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OFI 554: Donating Candle Profits To Haiti And Playing In The National FFA Band | FFA SAE Edition | Lydia Lee | West Lyon High School FFA
Category: Business
Duration: 00:24:33
Publish Date: 2019-01-16 01:30:37
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SHOW NOTES

INTRODUCING LYDIA LEE!

There is a new form of entrepreneurship called “social entrepreneurship” that has emerged on the landscape today.  This is a particularly popular model with the newest generation of entrepreneurs.  Our guest today, Lydia Lee, exemplifies this exact way of thinking about business.

Lydia has a business called “Abundant Life Soy Candles“.  Her parents have a candle business but serve a different market with a different product line than Lydia.  So, Lydia carved out her niche, rented equipment and materials from her parents through trading her labor and launched her own company.  She now sells her candles online and at craft fairs.

Having a successful business was not enough for Lydia however.  She had been to Haiti before and was compelled to help the people of that island country.  That is how she made the decision to donate 10% of all of her profits to the people of Haiti.

Through Lydia’s own ingenuity and imagination she created a source of revenue to sustain herself and help a population that she cares about.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Soy Candle Sales

HIGH SCHOOL: West Lyon High School; Inwood, Iowa

MASCOT: Wild Cats

FFA ADVISOR: Craig Winquist

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR LYDIA LEE:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the West Lyon High School Ag. Department’s website:

Lydia’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: cwinquist@wlwildcats.org

West Lyon High School’s Telephone Number: 712-753-4917

FFA LINKS:

National FFA Organization

Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)

Support FFA 

Donate to FFA – One way that FFA students are able to start small businesses is through an FFA grant of $1,000.  In 2014, 141 FFA students received these grants.  With your donations, more students can get this head start – pay it forward.

REASONS TO DONATE TO FFA:

  • Only 2% of Americans grow and raise most of the food and livestock consumed by the other 98% as well as the rest of the world.  FFA is providing the needed education, training and resources to Americans that will carry that torch forward and insure that America continues to have inexpensive, quality food.
  • Rural Communities will rely on entrepreneurship in the future for population growth and job creation.  The FFA is a major catalyst to that entrepreneurial growth.
  • Farmers, ranchers and those working in agriculture give the rest of America incredible amounts of freedom because the search for food is as simple as going to the grocery store:

“Because American farmers are able to provide for so many of us, they give more and more of us the freedom to pursue goals and livelihoods beyond growing the food we need to survive.”

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack 

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