Stories from
the field
What participants describe
Selected accounts from people who went through the workshops at different stages of their entrepreneurial thinking.
Getting past the planning loop
I'd been writing business plans for about 3 years without moving forward on any of them. The first module forced me to put something in front of 5 real people within 72 hours — not a finished product, just an idea. The resistance I felt doing that was apparently the point. By week 4, that habit had changed noticeably. I stopped treating planning as the work itself.
The assignments are short enough that you can fit them into a regular work week. Each one is designed so you can do it where you live, with the resources you already have. That matters a lot when you're not in a major city.
Useful friction in the exercises
Some assignments felt uncomfortable — particularly the ones where you have to define what you'd stop doing, not just what you'd start. That discomfort had a purpose. After week 6 I could articulate my actual constraints clearly, which made every other decision faster.
Access was the main barrier before
From a small community 3 hours from Saskatoon, the logistics of in-person programs simply never worked for me. The fully online format here isn't a compromise — the exercises are specifically designed to work remotely, with other participants across the province.
Honest about what takes time
The program doesn't frame entrepreneurial thinking as something you can install in a weekend. Module 3 alone took me 2 extra weeks to actually complete — not because the instructions were unclear, but because doing the work honestly required time I hadn't budgeted. That's not a criticism, it's what real skill-building looks like.
