Joining Megan Lamke in this episode of the Business For Good Podcast is Ryan Skoog. Let’s hear from Ryan as he tells his story growing up in a family of entrepreneurs and how he turned the tables from being the black sheep of the family to founding three for-profit companies and one non-profit - all of which revolve around offering discounted airfare for people who are traveling for humanitarian reasons.
Ryan Skoog is the Co-Founder and President of three companies: Fly for Good, Yonder, Faith Ventures, and the nonprofit - Venture.
As a person who lives at the intersection of entrepreneurship and missions, Ryan has founded his successful businesses based on his interest in Travel Technology that’s focused on international airfare and travel insurance. It’s from this interest that he Founded Fly for Good and Faith Ventures that has helped a great number of churches and ministries for their mission trips by helping them save on airfare and travel insurance costs. Then with the help of his college friends, he’s also started the non-profit - Venture that encourages and helps people from around the world to run, hike, bike, and swim in order to raise millions of dollars to be donated to war refugees, trafficked children, and child soldiers in unreachable areas of the world. They have recorded serving 10,000 war refugee children and around 690 girls are being rescued from trafficking daily.
A man of faith who is on a Mission, Ryan has brought the Gospel to many different countries from the shadows of Mt. Everest to the great rift valleys of Mt. Kilimanjaro. He earned his Entrepreneurship MBA from Saint Thomas, serves on the Board of Brotherhood Mutual, and is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God. He has also Co-Authored the book - Chosen that’s available in all major bookstores.
Learn more about Ryan Skoog and his organizations through the following links:
Venture uses adventure to raise funds and awareness for humanitarian initiatives worldwide while providing an intentional life and faith development program for participants.
About Venture.org
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We serve in areas of the world that are the least reached and least resourced by partnering with local leaders in those communities to end some of the world’s greatest injustices. To learn more, visit https://venture.org/businessforgood.