Teeg Stouffer
Teeg Stouffer is a filmmaker, founder, and executive producer at Fascination Film Studio. He is a storyteller who got his first radio show at the age of 14. By the time he was 16, he was working at 1040 WHO-AM. He went on to help start the country’s first all-digital, student-run radio station and worked at a BBC-affiliated station in England during his time at Oxford. In the decades since, he has worked for the Department of Homeland Security as a subject matter expert on dealing with the media. He has also founded several for-profit companies and non-profit organizations and been a leader in experiential marketing and PR agencies. Today, Teeg and his film studio produce documentaries that help people create and preserve their legacies, and he speaks on creating a documentary-worthy life.
Teeg grew up as an all-American Midwestern kid, a Boy Scout who loved the outdoors, with a copy of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights on his bedroom wall, alongside a brass figurine of every U.S. president. He even convinced his parents to paint his room red, white, and blue; one entire wall was the American flag. His family was also creative, encouraging self-expression and individualism.
Teeg was a kid who found his way to the front of the stage in school plays, was published in the Iowa Writers Guild by third grade, and became a child actor in a short film in the sixth grade. But everything changed when he discovered radio. While other kids were waking up and getting ready for school, Teeg was already on the air with his daily morning show, his voice coming through the radios they were listening to. It was the era of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden. This new “grunge” or “alternative” music scene had broken, and Teeg was right in the middle of it—far beyond his years and far from his Boy Scout life.
He went on to earn a full-ride scholarship to Waldorf College, a Christian school that aimed to start the country’s first all-digital, student-run radio station, television studio, and multimedia lab. They needed students who already knew radio and had strong academics. Teeg passed on Princeton and chose Waldorf, and everything changed - again.
In the years since, his unusual life as a “multipotentialite” has led him to a wide array of experiences, events, organizations, and companies. He’s done stunts with the Duck Dynasty crew, been involved in Country Music Hall of Fame inaugurations, NCAA March Madness, and the Super Bowl. His journey has taken him to remote locations, such as the northern U.S. border, where he worked with the U.S. Border Patrol, and even to creating the first-ever fishing store at Mall of America.
Today, Teeg’s focus isn’t on his own story; it’s on yours.
Teeg is an author and speaker who talks about something we all have but few think about very often: our legacy. He teaches how to live a life that creates the legacy that matters and how to preserve that legacy through our stories.
