Rootd started as just sketches and ideas in Ania’s notebook, as she explored different ways to manage anxiety. Over time, these initial concepts evolved into Photoshop wireframes, and eventually became a real app in its minimum-viable-product form. View the full interview: Rootd Website: Rootd
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Still North Design Co. (Still North) started out of a spare bedroom in 2017 and in just six years, the owner has grown the business to one that has products in stores nationwide. This even includes a mobile store which travels through communities around B.C. and Alberta. View the full interview: Still North Design Co. … Read More
Misty River Books is located in Terrace B.C. and has been serving Northern B.C. for the past 35 years. View the full interview: Misty River Books Website: Misty River Books
Bakau Consulting is a full-service equity, inclusion, and anti-racism consulting firm located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. The firm has grown from one to 21 team members in four years. View the full interview: Bakau Consulting Website: Bakau Consulting
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Will Cadell studied engineering and subsequently remote sensing in his native Scotland. He only had access to basic software, so he wrote his own programs. When you see a gap, you can decide to ignore it, or you can decide not to. He started thinking about starting his own organization during the economic crisis of … Read More
Andy was first exposed to sawmills while working on a ranch in 1973 after moving to B.C. from Ontario. He officially started his career in sawmills 15 years ago when he saw one for sale and has been building them ever since. View the full interview: Seaton Forest Products LTD. Website: Seaton Forest Products LTD.
Growing up, Sarah was always around fabric and she started to sew when she was eight. Sarah bought the local fabric store she had been working at from the owner in 2019 and Rain Forest Fabric was born. One year later the building the store was in burned to the ground. Now she has started … Read More
Lawrence Lewis is a member of the We Wai Kai Nation on Vancouver Island. For years he worked to grow Indigenous communities, help them protect their rights and title, and enhance cultural and social values and priorities. He had a vision to create technology solutions for First Nations to use. His company is now able … Read More
Missy has been a professional makeup artist for over 16 years. She grew up in Salmon Arm, B.C. and then moved to Vancouver, B.C. to study makeup artistry at the Blanche MacDonald Centre. Missy wanted to work with clean products, the professionally performing products she found didn’t meet her standards so she made her own. … Read More