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"The Story of 7North" is a nonfiction podcast miniseries produced by Restaurant Unstoppable. Hear the story of Doug York, an Exeter, NH native, who opened a coffee shop in the middle of a pandemic. Doug has no coffee shop experience, no restaurant experience, and he is most well-known in our community for being a part of the now disbanded rap group Granite State. "The Story of 7North" is a nonfiction, narrative-driven podcast chronicling the journey of opening a coffee shop through interviews with key players, narration, clips from past RU episodes, and Doug's own voice memos that he recorded ...

Personally wiped out and seeking to uncover the truth about a collapse that brought the pastoral country to its knees, he became the lead investigator into some of the largest financial crimes in the world. This work helped Iceland to famously become the only country to jail its bank CEOs in the wake of the 2008 crisis. But the real story behind that headline is far more complex – and sinister. A decade after the investigations, the story can be told at last and in full. The crisis, barely understood inside or outside of Iceland even today, is a cautionary tale for the world.

In 2016, Emily Stearns opened The Drift Collective, an upcycled clothing store and manufacturer in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Today, Drift occupies two locations in Portsmouth and is thriving. This podcast tells the story of The Drift Collective, from Emily's initial idea for the company, to learning how to sew and renting her first retail location, to buying her first building from which Drift currently operates. It's a harrowing tale filled with real estate woes, smart and scrappy early business moves, brand building, water damage, a pandemic, old fuddy-duddy doubters, trips to ...