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Episode 31: Lee Robinson; What If Your Detours Are The Point

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Dropping a signed contract into a FedEx box and immediately searching “how to recall a package” is a special kind of panic, and it’s exactly where Lee Robinson found himself after agreeing to buy The Rusty Compass in Haines, Alaska. Lee’s journey to small-town business ownership is anything but linear: film photography in school darkrooms, newspaper assignments in the pre-digital era, a decade of whitewater rafting and outdoor guiding in Colorado, and even life on the road during the 1990s fiber optic boom negotiating right-of-way and crop damages with farmers. Every chapter…

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