We are excited to start publishing this newsletter. All of us are involved in some way with teaching kids about business, but from different angles. We saw the need to bring all of our different ideas and approaches together so that parents, teachers, and mentors who are interested in teaching kids business would have a place to find about everything we know on this topic.
Each week we will bring you information we find about helping kids with business. For this issue, we are introducing our board. We’ll be listed on every issue, and you can link directly to our websites and contact us individually with your questions and comments.
Be sure to check our Archives tab or use our Search tools to find information in previous issues.
Susan Longley is a business coach and the creator of The Tycoon Cocoon® Business Incubator for Kids, a program that teaches entrepreneurship to middle schoolers through visualization and hands-on activity. She is a former English and ESOL teacher and reading program director who is thrilled to be able to bring the knowledge she gained from coaching her business clients back to the classroom.
Susan’s teenage daughter is a competitive swimmer and performance swim coach and her 12-year-old son is building a business decorating festive cakes for friends and family. Susan started swimming again this year and will compete this fall on a Master’s team. Her daughter is NOT her coach.
Jennifer Bouani is an advocate for young entrepreneurs and free-market trade. Bouani comes from a family of entrepreneurs. She started working in her dad’s business at 12 years old. In 1995, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Auburn University with a detree in Computer Engineering. She has been a project manager, a business analyst manager, a business communications professional, and a consultant. Jennifer has expertise in multiple industries: retail, insurance, automotive, publishing, and telecommunications.
Bouani is the author of the Mom’s Choice Awards Gold winner Future Business Leaders’ Series™. She started the series in 2006 with Tyler & His Solve-A-Matic Machine, which won Disney’s 2007 iParenting Media HOT Product Award. Bouani published the second book of the series in 2008: Tyler Passes the Golden Key, which is an Award-Winning Finalist in the Children’s Fiction category of the National Best Books 2008 Awards. Book Three, Wyatt’s Laughing Lark and the Search for the Secret Map, was published in August of 2011.
Sarah Cook, Founder of Raising CEO Kids is a sought after speaker, business coach, systems strategist, and co-author of “The Parent’s Guide to Raising CEO Kids” (Aug 2011). She has interviewed over 160 young entrepreneurs and most of their parents, uncovering the pillars and pitfalls of being a successful teen CEO. In her book, Sarah discusses ways that teens as well as parents can turn their talents and motivation into money.
When not working to grow businesses, Sarah can be found spending time with her husband and three entrepreneur kids, working out, reading, connecting with people on social media, finding the best deals on and off line or indulging in extra dark chocolate with chili peppers!
Bonnie Daneker, CEO of Write Advisors®, oversees the strategic direction of the company to enable its clients to express themselves digitally and in print, using the most appropriate resources to reach their goals. Author of The Compassionate Caregiver Series®, Bonnie released her seventh book, CLIMB, in November, 2010, with Sandy Hofmann, President of Women in Technology (WIT). With WIT, she holds the position of Program Director, Thought Leadership and promotes the Girls Get IT Programs.
She has been a Girl Scout leader for three years, and has volunteered with multiple teen organizations such as Safe Space Station Teen Runaway Shelter and the American Red Cross community teaching programs and disaster recovery. When not working with clients or volunteering, Bonnie finds time for fitness, travel, and cooking lessons (of which she can never have too many!).
Elisabeth Donati is the owner of Creative Wealth Intl., LLC, creator of Camp Millionaire and The Money Game and the recipient of the 2010 Financial Educator of the Year Award from the National Financial Educators Council. She is known as The Financial Literacy Lady.
She is author of The Ultimate Allowance and writes a weekly blog called Financial Wisdom with a TWI$T. Elisabeth is an expert in teaching the basic financial principles people need in a way that is engaging, empowering and fun.
One of the Elisabeth’s favorite things to do is invite people to think differently in all areas of their lives. Her background is fitness and nutrition and she can often be found in her kitchen concocting yet another gluten-free muffin or cookie recipe.
Melissa Rose comes from a multi-generational family of entrepreneurs and started her first business, a marketing company, at the age of 20 while in college. She is the founder and inventor of Biz in a Boxx, a patent-pending, experiential youth entrepreneurial product that teaches kids and teens how to start and run their very own business. She is also very active in her community serving on various workforce development, education, and science and technology committees. Melissa lives in Phoenix with her 15-year-old entrepreneurial daughter, Sydney, their four dogs, Dippy, Rodney, Dooey and Fran and their cat, Bob.
