Erin's granola

I have dear friends from Calgary Alberta. Tom Lindskog and his family used to come to a hockey tournament in Northern California where Tommy and I teamed up to play. If some of you listeners out there dream about becoming an entrepreneur, you can take a lot of inspiration from TOMMY's daughter Erin.

Granola and jam company called Onie. I didn't expect it to become a business, so my sister just said, You got to call it something and they call me Onie. So I decided to go with that. When Covid hit, I was off for about two years and after about a week of sitting at home, I was going through a bit of a heartbreak and then just isolating. So I just started doing something and I had a cupboard full of oats and Scandinavian flavor that I wanted to try to create. And I just started making granola and I was only giving it to my sisters and my parents. My dad will eat anything, but I started advertising it on Instagram. Before I knew it, I was getting about 60 orders a week and I had my oven going about 12 hours a day. It was pretty wild. Speaker1: Instagram is international, so there's somebody in Denmark call and say, Oh, I'd love some jam, can you send it to me? Speaker2: At the time it was only Calgary because everything was a standstill. My margins were already terrible enough driving my F-150 to deliver all over Calgary. I wasn't doing any shipping to Denmark, but yeah, it became busier than I had expected. And after about five months of doing it that way, I decided to rent a commercial space and get a bit more serious about it. For a long time I've wanted to do a business. I went to pastry school in my 20s and I got into a bunch of local stores and started out small with cafes and boutique markets. Speaker1: Next stop, a grocery chain.