
Overdraft Stories
In this series, we hear from people who know what desperate feels like—people who survived the lowest point of their business. While now blooming with success, they share with us their deeply personal struggles and lessons learned on their way back to black.


Overdraft: KOTN’s Founder Talks Hard Times and Soft Shirts

Overdraft: How One Founder Built A Braiding Business—from her Living Room

Overdraft: How this Eyewear Mogul Started a Business from a Backpack

Overdraft: How This Army Vet Fought His Way out of a Financial Ambush

Overdraft: The Dark Side of Overnight Success

Overdraft: How Native Poppy Bloomed—Even Through Its Founder’s Darkest Days

Overdraft: Success for This Founder—at First—Simply Meant Surviving

Overdraft: Will His Family’s Food Business Turn into a Recipe for Success?

Overdraft: She Spent Retirement Savings to Launch These Building Toys—Without Regret

Overdraft: When This Self-Made Beauty Boss Risked Everything

Overdraft: Starting Over—and Making Caramels—from Scratch

Overdraft: This Dessert Founder Doesn’t Sugar-Coat Her Start-up Story

Overdraft: How One Founder Is Changing Lives—Including Her Own—Through a $500 Start-up

Overdraft: When Divorce Forced This Founder to Redefine the Meaning of Success

Overdraft: What Happened When KaiKini’s Debt Quadrupled

Overdraft: When One Half of Two Wheel Gear’s Founding Team Wanted Out

Overdraft: When a Tarot Designer Lost Her Safety Net

Overdraft: A Last Resort for the Founder of Green Glass

Introducing Overdraft: Deeply Personal Stories About Financial Struggle
