LIVN & GIVN
If you want something in life, go grab it. That’s the message Becky Boughton lives by and shares with her children. So, when her 10-year-old son Luke...
Sugar Free Please
Sugar Free Please is a lineup of sugar-free snacks that fly off the shelves at stores and markets because of a growing legion of customers who love...
Brío Soul Apparel
Chayle Beaudoin was working in insurance in Nanaimo when she decided to combine her personal passions for art and community into a business. As a creative artist,...
Pivot & Pilot Creative
Rebecca Rochon grew up watching her father launch a successful business and dove into her own first venture while still in university—she ran a small gardening company...
Moonshine Mama’s
Mel Divers wasn’t looking to start a business—she was looking for nourishment from nature after a cancer diagnosis. “I wanted to add more superfoods with immune boosting...
Little Pine
Melinda Lopez is a pet lover, outdoors enthusiast, and emergency veterinarian who loves exploring the Sea to Sky Corridor. Based in Whistler, it was a combination of...
Nelson Naturals
Nelson Naturals started in 2012 as a small vendor at local farmers’ markets in the Kootenays. That’s when co-founders Dana DiPonio and Kevin Hagell discovered there was...
OneBerrie
OneBerrie is an innovation that started out of personal need for one entrepreneur. When Sue-Rose’s first daughter was born, she quickly encountered a problem during bath time....