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OFI 899: Building Hotels, One Lawn At A Time | FFA SAE Edition | Kaden Mitchell | Hennessey High School FFA
Category: Business
Duration: 00:33:34
Publish Date: 2020-09-30 06:30:59
Description: SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING KADEN MITCHELL! Today I get to visit with a student who has been on the show before.  Kaden Mitchell who previously was on the show in episode 451 is coming back on the show to give us an update.  Ironically, I did not realize that Kaden had been on the show before we finished all of the recording, so this sounds just like a normal FFA interview. Kaden is now at Oklahoma State University studying agricultural business and pre-law.  He started his lawn business, Mitchell Lawn Services, when he was in the 8th grade and it has been growing ever since.  Kaden hired his first employee when he was a freshman in high school and had his grandfather drive them around to different jobs.  Over time Kaden grew his business through word of mouth, calling potential customers, Facebook and outstanding customer service. In the interview Kaden goes through the list of equipment that he had by the time he entered college.  He had really built the business way up.  Now that he is living in Stillwater for school he can only run the business on the weekends.  He had to cut back on clients.  There were multiple ways that he could have selected which clients to let go, and he chose to let the clients who had the best chance of taking care of their own yards go first, regardless of whether or not they paid the most money. Kaden's experience in entrepreneurship has really led him to develop some dreams.  He biggest, most audacious dream is to start a chain of hotels with his name on them.  He wants to build buildings and a hotel as his life goal.  It is a great dream, and every hotel, no matter how large, started with just a dream! Please welcome back, Kaden Mitchell. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Landscape Management HIGH SCHOOL: Hennessey High School; Hennessey, Oklahoma MASCOT: Bald Eagle FFA ADVISOR: Jorge Huizar CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KADEN MITCHELL: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Hennessey High School Ag. Department's website: Kaden's FFA Advisor's Email Address: jhuizar@hps.k12.ok.us Hennessey High School's Telephone Number:  405-853-4394 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  Other Places You Can Listen To Us: D&B Supply Show LISTEN TO US ON SATELLITE RADIO! WE ARE CONTRIBUTORS TO "FFA TODAY" ON RURAL RADIO SIRIUS XM CHANNEL 147! "FFA Today" airs on Rural Radio Sirius XM Channel 147 Saturdays at 7:30 AM Eastern and Sundays at 6:30 PM Eastern. Please let RURAL RADIO know that you like hearing us on their channel!  Here is how to contact them and leave feedback: Email: zacht@rfdtv.com Website:  RuralRadio147.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/RURALRADIO147      
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