{"id":46086,"date":"2017-08-01T11:57:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T15:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46086"},"modified":"2017-08-03T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T18:49:51","slug":"podcast-goodman-award-helping-student-launch-fitness-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/08\/podcast-goodman-award-helping-student-launch-fitness-app\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Goodman award helping student launch fitness app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/335806550&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When neuroscience student Ethan Foy walked through the doors of BioLinc four years ago, it seemed the perfect place to flex his entrepreneurial muscles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His relationship with the business incubator run by the Goodman School of Business has since proven successful, as he\u2019s been able to nurture the vision for his mobile app, LifePoints, which awards physical fitness efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foy\u2019s work on the business idea has not gone unnoticed and this summer he was one of two Brock students chosen to receive the Deborah E. Rosati Entrepreneurship Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The award provides financial support to allow its recipient to pursue an entrepreneurial work term and start their own business venture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foy described the honour, and the opportunity it provided, as life changing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the support provided by the award, his vision for LifePoints \u2014 an app that will reward users for time spent at a fitness facility with points they can later redeem at local business \u2014 is now in its initial stages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foy has been an entrepreneur since an early age, finding different ways to make money, whether cutting lawns or shovelling driveways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His business ideas have since become more complex, but his dream of pursuing a business full time remains the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been three months since the award made that dream possible and Foy feels he\u2019s already gained a wealth of knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou have no idea how difficult and time consuming it is to start a business until you\u2019re given that opportunity,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI don\u2019t even know how I would have accomplished this without this opportunity. The amount I\u2019ve learned from this award has been life altering.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Foy was featured on this week&#8217;s <em>Conversations with Goodman<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6_0bBdgP-y0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When neuroscience student Ethan Foy walked through the doors of BioLinc four years ago, it seemed the perfect place to flex his entrepreneurial muscles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":46087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,1,4],"tags":[592,3130,3569,4816,5632,594,5633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}