton shared with us several solid tips that led to his massive and ongoing success with GreenPal.   Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue. GreenPal, being called the "Uber for lawn care" by Entrepreneur magazine, is an awesome mobile...

Founder of The Phoenix Recovery Center , Jake Shoff has seen his fair share of lemons in his lifetime. He told us about how his current pursuits and goals to bless people's lives have all stemmed from the tragic loss of Josh, one of his closest college friends, to an addiction and mental health issues. After our Lemonade Stand team recently just finished reading " Personality Isn't...

Russ Warner, Co-Founder of Ghost Board, shares the origins of how the incredible, transparent longboards came into this world and what he had to do to repair some family relationships from it. Have you ever ridden on a ghost before?  If you've witnessed these see-through longboards, you'll know what we're talking about! Go check out their website and Instagram page to see some of th...

For over 30 years the Bonner family has been singing together. We had the privilege of speaking with two of them in our studio! Yahosh and Oba are two brothers in the famous Bonner family. If you haven't heard them sing before, you need to stop what you are doing right now, go to their Youtube channel or Spotify channel , and let their angelic voices sweep over you for a couple minutes. The b...