Terry O'Reilly

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Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly · When You're This Big, They Call You Mister · 18 Jul 2026 podcast

Scholl staged a nationwide Foot Comfort Week.

He staged contests looking for the prettiest feet.

He created his now-famous yellow branding, complete with eye-catching store displays.

In his lifetime, Dr. Scholl would invent more than 1,000 patented ointments, sprays, cushions, pads, shields, and springs for tender tootsies.

And from that, he created an empire in North America and Europe that included over 400 stores and 6,000 employees.

He also started a podiatry college and wrote a textbook.

All this time, he never married, lived in a single rented room, and used a common bathroom down the hall, consumed only by his passionate study of feet and toes.

And one more interesting thing.

Some believe he was never a certified doctor.

In an investigative piece in the Chicago Reader in 1994, a journalist wrote that the American Medical Association, or AMA, found Dr. Scholl's credentials to be, quote, entirely irregular.

It said records of his medical license were hard to find, and that at best, Scholl spent a short time at some low-grade medical schools, including one that was caught in a scandal for granting phony medical degrees in return for cash.

According to the article, the National Association of Chiropodists banned him from advertising in their publication in 1923.

The AMA said they wrote to Scholl twice asking for clarification, but he never responded.

There is no doubt Dr. Scholl was a marketing pioneer and a dynamo.

But surprisingly, very little is written about him in the annals of marketing.

It could be professional skepticism.

It could be he made too much money.

Or it could be because foot doctors back then were often seen as the lowest form of medical practitioners.

Through it all, William Scholl seemed to shrug it all off.

He spent his entire life trying to make foot pain a thing of the past.

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