The Modern Industrialist.

Conversations with the owners who poured everything into their companies and came out the other side with something real. No polish, no spin. Just the grit behind the businesses that keep this country moving.

Episode 1 · March 2026

The biggest worm farm in the world

Tom Chapman built UNCO Industries from a borrowed dairy barn into the #1 earthworm casting brand in the country, shipping Wiggle Worm nationwide for 49 years, then sold it on Rejigg.

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Episode 2 · March 2026

Survived Enron. Built a CFO empire.

Dan left corporate finance after Enron, cold-mailed 900 brochures from his house, landed his first fractional CFO client off two callbacks, and is now scaling through franchising.

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Episode 3 · May 2026

Built a book publisher in four years

Andy Symonds built Ballast Books, Blue Balloon Books, and Valor Press from nothing on a single principle: do right by your author. He found the partner to take it further through Rejigg.

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