http://www.hopeinnovation.ca/ (Hope Innovations) Another Rockstar Millennial is going to be my featured guest today to talk to us about his businesshttp://www.hopeinnovation.ca/ ( Hope Innovations.ca) is a new up and growing hydroponic business who has developed an indoor garden that will grow anything you wish, anytime of the year, anywhere. Does not matter the size of your place,season it is or the type of plant. It is an easy affordable system that gives anyone the opportunity to grow their own healthy chemical free food. http://www.hopeinnovation.ca/eden-kit.html (Garden of Eden hydroponic kit) We created a http://www.hopeinnovation.ca/eden-kit.html (hydroponic kit) that is less than half the price of any hydroponic kit out there the same size. We have found an innovative solution to no longer need to transplant everything you want to grow in your system. We created a system that you can set up, fill up, plant up, with no way to screw up. This system can be used indoors or outdoors, and requires less than 15 mins of maintenance a month. We have created the first “anyone can succeed” hydroponic system, that will allow everyone to grow there own food with no risk of dangerous chemicals or preservatives added, while still growing nutritious delicious food. Hydroponics You’re just north of me in Canada, right so? Do you want to tell listeners about your self?Tell us a little about yourself. For sure, I am Ryan Agree. I’m from a small town called Edson, in Alberta, Canada! I’m the founder ofhttp://www.hopeinnovation.ca/ (Hope Innovations.ca) . HOPE stands for Hydroponic optimized personal environments If you have a bad climate or don’t have space to grow You can grow year round affordabilty chemical free making it accessible to anybody to have their own food Engineering Roots Ive always been interested in creating building designing http://firstlegoleague.org/countries?field_tags_tid=1#flags (connix competiiton) I entered and ended up winning from North America in my age group I love designing creating Naturally I thought I’d get into engineering after school, but after doing some job fairs and talking to people in the trade but after talking to some people in the field it kind of soured me to the whole idea. I wanted an a job where I could design create and build design but that job doesn’t exist except what I do now. I am still hoping I can make that job work Doing what my friends are doing, so all my friends started getting jobs around Edmond high school definitely do university that education invaluable you won’t lose ended up mainly lumber oil and gas coal graduated in 2008 right as the recession hit. You are handing out resumes as people are putting up out of business signs Eventually got a job and ended up running some facilities never really happy wanted to scratch that itch to build and design things and do what I did kind of as a kid I always see stories of these people who do these things phd’s or doing something for 50 years and it’s really intimidating that someone just coming out of school could break into a market so competitive. After watching shows like http://www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/ (Dragon’s Den) (Canada’s version of Shark Tank) Shark Tank fewer 0s every day people see a problem come up with a solution really be successful and do something they love successful people People who were geniuses Steve Jobs At the pinnacle of the entrepreneur world and realized they are not a whole lot further ahead and a lot of people coming out of school and that gave me the confidence that this was something I could do I was lucky I had been socking away money for years funding the idea a bit of an epiphany relied around the idea of growing food around areas where we weren’t growing food and utilize a small... Support this podcast