How I Built My Small Business

Hayes Hitchens - MOONDANCE ADVENTURES: Unplugging Teens with Life-Changing Adventure Travel

How I Built My Small Business

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In today’s episode, Hayes Hitchens talks with us about his journey starting and building Moondance Adventures. Moondance is a teen adventure travel program that sends over 2000 teenagers each summer on trips across five continents and over twenty countries with a commitment to foster personal growth, leadership skills, problem solving, decision making and a love for the outdoors. For some backstory, Hayes was the dean of students and director of summer programs at my school and I remember him...

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