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Mo’s Bows’ – A 14 Year Old Entrepreneur

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Entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes. In this case, it is a 14 year named Moziah Bridges.

Bridges, at just 14 years of age created a business of selling ties and bow ties called Mo’s Bows’. Mo’s Bows’ is now in several nationwide retail stores, some very notable. Bridges is now focusing on getting more licensing deals to give his business more opportunities.

An idea from the mind of a 14-year-old to a business that has made $600,000 in sales since 2011. Now, Bridges has entered into a speaking circuit to inspire other young kids to become entrepreneurs.

This entrepreneur is truly inspiring, as he has a successful business focused around his passion, on top of that, he encourages and inspires other children to follow their dreams.

Jon Marco – The Passionate Grind

Gianmarco Bellapianta, also known as Jon Marco in the music scene is a 23-year-old music producer who is from Tannersville, Pennsylvania. For the past 12 years of his life, he has been working diligently to hone his artistic skill of producing music. In that time he has had various different musical projects under different names. Jon Marco has pivoted his music style, genre, and alias over the years to cater to his changing taste in art.

Over the years, Jon Marco has had several songs published, with one of them receiving over 100k listens on multiple streaming platforms. In recent weeks, he has independently released a song with a music video as a joint project with another social media influencer.

Jon Marco’s dream is to move to LA to network and share his music with more people. Until then he is set on continuing to work on his music and continue to collect revenue from his artistic endeavors.

Jon Marco’s dedication to his passion is truly inspiring. His work ethic is unrivaled and the fruits of his work are apparent.

Savannah Jennings – Trippy Draws

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Savannah Jennings, also known as Trippy Draws on her social media is an accomplished entrepreneur at the age of 22. Savannah currently has 2.9 million followers on Tik Tok. In just a few years, she was able to grow her social media presence to such an astronomical number because of her unique artistic talent and wonderful personality.

What started as a passion project of painting old tables and reselling them, grew into a full business for Savannah. Now, since she has such a cult following on her social media, she has been able to paint various things and sell them, as well as different clothing items for merchandise.

Just recently, Savannah, under the name Savannah Saturn, moved into the music scene and created a music video and sang in the song “100 moons” produced by Jon Marco. The music video has 61k views and is steadily growing.

Savannah is particularly inspiring because she is truly a self-made entrepreneur. She began with nothing and built a brand on social media and is now able to make money from ad revenue on these social media platforms and her notoriety has even landed her various commission jobs for local businesses. Her aspirations were high and it seems like she’s going to keep growing in popularity.

Savannah is an example that an entrepreneur can come from any location, even the backwoods of Pennsylvania.

BluOut – Peyton Brogan

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Peyton Brogan is a sophomore entrepreneurship major at Grove City College. Peyton hails from the state of Michigan. He left his home to venture forth seeking higher education and entrepreneurial opportunities.

In just under two years of leaving home, Peyton has been a part of various different entrepreneurial endeavors. His most recent endeavor is a business called BluOut. BluOut is a company that sells blue light filtering glasses with various different color and style options. Upon the opening day of BluOut, they sold out of their entire inventory. This is evident that the business is growing and successful. All their proceeds also go to charity.

Peyton Brogan is an inspiring figure because he shows that with just a little bit of education and determination, one can launch a successful business. It is clear among his peers that he is determined. He is the embodiment of hope for his fellow classmates, that they might be successful in their own business ventures in their future.

He is also an inspirational roommate.

https://bluout.com/

Steven Crowder – The Conservative Canadian-American

Image result for steven crowderAs a teenager, Steven Crowder started off in the performing arts as an actor and a comedian. He performed in many national competitions with great success. As he got older he realized that his “politically incorrect” humor would resonate with and get laughs from many on the internet.

Crowder saw an opportunity as the political climate was starting to resemble Hollywood more and more and he started a political comedy show on Youtube. He called his show “Lowder with Crowder” which is a weekly show where he discusses the current political climate mixed with jesting humor.

Louder with Crowder became extremely successful as one of the most popular conservative channels on youtube, which was able to be monetized. On top of youtube monetization, Steven created a “mug club” which is a subscription to view unique content and receive other special perks such as a Louder with Crowder mug, hence the name.

Since Crowder’s launch of Louder with Crowder, he has started a segment on his youtube channel called “Change My Mind” where he goes into public locations such as universities or in front of the White House. In this segment he asks presents an idea and asks the public to convince him to change his mind on said idea. This has sky-rocketed his popularity to the point where even if someone doesn’t support his ideologies, they’ve probably still heard of him.

Crowder has time and time again navigated murky water to improve his entrepreneurial endeavors and continue his ventures in comedy and politics.

Steven Cymatics – “Worst student” to millionaire

Steven Skunberg, the founder of Cymatics, started his business by purposely failing out of Georgia Highlands College. He exclaimed that he needed to fail out of his classes so that he “had no other option but to succeed.”

After he dropped out, he worked tirelessly to start his e-commerce business of creating and selling sound packs for producers to insert into their own music. This business brought Cymatics from $0 to $1 million in just six months.

How did Steven grow his business so rapidly? One word, “marketing”. With self-taught knowledge on how the internet works and how to market a product, he was able to effectively and successfully create a sustainable business.

This is truly an inspirational story of an underdog that fought tooth and nail to make a living in what he loves to do. No matter how many members of his family and friends that told him to give up on Cymatics, he never did.