by Krysti Mikkonen | Nov 8, 2021 | food and drink, Minnesota, Podcast, rural entrepreneur
Jill Blashack Strahan used to put together gift baskets and sell them in her Minnesota town as an active rural entrepreneur. She started small and it got bigger and bigger, but it wasn’t working as she’d hoped and she decided to close the...
by Krysti Mikkonen | Oct 20, 2021 | food and drink, Podcast, rural entrepreneur, small business
In today’s episode of the rural entrepreneurs, gold, you’re going to meet Greg Franklin, also known by some as the cheesecake ninja in his rural town of Perryville, Missouri, a town of about 8500. Greg is going to share how this guy, who didn’t...
by Krysti Mikkonen | Oct 7, 2021 | food and drink, North Dakota, Podcast, rural entrepreneur, small business
In today’s episode of the rural entrepreneurs, gold, we’re going to hear the accidental entrepreneur story of a business start-up that was anything but planned. See some businesses just happen when you least expect it, at any age, and at any time in...
by Krysti Mikkonen | Sep 23, 2021 | art and music, food and drink, rural entrepreneur, South Dakota
In this episode of the Rural Entrepreneur’s Gold, you’ll hear from Carly Pochop who seems to be a serial rural entrepreneur who started multiple businesses over the last five years in Aberdeen, SD a town in SD that has a population a little over 28,000. ...
by Krysti Mikkonen | Jul 29, 2021 | food and drink, North Dakota, Podcast, rural entrepreneur, small business
In this episode, I’m really excited to introduce to you Wilhelmina van Bedaf, also known as Maartje Murphy or Duchessa Gelato. She started a business making gelato in 2018 using milk from her family’s dairy farm in Carrington, North Dakota, a...
