Today’s episode takes you on a tour of North Carolina’s most surprising — and inspiring — feel-good stories.
We start in Johnston County, where high school students are skipping the minimum wage grind and jumping straight into $52,000-a-year jobs in pharmaceutical manufacturing thanks to a one-semester BioWork program funded by industry giants like Novo Nordisk and Grifols.
Then we head to the airport, where the TSA had to remind travelers that their Costco membership cards — as beloved as they may be — do not count as federal ID. (Yes, really.)
Next up, a lost-and-found tale from a Walmart in North Carolina, where a little boy named Grayson lost his beloved stuffed animal — named simply “Dog” — and a kind stranger named Ashley France not only reunited them, but gave Dog a scrapbook-worthy adventure story to take home.
And finally, we light a candle — literally — with Philip Freeman, a Raleigh Navy veteran and deep-sea diver who turned his wife’s mosquito problem into Murphy’s Naturals, a nationally distributed bug-repellent company that gives back to the planet, veterans, and local jobs.
From biotech dreams in Clayton to citronella candles in Wake County, this episode is a reminder that good news doesn’t just happen — good neighbors make it happen.
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