Some of the city’s most prominent entrepreneurs revisit moments that defined their paths
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Post is proud to be the media partner of Circle Back, the Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s new podcast that shines a light on some of Middle Tennessee’s most well-known entrepreneurs. Starting Tuesday and running through the end of April, listeners will get to listen in on in-depth conversations with former Gov. Phil Bredesen, Darrell Freeman, Beth Chase, Cordia Harrington, Dan Crockett, Shannon Terry and Clint Smith. Sitting down with host Clark Buckner, they will talk about how they started their ventures, the challenges they overcame and the lessons they learned to become successful entrepreneurs.
Brownlee Currey entered the
Nashville Banner newsroom en route to his office with the quick-striding yet delicate confidence of an expert tennis player sizing up a drop shot at the net. In the last days of the old-time newspaper milieu of shouted commands, strong black coffee, cigarette-smoke haze and whiskey bottles hidden deep in desk drawers, Brownlee wore dapper custom suits and invariably had a smile on his face. Smiling! And we’re on deadline!
Brownlee O. Currey Jr. who died this year at age 91, followed several months later by the passing of his beloved wife Agneta didn’t fit the mold of chairman and co-owner of an aggressive afternoon city daily. Brownlee kept a New York Stock Exchange ticker machine in his office, and he often checked the paper tape spewing from it. He came from old Nashville money and added to the family fortune, thanks in part to millions reaped from the