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Get your kid’s entrepreneurial brain cranking out ideas this summer. Help them understand entrepreneurship is a lot like ‘leveling-up’ in a video game, but 1) it’s real and 2) it’s for cash #kids #teens #business #summer #entrepreneurship

Parents - now is the time for your kids to start planning their summer businesses! Encourage them to dive into entrepreneurship as a fun summer activity and a fantastic way for them to learn valuable skills. Starting a business can help kids boost their self-confidence, enhance communication abilities, foster a problem-solving mindset, develop resilience, and much more. Start by helping them think about their passions, whether it's animals, arts and crafts, the environment, or cooking and baking. For motivation, they can look up to successful young entrepreneurs like Ava Dorsey who makes pet treats (that are currently 20% off at Target - yes, she sells at Target!), Sustainabar's environmentally friendly soaps and shampoos, or Mr. Cory's cookie empire. For more insights on youth entrepreneurship and other kid business ideas, don't miss the recent TEDx talk shared here: https://lnkd.in/gv7XTw_K #youthentrepreneurship #summerjob #summerbusiness #TEDtalk #TEDx

My Biggest Blunders | Failing Forward Started in 2020 My Biggest Blunders is a movement as well as a series of events that share personal accounts of entrepreneurial or professional failures. We ask four or five entrepreneurs to disclose their own professional mistakes in front of a room full of strangers. This platform helps everyone learn from one another's experiences. We share all of the stories of the businesses that fail, the partnership deals that didn't work out, and the products that have to be recalled because of safety concerns. My Biggest Blunders is a safe place for people to publicly discuss their business mistakes, blunders, and failures. As a result, My Biggest Blunders is an innovative approach to handling failure. The goal is to look at failure as a teaching opportunity. Changing the way we view failure and the story that surrounds it is part of our ongoing effort to build a more innovative and healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem. The goal is to fail forward. https://lnkd.in/de_GyQNi

The Power of Community in Entrepreneurship Starting a business is a journey, but you can walk with others. Discover how Brad's sister and a high school friend inspired the creation of Rica Freedivers Brad's venture into entrepreneurship was fueled by late-night conversations and unwavering support from those closest to him. These relationships underscore the importance of community and encouragement in pursuing our dreams. Brad's story serves as a reminder that behind every successful entrepreneur is a network of supporters, mentors, and friends who believe in their vision. Are you leveraging your community to propel your entrepreneurial aspirations? Miss the interview? Find it in the comments below

My Biggest Blunders | Failing Forward Started in 2020 My Biggest Blunders is a movement as well as a series of events that share personal accounts of entrepreneurial or professional failures. We ask four or five entrepreneurs to disclose their own professional mistakes in front of a room full of strangers. This platform helps everyone learn from one another's experiences. We share all of the stories of the businesses that fail, the partnership deals that didn't work out, and the products that have to be recalled because of safety concerns. My Biggest Blunders is a safe place for people to publicly discuss their business mistakes, blunders, and failures. As a result, My Biggest Blunders is an innovative approach to handling failure. The goal is to look at failure as a teaching opportunity. Changing the way we view failure and the story that surrounds it is part of our ongoing effort to build a more innovative and healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem. The goal is to fail forward.

We are 3 weeks into our first pilot for Young Entrepreneurs, and it is going so amazingly well! Just 3 weeks in and the kids are engaging, sharing suggestions, learning valuable skills for their businesses, coming up with new ideas, building a framework for success, and learning self-development tools that will help them succeed in business and in their personal lives. From a personal perspective as a mum, I am finding myself getting rather attached to these beautiful young humans and cherish our chats, their funny comments, the way they encourage one another and seeing the amazing things they make! So far we have kids 11-18 starting businesses offering gardening services, selling handmade crochet bags, and art, someone wanting to create and illustrate a webcomic, hire their music services out, and we have an inventor but I am not sharing a single thing about that because their idea is so genius and so pioneering that it could be quite huge, I am absolutely thrilled! The part I have enjoyed the most so far was developing personal and business goals. I do the exercises with them in real-time, so refreshing my business and personal goals has given me new energy. I am at a stage in my life where I am becoming more in touch with the things I am truly passionate about rather than what I should be doing or need to be doing. I am recognising where my priorities lie what my values are, where I want life to lead me to, and the things that truly matter to me, the ripple I would like to create before I depart. What I am trying to say is that this process with our young entrepreneurs is taking me to places I didn't foresee and I welcome this with all my heart, fully open and ready to follow the signposts. We are now ready for our next intake starting in just a couple of weeks for the SECOND beta testing phase. All the information is in the link here. Feel free to share my post and invite anyone you know who wants to help their children earn money now, and learn the skills to run a successful business even while attending school or home educating. These are skills for life and you know me, I bring in my training as a therapist to create a safe space, to nurture the kids and to empower them. #youngentrepreneur #youngentreprenuers #youngentrepreneurship #entrepreneurmindset #empoweringyouth #InspiringYouth #InspiringYoungMinds https://lnkd.in/eHwqnkZg

Entrepreneurship isn’t just about celebrating the wins; it’s about navigating the struggles, too. It’s easy to see success stories on social media, but behind every entrepreneur’s highlight reel are the failures and lessons that shaped their journey. Khalid Saleh and Ayat Shukairy discuss the day-to-day highs and lows of running a business and how they manage to show up regardless.

Reminder and/or serendipitous repost: As a part of Global Entrepreneurship Week and in the spirit of paying skillsets forward... today at 3pm I'll be hosting a workshop on on Fundamental Tools to Build Relationships That Stick at Bottega Exchange. You should be here if you: Want to build better, more authentic relationships faster. Value clarity, authenticity and results in your communication. Need to write or speak about yourself. Ever. Introverts warmly encouraged. Workbooks provided. (And you'll actually use them).

In case you missed it… Introducing STARTING BLOCK: The Do-It-Yourself Guide To Starting A Business. A step-by-step no, bullsh*t course chucked full of videos, guides, and advice on starting your own business from nothing. So stoked to finally launch this! My buddy Parker Gates and I have been working on this idea for the better part of a year. We wanted to create an entrepreneurship 101-type course with a punk rock DIY attitude, so we did. These are things we’ve learned through big wins and bigger fails in our combined decades of working for ourselves. Interested or know someone in your life who might be? There is a simple email sign-up (link in the comments) Starting Block is the info I wish someone had sat me down and told me when I was 25. You don’t need a ton of money or know how to get going, you just need to do it. More on this soon! For now, I’d love it if you sign up, I’ll let you know when it launches.🚀👌🏼link in bio as well.