Jack & Elizabeth Coleman: Betting on the Delta

For decades, communities across the Mississippi Delta have watched people, jobs, and opportunity leave. Jack and Elizabeth Coleman decided to go the other direction.

After successful careers in Washington, D.C., and Texas, they returned to Jack’s hometown of Rosedale, Mississippi, and made an extraordinary bet on its future. Through Rosedale Distilling Company, they are investing millions of dollars, restoring historic buildings, creating jobs, attracting visitors, and building the first legal distillery in the Mississippi Delta.

In this episode, Grant talks with Jack and Elizabeth about what brought them to Rosedale, why they believe struggling communities can come back, the importance of entrepreneurship and risk-taking, and what it takes to restore hope in a place too many people have written off.

It’s a conversation about the Delta, but even more, it’s about what can happen when people stop asking who is going to fix a problem and start asking: If not us, who?