3586: How to Encourage Entrepreneurial Spirit in Kids by Laurie Sepulveda of Women Who Money

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🗓️ 7 June 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3586: Laurie Sepulveda explains how parents can nurture entrepreneurial thinking by helping children find meaningful reasons to earn money, generate their own ideas, and learn through real-world successes and failures. By guiding rather than controlling, parents can teach resilience, creativity, financial literacy, and problem-solving skills that prepare kids for future success and independence. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://womenwhomoney.com/encourage-entrepreneurial-spirit-kids/ Quotes to ponder: "It’s vital for her to identify something she really wants to help her push through the inevitable difficulties in starting a money-making venture." "Kids need to understand it isn’t that people don’t like them; they just don’t want the product or service." "Your job as a parent is to foster your child's entrepreneurial spirit and help them navigate the space between their entrepreneurial idea and its execution." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.6	How to Encourage Entrepreneurial Spirit and Kids by Lori Sapulveda of Womeny.com
0:56.9	We all want our kids to grow up and become successful, right?
1:02.0	As parents, it's our job to teach them about money, how to earn it, save it, spend it, share it, and invest it.
1:10.0	And learning by doing is often one of the best ways
1:12.6	for something to stick. Research indicates that kids who work a job while in high school and college
1:17.8	are much better equipped to deal with failure in difficult situations after they graduate
1:22.2	than kids who don't. But if our kids are too young to land a W-2 job, should we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit instead?
1:31.4	Are there ways we can help or inspire our children to earn money or start their own businesses to
1:36.1	provide many, if not more of, the same benefits as employment? Cultivating entrepreneurship in our
1:42.0	kids helps them become financially savvy. They'll learn and
1:46.0	exercise the values that will best help them achieve their later success, determination,
1:51.6	grit, perseverance, and out-of-the-box thinking. Help them figure out their why. First off,
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