Raising Entrepreneurs - Let Children Figure Things Out for Themselves - Top Entrepreneurs Podcast

Margot Machol Bisnow the author of her new book Raising an Entrepreneur: How to Help Your Children Achieve Their Dreams – 99 Stories from Families Who Did joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Margot Machol Bisnow discuss the following:

What prompted you to write the book “Raising an Entrepreneur”?
What did you learn about raising kids?
How do you define an entrepreneur?
Can you tell us about the people you interviewed?
Was there one characteristic all of these entrepreneurs had that was similar?
I notice a lot of them played sports, can you tell me what that had to do with entrepreneurship?
Did many of them have a little businesses when they were young? In other words, did many of them seem like little entrepreneurs when they were in high school?
What is the most important rule to raising entrepreneurial kids? What about in regards to failure as well?
Why is your book so important now?

Margot Machol Bisnow spent 20 years in government, including as an FTC Commissioner and staff director of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. For the last 10 years, she has spoken to parent groups about raising creative, confident, resilient children who achieve their dreams. She served as an Advisor to EQ Generation, an after-school program in New York City that gives children the skills to succeed; on the Advisory Board of the MUSE School in Malibu, that prepares young people to live consciously through passion-based learning; and on the Board of Spark the Journey in Washington DC, that mentors low-income high school students to achieve college and career success. Her new book is Raising an Entrepreneur: How to Help Your Children Achieve Their Dreams – 99 Stories from Families Who Did.