Over the past few months, we've been running interviews with founders and business owners across Grey Bruce and the surrounding region. Not to pitch them. Not to validate a product idea. Just to listen. We wanted to understand what's actually happening for people running businesses in rural Canada. What's working. What's not. What keeps coming up — not in theory, but in real conversations with real operators. We've talked to early-stage founders, growth-stage owners, people c

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