Journalist Mary Pilon, in her page-turning book The Monopolists, hunts down the true story of the woman who invented the most popular board game in the world. Monopoly inventor and forgotten feminist Lizzie Magie died in 1948, thinking she was a failure, having received a total of $500 for the rights to her game. We hear about Magie’s vision and mission for the game, as well as her futile fight to defend her work and legacy, which Pilon resolutely revives from the sidelines of history.

Hattie Carthan is the mother of the urban environmental movement in America that she single-handedly kicked off when she got fed up with watching her Brooklyn neighborhood deteriorate. Her mantra was: Save a Tree, Save a Neighborhood, and she pursued it relentlessly -- leading a grassroots movement well into her 70s. Marlon Rice, Executive Director of the Magnolia Tree Earth Center, the non-profit dedicated to environmental education that Hattie started, talks to us about her work and legacy.

Twenty years ago, Heidi Reimer Epp and her mom started a company by hand-making paper in their basement. Today they run a seven-figure business operating out of an 11,000 square foot manufacturing plant of their own. They’ve expanded to 36 countries, and Botanical Paperworks is now a world-leading maker of seed paper – actual, plantable paper that grows into flowers, herbs, or vegetables. Heidi talks about scaling, manufacturing, creating new product lines and finding new markets.