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[00:36] SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Canada's podcast, the number one podcast for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs.
[00:44] SPEAKER_01: Hi, this is Angela Fei from Canada's podcast here in beautiful British Columbia,
[00:50] SPEAKER_01: talking to Brett Anval from Millionaires Row Scyder Company.
[00:55] SPEAKER_01: I'm excited to talk to Brett. Hi, Brett, where are you right now?
[00:59] SPEAKER_02: Hi, everyone. I'm in the hardest summer land BC.
[01:04] SPEAKER_01: I love, I mean, it's just the fact that you live in a place called summer land.
[01:08] SPEAKER_01: I just have to conjure up such great imagery and right next door is a community called Peachland.
[01:15] SPEAKER_01: So, you know, it just speaks high energy and lots of sunshine and lots of positivity.
[01:21] SPEAKER_01: So, is that your experience looking there?
[01:22] SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, absolutely. And then when January hits and we're shoveling snow,
[01:28] SPEAKER_02: then we kind of get a good laugh out of it.
[01:31] SPEAKER_01: It becomes hyperbole. Yeah. Brett, tell me a little bit about your entrepreneurial journey.
[01:36] SPEAKER_02: Yeah. So, definitely always had that spirit in me,
[01:41] SPEAKER_02: but a little bit of a type B personality or the absent-minded entrepreneurial.
[01:47] SPEAKER_02: So, I needed somebody to beside me to ever make this come off, but definitely the visionary, the dreamer.
[01:54] SPEAKER_02: So, that's where a lot of my early entrepreneurial ventures went was into the ditch because
[01:59] SPEAKER_02: I needed somebody to put the actual rubber to the road and I had all kinds of ideas.
[02:08] SPEAKER_02: Entrepreneurial journey got good for me when I got married and my wife came beside me.
[02:13] SPEAKER_02: I was interested in finance and that was part of the entrepreneurial.
[02:17] SPEAKER_02: Lots of real estate investing type things and then finally leading to where I always envisioned this day what we're doing now.
[02:27] SPEAKER_02: So, it took a while.
[02:28] SPEAKER_01: So, talk to me about that kind of childhood dream and where you are now.
[02:33] SPEAKER_01: You said you've always imagined it. And what's actually what has come to fruition are in the pun.
[02:39] SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's kind of funny. I talk about being a dreamer of visionary, but something different about me is that I dream small and I have small vision.
[02:48] SPEAKER_02: It's always had a vision of something kind of I could manage and something. Yeah, small. I don't I don't have big, big aspirations in a way, but they are aspirations.
[02:59] SPEAKER_02: And so the idea of when we came out to the Okanagan in the early 90s and I saw these farms out here in this area thought wouldn't it be cool to have something out here and some kind of a business some kind of a farm.
[03:12] SPEAKER_02: And so getting that vision to come to pass from the early 90s that's a long time ago when I look at the calendar.
[03:20] SPEAKER_02: And so a small I don't know a small vision come to pass is still pretty exciting.
[03:26] SPEAKER_01: Say during small, but small can be relative. And so we're going to talk a little bit about your small. So you have a farm in Somerland for those who are in the field. What what sizes your farm.
[03:39] SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so it's a 10 acre apple orchard. That's why the decision to be an apple based side or.
[03:46] SPEAKER_01: Okay, so really you went from buying a farm because you you wanted to have this childhood dream apart, this child or youth dream.
[03:56] SPEAKER_01: And did you move there with your family.
[03:58] SPEAKER_02: Yes, and no, how's that for a terrible answer? Okay, that's all right.
[04:02] SPEAKER_02: No, we actually left the kids behind. And then they came here right after. So they're here now took a couple of years.
[04:11] SPEAKER_02: So yeah, there was a couple years of separation, but the plan was for them to come here. So it just had happened in a certain order.
[04:20] SPEAKER_01: The how doesn't always exactly present itself at the beginning, right? But so you're now there with multiple family.
[04:28] SPEAKER_01: Small farmer. Who's all involved now, right?
[04:31] SPEAKER_02: Our two sons are independent doing what they're doing, but they are helping out here. I mean, this is the time of COVID.
[04:38] SPEAKER_02: And they're out here helping out as they're restructuring their lives in a way after this kind of displaced them from school and work.
[04:49] SPEAKER_02: From out in Calgary and Saskatchewan. So, you know, these are the unexpected things. This is one part of the entrepreneur story to me is being entrepreneur is to realize what you control and what you do not.
[05:02] SPEAKER_02: And you just anticipate what's coming down the pipe that you're not controlling.
[05:07] SPEAKER_02: And so like for our family to be here, that was out of my control. And certainly a desire. It had to happen a certain way.
[05:17] SPEAKER_01: It's a bit of a global reset. And suddenly it worked in your favorite family close by.
[05:24] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I love it. Now, obviously you and your wife and I apologize. What's her name? Janet.
[05:30] SPEAKER_01: Janet, I look forward to meeting Janet in person. We've got some history because we have mutual friends from Selvinal Berda. And in all fairness, I'm going to say, your I got presented with this millionaires row box of cider from a loyal advocate that said, and you need to try this.
[05:50] SPEAKER_01: So this has been sitting in my fridge. And I have not tried it. My plan was to do this in the afternoon so that we can actually share a tasting together. So, but I promised that to do it.
[06:00] SPEAKER_01: I just want to do it later on my own. I my plan is to bring some cider advocates and and taste these, but let's just jump into the story of millionaires row.
[06:12] SPEAKER_01: How did you go from 10 acres of apples to cider?
[06:18] SPEAKER_02: Well, because the goal was never apples, I was looking for something like I wear out words. And so I always wearing out the word purpose, fine purpose, fine purpose.
[06:29] SPEAKER_02: And eventually my wife even would start making fun of me. I was talking about purpose. You know, it's like, well, like I say, the small things fill in by I knew there had to be bigger purpose and everything. So I was looking for the bigger purpose. So there's an apple orchard. It's got to be a bigger purpose and it got to be a bigger purpose.
[06:45] SPEAKER_02: And so when the millionaire's role story hit the apple orchard, my I was out pruning in my orchard. My wife phones me. She's up hiking on a trail. There's a sign up there.
[06:57] SPEAKER_02: And it says on the trail that this area of land we bought in is known as millionaire's row. There's all these influential eastern Canadian business men.
[07:06] SPEAKER_02: And Lord Thomas Shaughnessy being one of them well known Canadian Pacific Railway President. They're all made this area known as millionaire's row back in the early 1900s.
[07:16] SPEAKER_02: So it's like, holy smokes. We bought a piece of land with a great historical story. And so when we came out here, we thought we do something with our piece of land, cider, he was an option.
[07:27] SPEAKER_02: So as soon as that moment came up, I could see there was something bigger in the storyline. It's like, oh, millionaire's row, so I had a coat.
[07:36] SPEAKER_02: And there it is. And it was in a minute. It's just a flash. It is a moment. You get the moments of inspiration. When you're looking for something bigger that transcends yourself.
[07:48] SPEAKER_02: You'll see it. Like otherwise, it could pass by, but you have to be expecting something bigger than yourself to finally show up.
[07:57] SPEAKER_02: I love that.
[07:58] SPEAKER_02: You're actually looking for it. Because if I just looking for my own little desire, I would I'd miss that moment.
[08:05] SPEAKER_01: And something that we talked about, and this is the sort of green field, you know, the farming grass roots story, that could be my analogy is like Silicon Valley, right in the states where there were seven founding entrepreneurs and people with resources that had this future focused vision for the area that they lived.
[08:30] SPEAKER_01: They were in love with where they lived and they loved their business and they came together. Seven guys formed Silicon Valley.
[08:37] SPEAKER_01: Millionaires row story is a little bit like that, but in a farming community. Can you share a little bit of what you've learned about this wisdom of the previous generation that you've landed upon quite by accident.
[08:50] SPEAKER_02: Yes, and it is excited. We get to tell so many people this story every day, and that's also beyond what I could have ever imagined because it's a story that resonates with people. So now I get where I think the majority of people are at.
[09:06] SPEAKER_02: And what we do have a common hope and desire. I do believe the story millionaires row is quite simply the some of the wealthiest most influential business men in Canadian history and the
[09:17] SPEAKER_02: Canadian Pacific Railway and in the banking and so I'll drop a few names like Lord Thomas Shaughnessy, Arby Angus, Sir Edward Cluston, Mr. Holt.
[09:30] SPEAKER_02: He was one of the most richest men in Canadian history still is money to this day. And you know, these guys, they show up here at Somerland early 1900s because they're all over Canada doing everything.
[09:41] SPEAKER_02: And they see opportunity here. So they see opportunity with the land area to the railway and they start to make a land play here.
[09:53] SPEAKER_02: And they start to develop the lands into fruit lots that people can come in and buy. They start the Somerland development company.
[10:00] SPEAKER_02: And they throw out fruit lots for $100 per acre people from all over Canada start coming in behind these 10 acre fruit lots approximately for the $100 per acre.
[10:10] SPEAKER_02: And Somerland is born. So in doing this, they're also doing all kinds of backstory things are developing the water flumes into here and the utilities.
[10:19] SPEAKER_02: They're developing a community in area with a greater plan of fruit in the area and fruit onto the train into our Canadian Pacific hotels fruit exporting throughout Canada.
[10:31] SPEAKER_02: And that's why I have this sign up behind me about showing Somerland for exports for 1918 or half a million dollars.
[10:38] SPEAKER_02: So in the grand scheme, they had great designs. And in the end, they created opportunity for people with their wealth.
[10:48] SPEAKER_02: And that's a little bit what we're starting to miss in our society.
[10:53] SPEAKER_02: And we're starting to be more opportunity created and may a little less, I don't know if it's almost like a benevolence in a weird form, or just giveaways.
[11:04] SPEAKER_02: When the lottery or get a handout, I don't know it.
[11:07] SPEAKER_02: Created opportunity, the history of this country of opportunities created people thrive into that because you get purpose and meaning.
[11:15] SPEAKER_02: And you take control your destiny a bit and away you go. So that's the main source story was a win-win business deal with a land transaction and developing of an area that's had 100 years of just going great guns after its inception.
[11:33] SPEAKER_01: And fast forward to 2020 is, you know, you're in the Okanagan area, some of the communities, Somerland, Pichland, Kelona, Penticton, you know, those sort of grouping of communities is, I believe, the fastest growing area in Canada.
[11:54] SPEAKER_01: Obviously it has geographic climate and, you know, some some natural assets there that can't be replicated anywhere, but, you know, without the vision of these people 100 years ago, they're probably wouldn't be the ecosystem and the infrastructure to be able to build on that.
[12:11] SPEAKER_02: Oh, absolutely. So there is the vision of when you're doing something, certainly you benefit the true entrepreneur spirit seems to say, I benefit, but you can really see how you're going to benefit other people with it.
[12:30] SPEAKER_02: I remember seeing so stuff about the benevolence of the butcher, you know, he actually does his job knowing that he is going to be benefiting somebody else, he will get the benefit that you really work to benefit the other person, the person comes into the meat market.
[12:47] SPEAKER_02: It's very simple economics and then they come back and they're happy and you get a gain, they go to gain.
[12:54] SPEAKER_02: I don't know how these simple concepts have kind of been a little bit lost, taken hostage, I'm not sure what, but to get to regain them, I feel like as soon as you start to reestablish these principles, I see people kind of come to life in them and act hopeful.
[13:11] SPEAKER_01: Love it. I just wrote down simple economics starts with benevolence, there's a magic there, absolutely, and being of service.
[13:21] SPEAKER_01: I want to talk a little bit about the possibility of multi generational farming and wealth creation now that you and Janet have created, you know, this space and this business and the boys are at least temporarily home joining you.
[13:40] SPEAKER_01: Do they see opportunity to capture the essence of what you're doing and create their own wealth from it.
[13:49] SPEAKER_02: You know, I see something that they're seeing in a shorter scope in that they feel a tangible benefit of this place, just the lifestyle of it.
[14:06] SPEAKER_02: And so I do feel them starting to move into an understanding of what's more.
[14:14] SPEAKER_02: And that will continue to develop in them because it's always interesting to me how as much as let's say that the generation before us has the truth or there's more wisdom, but you always have to capture it yourself.
[14:29] SPEAKER_02: So it'll be interesting to watch that question has how will my kids capture that understanding for themselves. So I'm still waiting to see that.
[14:41] SPEAKER_01: And what let's just talk about lifestyle a little bit, you know, that that story, just a quick related story is, you know, where there's a fisherman sitting in a boat trying to catch a fish and he's having this beautiful sort of moment in in his surroundings and he's catching a fish and somebody cups up to him and says, you know, hey, you're great catching fish.
[15:03] SPEAKER_01: You can do more and you can be bigger and you can create a fish plant and we can do more, more, more.
[15:08] SPEAKER_01: And as they talk through that, the question is what's more, so why are we doing all this again. And the answer is so that I have time to sit in a boat and fish and enjoy my surroundings.
[15:21] SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, it have to kind of embrace the fact that we're in this odd COVID pause, I call it the strategic pause, I guess the COVID pause is what's more is coming back to some very grassroots lifestyle quality time, spending time with friends and family that maybe you've been so busy that you haven't been able to do that.
[15:47] SPEAKER_01: And suddenly we're now in this essence of quality of life. And I wonder if part of the experience, Brett, that you were trying to create.
[15:58] SPEAKER_01: And that seems to be happening and we'll talk a little bit more about the actual cider in a moment, but is the experiences right the magic in the ordinary, the lifestyle now that the boys are experiencing what would what would they say to their peers.
[16:14] SPEAKER_01: Now, as far as being at home working on the farm with mom dad and enjoying the lifestyle of the Okanagan, what would what do you think they would say.
[16:24] SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and that's a that's a great question.
[16:29] SPEAKER_02: And certainly like they did experience other things like my one son, he was right downtown Calgary living the downtown lifestyle there.
[16:37] SPEAKER_02: And so yeah, I think you know, they would say the most positive things and the thing is like they're what they're experiencing what their voices would be saying.
[16:47] SPEAKER_02: I hear echoed in our tasting room. I think our tasting room is one of the most interesting places I've ever been because of the amount of people I've got to experience in there, what they say.
[17:00] SPEAKER_02: So it's like, like what my kids will say I will hear people also say it's like, oh, this is so great out here wouldn't it be great to be here all this real up language and this real positive, this real desire to something.
[17:17] SPEAKER_02: But it's a shared it's a shared experience or it's a it's a share inner inner thought that's in people.
[17:24] SPEAKER_02: So I do see so much common in people.
[17:28] SPEAKER_02: And it makes me feel more hopeful than I did before we did all this like there's no doubt about it. I see.
[17:34] SPEAKER_02: I think I was a little off basis to where people are at and with this broad spectrum, including our family, I feel like something is is shared in humanity and people that we can hope on together.
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[18:02] SPEAKER_01: But let me ask a little bit about you have a you have a natural grounding.
[18:09] SPEAKER_01: I'm going to describe it as holding the space for your words humanity.
[18:15] SPEAKER_01: What's more the positivity of your tasting room creating an experience that is shared. I mean, this is just fantastic.
[18:24] SPEAKER_01: One thing that you and I talked about earlier in our introductory call is and that absolutely be speaks millionaires rose citer company is branding is not necessarily a thing right it's not a it's not a logo it's not a thing that you do it's not a series of campaigns to sell.
[18:44] SPEAKER_01: It's an essence. Yeah. And this is why I say I think you're carrying the essence of the millionaires row and now sharing it and propagating it into your community.
[18:55] SPEAKER_01: Can you tell me a little bit about that experience for you.
[19:00] SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, it like as much as I was positive saying when I first hear the name is all excited and I was like, oh, that's name of a side.
[19:09] SPEAKER_02: But to be honest, then I had a pause afterwards and I thought, ooh, I don't know if I want to carry this name, especially in the day and age or living in it's like this comes off very elitist.
[19:22] SPEAKER_02: Just certain ways I don't know if I'm comfortable with.
[19:26] SPEAKER_02: And so what's been interesting is we moved into it, we saw the historical story and saw it, no, we go, this is good because there's a good back story here.
[19:35] SPEAKER_02: And the interesting thing is when people come into tasting room, how people have already taken it on in their mind, like what they think the brand is.
[19:44] SPEAKER_02: And we're done with the experience where we're at with it.
[19:50] SPEAKER_02: So the brand to me is, as you say, it's an essence and as much as we, you know, people have talked us we like the font, we like the look it looks a little bit monopoly like, you know, with the font gets a certain feeling the old days top hats and all this kind of stuff.
[20:09] SPEAKER_02: When the essence of the story is done because it has to be experienced beyond just, you know, just the superficial.
[20:20] SPEAKER_02: Yeah, then I know that we have it's funny you've said it a few times about the create space for.
[20:27] SPEAKER_02: Because when people are done, they've shown their desire that they wish somebody would create space for them, like we tell a story of these guys.
[20:37] SPEAKER_02: Space for other people they create, I say opportunity, but the other way to say it.
[20:41] SPEAKER_02: And this is some of my I'll just let anybody watching know I do have some theological training.
[20:48] SPEAKER_02: And it's interesting to me one of the if I could boil down my theological, theological training into an essence is like create space for one another.
[20:59] SPEAKER_02: At the beginning of the of the Bible is a very short time showing God about 30 some verses showing how God created everything.
[21:08] SPEAKER_02: And then the rest of the book is showing how you create space for everyone else.
[21:13] SPEAKER_02: It's amazing the desire that's in people to to have that done for them and then they'll want to even reciprocate it.
[21:21] SPEAKER_02: So when you see that these guys came in created an opportunity set $100 breaker.
[21:27] SPEAKER_02: Here's the land area. Here's the opportunity. They're actually creating space because nowadays the idea of consolidation, which is rampant through industries, consolidate consolidate.
[21:37] SPEAKER_02: We're all worried about the small businessman being phased out. That's why this podcast is important.
[21:42] SPEAKER_02: The small to for newer getting crunched to the big system consolidate consolidate.
[21:48] SPEAKER_02: This was the opposite story about distribution. Here's the land area. They didn't own it anymore.
[21:56] SPEAKER_02: They sold it off into small lots made smaller lots so more people could come in.
[22:02] SPEAKER_02: Amazing. Instead of holding it, they distributed created space and the next 100 years is the evidence that that thought works.
[22:10] SPEAKER_02: Because families generationally, everything exploded prospered and worked.
[22:16] SPEAKER_02: So the essence of the story of the brand is, I can almost say, create space for one another would be a great slogan off of it.
[22:27] SPEAKER_02: And when you get that feeling, I just feel like you can see the spark in people start to ignite.
[22:33] SPEAKER_02: That should be what is and should be possible again.
[22:37] SPEAKER_01: I love it. Brett, in your experience, what reading or what if if people feel the essence of, you know, this, the energy and this podcast in your brand and obviously I'm going to.
[22:51] SPEAKER_01: I'm happy to have a tasting sharing if anybody wants to, you know, import some or find some millionaires row.
[22:58] SPEAKER_01: We should have like a live tasting. We should try, we should actually try this. I like this idea of, you know, if you can't travel to the, to your tasting room, maybe we should create a digital tasting room one night. I love the idea.
[23:12] SPEAKER_02: Great idea.
[23:13] SPEAKER_01: Great space for positivity and everybody can have a little bit of, I mean, this one is, this one is high and dry.
[23:20] SPEAKER_01: We've got modern miracle, making a mint and hop on board. I mean, how positive.
[23:29] SPEAKER_01: And again, they all, I'm sure have a great story behind them, but how other than us creating a digital tasting room, which I think we should totally back to this today.
[23:38] SPEAKER_01: But can you give the audience some ideas on how to maintain that essence beyond this podcast is their readings.
[23:47] SPEAKER_01: Is there a ritual that you do to keep yourself grounded in essence that you could offer some wisdom to other entrepreneurs, especially in this time of odd pivot.
[24:01] SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, you know, it's funny about in this world right now, everybody's talking about morality, right. So nobody just showed up when you're five years old and started doing business.
[24:14] SPEAKER_02: We all formed off of something. There's more to each and every one of you, then just whatever business you're in. And a lot of people are in businesses that may they don't even that's not their hearts desire.
[24:25] SPEAKER_02: But that's okay. There's always room to do that business to the best of who you're formed to be. So it's interesting. Be true to your ethic.
[24:36] SPEAKER_02: Your ethic that's your underlying platform. When do you even where do you even come from did somebody give you a, you know, teach you the Bible in your five years old did somebody teach you a different religion.
[24:47] SPEAKER_02: So the religion was there a system or series of that forms your morality. So when you're really true to what your ethic and morality is, then you will you will do way better into this next part of what you're doing.
[25:04] SPEAKER_02: So I mean, like, I don't know. I realize the way opportunity comes up. Most people probably aren't doing exactly what they want to do.
[25:13] SPEAKER_02: Like, even if you ask me, is this exactly what you want to do be a cider on an orchard? I'd probably say, no, I could still think of something something that would have been my ideal.
[25:24] SPEAKER_02: So we can all think of something that would have been the ideal thing. But if we're true to those things that formulate us to be who we are, we will start to transcend the situation we're in.
[25:39] SPEAKER_02: And something better will come out of your product line, something will come better out of your service.
[25:44] SPEAKER_02: There is room for better and it would stem from from that. I believe that is that is where it shows up from.
[25:51] SPEAKER_01: Well, and I'm highlighting what is your heart's desire, your ethics, your morality, be aware of what has crafted or helped you create your ideologies as an exercise that people and actually just do in the next week, just just maybe just spend some time and dig deep on the world according to Brett.
[26:17] SPEAKER_01: I love it. I also want to make the suggestion that what I hear from you Brett is that really the cider is the means.
[26:29] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right. It's the mechanism by which you get to engage with people in your tasting room and offer.
[26:37] SPEAKER_01: And going back to the idea of the millionaires role where they had so much to offer and then they divided it up and shared it amongst those that were willing that took the risk and came out to the Okanagan when it was undeveloped and jumped on board and decided let's let's be part of this route.
[26:56] SPEAKER_01: You know, ecosystem and you're the next generation and you're now taking the cider and creating the space for others to have a taste of the good life.
[27:08] SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and that's that's one of the fun parts of the story where we get to use our if we have any comedic ability or any skill.
[27:16] SPEAKER_02: It's actually a point where we belittle these millionaires just I might say belittle. I mean, just take them down a notch humility and humbleness.
[27:26] SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because they did their part. They got like we like to say they got the wheels under it. They got it going.
[27:32] SPEAKER_02: But we and then we really like to emphasize what people did for the next hundred years, the real success of the story and that's our modern miracle product.
[27:42] SPEAKER_02: That's where we use that product is that it's the next hundred years that people that came in that were, you know, they weren't so well financed.
[27:50] SPEAKER_02: They really were taking the risk. They were laying it all out there.
[27:53] SPEAKER_02: The main thing is, it wasn't these millionaire guys. It was the next hundred years of that spirit that built it into what we're standing in today.
[28:03] SPEAKER_02: So then, you know, we kind of we just kind of take those guys down a notch and we lift up the people who are just like me and you and all of us watching the podcast.
[28:13] SPEAKER_02: You know, these these were the elite and the ultra rich, the millionaires and I'm sure they're not.
[28:20] SPEAKER_02: I don't think Kevin Leary is watching the podcast yet.
[28:24] SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so the great part of the story is what people rise up to to become and so yeah, we kind of level the field a little bit.
[28:34] SPEAKER_02: And once again, you see that story resonate with people and that's where they these brands like when you get into these like what what is modern miracle, what is hop on board like our brands are definitely the conduit to tell these stories which are really
[28:50] SPEAKER_02: really in our own personal essence what we believe.
[28:53] SPEAKER_02: And so at every step we're telling it with some conviction and personal belief behind every bottle.
[29:02] Speaker UNKNOWN: So yeah.
[29:04] SPEAKER_01: Well, and I'm hoping to tap into it that you're real tasting room before the end of the season this year, but Brett, how can people get a hold of you host podcast.
[29:17] SPEAKER_01: And you know, and also a hold of millionaires row if they want a taste of of the good life, how do how do people get their hands on a cider and how can they connect with you.
[29:29] SPEAKER_02: Yeah, hands on the cider is limited because we are mostly localized.
[29:36] SPEAKER_02: Yeah, right in the area, few local liquor stores, couple local restaurants and our tasting room and we're very low on stock now we'll be getting into a new new run in the fall, of course, thank goodness we're very grateful for a measure of success that we're having.
[29:55] SPEAKER_02: And to contact us, we do have the regular social media outlets, I mainly Instagram is the best way to make our contacts and we do have a website millionaires row cider calm and yeah Instagram is is a really nice touch point.
[30:15] SPEAKER_01: And that your your touch point on Instagram is actually called million rose row cider on Instagram.
[30:21] SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I believe so it's my son looks after that.
[30:26] SPEAKER_01: When I know you have a hyper local sort of philosophy, I know that you know you you manage to keep the distribution of million as row really quite within the region, but.
[30:38] SPEAKER_01: You know I have a sneaking suspicion that you might get some pre sales if you set up a pre sale account after sharing your story because it's such a great story we're just going to want to taste of it.
[30:48] SPEAKER_02: We do have bigger aspirations that we're we started small and have had this measure of success so we are going to be expanding into next year even into the uncertainty, which you know you just have to have that kind of faith and.
[31:01] SPEAKER_02: Absolutely will manage that growth in a way we go so yeah I appreciate your encouraging words right there so.
[31:09] SPEAKER_01: Perfect right it has been a pleasure I always love to have with a bit of a as a farmer's daughter I love talking to people are working the working the land and.
[31:17] SPEAKER_01: And have you know basic manufacturing of food products and consumable products so thank you so much for your efforts and for for being the.
[31:26] SPEAKER_01: The conduit for millionaires rose story and for being a massive sort of brand essence for the Okanagan it's a it's lovely to meet you and.
[31:34] SPEAKER_02: Well thank you some more fun stuff.
[31:36] SPEAKER_02: It seems somewhat coherent I do it was lots of fun I really love your podcast here so thanks so much look forward to seeing you in person sounds great thanks Brett.
[31:46] SPEAKER_02: OK thank you.
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