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The Rural Collective

Welcome to the Rural Collective … the first and only online community for enterprising, rural women from Canada, the USA and Australia! The Rural Collective is about connection, support and learning. It was created to help rural women grow viable and sustainable businesses and passion projects they can showcase to their communities and the world.

Cultivated out of a passion for helping women in business - the Rural Collective is run by entrepreneurs Jan Johnson, Erin Johnson and Meagan Saum. Not big on doing things the conventional way… these friends have put their minds and hearts together to figure out how to help rural women entrepreneurs, like themselves, bring their ideas and dreams successfully out into the world. Determined to break new ground helping rural women feel inspired and empowered – they also plan to kick up a little dust along the way with this unique collaboration and signature offering!

The mission for the Rural Collective is to provide rural women entrepreneurs with real and tangible resources to help them live your best life and develop and grow a financially viable business venture. We recognize the challenges that come with the isolation and the often limited resources that exist when one lives outside of an urban centre, and we intend to bridge the gap through our offerings.

Through the Rural Collective Directory, the Rural Collective Membership, and the member-contributed New Pioneers Magazine - we’ll help rural women cultivate wholehearted businesses and connect them with other gutsy women who are entrepreneurs in these changing times - New Pioneers! Are you ready to join in?

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