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[00:00] SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Canada's podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Canada's podcast. And this is the Atlantic Canada version of the Canada's podcast where we record, we connect, we chat with entrepreneurs from across the great region of Atlantic Canada and pleased to really introduce to you today for us.
[00:24] SPEAKER_01: And he's a he's an entrepreneur who is, which he calls himself as an active social enthusiast. And in particular, he focuses on saving people,
[00:37] SPEAKER_01: pletrives and the planet. And what I love about what he's, what Bruce has got focused in on is, is, is three main objectives. And all of this before he dies too, by the way, this is the other thing that's, that's kind of interesting.
[00:50] SPEAKER_01: He wants to save at least one million trees. He wants to reduce carbon emissions to 50% and solve the problem of plastic bags in the world. And he's starting to do that with his company green eye ink, which is an innovative packaging solutions organization, which has been built to protect the world.
[01:11] SPEAKER_01: So Bruce, welcome to Canada's podcast, my friend.
[01:16] SPEAKER_00: I reverse, thank you so much for inviting me and I'm super excited. Thank you so much for the great introduction.
[01:24] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you're welcome sir. So let's talk about that passion ears that interest here, that enthusiasm you have. Can you talk a bit about, can you talk a bit about where did that come from?
[01:34] SPEAKER_01: What was your interest in where you really become social enthusiast?
[01:40] SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes, absolutely. It's a great question.
[01:44] SPEAKER_00: And I am an entrepreneur. This is my work startup. So I have tried a few startups before.
[01:53] SPEAKER_00: I tried my best I failed, but I learned something about.
[01:56] SPEAKER_00: Yes, well, that's a thing. Yeah. And I always wanted to solve global problems. It's been a passion for me.
[02:07] SPEAKER_00: Like in 2019, the prime minister has announced that ban on single use plastic bags, plastic waste. I thought that is an opportunity for.
[02:19] SPEAKER_00: To upcycle paper based into paper bags and.
[02:24] SPEAKER_00: And because this, this is not only for Canada, we are, we are doing this for the whole world.
[02:31] SPEAKER_00: And Canada USA UK Australia, China, India, Africa, any country you take, it is a paper based.
[02:38] SPEAKER_00: Also people think that the paper waste is just like put it in the trash can and it will recycle.
[02:48] SPEAKER_00: There are many things involved in that people are not aware of that.
[02:52] SPEAKER_00: So I thought like there is a solution to solve this issue and make a useful solution for the whole planet.
[03:00] SPEAKER_00: That's how this idea gets started.
[03:02] SPEAKER_00: And I always have passion about eco fun little things because right from the beginning.
[03:09] SPEAKER_00: I was originally born in India. We tried to adapt eco fun little things from our childhood.
[03:16] SPEAKER_00: And we tried to reduce the best stage and try to utilize any products we use in our day to day life.
[03:23] SPEAKER_00: To the maximum of its capacity.
[03:26] SPEAKER_00: So that's how it comes and this newspaper bags was originally inspired from India where you can see that.
[03:37] SPEAKER_00: Small business people, small stores, they use newspaper bags for packaging things like retail store, grocery store, something like that.
[03:47] SPEAKER_00: And after I found that after I did my research in Canada, I found that it's nothing like that here.
[03:54] SPEAKER_00: So I wanted to replicate the same thing here and if we can get success here.
[04:00] SPEAKER_00: That's how it all started.
[04:01] SPEAKER_01: That's so cool.
[04:03] SPEAKER_01: And so you're saying that your focus is on the bags only at this point in time.
[04:10] SPEAKER_01: Do you plan on expanding that to any other type of products or tell us.
[04:14] SPEAKER_01: And tell us about the type of companies that are now using the bags that you're creating through your company.
[04:21] SPEAKER_00: Sure, it's not about one product actually. So we are planning to have.
[04:28] SPEAKER_00: Different paperback product paper products.
[04:31] SPEAKER_00: For example, we also make paper bags with scrapbook waste.
[04:35] SPEAKER_00: We also make clinical papers using magazines and recycled paper.
[04:40] SPEAKER_00: Some people prefer eco-friendly packaging, especially they are willing to pay extra dollars or.
[04:48] SPEAKER_00: What it is like like 100% eco-friendly and.
[04:53] SPEAKER_00: And also I want to clearly tell you some destination between the recycling and upcycling.
[05:00] SPEAKER_00: We are upcycling. We are not recycling.
[05:02] SPEAKER_00: People were different.
[05:04] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, sure.
[05:06] SPEAKER_00: Recycling means you take something and.
[05:10] SPEAKER_00: You do some processing like chemical processing like helping addy bleaching.
[05:17] SPEAKER_00: And you have to use a lot of water oil.
[05:20] SPEAKER_00: All those things in the recycling process.
[05:23] SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about paper recycling.
[05:25] SPEAKER_00: So you collect the paper waste from household.
[05:28] SPEAKER_00: It goes to a facility where they start out papers, plastics and different things and they bail it.
[05:33] SPEAKER_00: They will compact and bail it and it will be sent into a paper mill.
[05:39] SPEAKER_00: So with the clean and then they add virgin paper to some level and also they pulp it and they add bleaching water oil.
[05:48] SPEAKER_00: All those things.
[05:49] SPEAKER_00: That's called the recycling process.
[05:51] SPEAKER_00: Now you make a pulp and reform into paper again.
[05:56] SPEAKER_00: If you make white paper, you have to add tens and tens of bleaching like hydrogen peroxide,
[06:02] SPEAKER_00: which is benzoyl that are too many chemicals.
[06:05] SPEAKER_00: It goes inside it.
[06:07] SPEAKER_00: That is recycling.
[06:08] SPEAKER_00: But upcycling means, for example, this is the paper waste.
[06:13] SPEAKER_00: I got this paper waste and I turned that into a bag just like that.
[06:19] SPEAKER_02: Neat.
[06:20] SPEAKER_00: Without any chemicals, this is called upcycling.
[06:23] SPEAKER_00: You take anything like that in the form.
[06:26] SPEAKER_00: Without adding any chemicals, you just turn into something else, which is upcycling.
[06:30] SPEAKER_00: That's what we are doing.
[06:32] SPEAKER_01: That's so cool.
[06:33] SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, I didn't understand that.
[06:35] SPEAKER_01: And so that's very cool.
[06:36] SPEAKER_01: I will presume that you spend a lot of your time educating people the difference between recycling and upcycling.
[06:44] SPEAKER_00: That is very true reverse and all the time I'm educating people because people don't know the difference.
[06:51] SPEAKER_00: People usually think like, OK, what's the matter? I recycle it already.
[06:56] SPEAKER_00: You know what?
[06:56] SPEAKER_00: There are too many things involved in the recycling process.
[06:59] SPEAKER_00: I mean, the traditional conventional process, they add chemicals and bleaching.
[07:04] SPEAKER_00: It is not eco-friendly to be told.
[07:07] SPEAKER_00: So, upcycling means you are taking the clean waste and turning into bags or some other products.
[07:13] SPEAKER_00: By the way, without any external chemicals or external things like that.
[07:19] SPEAKER_00: You save money, you save energy, you reduce the pollution.
[07:24] SPEAKER_00: And that's the thing we are into.
[07:26] SPEAKER_00: And also, if you ask me a question about other products, we also make clinical paper shards,
[07:32] SPEAKER_00: like something like shredded papers for boxes and packaging.
[07:36] SPEAKER_00: And also we are going to make the kitchen bin liners, like trash cans for organic peels and waste in the kitchen.
[07:45] SPEAKER_00: So, that will be actually made from waste as well.
[07:48] SPEAKER_00: So, we are going to be collecting cardboard and potions from paper mills and some other locations.
[07:55] SPEAKER_00: And we are going to be turning that into boxes like trash cans.
[08:02] SPEAKER_02: So, I'm sorry, go ahead.
[08:06] SPEAKER_00: So, I'd also like we have plans to make our cardboard boxes for shipping.
[08:11] SPEAKER_00: And also we are planning to make different products in the future.
[08:16] SPEAKER_00: So, I think you also asked about what type of retail customers we have.
[08:21] SPEAKER_00: Is the right thing to continue that?
[08:22] SPEAKER_00: Yes, please.
[08:24] SPEAKER_00: So, we basically sell to small business stores right now and also few government local months for government in Nova Scotia.
[08:34] SPEAKER_00: So, a typical customer like mom and pop store, they sell non food items.
[08:40] SPEAKER_00: For example, gift and made products, artists products, anything that is made in Canada or even like retailers, retail stores, boutiques,
[08:51] SPEAKER_00: they are our regular customers.
[08:53] SPEAKER_00: We have over 150 clients throughout in Canada and the US, majorly in the Atlantic Canada.
[09:02] SPEAKER_00: Halifax and Dartmode, you can see all bags being used by many stores in downtown area, downtown Halifax and downtown Dartmode.
[09:12] SPEAKER_00: We have a mixture of customers, they buy paper bags, they buy clinical papers and other products.
[09:20] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's so interesting.
[09:22] SPEAKER_01: So, when people are buying these, do you, your bags and so on, is there a way in which they can brand it?
[09:33] SPEAKER_01: They're their company or they're just the bags, the bag.
[09:39] SPEAKER_00: So, we can do branding as well.
[09:41] SPEAKER_00: So, for example, we can apply a sticker on top of the bag with their logo on it and it stands out well.
[09:50] SPEAKER_00: Or some people, they just stamp it with the rubber stamp.
[09:54] SPEAKER_00: Right.
[09:55] SPEAKER_00: Right.
[09:56] SPEAKER_00: That is the cheapest solution that can do it and some people just use it like that.
[10:01] SPEAKER_00: And in fact, they don't want to do anything about that.
[10:05] SPEAKER_00: They just want to use it just like that.
[10:07] SPEAKER_00: And I will give you just a scenario.
[10:11] SPEAKER_00: Now I sell to paper hearts in Halifax and when I talk about, when I go to network meetings, I talk with people.
[10:19] SPEAKER_00: Right.
[10:20] SPEAKER_00: When I say that this is the bags I make.
[10:22] SPEAKER_00: Now, they don't see that it's a greenie bag.
[10:24] SPEAKER_00: They see that it's a paper, paper hearts bags.
[10:27] SPEAKER_00: You know, it became like a, right.
[10:31] SPEAKER_00: Like a, inserting, you know, the, it's people see that it's, they get from a store.
[10:36] SPEAKER_00: It's, they seem like it's their bag.
[10:39] SPEAKER_00: But it's happy to hear that.
[10:41] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, sure.
[10:42] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's all right.
[10:42] SPEAKER_01: You didn't create that situation.
[10:44] SPEAKER_01: You just helped make, make it happen.
[10:46] SPEAKER_01: So that's, that's so cool.
[10:47] SPEAKER_01: I love it.
[10:48] SPEAKER_01: I love it.
[10:49] SPEAKER_01: So tell me, tell me about the name greenie with two, with two eyes on it.
[10:55] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, can you talk a bit about, can you talk a bit about that?
[10:59] SPEAKER_00: Sure.
[11:00] SPEAKER_00: So I all, in fact, I, in order to come up with this name, I tried one year.
[11:06] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I tried different, different names.
[11:11] SPEAKER_00: And I wanted to have green in the name that's for sure, because solution of some green that is made for green.
[11:20] SPEAKER_00: Right.
[11:21] SPEAKER_00: The earth green.
[11:23] SPEAKER_00: After researching, I found that our green has been exhaustively used throughout in Canada and the US and globally.
[11:32] SPEAKER_00: And I also wanted to sound like greenie because we want to make the solution greenie.
[11:38] SPEAKER_00: Okay.
[11:39] SPEAKER_00: I tried with the different name, but this is very simple.
[11:43] SPEAKER_00: And in fact, greenie means it's a cactus fruit.
[11:46] SPEAKER_00: It's a cactus plant.
[11:49] SPEAKER_00: Greenie, I, I, that's, I mean, it should be.
[11:51] SPEAKER_00: Greenie, yeah.
[11:53] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, which I, I'm sure you get a lot of other people doing that.
[11:57] SPEAKER_01: So cool.
[11:57] SPEAKER_01: Okay, greenie.
[11:58] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yes, sir.
[12:00] SPEAKER_00: So that's the thing we come up with the name and.
[12:04] SPEAKER_00: And it's been very, very rich and everybody love the brand, the logo and the.
[12:10] SPEAKER_00: On all of our products, you get a good customer support.
[12:13] SPEAKER_00: Good feedback.
[12:14] SPEAKER_00: You can see a lot of positive feedback on solid-sited feedbacks.
[12:19] SPEAKER_00: We received in the Google reviews and also Instagram.
[12:22] SPEAKER_01: Right on.
[12:23] SPEAKER_01: Very cool.
[12:24] SPEAKER_01: So tell me about.
[12:25] SPEAKER_01: What, give me a day.
[12:27] SPEAKER_01: What does a day look like for you, Bush?
[12:30] SPEAKER_01: But what does it look like to you to run your company?
[12:35] SPEAKER_00: So, um, day, I mean, I work every waking hour for the company.
[12:42] SPEAKER_00: Things on the on the right track.
[12:45] SPEAKER_00: So like I usually wake up.
[12:48] SPEAKER_00: Eight or nine in the morning because I work late in the night.
[12:52] SPEAKER_00: Sure.
[12:52] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so that's the thing I try to catch up many things.
[12:56] SPEAKER_00: Like I get peaceful time after the evening because no disturbance, no sound.
[13:00] SPEAKER_00: Oh, I work peacefully in the night to finish up the thing, emailing all those things.
[13:06] SPEAKER_00: And also preparing reports.
[13:07] SPEAKER_00: So in a day, even if I wake up at nine.
[13:11] SPEAKER_00: That goes with the calls, attending trainings meetings and also follow up with the clients orders,
[13:18] SPEAKER_00: fulfillments and also like in the afternoon, I tried to deliver the extra, I mean,
[13:25] SPEAKER_00: outstanding orders for the day.
[13:27] SPEAKER_00: And also prepared for the raw materials.
[13:28] SPEAKER_00: So I get to collect the raw materials and coordination, all those things.
[13:33] SPEAKER_00: And planning.
[13:33] SPEAKER_00: We are also doing some innovation like the search and development of the papers.
[13:37] SPEAKER_00: We are developing some machines.
[13:39] SPEAKER_00: So I have to coordinate with the students.
[13:43] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, many things that goes on all the day.
[13:46] SPEAKER_00: Like I change my hat every half an hour.
[13:49] SPEAKER_01: So talk to me about both your raw materials.
[13:54] SPEAKER_01: So how did you set up relationships with organizations so that they would allow you to get their raw materials to help you with the greenie?
[14:08] SPEAKER_00: Sure.
[14:10] SPEAKER_00: So basically we started with the Halifax public library in 2019.
[14:16] SPEAKER_00: It is very well and it still continues.
[14:18] SPEAKER_00: I hope it will continue for a long time in the future too.
[14:22] SPEAKER_00: So once in a month or once in 45 days, I get an email or a call from the donors basically Halifax public library.
[14:33] SPEAKER_00: Or like coffee is flyers.
[14:35] SPEAKER_00: So coffee is flyers.
[14:36] SPEAKER_00: I'll be distributed in the Annapolis Valley.
[14:39] SPEAKER_00: In the cold brew basically in Nova Scotia.
[14:43] SPEAKER_00: And the Fedred 10 we got we also collect from Vancouver.
[14:47] SPEAKER_00: We also collect from Campbell River from BC.
[14:51] SPEAKER_00: And also one or two times from Boston, and Massachusetts.
[14:57] SPEAKER_00: And also like a few other donors.
[15:00] SPEAKER_00: So once in a while like I collect a directly from them.
[15:04] SPEAKER_00: Or they will send it through mail like a courier.
[15:08] SPEAKER_00: I pay pre-failure shipping.
[15:10] SPEAKER_00: So once I collected, I give them a gift card.
[15:13] SPEAKER_00: So it works well and to hand.
[15:15] SPEAKER_00: And basically these local libraries I go and collect myself.
[15:20] SPEAKER_00: And also recently I have convinced.
[15:22] SPEAKER_00: The Pierre 21 museum to donate the previous posters.
[15:29] SPEAKER_00: So I collect the posters from museum Pierre 21 museum at the marginal street in Halifax.
[15:37] SPEAKER_00: So I turn them into bag and also recently we have done.
[15:41] SPEAKER_00: With the Solskip exports.
[15:42] SPEAKER_00: So we collected the old magazine.
[15:45] SPEAKER_00: The mother's tables join sheets.
[15:46] SPEAKER_00: Make a nice bag for them and give it back to the trade show for the gift store.
[15:50] SPEAKER_00: They were very happy.
[15:52] SPEAKER_00: And now we are working more with the close to low.
[15:55] SPEAKER_00: For example, you have a company.
[15:57] SPEAKER_00: You have magazines, brochures, flyers or any newspaper.
[16:01] SPEAKER_00: You want to turn that into a waste.
[16:03] SPEAKER_00: Sorry, I turned that into a bag.
[16:05] SPEAKER_00: You can reach out to me.
[16:06] SPEAKER_00: I will make a nice bag for you with those papers.
[16:10] SPEAKER_00: So this is how it works.
[16:11] SPEAKER_01: What is the cost to have bags made?
[16:14] SPEAKER_01: And I'm talking retail.
[16:15] SPEAKER_01: Retail wise.
[16:16] SPEAKER_00: I think it's a small bag cost 55 cents.
[16:22] SPEAKER_00: Yes.
[16:22] SPEAKER_00: This is the small bag.
[16:27] SPEAKER_00: And a medium bag.
[16:29] SPEAKER_00: It takes two sheets together.
[16:31] SPEAKER_00: I don't know whether you can see that.
[16:33] SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
[16:34] SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
[16:35] SPEAKER_01: This is a medium bag.
[16:36] SPEAKER_00: This is a 60 cents or 70 cents depends upon the quantity of buy.
[16:40] SPEAKER_00: This is a large bag like almost like a size of a grocery bag.
[16:44] SPEAKER_01: Yes.
[16:46] SPEAKER_00: This is going to cost you around 80 cents.
[16:49] SPEAKER_00: If you buy in bulk, it will price will go really cheap.
[16:53] SPEAKER_00: So based upon the quantity of buy,
[16:55] SPEAKER_00: it the prices go really cheap.
[16:57] SPEAKER_01: Now you mentioned about students just a while ago.
[17:00] SPEAKER_01: How do you use students to help you with greenie?
[17:04] SPEAKER_00: Yes.
[17:04] SPEAKER_00: I mean, I've been working with students for quite a long time.
[17:07] SPEAKER_00: Almost like for the two years with the multiple universities.
[17:10] SPEAKER_00: I have come across more than 50 students.
[17:12] SPEAKER_00: So right now we work with the Dalhousie University.
[17:18] SPEAKER_00: Research and development.
[17:20] SPEAKER_00: So they were helping us to design a couple of machines because we are manually unfolding papers like,
[17:27] SPEAKER_00: take a sheet.
[17:28] SPEAKER_00: Just like that.
[17:30] SPEAKER_00: And then we we unfold it manually.
[17:33] SPEAKER_00: So we are developing a machine to unfold it automatically.
[17:37] SPEAKER_00: At least I would say semi automatically.
[17:39] SPEAKER_00: So we will last year we work with successfully developed a couple of machines.
[17:44] SPEAKER_00: It's still not in the production, but we are still testing with that.
[17:48] SPEAKER_00: So this year we are working with to develop these machines.
[17:51] SPEAKER_00: Students.
[17:52] SPEAKER_01: Did you do you recently win $20,000 price for something you turned into a machine?
[18:00] SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes.
[18:01] SPEAKER_00: I mean, we won $20,000 from desk gardens on good spark.
[18:05] SPEAKER_00: Social and community grants recently in March, I think March 2022.
[18:12] SPEAKER_00: I think I mostly use the funding for buying some machines also for the development of new customized machines.
[18:20] SPEAKER_00: So it's been very well used and and the process is really coming up well and.
[18:26] SPEAKER_00: The block machines.
[18:29] SPEAKER_00: So I think we are in the right way to increase production.
[18:32] SPEAKER_00: So right now we are doing it everything by manual.
[18:36] SPEAKER_00: So you take a sheet of paper, join sheets and fold it and finally apply handles checking everything.
[18:42] SPEAKER_00: Right.
[18:42] SPEAKER_00: It's taking a lot of time.
[18:44] SPEAKER_00: Right.
[18:44] SPEAKER_00: Those machines that those funding will be was used for buying machines also customizing machines.
[18:51] SPEAKER_00: So we have used those funding for the machines.
[18:55] SPEAKER_00: So right now those machines will reduce the time taking and also increase the productivity to 600 to 700 person, which is really phenomenal.
[19:04] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that is phenomenal.
[19:06] SPEAKER_01: And so tell me tell me about your interest in trees.
[19:12] SPEAKER_01: As you said, you want to save one million trees.
[19:15] SPEAKER_01: What's what's that all about and also to reduce the carbon emissions to 50%.
[19:22] SPEAKER_01: And you tell us as to how does that relate to what you're doing with greenie or are you doing other projects on top of that?
[19:31] SPEAKER_00: Absolutely sir and.
[19:33] SPEAKER_00: I am very obsessed with the trees from my childhood.
[19:36] SPEAKER_00: I don't know why I have planted many trees in my garden.
[19:40] SPEAKER_00: Right.
[19:42] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so when I want to treat it again, I get happiness.
[19:45] SPEAKER_00: That's what I can say.
[19:46] SPEAKER_00: And Canada is a beautiful country where I would you go?
[19:49] SPEAKER_00: You see beautiful trees on the thing.
[19:50] SPEAKER_00: Yes.
[19:53] SPEAKER_00: I don't like the trees to be cut because when we cut a tree, we are not just only cutting a tree.
[19:59] SPEAKER_00: You are just damaging a habitat.
[20:03] SPEAKER_00: For example, the birds live with that and also there's micro germs on the small insects that depends upon the tree.
[20:09] SPEAKER_00: And also tree is an integral part of giving us a pure oxygen, which is free of cost.
[20:15] SPEAKER_00: So there are many things and also the climate change, right?
[20:18] SPEAKER_00: What's happening?
[20:19] SPEAKER_00: You know that.
[20:21] SPEAKER_00: And I have a passion to solve this problem to save trees.
[20:26] SPEAKER_00: And that's what I said, a goal of one million trees before I die.
[20:30] SPEAKER_00: So far I have successfully saved 60 trees, which is really good with our solution.
[20:36] SPEAKER_00: Nice.
[20:37] SPEAKER_00: It can really scale up to the next level for sure.
[20:40] SPEAKER_00: And also like I have fewer ideas to not only greenie, for example, like not only paper products,
[20:47] SPEAKER_00: but I have fewer ideas to reduce the plastic, reduce the energy consumption, logistics.
[20:53] SPEAKER_00: And that also I will do that in the near future.
[20:56] SPEAKER_00: That for sure.
[20:58] SPEAKER_00: And what is the second part of the question I had early?
[21:01] SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
[21:02] SPEAKER_01: And the other one was just, you know, does that relate to what you're doing with greenie?
[21:07] SPEAKER_01: So what you're saying is that there is some there is some synergy for what you're doing with greenie to achieving those objectives.
[21:15] SPEAKER_01: What is the reducing the carbon emissions and obviously the trees.
[21:21] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[21:22] SPEAKER_00: So now we just just like a triangle like three subtle joined together.
[21:27] SPEAKER_00: It is like a synergy happen, right?
[21:29] SPEAKER_00: So innovation.
[21:31] SPEAKER_00: That is for sure.
[21:32] SPEAKER_00: We are doing an innovation and also like people should be aware of the conception because people always think like the paper can be used for short to period of life.
[21:42] SPEAKER_00: Like now greenie is giving an example of creating an awareness to tell the people that it's not made for just one purpose.
[21:51] SPEAKER_00: You can use it for other purpose, right?
[21:56] SPEAKER_02: Yeah exactly.
[21:58] SPEAKER_02: So that's a thing.
[22:00] SPEAKER_01: So give us some lessons that you've learned about being an entrepreneur in the last couple of years.
[22:06] SPEAKER_01: What are some lessons you would like to bring to our audience about what you've experienced with with yourself as being an entrepreneur?
[22:13] SPEAKER_01: You said you did the beginning of the conversation.
[22:14] SPEAKER_01: You've learned some learns some lessons.
[22:16] SPEAKER_01: Can you talk to us about that?
[22:20] SPEAKER_00: Wow.
[22:20] SPEAKER_00: This is a fantastic journey.
[22:22] SPEAKER_00: I think it's not easy, but it's challenging.
[22:26] SPEAKER_00: But it's definitely a great thing to experience.
[22:31] SPEAKER_00: So I would say like if you have an idea, if you are passionate about it, don't wait for it.
[22:36] SPEAKER_00: Just go for it.
[22:37] SPEAKER_00: Go listen to this.
[22:39] SPEAKER_00: Do not wait for it.
[22:41] SPEAKER_00: Just try and take action.
[22:44] SPEAKER_00: Now I think when I started, I was having a lot of questions in my mind doubts, self doubts whether it can be possible or not.
[22:52] SPEAKER_00: Even in the beginning, when I started, there was a negative reviews and I mean, review means like some feedback.
[22:59] SPEAKER_00: I received from a friend's family that, oh, this idea won't work.
[23:03] SPEAKER_00: Why don't you go for work?
[23:05] SPEAKER_00: Get some money instead of doing this business and all those things, right?
[23:09] SPEAKER_00: Even though they're telling it.
[23:10] SPEAKER_00: That's a quite common thing.
[23:12] SPEAKER_00: But it all started with the passion.
[23:16] SPEAKER_00: So I am very passionate about it.
[23:17] SPEAKER_00: And I know that with action and persistence, it can be formed into great business.
[23:25] SPEAKER_00: Now you see the real progress that we are making it.
[23:28] SPEAKER_00: And we started with one single bag.
[23:30] SPEAKER_00: Now we have crossed over 60,000 bags.
[23:31] SPEAKER_00: We have over 150 clients, which is a really good thing.
[23:35] SPEAKER_00: I'll start off from one single bag in 2019.
[23:39] SPEAKER_00: So on the international journey is really like a dance.
[23:43] SPEAKER_00: It's like walking on ice without boots.
[23:52] SPEAKER_00: It's really challenging.
[23:54] SPEAKER_00: But I feel like it's really worth even look, even if you fail, that's still okay.
[24:01] SPEAKER_00: I learned all those things.
[24:03] SPEAKER_00: I previously worked as a software engineer.
[24:06] SPEAKER_00: I have managed people.
[24:07] SPEAKER_00: I work with people.
[24:08] SPEAKER_00: Now I work with real scenario with my money.
[24:12] SPEAKER_00: I spent all the time.
[24:14] SPEAKER_00: I know how to talk to people.
[24:16] SPEAKER_00: My communication is improved.
[24:17] SPEAKER_00: My planning get improved.
[24:19] SPEAKER_00: I learn all those things coordination innovation.
[24:23] SPEAKER_00: Thinking out of the box and making things happen.
[24:27] SPEAKER_00: Execution mainly execution is one of the key things that is essential for entrepreneurship that I learn.
[24:33] SPEAKER_00: I'm still learning it.
[24:34] SPEAKER_00: I get an opportunity to meet with different type of people outside of the boundary.
[24:40] SPEAKER_00: It's phenomenal.
[24:42] SPEAKER_00: Now I build a network which is really worth it.
[24:46] SPEAKER_00: To put in real words, entrepreneurship is something like in the middle right in the left side.
[24:52] SPEAKER_00: It is not easy in the right side.
[24:54] SPEAKER_00: It is not.
[24:56] SPEAKER_00: It is not.
[24:57] SPEAKER_00: I mean, it is achievable.
[24:58] SPEAKER_00: So you will be in the middle.
[25:00] SPEAKER_00: It's just like achieving for the things.
[25:02] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[25:04] SPEAKER_01: Very cool.
[25:05] SPEAKER_01: And how do you say about doing business in Nova Scotia?
[25:08] SPEAKER_01: How has that been?
[25:10] SPEAKER_00: Doing business in Nova Scotia is phenomenal.
[25:13] SPEAKER_00: And this is a small province compared to Ontario, Quebec and other things like BC.
[25:19] SPEAKER_00: But it's one of the great places to live and also doing business.
[25:24] SPEAKER_00: Like I think the ecosystem is very good.
[25:28] SPEAKER_00: And also the government support.
[25:29] SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, it's very good.
[25:33] SPEAKER_00: I feel that I moved from Ontario originally.
[25:35] SPEAKER_00: I was living in Ontario for eight, seven, eight years before.
[25:38] SPEAKER_00: And now I moved to Nova Scotia for the past four, almost five years now.
[25:43] SPEAKER_00: So I like this place.
[25:45] SPEAKER_00: And there is a lot of opportunities to try and get benefits of the government is phenomenal.
[25:51] SPEAKER_00: And also the ecosystem like universities, access to startup communities and networks,
[25:57] SPEAKER_00: which is a really great thing to happen is and use of it.
[26:02] SPEAKER_00: And I feel like I'm blessed to live here.
[26:06] SPEAKER_01: That's awesome for us.
[26:07] SPEAKER_01: Bruce, and so we'll look how do people get in touch with you if they want to find out some more information about you.
[26:14] SPEAKER_01: And also how do they how do they find out about more about greenie?
[26:20] SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes.
[26:21] SPEAKER_00: I mean, people can get in touch with me.
[26:23] SPEAKER_00: From our Google review, they can send a direct message from Instagram or Facebook or LinkedIn or even they can go to our website at www.greenie.ca.
[26:39] SPEAKER_00: That is greenie.ca.
[26:42] SPEAKER_00: You can send us a message or directly an email like greenie.
[26:47] SPEAKER_00: I mean, GREN, i.i.i.nc, number one at gmail.com.
[26:53] SPEAKER_00: I'm here to listen to you.
[26:55] SPEAKER_00: I'm looking for collaboration, even like it's not only about paper parts.
[27:00] SPEAKER_00: If you are doing something eco-friendly, good for the community and the society, we are I would be very happy to partner with you.
[27:08] SPEAKER_00: So anytime, please search out.
[27:12] SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
[27:13] SPEAKER_01: So that's it for this edition of Canada's podcast with Peruvian Canon.
[27:21] SPEAKER_01: Really appreciate your time, sir.
[27:23] SPEAKER_01: You are doing amazing work.
[27:25] SPEAKER_01: It's magical work.
[27:26] SPEAKER_01: It's special work.
[27:27] SPEAKER_01: And you should please continue on and with the course are great support about what it is that you're doing.
[27:36] SPEAKER_01: So thank you so much for that.
[27:37] SPEAKER_01: I encourage you to reach out to the man yesterday.
[27:40] SPEAKER_01: His car was broken down and he was still communicating.
[27:43] SPEAKER_01: So he does communicate very quickly.
[27:46] SPEAKER_01: Thank you very much, sir, for your time today and the best of luck in the future.
[27:50] SPEAKER_00: Oh, thank you, reverse.
[27:51] SPEAKER_00: And thank you so much for this opportunity.
[27:53] SPEAKER_00: It's been phenomenal.
[27:54] SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for being patient with me.
[27:57] SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
[27:58] SPEAKER_00: And you asked me great questions.
[28:00] SPEAKER_00: I really love it.
[28:01] SPEAKER_00: And I'm really happy to help anybody who is looking for help.
[28:06] SPEAKER_00: I'll even like if you're looking for ideas and things to brainstorm.
[28:10] SPEAKER_00: I'm really willing to join with you.
[28:13] SPEAKER_00: And thank you so much, reverse.
[28:14] SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
