Open for Business
We are profoundly proud of the participants of Empowerment Pathways who have successfully completed the program and launched their own small businesses.
Taking ownership of the business
The participants created their own business plans to launch their small businesses. We provide guidance, but they own their businesses and the work required to build them. With strong foundations in place, they are ready for success. Because what’s a dream without a plan?
You can do all, but you can't do it alone.
Connection is a core part of the process. Entrepreneurship can be lonely, so we encourage participants to build a team and collaborate with people they trust, individuals whose skills and strengths complement their own.
Facilitation
Led by our Indigenous facilitator, the program encourages meaningful participation and keeps the process moving with purpose. We prioritize confidentiality, safety, and respect. We listen, we facilitate, and when the time is right: we let them fly.
Molded Fortitude consulting
At Molded Fortitude Consulting, we blend philosophy, fitness, and cultural wisdom into both traditional and innovative programs to help people break free from the constraints of their past, overcome adversity, and thrive. Our mission is to guide individuals on a journey of self-mastery, where ancestral wisdom meets modern structure to ignite purpose, forge resilience, and build a legacy of leadership. Through holistic coaching programs and transformative workshops, we help each person master their emotions, mold their body, feed their spirit, and free their mind.
Reach out: https://moldedfortitude.com/
Peter Ashton
Peter's company makes custom-made wood pens.
Stone Bear’s Arts and Crafts
A store that sells art of many cultures and traditions that provides a service of teaching how to build arts and crafts such as boxes of many shapes and sizes, plaques, masks, totem poles, paintings and building furniture.
Falkner Leathers
Don's company makes custom-made leather clothing and accessories
Wild Four Directions
Wild Four Directions is a workshop where I create traditional, wood work and other traditional items. It feels nice to make a sale and see the people's smiles of the wood work they have purchased.
Sulphurous Lake Resort
Mission: To expand and enrich our Indigenous-owned resort into a self-sustaining, year-round destination that honors cultural traditions, fosters connection to the land, and provides meaningful experiences rooted in indigenous values.
Vision: To become a leading Indigenous-operated resort that blends cultural education, ceremony, and outdoor adventure – creating a space where guests reconnect with nature, learn sacred traditions, and support the resurgence of Indigenous ways of life.
Alpha Vapes
My business is a Vape Shop selling vape devices, juices, pods, coils, batteries etc. Anything Vape related along with my indigenous beadwork, will be setup and sold in the shop. Earrings, lanyards, dream catchers etc. My own twist.
Reach Out: https://www.instagram.com/alphavapes.inc/
This program is proudly funded by Indigenous Services Canada