Spencer is a 24-year-old who has been operating a lawn mowing business since he was 12. People know him as the guy who goes around looking for crazy overgrown lawns and mowing them for free. By doing so, he has discovered and taken advantage of a fantastic business model that brings a smile to peoples’ faces and results in lots of revenue for his company.

Spencer has done a great thing by capitalizing on the market of people eager to scroll through social media by providing them with heartwarming videos of incredibly satisfying lawn transformations and fantastic reactions from the people he is doing the work for. His videos make him so much revenue that the money he makes from them is more than enough to cover the work, so he is able to do the work (for his videos) entirely for free, which in turn brings in more revenue because people love to watch him do his work without expecting anything in return. Spencer says, “people just like seeing the kindness that I’m kind of bringing around my city”.

Spencer has accumulated such a large following (13 million followers) that he also has brands reach out and contact him, asking him if he’ll do sponsorship deals so that they can reach his followers.

Something unique and refreshing about Spencer is his kind and caring attitude. It’s something that people appreciate seeing when we live in such a broken world. He also clearly demonstrates his entrepreneurial characteristics by being willing to go around knocking on doors in a day and age where not too many people do that anymore. He also treats people with a lot of respect and clearly explains his desire to help them even when they don’t believe that he wants to do the work for free, managing to alleviate any concern that he’s some sort of scam artist. If everyone were as humble and kind as Spencer B., the world would be a brighter place.

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Chase Gallagher is a 23-year-old entrepreneur who took the controversial route that more and more people are going for – not going to college. Instead, he decided to pour his heart and soul into a lawn mowing business he started when he was 12. Now he’s running a business that made a millionaire dollars in revenue this past year.

As a 12-year-old kid, Chase went around mowing the lawns in his neighborhood for $35 a pop. What started as a business with a mere two customers turned into a hustle with ten weekly clients (with a little help from his mother). He continued putting effort into the business and eventually went on to defy societal expectations by skipping out on college. He had already made $50,000 from his lawn mowing and decided to expand into general landscaping around the time he was 16 years old. He simply “didn’t see the ROI in going to university,” he told Fortune, even though he’d grown up with parents telling him that he was going to college.  Not going to school has allowed Gallagher to focus on his business full-time and continue to expand it. Now he does “everything from stormwater management and drainage work to pavers and lighting” with his 9-person crew and raked in over a million dollars in revenue last year.

Something that we can learn from Gallagher is to not be afraid of going against the grain. Studies show that more and more people are actually skipping out on college to enter into the trades, and that people going into the trades can actually start with a better paying job than someone just graduating college. He’s driven by the money, as are many of us, because he can save quite a bit by not going to college, as well as make a lot from his business. Gallagher is a helpful reminder to me that successful businesses aren’t super successful right off the bat. You have to start small. It can take a while – years, even – for a business to become profitable and successful enough to live off of. Why not start your dream job today with finding yourself just one customer?

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Do you guys remember when slime swept the country, and everyone was making tubs of it? It was a few years ago, but young Maddie Rae jumped right on the trend. When Maddie was 11 years old, the trend was in full swing, and she loved it. Her whole business started when she went to the store with her dad and was looking for supplies to make slime. However, there was no glue at the store, which is an essential ingredient of slime. This prompted Maddie into action, and she decided she would make her own glue for her slime.

Maddie’s glue was different from other glue. Rather, the glue was made specifically for slime. This glue has a specific ingredient, polyvinyl alcohol, which is a “key slime-making ingredient” which makes it different from your every-day glue.

Maddie released her new glue, Maddie Rae’s Slime Glue, in 2017 and was selling it on Amazon and in the paper store. She found immediate success and her customers wanted more, so she continued to expand her business. Now Maddie has a full line of slime products that can be found on her website!

Check it out here: https://www.slimemaking.com/

Not only does Maddie haver her slime products, but she also hosted “slime bashes”. It almost is like a convention for slime. At her second bash, Maddie broke a Guinness World Record: The World’s largest Slime. These bashes were extremely successful, with all the tickets selling out.

Maddie is a great example of a young entrepreneur who jumped on a trend and took matters into her own hands. And was only 11 years old when she created a new product and started her own business. While the slime trend doesn’t have the fire it did a few years ago, it is still popular, and Maddie really took advantage of the opportunity that laid right in front of her.

Robert Felder was just a high school student when he stumbled upon an idea that would shape his career. It all started when Robert went on an overseas trip with his father and came back home to Florida. During the trip, he gained insight on clothing and how it was made in factories. His father works in the apparel industry, so he had exposure to the career from a young age. Once Robert came back home, he was in the market for a new pair of shorts. However, he was not able to find what he wanted. He began to question how much effort it would take to create his own pair of shorts; made exactly the way he wanted them. With the help of his father, he began to create his own line of shorts and made a website. Bearbottom. During his time at college, he launched his company completely. With every pair of shorts sold, Robert wanted to donate a pair to the people of Bangladesh. He noticed that they needed a pair of adventure shorts as much as he did, and he truly believes that they need support. Another value of the company is to create comfortable menswear clothing. Robert says in his interview from Forbes that the company as a whole, cares immensely for their customers. Robert views his team very highly. He describes his team as the backbone of his company. BearBottom has expanded to sell more than just shorts, with plans to sell women’s clothing in the future. BearBottom has a mission of giving back and giving to communities that are not able to experience clothing like BearBottom. According to their website, the company has donated 100,000+ shorts to children in Bangladesh and even India. Overall, BearBottom is a comfortable clothing brand focused on helping others be more comfortable in their day-to-day adventures.

At the age of 19, Kansas resident Erin Smith designed and created a technology that can detect early signs of Parkinson’s disease. After watching a video of Michael J. Fox late into his Parkinson’s diagnose, she noticed his facial expressions, smiles and laughs specifically, seemed distant. She suspected that this face masking, or hypomimia, was common to the disease, so she consulted clinicians and caregivers who confirmed her suspicions.

This invention, FacePrint, tracks facial expression over time to determine if there is a rise in hypomimia in a suspected Parkinson’s patient. Smith’s creation uses AI to collect data from the images it scans, advancing diagnoses for Parkinson’s and other neural diseases by months and potentially years. With funding from the Michael J. Fox Foundation and various pharmaceutical companies, she ran tests with FacePrint using control groups of non-Parkinson’s volunteers, comparing the scans and results with diagnosed patients. She trained the algorithm after running many experiments to more accurately process the footage it captures, and therefore refine diagnoses. Her invention has held a 95% accuracy rate for spotting early-onset Parkinsons and a 93% accuracy rate for detecting early signs of other neural diseases (Chapman, 2022).

While her refining of this technology has been successful in detecting neural disease, a feat on its own, Smith seeks to help improve the care of patients with this tool in the future, perhaps through drug and disease-modifying therapeutic development.

Erin Smith innovated in an incredibly powerful and, for me, unexpected way. I have not heard of a technology of this kind, let alone one created by a teenager. Smith is inspiring to me in how she made a unique observation and entered a niche industry where she could create impact for a group of people in need. Her tenacity in addressing a very prevalent problem is admirable and impressive.

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Sofia Overton was like most young girls; bothered by the lack of pockets in women’s pants. At her dance team practice nights she noticed her friend placing their phones into their shoes to keep them secure. She wanted to provide her friends a safe and secure way to hold their phones while they danced and engaged in intense physical action. At the ripe age of thirteen she designed a slick and subtle sock pocket. This pocket design was durable and slick. Hiding in plain sight she created her own line external pockets which would safely and securely hold one’s phone. She started the company Wise Pocket with $5000 of her savings. She manufactured these pockets and sold them to athletes and women who’s clothing proved inadequate.

After some initial success Sofia went to meet with the Sharks. After some negotiation, which she controlled and manipulated, she walked away with 35 grand. She celebrated a few more years of business. But in 2020, with the start of the pandemic, Wise Pocket went under. What specifically happened to the brand Wise Pocket is unknown. But it like many other shark tank startups collapsed at the start of the pandemic. Presumably the struggle to obtain products and manufacturing issues were the cause of its closure. The last thing Wise Pocket did publicly was to encourage its shoppers, via Instagram, to wear their masks and stay safe. Currently Sofia has no known online presence which is a disappointment to many of the fans who loved her products.

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Despite Chick fil-A’s great success in the beginning of their business ventures the leaders of Chick fil-A experienced a difficulty in 1982. Once other chicken companies entered the competition Chick fil-A experienced lowering in sales and higher pricing in chicken. Once the leaders got ahold of how they wanted to differentiate themselves they sales a complete change in the company. The leaders created a “corporate purpose” which was “To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us. To have a positive influence on all who meet Chick-fil-A”. While this was instated customers saw the difference between people’s character at Chick-fil-A vs. other fast-food chains. The leaders of Chick-fil-A knew what was important to their customers so they wanted to emphasize this message to improve their brand image. Personally, when I think of Chick-fil-a I think about their consistent kind employees, fast service and great food. Chick-fil-a’s customer service is what allows customers to trust their experience Chick-fil-A. Relying on Chick-fil-a for a good experience is mostly why I choose to eat there. The founder of Chick-fil-A, Cathy Truett had an early experience with God and put his faith in God at a young age. This influenced the foundation of his business allowing his mission to focus on his connection with customers and employees rather than his profit. Treating his employees in a Christ lie manner created employee loyalty, which made customer interaction so much better. Another factor that increased employee loyalty was the college scholarships that are offered to employees who have worked there for over a year. Stewarding a brand in a Christ like character can benefit customer experience and expose how Chick-fil-A value is greater than any other fast-food restaurant you go to.

At the age of 23 years old, Sean Kelly has a major impact in the entrepreneurial world. He grew up going to gyms and being very into lifting and fitness which helped influence him into starting his company. In 2002, he began his entrepreneurial at age 19 by founding Fit Fuel which is aimed to change the way the way people think about vending machines. He focuses these vending machines to be in fitness centers and in areas meant to help the health conscious people. His entrepreneurial journey is one of creativity, persistence, and the determination for health and wellness.

He began by noticing that there was a significant problem in the fitness world. The vending machines in these places were filled with sugary sodas, candy bars and chips. These foods are far from ideal for anyone to attain a healthy lifestyle. His simple observation led to an idea that would shape Sean’s life as well as the fitness industry. He took matters into his own hands and revolutionized vending machines in gyms.

In the early stages Sean dove right in not wasting time. He spent significant amounts of time researching and testing products to ensure they met his standards for Fit Fuel vending machines. He tested more than 500 products from over 150 brands, carefully selecting the best options. For him it wasn’t just about selling snacks but was about being able to provide a good solution for fitness enthusiasts.

Within the first four years of founding generated a revenue of around 3.5 million. The company only had 10 employees but was expanding tremendously. The company later expanded to e-commerce. This expansion continued he growth at tremendous rates capturing about 40% of its business. Fit Fuel is still relevant in todays age being a major vending machine company in the fitness industry.

It all started at a community outreach event. Langston Whitlock was a tech-obsessed teen who coded his first app in JavaScript at age 12, and Ja’Nese Jean was an opera singer. While talking to homeless veterans at the event, Jean began to piece together a pervasive problem around the Atlanta community: people across the city had no transportation to get to their medical appointments. Jean asked Whitlock if he could make an app to fix that, and the longtime coder found himself up to the challenge.

SafeTrip is a ride-sharing app geared to the homeless and elderly that accepts various forms of insurance or credit cards, allowing users to book NEMT (non-emergency medical transport) or EMT (emergency medical transport) to or from wherever they need to go. The company has raised $2 million, with $3.4 million in revenue last year, but perhaps the best part of the company is its redemptive work resulting from its founder’s desire to do good in the community. Whitlock instituted a feeder program at high schools that allows them to become CPR-certified, devensive-driving-trained SafeTrip drivers straight after graduation.

Whitlock finished high school in 2020 and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List. Though he had ambitions to attend college even after he started the SafeTrip app, in recent years he has flown mostly under the radar and may or may not have made good on that particular dream. Today he works as the company’s CIO instead of the executive. Whitlock’s story is a great example of what happens when pain points and ideas are allowed to collide with one another in networks and can be manipulated into actionable solutions by unlikely teams of people.

With tension in the political world continuing to grow each day that goes by, many passionate and inspirational figures are arising on either side. One of those people is a woman named Isabel Brown. Brown is a well-known public speaker, author, and contributor/spokesperson. She is a devout conservative who uses her many platforms and abilities to express her views and thoughts on the direction our modern society is headed, and how she thinks we need to act and react as a community. Brown is also a part of a growing movement/ organization known as Turning Point USA. TPUSA is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for the conservative politics on high school, college, and university campuses. This description perfectly describes something that Brown would be all in for and a great asset. Before she grew to become a household name in the conservative world, Isabel Brown was an exceptional student! She first attended Colorado State University where she earned degrees in both Biomedical Science and Spanish. After she graduated, she achieved a master’s degree in biomedical science policy and advocacy. Brown’s love for learning and gaining knowledge and experience didn’t stop after college as she later on interned at the U.S. Senate and the White house under President Donald Trump and went on to write several books including Amazon Bestselling “Finding My Voice on an American College Campus”. Now that Brown is well established in the world of social media and the conservative movement, she spends her time raising awareness of all the evil and unjustness happening around the country that the media wont talk about. She often focuses on the topics of gender theory, relationship culture, and the education system. Brown believes that the next generation is being intoxicated with ideations from the far left and are being led away from how God intended us to live our lives as individuals and a community. By the looks of it Isabel Brown will continue to fight for what she believes is right and be a voice for those who cant speak up for themselves as long as The Lord allows her to remain on this earth!