#75: Building Connection in Regional Australia with Mia Ryan from Howdy

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G’day and welcome to the A Place to Call Home Podcast.

In this episode, I sit down with Mia Ryan — founder of Howdy, a community-focused app designed to help young people connect in regional Australia.

While studying at university, Mia stepped into the world of tech and entrepreneurship, building an app in an industry she’d never worked in before.

• From training horses to pitching investors.
•  From rural roots to startup founder.
•  From idea to execution — all while still at uni.

This is a conversation about courage, backing yourself, and building something from scratch without a roadmap.

It’s about taking the values you grew up with and applying them in a completely different arena.

In this episode, we chat about:

• Growing up on a property and how that shaped her mindset
• Training horses before university and the lessons that carried into business
• Why she created Howdy
• What it actually takes to build an app from scratch
• Learning on the go in an industry she’d never worked in
• The realities of startup life as a young founder
• Building community in regional Australia

Follow Mia and Howdy

📘 Facebook: Howdy Global
📸 Instagram: @howdy.dating
🌏 Website: Rural Dating Service | Howdy Global | AUS

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