Host Paul Sponcia and guest George Wallace discuss George's early life, his entrepreneurial family background in East Tennessee, and his own small businesses like a lawn mowing startup at age 10. He credits men he encountered along his way for shaping his identity. George delved into landscape design after attending Webb school and West High School in Knoxville, resulting in an ornamental horticulture degree from the University of Tennessee. He later launched a landscaping business but left it in 1983 due to financial feasibility concerns. He also recalls the snowy childhood he spent in Greenville, departing from familial tradition by opting a different school instead of UT, doing two businesses in landscape design after graduating, and meeting Stephanie, his then-girlfriend, in a church.
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