How to support your kids to start their own business

Youth Entrepreneurship Advocate, Brian Weisfeld, shares insights on empowering young minds through entrepreneurship. With a background in building businesses and a dedication to teaching essential life skills, Brian discusses the importance of encouraging kids to start their own businesses and how parents can support young entrepreneurs at home.
About the speaker

Brian Weisfeld

You're the Boss/Startup Squad

 - You're the Boss/Startup Squad

Brian Weisfeld is a Youth Entrepreneurship Advocate

  • Part 1 How to support your kids to start their own business

Show Notes

  • 00:45
    Encouraging kids to start businesses
    Discussion on the importance and benefits of kids starting businesses.
  • 03:15
    Business skills for children
    Exploring how business skills can positively impact children's development.
  • 06:20
    Ideal age for entrepreneurship
    Determining the best age for children to begin learning about entrepreneurship.

Quotes

  • "Getting comfortable taking risks and learning not to fear failure, realizing that the only failure is not taking that risk in the first place, that's one of the most important things." - Brian Weisfeld

  • "I'll talk to kids about entrepreneurship to either get them interested in starting, but also so they have a better perspective of what mom and dad are doing in their business." - Brian Weisfeld

  • "There is a big push on teaching more financial literacy in schools. But I find that its very focused on how to save money and how to budget money, and how to be careful spending money, but not about how to earn money." - Brian Weisfeld

  • "Now's the time to fail when you don't have a mortgage when, you know, you don't have big stakes, take advantage, go out, fail, learn, try it again. And when the stakes get bigger, you'll be that much more comfortable and that much more knowledgeable." - Brian Weisfeld

  • "Parents can find resources for both themselves and their kids on our websites." - Brian Weisfeld

  • Part 1 How to support your kids to start their own business
About the speaker

Brian Weisfeld

You're the Boss/Startup Squad

 - You're the Boss/Startup Squad

Brian Weisfeld is a Youth Entrepreneurship Advocate

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    Part 1How to support your kids to start their own business

    Youth Entrepreneurship Advocate, Brian Weisfeld, shares insights on empowering young minds through entrepreneurship. With a background in building businesses and a dedication to teaching essential life skills, Brian discusses the importance of encouraging kids to start their own businesses and how parents can support young entrepreneurs at home.