It Takes a Village w/ Kristy Ehman from Hyon

Show Notes

This interview with Kristy Ehman was originally release a few weeks ago, but we had to delay publishing it. If you happen to have already listened to this episode, go ahead and skip this one. See you next time.

Kristy Ehman of Hyon joins Jonathan and Angela to talk about her journey as a tech founder. Kristy and Angela met at Metabridge in June 2019 and have been talking weekly since. Listen in to get a glimpse of what they talk about; product challenges, users, parenthood, and fundraising.

Find Us Online

Angela Hapke - @angelahapke - https://www.clinnect.ca

Jonathan Bowers - @thejonotron - https://www.twostoryrobot.com

Credits

Produced by Jonathan Bowers and Angela Hapke

Music by Andrew Codeman (CC BY 3.0)

Transcript

Jonathan: [00:00:00] I see, I see you've typed up no notes for this.

Angela: [00:00:03] Oh, I sent, I sent a text to Kirsty. Does that count?

Jonathan: [00:00:07] That counts.

Angela: [00:00:08] Wow, Angela. Good work.

Introduction [00:00:12] 

You're listening to Fixing Faxes, a podcast on the journey of building a digital health startup with your host, myself, Angela Hapke and Jonathan Bowers.

And today I'm excited to say that we have guest with us. Kirsty Ehman is joining us today. Good morning, Kirsty

Kristy: [00:00:30] Good morning.

Angela: [00:00:31] can you tell everyone just a little bit about you, where you're at right now. And then we're going to talk about how we met and we're going to go into a few other things around why we talk every week.

Kristy: [00:00:43] Well, let's talk about how we met. We actually met at Meta Bridge a conference uh out of Kelowna last year. I think it was the 10th year anniversary when we met, patio overlooking the lake, gorgeous.

Angela: [00:00:53] You spotted me from across the

room?

Kristy: [00:00:56] It was love at first sight, one, one tall female founder, to another tall female founder where I don't feel like I'm overpowering the room and we connected.

And that was it.

Jonathan: [00:01:05] Are you also tall?

Kristy: [00:01:07] Jonathan, are you tall or are you short? And this is intimidating.

Jonathan: [00:01:11] I am a medium height. I'm five foot eight and three quarters

Kristy: [00:01:16] That actually counts

Jonathan: [00:01:17] yeah, the three quarters counts.

Angela: [00:01:19] The three quarters count. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Kirsty, tell me, who, who are you? What are you doing?

Hyon, Connecting Local Sellers with Local Item Owners [00:01:28]

Kristy: [00:01:28] So my name is Kirsty Ehman, founded a tech company two years ago and we've pivoted the company one massive pivot. We believe there are two types of people in the world. You're either someone that would do the work to sell your used items, or you ultimately can't be bothered. And our technology connects those two groups.

Angela: [00:01:45] Cool.

Jonathan: [00:01:45] I like how concise that

was.

Angela: [00:01:47] she's been practicing.

Jonathan: