It’s more than business
BrainyFeet teaches kids how to find, trust & follow their feet.
BrainyFeet will create programs that teach young people how to start and grow businesses.
But it’s not really about starting businesses.
It’s about learning from the process of starting businesses.
It’s about giving the next generation experiences to show them how absolutely limitless they are in creating and defining the world they want to live in. It’s about learning how to truly enjoy everything about the incredible journey of self-discovery we call life.
This is the hero’s journey. Nothing can do this like entrepreneurship.
What? Wait! Where’s Larah’s blog and advising stuff!? Where are the downloads, calls and workshops!? Breathe easy. It’s all new & improved over at LarahRitchie.com. C’mon over and say hi.
Stay in the loop & get opportunities to provide much-needed input as bring these big ideas to life.
You play a vital role in our success!
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About BrainyFeet Biz Kids
Kids are natural entrepreneurs.
They have curiosity, inquisitiveness, problem solving skills, negotiation skills, creativity and candidness that aren’t seen in most adults.
They’re fearless, action-oriented makers; constantly building and making totally off-the-wall connections in the world around them.
This is magical to behold.
The problem is our education system is actually designed to eliminate all of those amazing qualities. They do this in favor of developing a reliance on things like hierarchical authority, asking permission, consensus, and conformity. We teach them to distrust anyone that isn’t the same age as them, that coloring outside of the lines is wrong and that collaboration is cheating.
We literally teach the entrepreneurial spirit right out of them.
This has to stop.
For the sake of our children and for the sake of our future, we need a new model. We need educational models that encourage all of these limitless qualities. We need to nourish those qualities and give them frameworks upon which they can grow and thrive.
BrainyFeet is creating those frameworks.
I’m Larah Ritchie and I’m the founder of BrainyFeet. I work as a micro-business adviser and consultant. I’m constantly in awe of the power entrepreneurship has to teach us about ourselves and our ability to shape the world we want to live in. You can read all about me on LarahRitchie.com
Stay in the loop & get opportunities to provide much-needed input as bring these big ideas to life.
You play a vital role in our success!
Please share this page with everyone you know who might be interested in empowering kids through entrepeneurship.
Imagine a world…
So simple in concept, yet so incredibly powerful.
Allow a young person to find their interests encourage them, facilitate their learning wherever you can without directing it….then watch as they get completely engaged and immersed in a world of their own design.
The quickly realize that their abilities are no longer limited by their age, grade level, their family’s income or the neighborhood they live in. They aren’t even limited by the narrow minded notions of the naysayers they meet along the way.
When kids realize that they have the power to affect change, they transform in ways you can’t imagine.
We all flourish when we’re given the freedom to be self-directed and self-motivated. Kids are no different.
BrainyFeet will foster an environment that encourages and supports curiosity-following, child-led learning.
Imagine a world…
Imagine yourself as that child.. Can you feel the confidence? Can you hear it in your voice and see it in your posture? Can you imagine seeing the world as your sandbox? Can you internalize the utter lack of ever feeling too young, too small, too insignificant to do anything?
Can you imagine never having to unlearn all of that head trash.
Imagine this uncluttered person as an adult, raising her own uncluttered children. Now imagine a whole planet full of these limit-free people. A world full of individual collaborators. A world where people don’t wait for someone else to tell them what to do or where to go or what to think.
This is the world we have the power to create when we encourage our children to trust their creativity, to cherish their individuality and to follow their curiosity.
We can do this by giving give kids tools they can use now to impact their world now.
Stay in the loop & get opportunities to provide much-needed input as bring these big ideas to life.
You play a vital role in our success!
Please share this page with everyone you know who might be interested in empowering kids through entrepeneurship.
Join the BrainyFeet team
I need you to make this happen
BrainyFeet Biz Kids will go into full development mode in November 2012. I’m assembling a small team of passionate people to create these programs.
You might be exactly the person we need if you are…
- passionate about child-led learning
- fully aware of the profound learning and personal transformation that comes with starting a business
- a firm believer in the powerful connection between kids and entrepreneurship
- able to commit and invest the time and energy to developing these programs and bringing them to the market
I’m looking for people with experience in (or interest and a fierce readiness to learn) one or more of the following areas…
- Building relationships & partnerships
- Event planning
- Social media
- Design, especially instructional design
- Website development
- Community building
- Connections within the homeschooling and unschooling communities
- Connections with organizations that have complimentary missions and goals
- And, if you’re a perfect fit, whatever else you bring to the table.
If all of this excites you, please send me an email so we can talk…and talk and talk, no doubt!
