Michael and Bonnie were interviewed by the Legendary, Hall of Fame Quarterback, Fran Tarkenton! He is a big time entrepreneur and loves speaking with fellow entrepreneurs. Click the play button below to listen to the interview. Fran Tarkenton Show Interview with Michael and Bonnie 

 by Cyril Penn | May 24, 2013 | 2:35 PM So I finished reading my advance copy of The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart built America’s #1 Wine Brand (written with Rick Kushman). It was officially released last week. These days, Barefoot is owned by E&J Gallo and is a six-million case brand. It wasn’t […]

   By Adrienne Burke  Looking for a good book to get lost in this Memorial Day weekend? The Barefoot Spirit is an entertaining rags-to-riches story of American entrepreneurship. Released this week, the paperback has already climbed to the top of the Amazon bestsellers list. It’s the first-hand tale of California rule breakers Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, […]

    Our interview on Wall Street Journal Live 

Sheryl Sandberg, Yahoo COO, author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, is the founder of the Lean In Movement. She was the keynote speaker at the Professional Business Women of California conference in San Francisco this week. More than 4000 business and professional women came to hear her remarks on the […]

  Today is our 30th Anniversary! We are in New York celebrating with the release of our new book, The Barefoot Spirit, which covers 20 of those 30 years! Thanks to all our family members, former employees, business associates, friends and neighbors who helped and encouraged us! This picture is from the 1987 Renaissance Faire […]

By Ben Steverman You’d think selling your wine brand to E&J Gallo would put you squarely on Easy Street. As accidental wine merchants Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan found out, personal finance and entrepreneurship can make an awkward pair. Before the mid-1980s, the married couple’s main experience with wine was drinking it. Then, while working […]

Today there is more interest in entrepreneurship than ever before. Half of the college grads are facing self-employment, as perhaps their only opportunity for employment. But are they prepared? It takes a lot more than book knowledge, a good business plan, and fancy four-syllable words to navigate the challenges of entrepreneurship. Many middle managers saw […]

This Mother’s Day, we are honoring Bonnie’s mother, Mabel, with a visit to the Rosie the Riveter National Park in Richmond, California.   The park is a memorial and testimonial to these gallant women who risked life and limb to help save our country. Mabel was in her mid-twenties during World War II. In those […]

  Our recent interview with Teresa Novellino of Upstart Business Journal.