John Lee Dumas on his family's dock on Kennebunk Pond in Lyman, Maine. Dumas' podcast, Entrepreneurs on Fire, started in 2012 and has been downloaded millions of times. Photo by Cy Cyr The Fire Still Burns at Home John Lee Dumas has recorded thousands of daily business podcast interviews, built a global audience and created a life that carried him far beyond York County. But on a warm August morning in Lyman, Maine, he was barefoot on the dock at his parents’ home on Kennebu

April Laverriere, of Kennebunkport, started competing on her bike after a foot injury sidelined her running career. It was five degrees when we met, the kind of clear January morning in Biddeford where the light is sharp and the cold doesn’t pretend otherwise. We were inside a small studio near The Lincoln, catching up after a long gap, talking easily in that way that only happens when you’ve known someone since before life got complicated. April Laverriere and I graduated