#110 - Raising Doers: How to Nurture Entrepreneurial Kids with Margot Machol Bisnow

A Dad's Path

Will Braunstein

Parenting, Kids & Family

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of A Dad's Path, Will Braunstein welcomes Margot Machol Bisnow, author of Raising an Entrepreneur: How to Help Your Children Achieve Their Dreams. Margot, a former FTC Commissioner and Presidential staffer, shares insights from her journey of interviewing 99 entrepreneuers about raising creative, resilient, and confident children.

Together, they discuss what makes an entrepreneur, how failure is a stepping stone to success, and why fostering your child's passions is critical—even when it’s outside the traditional path. This conversation provides dads with practical advice on raising kids willing to take risks, embrace grit, and pursue their dreams, whether in business or any other passion.

Tune in for invaluable lessons on how believing in your kids can empower them to reach their full potential in their careers and beyond.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a dad's path where we navigate the heart and science of parenting.
0:05.0	Each episode we tackle issues that dad's everywhere face and deliver actions you can take right away.
0:11.0	Join us as we uncover the balancing act of raising resilient
0:14.4	loving kids. Visit us at a dadspath.com to learn more. Ready for the journey
0:19.6	let's begin. Hello and welcome to another episode of a Dad's Path
0:25.1	podcast.
0:26.4	I'm Will Bronstein.
0:27.9	Today we're here with Margot Bisnau.
0:29.4	She's a fascinating woman.
0:30.8	She spent 20 years in government, including as an FTC commissioner and
0:34.0	staff director of the President Council's economic advisors. For the last 10 years, she spoke to
0:39.6	parent groups about raising creative, confident, resilient children who achieve their dreams.
0:44.4	And I think that's a goal for all of us listeners here.
0:47.0	So excited to dig deeper on that.
0:49.2	She served as an advisor to the EQ generation, which is an after-school program in New York City that gives
0:54.8	children the skills they need to succeed on the advisory board of the Muse School in Malibu that
1:00.4	prepares young people to live consciously through passion-based learning and on the board of sparked a journey in Washington DC that mentors low-income high school students to achieve college and career success
1:10.0	Her new book is Raising an Entrepreneur. How to Help Your Children
1:14.5	achieve their dreams, 99 stories from families who did.
1:18.0	And you can learn more at Raising Entrepreneur.com.
1:21.1	You can see the book right there. welcome Margo excited to have this conversation
1:25.1	Me too very very much looking forward to it well. Awesome so yeah I just to dive in why why did you write this book?
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