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EPISODE · Jul 19, 2026 · 36 MIN

Sarah Spitsen: From a Car Full of Candles to a College Classroom

from Common Grounds: Conversations from The Roasting Room · host The Coffee Roaster

Sarah Spitsen has started five companies, lived out of her car for eight months to keep one of them alive, and later built a first-of-its-kind innovation and entrepreneurship degree from the ground up at Nebraska Wesleyan University. In this conversation, she talks with Randy Bretz and Dr. Marilyn Moore about founding Feya Candle Company, bringing TEDx to campus, her work with Make-A-Wish Nebraska and 1 Million Cups, and the idea she keeps coming back to: that in Lincoln, community tends to win out over competition.Recorded inside The Coffee Roaster in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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