At the start of every new year, many of us decide we’re going to: lose weight, start a business, write a book, quit a bad habit, improve our relationships, etc. The resolutions are endless. And we have the best of intentions. So why, then, is it that only 8% of us actually achieve our New Year’s resolutions every year? In fact, by January 15th, it’s pretty clear who’s going … [Read more...]
Encourage, Plan, and Pray: 3 Ways to Support Your Spouse When They’ve Started a Business
Does it always seem like your spouse has an idea for a new business? In this age of entrepreneurial startups, there is a good chance you are married to an entrepreneur. Supporting a spouse with an entrepreneurial startup is an adventure. It is very different from supporting a spouse who is changing jobs. When your spouse starts their own business they need you in their corner. … [Read more...]
11-Year-Old Uses Soap Business to Help Homeless
11-year-old Donovan Smith of Albuquerque, New Mexico is not your average kid. Not only does he know how to dish up treats like cupcakes, cheeseburgers and donuts, but he can dish them up in a way that few people can -- in the form of soap. That's right; Donovan has his own bath products business called Toil and Trouble. What's unique about Donovan's business are not just the … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Magnify Respect in Your Relationship
Each day we find more and more reasons to develop distance in our relationships. We all are challenged for time and attention. Careers, children, hobbies, side jobs and other things are grasping for our mind-share. We can easily lose focus on those that care about us the most. We have to have time to devote our attention, focus and resources to those we cherish the most: … [Read more...]
Why I’m NOT Teaching My Kids That They Have to Go to College
When I think back to the day I graduated college, it was one of the happiest days of my life. I felt a sense of accomplishment—like I had really made it…not only graduated with a four year degree, but graduated into official adulthood. I knew that with my degree I was going to find a great paying job, buy a car, and move into my own apartment. I knew that with my degree I had … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Support Your Spouse When They Start a Business
by Joyce Brewer If it wasn't for my husband's support, my video and social media business would never have gotten off the ground in 2010. My husband is the videographer for my parenting talk show when we shoot it on-location at businesses in Atlanta. Plus he shares the duties of caring for two year old son when I work from home, meet clients or spend hours at … [Read more...]
Ludacris and Daughter Karma Team Up To Create Educational Website for Kids?
by Terrance Gaines Say what you want about some of Luda's rap lyrics, but what you can't say is that he isn't involved in his daughter's life, unlike some of these other influential black male celebrities always crying about child support (have I said too much already?). Case and point, Ludacris and daughter Karma have teamed up to develop "Karma's World" - A fun and … [Read more...]
Help Your Kid Be A College Entrepreneur
There's no law saying that you have to graduate college before you strike out on your own. (Mark Zuckerberg, anyone?) BlackEnterprise.com has a slew of tips and tricks for your young students to help them launch a business while studying for finals. Felicia Joy, author of Hybrid Entrepreneurship: How the Middle Class Can Beat the Slow Economy, Earn Extra Income and Reclaim … [Read more...]
14-Year-Old Author And CEO Teaches Other Kids How To Get Published
We've been highlighting a lot of young people doing extraordinary things lately. We couldn't be prouder of these tweens and teens who are showing the world that talent, drive and passion know no age limitations. Today we read about Chental-Song Bembry, a 14-year-old New Jersey native and author of the Honeybunch book series, which she also illustrated. From her recent … [Read more...]
Dad Starts Publishing Company With 7-Year-Old Daughter
Here at BMWK we applaud parents who go above and beyond to support their child's interests and Ephraim Benton is setting the bar high. The actor/entrepreneur recently created Daddy Daughter Publishing with his 7-year-old daughter, Amber, after reading the stories she had scribbled in her notebook. Check out this snippet from the BlackEnterprise.com interview: Amber is just … [Read more...]
Teens From PG County Win Black Enterprise Young Entrepreneur Award
When private school bills became too much for the Holland family, instead of pulling their kids out of the school and enrolling them in a cheaper school, they held a family meeting and let their boys Adam and Jonathan come up with a solution. Their idea? A shaved ice business. That was four years ago and now the family business, AJ's Hawaiian Iceez, is racking up the … [Read more...]
New Book Encourages Teens To Embrace The Entrepreneurial Spirit
by Tara Pringle Jefferson When Kenrya Rankin-Naasel was an undergraduate at a particular HBCU on the East Coast, she had a ton of friends in the School of Business, or as she likes to call it, "a middle management machine." "Basically, they were training them to go work for someone else," she says. "There was no emphasis on figuring out what you wanted to do with your … [Read more...]