Building Ethical Brands: Joshua Onysko’s Approach to Travel, Sustainability, and Giving Back

Joshua Onysko - Audio Only

Howard: [00:00:00] Hello everyone. This is Howard Fox and welcome back for another episode of the Outdoor Adventure Series, the podcast that celebrates individuals and families, businesses and organizations that seek out and promote the exploration stewardship. Conservation, access and enjoyment of the outdoors.

Howard: Joshua Onco is our guest today. Joshua is a pioneer in the world of clean beauty, sustainability, and conscious entrepreneurship. He is the founder of multiple industry shaping brands, including Pangaea Organics, Alpine Provisions. I'm gonna botch this one up, I'm sure. Jun dhe, we're gonna get a translation for that.

Howard: Each built with the core mission of creating products that are as good for the planet as they are for the people who use them. Now he is a [00:01:00] self-made, uh, multifaceted entrepreneur with over 25 years in natural products. he is. Globetrotter just given the nature of his business, trying to find the best products, for his work.

Howard: and he is also a supporter of the outdoor space and making sure that people who are disadvantaged, uh, have access to outdoor experiences. Joshua, it's a pleasure to have you on the podcast. Welcome.

Joshua Onysko: It's great to be here.

Howard: I, I, I, I kind of feel I could have gone on and on about, uh, your background and expertise, but I, I thought, I need to stop and let's let Joshua, uh, speak for himself.

Howard: But first off, I have to say, uh, again, thank you for being here and that background. I, I, I think that's a real background. It's not one of my fake AI backgrounds. Is it?

Joshua Onysko: Yeah. It's my A-frame in Colorado in the mountains.

Howard: Oh, fantastic. See, now that's my goal in life is to have, is to do my coaching and podcasting. Looking outside to see the mountains, to inspire me having a [00:02:00] nice cup of coffee outside and, uh, you get to do that. I love it. So, first, I, I, I wanna ask you to share, I gave a little bit of an introduction about you, but you know, you have a very interesting career and I'm curious you a 30,000 foot view, how did you get into this entrepreneurial space?

Joshua Onysko: well, I would say that I owe it all to. A DHD because I have A-D-H-D-I have my entire life and I never really fit into school. I was kicked out of three different schools before I was, I think 14. And

Howard: on that. Okay.

Joshua Onysko: you. Thank you. and when I was, uh, just about turning 16, I dropped outta school. And, up until that point, I've, I've literally had a job since I was seven.

Joshua Onysko: I started with paper routes, then caddying, and then I've, I've actually had 43 different jobs in my [00:03:00] life, uh, before I started Pangaea. just traveling around the world and learning different trades, learning different things. been a baker, a blacksmith, a barista. I've Resined log homes in Wyoming, you name it.

Joshua Onysko: Sold watches in the streets of Tokyo. and so I've always had an entrepreneurial spirit, spirit, and when I returned after two years of traveling in Asia, I realized I wanted to start a soap company. And the reason why is before I left for India, my mom had bought a coffee table book on how to make handmade soap, and I was visiting her.

Joshua Onysko: Before I left for India and we made a batch of soap and I didn't know what soap was made out of or that you could make soap. And, uh, took off for India, started using the soap, fell in love with it. And then I, as I was traveling through Asia, I started realizing that all of the ingredients that we made this soap with were basically being grown in this part of the world.

Joshua Onysko: Coconut oil and essential oils. And, um, I [00:04:00] became fascinated with bringing the world together through sustainable commerce. And all over the world there are true stewards of the earth, people who are growing and producing beautiful ingredients, uh, that help us thrive as a race. But while being great stewards for the land and for the oceans and for the forests, and, um, I became obsessed with just traveling the world and finding, seeking these people.

Joshua Onysko: And I still do it 25 years. Later to this day, in fact, I just got back from a trip with my girlfriend to the Brazilian rainforest and Patagonia, where we met these incredible NGOs, just reforesting the rainforest and helping local communities learn how to distill essential oils to sell to people like me to make products.

Joshua Onysko: And, entrepreneurship has always been more about a vehicle to create change in the world, more so than how do I build a company and sell it to a conglomerate? Because I, like a lot of people have this [00:05:00] fear that we're gonna wake up one day and the whole world's gonna be owned by five corporations, and I just don't really want that to be my goal in life because that's not what really makes me happy.

Howard: Yeah. I, I, I love that. And, and I would like to circle back. And unpack some of what you shared when you set off on your journey and you dropped outta school. Was that the start of, I just want to go somewhere overseas and explore?

Joshua Onysko: Yeah, it started earlier than that. When I was 16, I bought a 73 Volkswagen with Flia and I was like going to dead shows and traveling up to Vermont. And then first I moved to Vermont. Then I moved to Block Island, then I moved out to Jackson Hole, and then after a year of working in Jackson Hole, I bought a one-way ticket to Costa Rica back in 1997.

Joshua Onysko: And, um, when I was in Costa Rica, I traveled through [00:06:00] Nicaragua and, um, Boca Del Toro Islands and kind of met a lot of other travelers that have been traveling around the world and really realized that was a passion of mine to, to just travel and understand. Different cultures in different places?

Howard: I don't know if you can tell, but I'm a little bit older than you are.

Joshua Onysko: Probably not by much.

Howard: You look good. Lemme tell you, I'm thinking late thirties, early forties.

Joshua Onysko: I just turned 48 a couple weeks ago.

Howard: oh, wow. Well, happy birthday. That's fan. I, I'm a little older, not by much, but a little older, and I find it, the older you get, if you haven't experienced something, there is a, an initial fear and then you, you kind of do some breathing exercises, take things a step at a time.

Howard: To go on these explorations that you did, these journeys starting here in the us, [00:07:00] was there any fear or are you just the type of person, maybe it's the A-A-D-H-D, which by the way is becoming an increasingly important topic, at least in the coaching space because we used to. Shun people that had some type of neurodivergence and they were different and, but we now realize there's an importance because we are all bringing something, some skill, some knowledge, creativity that companies today want and which is refreshing.

Howard: But circling back now, you, these journeys that you were on, was there any fear or like, I'm just ready for things to happen.

Joshua Onysko: Yeah, I mean, my motto when I left for India when I was 23 is get busy living or get busy dying. I mean, you're never going to be right here ever again. You're never gonna be in this moment. You're never gonna be 48 or 23 or 21 or [00:08:00] 18 ever again. So what are you gonna do with this time that you have?

Joshua Onysko: Because, you, you have very little control over when you're born. Very little control over from when you die. But that hashtag on your headstone between those two numbers, they're yours to choose what you want to do every day and what you want to create and the legacy you wanna leave, and the experiences you want to have.

Joshua Onysko: And so. When I look back at my travels, uh, it's the times when things went wrong are the greatest memories from motorcycle trips through Africa to, going 27 hours up the Amazon. I mean, it's just, those are the memories and you're creating memories and you can share these stories and learn a little bit more about the world that we live in.

Joshua Onysko: 'cause I, I feel like one of the biggest problems we're facing, especially here in America, is. Very few people in America travel outside of the states, and if they do, they're not generally going to developing countries and if they go to [00:09:00] developing countries, they're def generally going to resorts. And so there's this kind of disconnect between what, like people all over the world and what they've been kind of groomed to feel about them via the media and.

Joshua Onysko: it makes me sad because there's amazing people and amazing cultures all over the world, and when you kind of take down the veil of this idea of borders and strip away the politics and the wars and all this stuff, we're all just people trying to have a human experience.

Howard: Hmm. the last thing I want on my. Headstone, assuming I have a headstone, I'd rather be a reef personally, uh, or help grow a, a redwood tree is to say, oh, good, now I can take vacation.

Joshua Onysko: Yeah.

Howard: And we, we've spent a lot of our lives working and, oh, what? I'm retired, then I'm gonna do these things. So a, [00:10:00] as you set out globally doing these journeys and this desire to.

Howard: start to soap, build it, making soap. How did you find the, the right types of growers, the farmers, the artisans to work with so that you're not just becoming a part of the. Multinational conglomerate machine because I think that takes a lot of effort. Not to say go the, maybe it's not the easy way.

Howard: That's my perception of it. But to go the harder way, which is to develop these really important relationships. How did that journey and that learning process come about for you to really having friends and and partners all over the world? I mean, where did you start?

Joshua Onysko: I think you just, like I, when I started, I was selling soap at farmer's markets and someone would come up to me like, oh, my friends involved in sustainable [00:11:00] coconut oil production. And it was like emailing random people in random countries. And then, this was the beginning of the internet.

Joshua Onysko: And so as the internet started to grow, you could seek out people. And now with ai, I mean, I can. Find people in the most remote places doing the most remote projects all over the world. I mean, that's how I found this gentleman down in Patagonia that I'm starting to work with. That's how I found this NGO.

Joshua Onysko: Deep in the Amazon I, they've been there for 20 years. I've never heard of them. And so now the world is getting smaller and so back then it was just a lot of talking to a lot of people and in a few weeks I'm actually going to I feet. Which I feed is a annual annual trade show that brings, a huge percentage of the essential oil producers in the world together, and they choose a different city in the world.

Joshua Onysko: And so this year it's in Guttenberg, Sweden. And so I get to go there and [00:12:00] meet with my existing producers, but also meet people because a lot of governments subsidize farmers to go to these types of trade shows. To create more economic growth in their own country. So people that you would normally never see in Guttenberg, Sweden, they might live in, Sub-Saharan Africa or the middle of Mongolia, but they have a, a really beautiful project, growing essential oils and producing essential oils.

Joshua Onysko: I get to meet them at these trade shows.

Howard: Okay. Now with these ingredients, and I do know the essential oils come from many, many different plants, and I know there's the, the single, the sourced essential oil. There's, uh, recipes to combine different essential oils. How do you ensure. Not only the product is of the highest quality, but it's also the indivi, the farmer that's growing that essential oil that the [00:13:00] plant, uh, I, I is making a good living for wherever he is geographically.

Howard: But also, again, you're not being sidetracked by the conglomerate. 'cause I mean, I get essential oils. marketing on my Facebook page every day. I have a friend that markets a particular essential oil. But how do you stay true to this desire of stewardship and conservation? Sustainability, making a, a, a, a realistic living for those farmers.

Joshua Onysko: that's where the travel comes in. I call it face certification. So until you meet somebody and like. Stay in their home and meet their family and go to a harvest with them. You don't really know what's going on in that farm or where they get the oils from and making sure they're pure. I mean, we do very expensive third party testing to identify each plant and oil as we get it in.

Joshua Onysko: But you know, you have to build [00:14:00] a trust, because. somebody knows you, especially in rural parts of the world, they're much more likely to see you as a business partner and not as a customer. And a business partner is, Hey, I am taking this oil and put it, turning it into like a body wash. And if I can sell this body wash at a certain price, the company's gonna grow.

Joshua Onysko: Exponentially faster than if you're overcharging me for oils. And so I want you to make a living wage, be able to pay your employees and like live sustainably. And I also have to create this product and sell it. And so like especially now in the land of tariffs, like I have to go to some of these producers and say like, I need to lower prices.

Joshua Onysko: 'cause if I don't. My body was, is gonna be $30. because most of the body washes on the planet, even the ones people think are natural, are not actually made of like essential oils and real [00:15:00] ingredients. They're made of chemicals even though they're called natural fragrances.

Howard: Nat, the word natural, I know about that.

Joshua Onysko: Yeah, so it's like the tariffs aren't affecting those people.

Joshua Onysko: But like my, for example, like I have a fur in sage body wash with alpine provisions and that fur and Douglas Fir is coming from this amazing family up in Canada that has a completely off the grid meth and digestive. Digester, um, fueled distillery. They follow the timber industry. Only take the slash it's all byproduct grown and it's this incredible oil.

Joshua Onysko: I mean, there's no other better fur oil in the world. but I'm getting hit with these tariffs now and it's sucks, uh, because when you use real ingredients and tariffs are hitting you, It's problems and you gotta figure them out with the producer because I can't stop buying from them 'cause that hurts 'em.

Joshua Onysko: But I also need to negotiate a better price because otherwise I can't buy from them anymore. And it's the unfortunate [00:16:00] place we're in right now.

Howard: It's a very unfortunate place that we're in, as you tariffs aside, and, and that's, that's a big ask for me to you, how do you, when you are meeting these growers, wherever they are, how you also give back or what are you doing to give back into their communities? Because of this relationship you have co-created with the grower.

Joshua Onysko: Well, so you know, we donate to nonprofits, but I'm a big believer in if you're running your company properly, we shouldn't have to have nonprofits. Nonprofits to donate to. So if people are getting fairly. Paid if the land is being protected. If we're not deforesting the world to grow these things, the amount of nonprofits trying to pay people living wages and give healthcare and regrow the rainforest and protect [00:17:00] the oceans, those would start to disappear.

Joshua Onysko: So my ask of corporate America is like, do the right thing from the beginning because like to make a profit and then say. Oh, but we donate to these nonprofits like we have nonprofits because corporations are not responsible.

Howard: Mm-hmm.

Joshua Onysko: If corporations were more responsible, we wouldn't have to have all of the nonprofits we have around the world.

Howard: Right. No, that makes sense. As you have PR been producing your products, and I mean, you can't go anywhere without hearing about learning about the impact that humanity has had, whether it's the air or the stream, the mountains, the forest. How are you also ensuring that the work you are doing as you're producing those products, you are, you're giving, as opposed to just taking and, and.

Howard: [00:18:00] From the planet. I mean, you're, you're, you're basically, I don't know if it if that would be called carbon neutral or carbon positive. I don't, I don't know the, the, the, the right way to phrase that, but, you, you've got a brand that speaks very highly to conservation stewardship, but how, how do you ensure that it truly you are doing what you say you're gonna do?

Joshua Onysko: Again, it goes back to travel like this past when we were back in Peru, this NGO called Camino Verde. There. The big part of their NGO is going into native communities and teaching them how to regrow rosewood trees because in the seventies, sixties and seventies, Shama five was using real rosewood oil and they basically like cut down every rosewood tree in the Amazon.

Joshua Onysko: So there were none left and the communities couldn't like use them to create income anymore. So this nonprofit goes into communities. Teaches them to regrow rosewood trees, but then teaches them to only take a certain amount of the limbs a [00:19:00] year to let the tree continue to grow, to distill those limbs.

Joshua Onysko: But while they're doing that and creating money in their own community. They're also teaching 'em how to plant hundreds of other varieties to properly reforest the rainforest. And so as we start to buy oils from them, we're supporting an NGO. That is then in turn, taking that money to regrow a huge section of the rainforest.

Howard: Very nice, very nice. Now, I, I also know, and, and this is what I learned and I think was the initial. Aha for me that Joshua, you're somebody I want to interview is, we are both, uh, affiliated with Pod, uh, pod match and I get a lot of my guests from Pod Match and you want to be, uh, on as many podcasts as you can to, spread the, spread the message.

Howard: and, and I love the fact that you've partnered with Colorado Outward Bound School, and I, I, again, I, I'm a little older, so there's fear has set in, there's things, certain [00:20:00] things I will not do, but I remember Outward Bound from when I was growing up and I, I had a friend that would go out to Colorado a lot.

Howard: But tell us more about that relationship of giving back a little bit more locally.

Joshua Onysko: So, my belief is like, how do we ask. The current generation growing up right now to care about the environment if they don't have the ability to understand the environment, to spend time in the woods, in the mountains, on lakes and streams. So when I started Alpine Provisions, we wanted to give 1% of our, uh, profits to Cobbs, which is Colorado or bound school.

Joshua Onysko: And basically the way it works is it's a full scholarship to one kid who's a disadvantaged youth in Colorado to go on a summer long Colorado outward bounds. school, which is incredible.

Howard: Okay. Very nice. Now speaking of, uh, alpine, uh, provisions, I would love, for our listeners, if you could just give us a little tour of the site and, because I'm [00:21:00] sure, as am I, there, there was a couple items that I, I think I could use that, um, I don't just use ivory anymore, sorry ivory folks.

Howard: Yeah. The thing I love about making things like body wash and shampoo, conditioners, it's like everyone uses soap, almost everyone. And what I like to say is what I'm doing by creating Pane and Alpine is I'm giving you the best option. If you want a high quality product that's not poisoning you slowly, that's supporting the future of this planet that's not contributing plastic to the ocean.

Joshua Onysko: I did all the work. I did all the groundwork for you. All you have to do is buy the product. it's like I've, I've spent my life making sure that this is absolutely the most sustainable body wash you can buy, and now you just have to buy it.

Howard: I love it. Now I am curious, are you still, uh, in some way, uh, supporting the local farmer's markets with soap or some of your products or

Joshua Onysko: Now I support them by, I shop at them every Saturday.[00:22:00]

Howard: I love it.

Joshua Onysko: yeah, I get

Howard: the best part.

Joshua Onysko: 50% of my calories from the farmer's market probably.

Howard: I have to watch my sugar intake these days. It's another downside of getting older, but, uh, I, I miss here. I'm in Las Vegas. I miss some of those really robust farmer's markets. There's no, there's nothing better on a Saturday morning. All right, I am gonna share my screen, hopefully the Miracle Modern Technology here, and I believe I am sharing.

Joshua Onysko: Yeah, there we are.

Howard: Alpine provision. So, if you wouldn't mind, take us on a little tour.

Joshua Onysko: Yeah. If you go up to shop and just drop down to body wash.

Howard: Okay. Oh, body care. Okay.

Joshua Onysko: Yep. so these body washes are natural surfactants and for example, like this variety bundle, which is kind of what I always stare people to if they haven't used the product before. Each animal is an illustration drawn [00:23:00] by a friend of mine, of animals that actually live on the property I'm on right now.

Joshua Onysko: But each one of 'em represents a different send profile. So the owl is cedar sandalwood. It's a classic Cedar Texas cedarwood, which smells like a cedar closet and like warm sandalwood. And then the deer in the middle is our number one selling scent. It's Fe and Sage, which is the Douglas Fir that I was telling you we get from this amazing family in Canada.

Joshua Onysko: And the one to the right there is our lavender and juniper, and the lavender comes from, if you're familiar with regenerative farming, um, I actually visited them last summer. It's this amazing regenerative like collective of growers in Southern France that grow the lavender for that lavender and juniper.

Joshua Onysko: so that's the body washes. And then the other main part of the company is just the shampoo and conditioner, which basically it's the same scent profiles just haircare

Howard: Okay, and where do I go there?

Joshua Onysko: up at the top of their [00:24:00] haircare.

Howard: hair care. It's Monday. I can't see. Haven't had enough coffee. okay, I got it. I lo, by the way, I love rosemary mint. That's like my, and that makes my head, I can just feel my head tingling right now. Okay.

Joshua Onysko: And all these bottles are a hundred percent of a recyclable aluminum. So the bottles come with an aluminum cap, and then you buy the pump. The pumps will last you about 10 years. So you just get a new bottle, put the pump in. And I did this because we're dumping about 43,000 jumbo jets of plastic into the ocean every year, and most of it is from.

Joshua Onysko: Like this industry, um, there's about 127 billion pieces of plastic produced in personal care every year. And again, we don't have to. Aluminum bottles are great. They're fully recyclable, infinitely. they don't get microplastics into your product. They're beautiful, they're sustainable, they look [00:25:00] cool, they're light.

Joshua Onysko: it's just a better option.

Howard: Yeah, and, and I, I love the fact that I can buy the bottle and I think I even saw refills, if I'm not mistaken somewhere.

Joshua Onysko: No, there's no refills, but yet, but I am working on a top secret project for that exact, uh, purpose.

Howard: we won't tell anybody. Okay. and then we've got oral care. Oh, wow. Okay. Dental

Joshua Onysko: toothpaste, tablets, and dental floss, all plastic free.

Howard: Oh, cool. But you don't happen to have a cinnamon dental floss, do you?

Howard: I can't ever find that anymore.

Joshua Onysko: Yeah, I do love cinnamon. I just made a cinnamon toothpaste the other day with coconut oil, baking soda, and just pure cinnamon. 'cause I showed up at my house and forgot to pack toothpaste and I was just up here one night and I'm like, oh, I can just make toothpaste.

Joshua Onysko: See that? I love that, that I love that kind of creativity. I do, a cinnamon and clove toothpaste every once in a while. 'cause I just get, [00:26:00] just, there's something about the taste of cinnamon. Excellent. And then a little bit more of about us, your story. Okay. You look a little different. That was taken three years ago.

Howard: okay.

Howard: You've matured a little bit. All right. I love it. And so we've got Instagram, Facebook, we're on x. You've, we can subscribe. And then here's the little bit more about Outward Bound.

Joshua Onysko: Yep.

Howard: 1% of every product sale. Excellent. Great visual, uh, on the site, by the way. I love the colors. I love the colors. And you have a blog.

Howard: Very cool.

Joshua Onysko: Yep.

Howard: Now, how, uh, who's doing the, how are you creating the blogs? Are you just, get together with your team or what are what, what, what are the ideas, guys? Or is this something just spur the moment and insight from your travels.

Joshua Onysko: Some of it's, a lot of it's in spite site for my travels. I'm a huge Hot Springs fan, so that one came up to [00:27:00] me in June that I wrote for July about telling people where some of the best hot springs are. I just spent 14 months trapped backpacking, basically, and I was thinking a lot about like why it's so important to be a minimalist when you're packing, because it just makes your trip so much better.

Joshua Onysko: Most of what you think you need, you don't

Howard: I, I love that sentiment. Have you ever heard of, um, gossamer gear?

Joshua Onysko: Yeah, I have actually.

Howard: Yeah, I, I, for the life of me, the fact that I brought it up now, I can't remember my guest name, but I interviewed the, the CEO of Gossamer gear and just the idea of minimalist and, lightweight. And I'm a, I'm a classic over packer and, uh, but I, I, I love the fact that we, we, we need to pack smart and have the right things, but you know, we don't have to bring everything from home. lo I love that. See, now that's a nice kind of shower. You got all your, uh, bottles and you're [00:28:00] looking outside and the beautiful surroundings. I love

Joshua Onysko: Yep, that's in this house here. And this house is an Airbnb so people can actually book it online. It's called the Rusty Skillet Ranch.

Howard: rusty skillet. Well, we will, we will put a back link. Let me just write that down. rusty Skillet. All right. Wonderful. Well, thank you for, uh, sharing this site. Is there anything else that we should be looking at? It looks like we've got everything, I think.

Joshua Onysko: No, I really appreciate you having me on your show.

Howard: Oh, excellent. All right, so let me, uh, go ahead and stop sharing.

Howard: So. As this little kid who had a DHD way back when, 30 some years ago, and you decided, I'm done with this. I'm gonna go explore. As you kind of look back on what you have been accomplishing, Joshua, what's been your biggest, what I would call your aha moment, like, wow, I get to really do this.

Joshua Onysko: I don't think it's one moment. [00:29:00] I like to say that like every day you wake up, you do have a very real opportunity to completely change everything and there's no reason to get like, muddied up in the dogma of life. It's like you do have choice and second chances, and second chances are meant for taking.

Joshua Onysko: So. The longer we sit and think like, oh, woe is me, or This is wrong, or That's wrong. It's like, again, get busy living or get busy dying.

Howard: I love that. I am, I am going to be some way, including that, that line in the show notes or the title of the, the podcast. So, I, I, I love that, uh, as someone who is a, a. If you could talk to a parent. had a child who perhaps was Neurodiverse A DHD, and [00:30:00] realize, their school's not just for them or they need, there's other ways to learn and thrive and make a difference.

Howard: What would, as someone who's been down that path and found his own way to be very successful, what would your advice be to parents who are raising. Children that to take 'em away from this little device here and the

Joshua Onysko: Yeah, the device thing, I, that's a complicated question. but as far as advice to parents, it's like instead of trying to keep kids in line. Make, like allow them to draw their own lines because especially now with the age of ai, 95% of what kids are learning in school, not the socialization, I still think that's very important, is obsolete within six months.

Joshua Onysko: And the kids that are really flourishing in this new world that we're seeing unfold in front of us [00:31:00] are kids that are allowed to draw outside the lines. They're allowed to think way outside of what they're being taught because what they're being taught is by people who learn this 30 years ago when the internet didn't even exist and the information is moving so fast.

Joshua Onysko: In fact, I read a, an article by one of the Google futurists that said. Any kid being born this week will never be as smart as ai. And we have to start, stop focusing on like the quintessential like intelligence markers and think about creativity and think about how to allow kids to flourish on their own time in their own way and create their own things.

Joshua Onysko: Because this is their world. This is a world that they're in, and they're gonna be here for a hundred years. And so they're the ones that need to adapt and be allowed to adapt by being little feral. Gotta let your kids be a little feral.

Howard: I love it. And the only thing I would just perhaps [00:32:00] do the and is, is collaborate, communicate, to learn how to develop relationships.

Joshua Onysko: Yep.

Howard: Appreciate our differences, but no, I appreciate both the insight and the the sharing. Now we have just been out on the website, uh, alp prime provisions code.com.

Howard: Anywhere else you'd like to send, uh, our listeners.

Joshua Onysko: I'm actually, um, launching a new company tomorrow, uh, called Fira Labs, and it's something I've been working on for 14 years. It's a hair growth supplement that is the most technologically advanced. science backed, uh, clinical studied supplement for hair growth. It's launching for women for the next six months.

Joshua Onysko: Men's will come out next year, but we're launching it on Wednesday so people can go to Fiora, which is F-I-R-M-O-R-A labs.com and sign up and we'll be announcing on Wednesday for the launch. I'm super excited about, we've already pre-sold our entire first [00:33:00] production run. Um, and this brand I'm super excited about.

Joshua Onysko: This is what it looks like actually.

Howard: Oh wow. Very cool.

Joshua Onysko: And, uh, glass bottle wood top,

Howard: I love it. I love

Joshua Onysko: and, uh, yeah, this house, the Rusty Skillet Ranch and day spa.com, where you can find it on, on, uh, Airbnb alpine provisions co.com, panga organics.com. those are my brands and you can go on there and. Support the future.

Howard: All right. By the way, if you need a beta test for the, for more labs for men, I'm your guy. Okay.

Joshua Onysko: I'll let you up.

Howard: You know what's really funny I'm very much into my gut health. Because it, I need to watch my sugar intake and so I make my own probiotic yogurt and I notice as I'm healing my gut and and consuming the yogurt, my hair is growing back, which is like, because I look bald right now, but there is hair up there.

Howard: It's

Joshua Onysko: Are you making it an [00:34:00] Instapot, your yogurt?

Howard: I, I actually, yeah, well, like that. I use a cvid, but, uh, but yeah, in fact, one is, one's cooking right now. It'll be ready tomorrow morning. but I go, it, it, I mean it's so much better and I'm feeding. All good probiotics. and it's, it's fun. So I'm very much into, into the whole gut health and,su good supplements.

Howard: So, and I'll add a couple products, uh, from, uh, Alpine provisions that Mitt and Rosemary, and I'll have to try the cedarwood by the way. But listen, Joshua, it's been a pleasure to have you on the podcast. I hope you enjoyed yourself. I certainly. Enjoyed chatting with you and hearing about your journey and I know our listeners are going to, uh, enjoy that as well.

Howard: So thank you for spending time with us today.

Joshua Onysko: Thanks Howard. It was great meeting you. Thanks for having me on.

Howard: Alright. Listen, stay in the line. We'll do a quick, uh, close and you and I gonna have a final chat. Okay? Alright folks, we have just been, uh, chatting with Joshua [00:35:00] Onco, uh, entrepreneur. Creative thought leader. I mean, just wonderful conversation around, this, get out there and explore and, and I love this.

Howard: get busy living or get busy dying. I, it's just a wonderful sen sentiment, well, sad sentiment because so many of us said, never get out of our neighborhood or never leave the country. And there's a whole world out there to explore. And I love this entrepreneurial journey that. Joshua has, has been on, and him sharing that with us and talking about his products and what he goes through to create these great products, but also to develop relationships face-to-face.

Howard: That's the key, is go local, meet the people, learn about, learn their stories and see, uh, what they're doing, how, how they're living, and just embrace that as opposed to just staying at the local resort. as for, Getting ways to find Joshua. We're gonna provide all those back [00:36:00] links to the website, pangea, alpine provisions, uh, for more labs.

Howard: We're also gonna give him a, a shout out to that beautiful Airbnb that he is in. I may have to check that out myself. And we've also got links back to social sites like Facebook and Instagram. As for us, you can find us on our website, outdoor adventure series.com. We're on Facebook and LinkedIn. you'll find a video of this episode including the tour of the Alpine Provisions website up on our YouTube channel, and of course, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts from.

Howard: Alright, folks, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, go out there. Have a fantastic day, and we look forward to having you join us on a feature episode of the Outdoor Adventure Series podcast. Take care now. [00:37:00]