2.23.19 Mike Lindell will join Joe in the 7 am hour

Michael J. Lindell is the inventor and CEO of My Pillow, Inc. He is also the founder of the Lindell Foundation and the Lindell Recovery Network.

Mike is out and open supporter of the President and has received a considerable amount of push-back for him and his company.

Prior to inventing MyPillow, Lindell launched and operated a number of small businesses including carpet cleaning, lunch wagons, and a few bars and restaurants in Carver County, Minnesota.

Lindell was born in Mankato, Minnesota, and was raised in Chaska and Carver, Minnesota.

Lindell then invented the MyPillow pillow in 2004 and grew the MyPillow business into a major Minnesota manufacturing company with 1,600 employees in 2018 and 43 million pillows sold as of 2018.

In 1982, Lindell became addicted to cocaine and alcohol, and became addicted to crack cocaine in the 1990s. His addictions even stretched through the early years of the MyPillow business. Due to these addictions, he lost his marriage of 20 years, his house, and nearly the MyPillow business. Lindell achieved sobriety in 2009.

In March 2017, Lindell produced The Mike Lindell Story: An American Dream, a documentary about Lindell overcoming drug addiction and building a multimillion-dollar business. The documentary was shot in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Pantages Theatre.