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#19: Ryan & Ray (Local Box) - Community Health & Calgary Products
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This episode we are joined by Ryan Morstad and Ray Shivji - Co founders of Local Box - a company that collects products made in Calgary and packages them into a single box for customers to purchase.
In simple terms, it is a box filled with high quality "made in Calgary" products, started after COVID-19 forced everyone inside, and only essential services continued to operate.
Ryan & Ray knew that bigger companies would recover after COVID-19, but smaller companies that count on foot traffic, word of mouth and sales would ultimately suffer- hence the Local Box was created as a way to support small Calgary business' during this time.
Also, Local Box contributes a large portion of their profits to the Alex Community Health Centre- a housing and foods program that supports vulnerable people with issues such as poverty, trauma, homelessness and addiction.
We sat down for a smooth cup of rose bros coffee and talked about the origins of Local Box, backwards government EI policies, good business books/podcasts the future of Local Box and a lore more!
Enjoy!