Between playing three sports and tackling third grade, 9-year-old Rylan Kostecki leads a busy life, but that hasn’t stopped him from chasing his dreams. With the help of his father, the young athlete with a passion for headwear recently started his own hat business, Brimz by Ry.

“You always want to start small, and then you can grow big,” Rylan said. This is the biggest lesson he’s learned in his time as an entrepreneur so far, he said.