Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
YouTube
CRAVE BlogInterview with Entrepreness Amy Sandoz of Ready Set Go Kits
« Read the full blog
Interviewed by Tina Le
After volumteering for the Red Cross for four years, Amy Sandoz, a graduate student at Portland State University realized how difficult it can be to create your very first disaster kit. Amy saw the need to educate people about creating disaster preparation kits and therefore started Ready Set Go Kits.
Read our interview with Amy!
I’ve never created a disaster kit or owned one before. What should a basic survival kit include?
You always want to prepare for a situation of whether you’re going to be forced to evacuate or whether you’re going to need to stay in your home. A basic kit should be able to provide you with supplies to last for at least three days. Make sure you have food, water, sleeping bag or mat, first aid kit, a radio to hear the news around you, light source, medication, clothes, shoes, toiletries, and financial documents.
How would you position preparing for a natural disaster in a way that doesn’t scare people?
Depending on whom you’re talking to, position different levels of disasters. A great example to use here in Portland is the ice storm. When you’re talking to someone about prepping for a disaster, you can say something like, “Remember last year’s ice storm and how we were stuck at home for a week? Let’s prepare a kit so that we don’t have to walk two miles to the grocery store again in the snow.” Once you position a situation that had already occurred, people won’t want to experience being without food, a radio, or any crucial resources needed to make that experience a little easier.
Do you have goals to further develop Ready, Set, Go Kits?
My goal is to get more people to talk about preparing for disasters, and make a plan with their loved ones in case a disaster does occur. Raising awareness about disaster preparation is important to me so that we can avoid rescue situations such as what happened with Hurricane Katrina. If people were more prepared for either evacuating or being trapped within their home for three days, more people would have survived until rescue teams came.
What is the most rewarding aspect of your job?
The most rewarding aspect of my job is the liberating feeling you get when owning your own business. You don’t need to ask permission from anyone, and you’re able to make decisions on your own. I also love creating my own schedule where I can work when I need to, and attend class if I want to. It’s empowering to be able to make those decisions.
What is the most challenging?
The most challenging aspect goes along with my most rewarding aspect – making decisions on your own. Difficult choices do arise regarding my business. When they do arise, I’m the only person that can evidently make that decision and that can be intimidating at times.
What did you learn about yourself as you became a business owner that you didn’t know before?
With my business developing quite quickly, I’ve learned to make decisions faster and become more confident in what I decide to do.
What else would you like our readers to know about you and Ready Set Go Kits?
I won a contest from projectrev.com where they provide expert advice on effective marketing programs that will work for my business. I’m very excited about this project because they will be helping me thrive my business by providing marketing insight, creating a website for Ready Set Go Kits, and so many other tools that can help develop my brand!!
Connect with Ready Set Go Kits!
readysetgokitsdisasterplan.com
readysetgokits.com
Email: info (at) readysetgokits (dot) com
Mail:
Ready Set Go Kits
Muse Creations LLC
6107 SW Murray Blvd. Suite #349
Beaverton, OR 97008
Phone: (503) 217-4073
Twitter: @ReadySetGoKits
Facebook: ReadySetGoKits