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[00:00] SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Countless Podcast.
[00:05] SPEAKER_01: Hello, I'm Mario Toniguzi with Calgary's podcast.
[00:09] SPEAKER_01: Joining me today is Emily Baudsbick, who is founder of Wild Tea Kombucha.
[00:15] SPEAKER_01: I said that right, right?
[00:17] SPEAKER_01: Didn't I?
[00:17] SPEAKER_00: Yes, yeah.
[00:18] SPEAKER_00: Co-founder Wild Tea Kombucha.
[00:20] SPEAKER_01: Okay, super.
[00:21] SPEAKER_01: And who is your other co-founder?
[00:25] SPEAKER_01: Is Bridget Forreal.
[00:26] SPEAKER_01: Okay, super.
[00:27] SPEAKER_01: Tell me, first of all, Emily, what do you guys do?
[00:32] SPEAKER_00: So we manufacture Kombucha when we have three separate lines.
[00:36] SPEAKER_00: So we started off with the typical fruit and infused line,
[00:39] SPEAKER_00: which is cocktail inspired.
[00:41] SPEAKER_00: And we really wanted to make Kombucha fun.
[00:43] SPEAKER_00: So we thought, hey, instead of just ginger Kombucha,
[00:46] SPEAKER_00: let's promote that people can mix it with booze
[00:49] SPEAKER_00: or make a salad dressing or a smoothie.
[00:52] SPEAKER_00: And then after a bit of time, we noticed a gap in the market.
[00:56] SPEAKER_00: So we launched Kombucha sodas, which are low sugar,
[01:00] SPEAKER_00: and they were kind of a response to my dad, who likes to drink coke.
[01:04] SPEAKER_00: And I was like, dad, if I make a coke Kombucha, will you,
[01:07] SPEAKER_00: will you drink it?
[01:08] SPEAKER_00: Who's like, try me?
[01:09] SPEAKER_00: So the Kombucha sodas were born.
[01:12] SPEAKER_00: And then most recently, we just launched with the hard Kombucha cider.
[01:16] SPEAKER_00: So it's 5% alcohol, 1 gram of sugar.
[01:19] SPEAKER_00: And it's a nice crisp alternative to, you know,
[01:23] SPEAKER_00: busy or white flour any of those.
[01:25] SPEAKER_01: So for the people out there that aren't fully aware of it,
[01:29] SPEAKER_01: can you describe and explain what Kombucha is?
[01:33] SPEAKER_00: Yes.
[01:33] SPEAKER_00: So Kombucha is fermented tea.
[01:36] SPEAKER_00: And the simplest way to describe it is the way you make yogurt.
[01:39] SPEAKER_00: You take milk, you add bacteria, and it transforms into yogurt.
[01:42] SPEAKER_00: It's the same way you make Kombucha.
[01:44] SPEAKER_00: You take tea and sugar, you add bacteria,
[01:46] SPEAKER_00: and it turns into this fermented Kombucha.
[01:50] SPEAKER_01: OK.
[01:51] SPEAKER_01: And what are the benefits of Kombucha for people?
[01:56] SPEAKER_00: Yes.
[01:56] SPEAKER_00: So Kombucha has had a wide variety of properties.
[01:59] SPEAKER_00: It's full of amino acids.
[02:01] SPEAKER_00: It's full of B vitamins.
[02:02] SPEAKER_00: It has a great source of vitamin C.
[02:04] SPEAKER_00: And using the premium ingredients that we do,
[02:07] SPEAKER_00: we try to give functional benefits to the fruits and the adaptogen
[02:12] SPEAKER_00: herbs that we use.
[02:13] SPEAKER_01: OK.
[02:14] SPEAKER_00: It's basically a tool in your toolkit.
[02:16] SPEAKER_01: And tell me a little bit about the history behind it.
[02:19] SPEAKER_01: How it all began?
[02:21] SPEAKER_00: So while tea started in 2015, it was kind of a response
[02:24] SPEAKER_00: to a bit of a midlife crisis.
[02:26] SPEAKER_00: I was like, what am I doing with my life?
[02:29] SPEAKER_00: And I started selling at the firmers market in Cochrane
[02:33] SPEAKER_00: and in Beirves Spa.
[02:34] SPEAKER_00: And then Snowball to August September, that's what I meant.
[02:38] SPEAKER_00: Bridgid, and that's when it really transformed from just
[02:40] SPEAKER_00: a firmers market stall into a business.
[02:43] SPEAKER_00: And then from there, it's just been a very accelerated.
[02:47] SPEAKER_00: We were part of our lead Dickinson's district ventures.
[02:50] SPEAKER_00: We were part of the Calgary tap program.
[02:53] SPEAKER_00: We were on Dragon's 10.
[02:55] SPEAKER_00: And so we've been fortunate to be involved with a number
[02:58] SPEAKER_00: of the services that Calgary offers and over it.
[03:02] SPEAKER_01: How did you get initially introduced to Kombucha?
[03:06] SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's an interesting story.
[03:08] SPEAKER_00: My massage therapist from when I did Bob's lead
[03:10] SPEAKER_00: was a added Kombucha drinker.
[03:13] SPEAKER_00: And she grew up on the Sunshine Coast.
[03:15] SPEAKER_00: So she was much more hit than I was.
[03:17] SPEAKER_00: And she's like, you should try this.
[03:19] SPEAKER_00: It's good for you.
[03:19] SPEAKER_00: It's good for your gut.
[03:21] SPEAKER_00: And when you basically eat chicken broccoli and rice
[03:23] SPEAKER_00: for every meal, you're always looking for options
[03:26] SPEAKER_00: to help shake things up.
[03:27] SPEAKER_00: And so that's where the love affair began.
[03:29] SPEAKER_00: And then it just kind of, I thought, hey,
[03:31] SPEAKER_00: maybe I can make this on my own.
[03:33] SPEAKER_00: And then I started giving it away as gifts.
[03:36] SPEAKER_00: And then here we go.
[03:37] SPEAKER_00: Business started.
[03:39] SPEAKER_01: All right, super.
[03:39] SPEAKER_01: You mentioned Bob's lead.
[03:40] SPEAKER_01: Let's talk a little bit about that.
[03:43] SPEAKER_01: Talk to me and tell me a little bit about your Bob's
[03:46] SPEAKER_01: lead career.
[03:46] SPEAKER_00: Yes, I was fortunate to be part of the women's national team
[03:50] SPEAKER_00: from 2010 to 2014.
[03:52] SPEAKER_00: And I was proud Bob's lead breakman
[03:54] SPEAKER_00: for a number of various pilots, including
[03:56] SPEAKER_00: Kaylee Humphries and Jenny Chiquetti.
[03:59] SPEAKER_00: And I got to go to Sochi in 2014 as the alternate spare.
[04:04] SPEAKER_01: Oh, OK.
[04:05] SPEAKER_01: And how did you get involved in Bob's lead?
[04:07] SPEAKER_01: Like you're from the Maritime's originally, right?
[04:09] SPEAKER_00: I am.
[04:10] SPEAKER_01: OK.
[04:11] SPEAKER_01: So how did you get involved in Bob's lead?
[04:14] SPEAKER_00: Well, I grew up playing rugby.
[04:16] SPEAKER_00: And so my love affair with rugby
[04:18] SPEAKER_00: came to a brief or a quick halt in 2010
[04:21] SPEAKER_00: when I developed some severe body issues.
[04:26] SPEAKER_00: And then I went from hitting people to hitting things.
[04:31] SPEAKER_00: And there was an ID camp, just an open camp.
[04:34] SPEAKER_00: They said, anyone who wants to try out, come try out.
[04:36] SPEAKER_00: And then luckily, I was able to put up
[04:38] SPEAKER_00: some of what have decent numbers.
[04:40] SPEAKER_00: And they encouraged me to stick around
[04:42] SPEAKER_00: and the rest is history.
[04:45] SPEAKER_01: So like that, maybe describe the Bob's lead experience.
[04:49] SPEAKER_01: Just as as an aside, years ago, when
[04:52] SPEAKER_01: I was a sports reporter at the Calgary Harold, right?
[04:56] SPEAKER_01: I got to go down the Bob's lead run.
[05:00] SPEAKER_01: I was in the middle.
[05:02] SPEAKER_01: So there was the breakman and the driver, I guess,
[05:05] SPEAKER_01: are called, right?
[05:07] SPEAKER_01: And then two of us, who
[05:08] SPEAKER_01: are nobody's in the middle.
[05:10] SPEAKER_01: And oh, my gosh, I always say to people,
[05:13] SPEAKER_01: I'll never forget that experience.
[05:15] SPEAKER_01: It was the most exhilarating experience
[05:19] SPEAKER_01: I've ever had in my life, but probably
[05:21] SPEAKER_01: the most frightening experience I've ever had in my life.
[05:24] SPEAKER_01: What was it like for you when you first went down?
[05:27] SPEAKER_00: Oh, the first time I went down, I peeped my pants.
[05:29] SPEAKER_00: It was very confusing.
[05:31] SPEAKER_00: I was like, what's happening?
[05:33] SPEAKER_00: What is this?
[05:33] SPEAKER_00: What is this thing called G-Force?
[05:35] SPEAKER_00: And all of a sudden, my body just shut down.
[05:38] SPEAKER_00: And then I got to the bottom and I was like, oops.
[05:41] SPEAKER_00: And then it becomes addictive, like you said.
[05:44] SPEAKER_00: So I think you get used to it.
[05:46] SPEAKER_00: You start to appreciate the sport.
[05:48] SPEAKER_00: And you really start to love
[05:51] SPEAKER_00: healing the track, knowing where the turns are.
[05:54] SPEAKER_00: And each track becomes very different
[05:56] SPEAKER_00: for different types of people.
[05:58] SPEAKER_01: You know, there was that one thing that you go up
[06:02] SPEAKER_01: and kind of curve and around.
[06:04] SPEAKER_01: What was that curve called?
[06:06] SPEAKER_00: That's a prize.
[06:06] SPEAKER_00: So that's during for school.
[06:08] SPEAKER_00: And so it means you go in a full 360.
[06:11] SPEAKER_00: And each track, it's part of the requirements.
[06:13] SPEAKER_00: Just like how each sport has their own
[06:17] SPEAKER_00: specific specifications.
[06:18] SPEAKER_00: In Bob's lead tracks, you have to have a form of a prize
[06:21] SPEAKER_00: a linear track.
[06:22] SPEAKER_01: Oh, OK.
[06:23] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, that was scary.
[06:26] Speaker UNKNOWN:
[06:26] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's calcress a bit of a corner one to four
[06:30] SPEAKER_00: is very slow.
[06:31] SPEAKER_00: And then all of a sudden, reality kicks in.
[06:33] SPEAKER_00: And you're like, oh crap.
[06:34] SPEAKER_00: I can't get out.
[06:37] SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
[06:38] SPEAKER_01: So being an athlete and rugby and Bob's lead,
[06:43] SPEAKER_01: what do you think you learned as an athlete
[06:46] SPEAKER_01: that's helped you out in business?
[06:49] SPEAKER_00: Oh, so many things.
[06:50] SPEAKER_00: I think sport has definitely been a great foundation
[06:52] SPEAKER_00: for me in so many ways.
[06:55] SPEAKER_00: Specifically, accountability, time management,
[06:58] SPEAKER_00: communication, how to be a team player,
[07:01] SPEAKER_00: how to be a great and effective leader.
[07:03] SPEAKER_00: It also opened the doors for my second education.
[07:06] SPEAKER_00: So I was able to complete my master's
[07:08] SPEAKER_00: because of the game plan program with the COC.
[07:12] SPEAKER_00: And it's just it singlehandedly gave me the confidence
[07:15] SPEAKER_00: and the reassurance that I knew I can handle it.
[07:18] SPEAKER_00: If I was able to break business down into steps
[07:20] SPEAKER_00: that were attainable instead of just trying to go
[07:23] SPEAKER_00: from 0 to 100, then it was much more of a unique framework.
[07:28] SPEAKER_01: Oh, OK, then.
[07:29] SPEAKER_01: And when you look back at being an entrepreneur,
[07:33] SPEAKER_01: what would you say the biggest challenges were?
[07:37] SPEAKER_01: Or maybe still are?
[07:41] SPEAKER_00: Well, this morning, it's the rain, thus this.
[07:45] SPEAKER_00: Some of the biggest challenges I think
[07:47] SPEAKER_00: are obviously number one is money in cash flow.
[07:51] SPEAKER_00: And if you do not have deep pockets or at least people
[07:55] SPEAKER_00: with deep pockets in your inner circle,
[07:57] SPEAKER_00: it can get very tiring and hard to bootstrap
[08:01] SPEAKER_00: after so many years.
[08:03] SPEAKER_00: And I think that without money or without the necessary cash flow,
[08:08] SPEAKER_00: it really, it's limited in your ability to grow and scale.
[08:13] SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I think that cash flow is obviously one of them.
[08:16] SPEAKER_00: And then two, it's just being able to pay to have
[08:19] SPEAKER_00: the appropriate team people surrounding you,
[08:23] SPEAKER_00: to give you the knowledge and the structure that you require
[08:26] SPEAKER_00: to really like ask the league of business.
[08:28] SPEAKER_01: OK, then.
[08:30] SPEAKER_01: And what's, when you look at being an entrepreneur,
[08:34] SPEAKER_01: what kind of things do you enjoy about it?
[08:38] SPEAKER_00: I love the variety.
[08:40] SPEAKER_00: I love that I get to set my own schedule,
[08:42] SPEAKER_00: despite that I work for.
[08:43] SPEAKER_00: I love that it leads it on my time.
[08:46] SPEAKER_00: And I really love knowing that today I was a plumber.
[08:50] SPEAKER_00: And then I'll be a shipping and receiver.
[08:52] SPEAKER_00: And then I will go on to be a CEO.
[08:55] SPEAKER_00: And then I will do health and safety.
[08:56] SPEAKER_00: So it's always varied.
[08:59] SPEAKER_00: And I've met so many amazing people in small business,
[09:03] SPEAKER_00: community, specifically in Calgary.
[09:06] SPEAKER_00: That's the reason for being an entrepreneur.
[09:07] SPEAKER_00: It's that the people make business.
[09:10] SPEAKER_00: When you go to a market collective,
[09:12] SPEAKER_00: or when you go to any of those gatherings of sorts,
[09:16] SPEAKER_00: that's where you get really connect and share stories
[09:20] SPEAKER_00: and help each other, lift each other up.
[09:24] SPEAKER_01: If you were giving advice to somebody who came to you
[09:27] SPEAKER_01: about what should you do to be an entrepreneur?
[09:33] SPEAKER_01: What piece of advice would you give to people?
[09:38] SPEAKER_00: Take up drinking.
[09:39] SPEAKER_00: No, I'm sick.
[09:40] SPEAKER_01: Drinking some kombucha.
[09:42] SPEAKER_01: I was going to say, I was going to say Sam Buka.
[09:45] SPEAKER_01: It said so somewhere.
[09:46] SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
[09:47] SPEAKER_00: I think this healthy stress management
[09:51] SPEAKER_00: and being able to set boundaries.
[09:54] SPEAKER_00: First and foremost, doing your research
[09:56] SPEAKER_00: and really knowing your market and asking anyone and everyone
[09:59] SPEAKER_00: and really doing a deep discovery before you just jump off
[10:03] SPEAKER_00: that cliff.
[10:04] SPEAKER_00: And then as you go down the rabbit hole,
[10:07] SPEAKER_00: being able to set boundaries, whether it's with sleep
[10:09] SPEAKER_00: or healthy eating or working out or knowing
[10:12] SPEAKER_00: when to shut off your phone and just trying to be able
[10:15] SPEAKER_00: to keep your world in a tight box as much as possible.
[10:19] SPEAKER_00: Because the thing is that you will miss out on family time,
[10:23] SPEAKER_00: you'll miss out on relationships
[10:24] SPEAKER_00: if you keep putting work first.
[10:26] SPEAKER_00: So it's about coming up with a healthy balance.
[10:29] SPEAKER_01: So it's going to ask you, like I forgot to ask you
[10:31] SPEAKER_01: at the beginning.
[10:32] SPEAKER_01: So where can people find this kombucha?
[10:36] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so on our website, wellteacambucha.com,
[10:40] SPEAKER_00: we're also sold in a number of lovely locations
[10:43] SPEAKER_00: throughout Canada from the small independence
[10:46] SPEAKER_00: like community and Blushlane, the larger conventional
[10:49] SPEAKER_00: like so be safe way and save on.
[10:51] SPEAKER_00: And again, on e-commerce sites like well.ca.
[10:55] SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay, then.
[10:57] SPEAKER_01: And what are your thoughts and plans for the company
[11:00] SPEAKER_01: in the coming years?
[11:03] SPEAKER_00: Great question.
[11:04] SPEAKER_00: Well, our goal right now is still to a recover from COVID
[11:07] SPEAKER_00: because that really took a toll.
[11:09] SPEAKER_00: But then be just to really focus on the alcoholic kombucha
[11:12] SPEAKER_00: and the kombucha sodas and trying to explore new markets
[11:15] SPEAKER_00: with some of our new innovation and new packaging formats.
[11:19] SPEAKER_01: Okay, super then.
[11:21] SPEAKER_01: Now obviously being an entrepreneur is a very busy time,
[11:25] SPEAKER_01: you're on call and basically 24-7.
[11:30] SPEAKER_01: What do you do besides the work?
[11:34] SPEAKER_01: Like, what do you do to relax and that work life balance?
[11:38] SPEAKER_01: Oh, you talk about the time.
[11:41] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so I try to be active as much as I can
[11:46] SPEAKER_00: whether it's biking, mountain biking,
[11:48] SPEAKER_00: or in the wintertime cross-country skiing.
[11:51] SPEAKER_00: I'm limited to the activities I can do
[11:53] SPEAKER_00: because of the number of concussions I've sustained
[11:56] SPEAKER_00: going through the gym as much as possible.
[11:59] SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's just going for a walk
[12:01] SPEAKER_00: and just trying to do something.
[12:02] SPEAKER_00: And obviously reaching out to friends
[12:04] SPEAKER_00: and making sure that you hang out
[12:06] SPEAKER_00: and hang out with those friends.
[12:07] SPEAKER_00: And spending time with my boyfriend and my cats
[12:10] SPEAKER_00: and a crazy cat lady.
[12:13] SPEAKER_00: Secretly a dog person, but now has three cats.
[12:16] SPEAKER_00: And I really enjoyed just doing different forms of art
[12:21] SPEAKER_00: and cooking, just decompressing and letting go
[12:24] SPEAKER_00: and not having to think about anything,
[12:26] SPEAKER_00: but what's in front of me?
[12:27] SPEAKER_01: All right, this is going to be an odd ball question,
[12:29] SPEAKER_01: but tell me about your background in terms of
[12:34] SPEAKER_01: where he came from in the Maritimes.
[12:35] SPEAKER_01: And what do you think, you know,
[12:39] SPEAKER_01: what kind of foundations of coming
[12:42] SPEAKER_01: and being raised in the Maritimes?
[12:44] SPEAKER_01: Do you still carry with you today?
[12:47] SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm a proud new Brunswicker
[12:48] SPEAKER_00: through and through I grew up right on the border
[12:50] SPEAKER_00: to Calisbee.
[12:52] SPEAKER_00: It's called St. Stephen, New Brunswick
[12:53] SPEAKER_00: for famous for Canada's first chocolate bar,
[12:56] SPEAKER_00: the Palo Mine.
[12:57] SPEAKER_00: And where Canada was founded was Samuel Deshamplay.
[13:01] SPEAKER_00: What am I gracious for?
[13:03] SPEAKER_00: I mean, the community I grew up in was kind
[13:05] SPEAKER_00: and it was genuine and the community really did raise
[13:09] SPEAKER_00: everyone.
[13:10] SPEAKER_00: It was a town of only 5,000 people.
[13:13] SPEAKER_00: And I think that often the people
[13:15] SPEAKER_00: or the specifically the athletes of Maritimes
[13:19] SPEAKER_00: often get discouraged because we don't have
[13:21] SPEAKER_00: the same opportunities and we have to travel further
[13:23] SPEAKER_00: to go to the big city.
[13:25] SPEAKER_00: But I do think that there is a lot of undiscovered talent
[13:28] SPEAKER_00: in the Maritimes and just the vibe
[13:33] SPEAKER_00: is just much more chill.
[13:35] SPEAKER_00: It's my dream to eventually move back to the East Coast.
[13:37] SPEAKER_00: I just want to, I mean, the mountains are nice,
[13:39] SPEAKER_00: but it's not the ocean.
[13:41] SPEAKER_01: So yeah, what brought you here?
[13:43] SPEAKER_00: Oh, a boy rugby.
[13:48] SPEAKER_00: Why did I stay rugby, Bob's,
[13:53] SPEAKER_00: boys.
[13:56] SPEAKER_00: But no, my family is still all back
[13:59] SPEAKER_00: in New Brunswick and Montreal.
[14:00] SPEAKER_00: So I do try to visit as often as possible,
[14:03] SPEAKER_00: but COVID did put a damper in that.
[14:06] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, how did you survive through COVID?
[14:10] SPEAKER_00: Oh, hope in a prayer.
[14:13] SPEAKER_00: We really, like we, well, our marketing person at the time,
[14:18] SPEAKER_00: what was very crucial.
[14:21] SPEAKER_00: She single-handedly created our website
[14:23] SPEAKER_00: or e-commerce site in a weekend.
[14:25] SPEAKER_00: Great when March 2020 was at its full, you know, sway.
[14:29] SPEAKER_00: And we tried to create an e-commerce site called
[14:33] SPEAKER_00: the Friend Wildty Community Challenge
[14:34] SPEAKER_00: just to open it to, you know, all the small businesses
[14:37] SPEAKER_00: that we were friends with because everything
[14:39] SPEAKER_00: that we were used to had been shut down.
[14:41] SPEAKER_00: And then just trying to come up with new ways
[14:43] SPEAKER_00: to hit different markets that we're doing well.
[14:47] SPEAKER_00: So, you know, we thought about Trady Creek's
[14:49] SPEAKER_00: Skolby Toilet Paper, but it just, it wasn't hot still.
[14:55] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the old, the old, the, you know, overused phrase
[14:59] SPEAKER_01: right, of the pivot.
[15:00] SPEAKER_00: You know, it's true though, you've had the pivot.
[15:03] SPEAKER_00: And I think like we're gracious for the partners
[15:05] SPEAKER_00: that stay with us.
[15:06] SPEAKER_00: I will call a lot of the vendors who worked with our gone.
[15:10] SPEAKER_00: And so it's just been about reinventing
[15:12] SPEAKER_00: and trying to find new markets.
[15:14] SPEAKER_01: What do you think as a business person,
[15:16] SPEAKER_01: an entrepreneur you learned through this last two years?
[15:23] SPEAKER_00: I think communication, due diligence,
[15:27] SPEAKER_00: networking as much as possible.
[15:29] SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of great resources out there
[15:30] SPEAKER_00: with like obviously the government of Alberta,
[15:32] SPEAKER_00: whether it's their trade commissioners
[15:35] SPEAKER_00: or their government grants.
[15:37] SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of tools out there.
[15:38] SPEAKER_00: You just have to know how to navigate it.
[15:41] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's true.
[15:43] SPEAKER_01: And over the years, you know, when setting up the business
[15:46] SPEAKER_01: and doing the business that, where have you turned,
[15:50] SPEAKER_01: like you turned to for advice, whether that's a people
[15:54] SPEAKER_01: or whether that's books and resources,
[15:58] SPEAKER_01: where do you look for mentorship, I guess?
[16:02] SPEAKER_00: We had a lot of mentors that we met
[16:04] SPEAKER_00: through district ventures that have stayed true.
[16:07] SPEAKER_00: And we've also acquired new business coaches
[16:11] SPEAKER_00: and new different, I guess specialists in their field.
[16:16] SPEAKER_00: And then also just being able to talk
[16:19] SPEAKER_00: to the other business owners
[16:20] SPEAKER_00: and being able to understand that we're all
[16:23] SPEAKER_00: having supply chain issues.
[16:24] SPEAKER_00: We're all having current board issues, right?
[16:28] SPEAKER_00: And also the professors from my school,
[16:30] SPEAKER_00: like I was obviously bringing up my own work problems,
[16:33] SPEAKER_00: being like, how do I do this?
[16:35] SPEAKER_00: And so as long as you're willing to ask,
[16:38] SPEAKER_00: people are willing to help.
[16:39] SPEAKER_00: You just have to know how to communicate.
[16:41] SPEAKER_01: What school was that and what did you take?
[16:44] SPEAKER_00: Oh, it was through Queens and University,
[16:47] SPEAKER_00: the Queens Cornell partnership,
[16:48] SPEAKER_00: called the Executive MBA.
[16:50] SPEAKER_01: Okay.
[16:53] SPEAKER_01: Okay, super then.
[16:54] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so and where did you go to university before that?
[16:59] SPEAKER_00: Oh, I went to Mount Allison University back in St. Brunswick.
[17:03] SPEAKER_00: Some of the proud Mount T.
[17:06] SPEAKER_00: Play, did you play rugby?
[17:07] SPEAKER_00: I played rugby there, yeah, yeah.
[17:09] SPEAKER_00: It's where I really like discovered my passion for rugby.
[17:13] SPEAKER_00: And that's I think when I, you know,
[17:14] SPEAKER_00: you leave the fish bowl that is the Maritimes
[17:17] SPEAKER_00: and you're like, I'm gonna make the national team
[17:19] SPEAKER_00: and then you go out west and you're like,
[17:20] SPEAKER_00: oh, my Jesus, they're so big.
[17:22] SPEAKER_01: So.
[17:24] SPEAKER_01: So tell me why, why rugby?
[17:27] SPEAKER_01: What was the appeal of that sport to you?
[17:31] SPEAKER_00: I am not one that is blessed with grace.
[17:34] SPEAKER_00: I know that when I was in my mom said
[17:36] SPEAKER_00: that she put me in ballet when I was five or six
[17:39] SPEAKER_00: and the teacher told her nicely,
[17:43] SPEAKER_00: this is not for her.
[17:46] SPEAKER_00: I mean, I have ADV.
[17:49] SPEAKER_00: So I think that, you know,
[17:51] SPEAKER_00: the impulse, the activity and the being able to,
[17:54] SPEAKER_00: a million miles a minute, my brain's always working
[17:57] SPEAKER_00: and I think that just rugby was like,
[17:59] SPEAKER_00: the way to describe it is just a beautiful chaos.
[18:01] SPEAKER_00: Like I love that you did get to hit people
[18:03] SPEAKER_00: and I love that it was also about the finesse and the speed.
[18:06] SPEAKER_00: So in all honesty, like watching Super Bowl
[18:09] SPEAKER_00: versus watching the World Cup,
[18:10] SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's like hands down,
[18:12] SPEAKER_00: full of rugby, it's way better and way more exciting
[18:15] SPEAKER_00: and way faster.
[18:17] SPEAKER_00: So.
[18:18] SPEAKER_01: Interesting.
[18:19] SPEAKER_01: Last thing I'm going to share with people
[18:21] SPEAKER_01: and it's just part of our conversation
[18:23] SPEAKER_01: we had prior to starting record this,
[18:26] SPEAKER_01: being an entrepreneur.
[18:27] SPEAKER_01: Now, I'm not sure when this is going to air,
[18:30] SPEAKER_01: but we're taping this at this moment on June 14th
[18:34] SPEAKER_01: and Calgary has just been inundated with rainfall, et cetera.
[18:39] SPEAKER_01: So tell me how you spent your morning as an entrepreneur.
[18:44] SPEAKER_00: Yes, so this morning I came to work dressed
[18:46] SPEAKER_00: in appropriate wear with makeup on
[18:48] SPEAKER_00: knowing that you're having this interview
[18:49] SPEAKER_00: and I got to our office and there's water everywhere.
[18:53] SPEAKER_00: It's flooded, so I spent all morning mopping
[18:55] SPEAKER_00: and wiping and being a plumber
[18:58] SPEAKER_00: and just completely drenched.
[19:00] SPEAKER_00: So I had to change and wipe everything off quickly.
[19:05] SPEAKER_01: Just a life of an entrepreneur, right?
[19:07] SPEAKER_00: Life of an entrepreneur, yeah.
[19:10] SPEAKER_00: But it's, I don't think our building,
[19:12] SPEAKER_00: I think it's a tar and roof from the 70s.
[19:15] SPEAKER_00: I don't think it was meant for a men's amount of rain.
[19:18] SPEAKER_00: We're not, we're not Vancouver.
[19:20] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
[19:22] SPEAKER_01: All right, super Emily, I appreciate you taking the time
[19:24] SPEAKER_01: to do this.
[19:25] SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Mario.
[19:26] SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for your time.
[19:27] SPEAKER_01: All right, super.
[19:28] SPEAKER_01: That was Emily Baud's Vic, who is a co-founder
[19:31] SPEAKER_01: of Wild T. Combootcha in Calgary.
[19:34] SPEAKER_01: I'm Mario Toneguzi with Calgary's podcast.
[19:37] SPEAKER_01: Thanks for joining us today.
