At fifteen-years-old Fraser Doherty loved to cook jam from one of his grandmother’s old recipes. He began to sell local to neighbors and such. His infant company soon began to grow too large for neighbors, and Fraser set his sights on bigger objectives. He borrowed his father’s suit, and he set his mission to pitching his idea to a well-known supermarket in his local area. They rejected Fraser, but that did not kill his spirit. He took improved upon their critiques, and searched his country for a factory that would take a chance on him. All but one said no. Fraser came back the next year with all of his improvements, and he got the deal to distribute his product across all the supermarket’s stores. His company blew up from there. He quickly increased his production to over 20,000 units of jelly. Everyone can take note of his dedication and persistence to never give up on his entrepreneurial goals. The Story of SuperJam: How Fraser Doherty Built a Multimillion-Dollar Jelly Empire (web.com)
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Hart Main is not the typical person someone would think of when the word entrepreneur is said. He was a typical 13-year-old boy teasing his sister about girly scented candles she was selling for school. Hart thought to himself that there should be more manly scented candles for boys to use in a world where candles are more considered to be girly. He did not think much of the idea until he wanted to buy an expensive bike for himself. It was set then. Hart and his parents invested some money to make this idea a reality, and it blew up. Beaver Creek Candle now produces ManCans by a developmentally challenged workforce. The candles are sold in every state with more than six figures of sales numbers. He donates partial profit to soup kitchens in various states. Who would think that a simple “manly” scented candle could make such an impact to society? To learn more in depth about Hart Main visit 10 Successful Young Entrepreneurs (investopedia.com).
The Grace of BeYOUtiful’s Founding
H. Mason Nichols
Described as having “the tenacity and strength that would cause her to strive, not just survive,” Hannah Grace, the founder of BeYOUtiful, is only 13 and is running a full-on positively messaged beauty product line. Focused centrally on hot commodities like bath bombs, Ms. Grace has donated $5000 to various charities and pledged to donate 20% of all profit to JDRF, the number one research foundation for Type-1 Diabetes. Ms. Grace’s story starts when she was just 11 months old. Her parents took her to the hospital over health concerns only to have their world rocked by a Type-1 Diabetes diagnosis for their young daughter. However, that did not hold her back in any regard. In 2016 she went into a store with her dad to buy bath bombs, noticing their simplicity, her father challenged her to make her own and sell them! Within weeks she had made her own and had begun selling them at local gift shops. Not long after, she expanded online and to retail stores. Ms.Grace even has a YouTube Channel on which she does different challenges and product tests. Ms. Grace is having remarkable success with no ceiling in sight for the young entrepreneur.
Beyond her monetary success, she hopes to help others find confidence in themselves. The company is named “BeYOUtiful”, a clever play on words that reminds its consumers to be their beautiful selves. A beautiful message from a young idol that entrepreneurs of all ages can learn from. Her generosity and care for the community are a bright spot in the pandemic and the struggling economy. Her commitment to supporting families and others with Type-1 Diabetes shows her compassion for others and using her success for good. Her positive attitude and message resonate with younger generations; her beautiful, unique designs for her bath bombs are a spark.
Cher Hale’s mission is promoting meaningful stories and giving women a chance to use their voice. She founded Ginkgo, a public relations and marketing firm that promotes female authors, experts, and entrepreneurs’ stories and businesses. Hale uses her nine years of experience in PR and marketing to help female entrepreneurs craft their unique brand. She gives these women a chance to advertise their brand and their story when they wouldn’t normally have the opportunity to do so.
Hale is passionate about using media for good and helping influencers brand their stories so they can influence others. She believes in the power of storytelling and that is why she owns this business. She believes in creating meaningful content that encourages women through diverse and inspiring stories and businesses. She started Ginkgo Public Relations when one of her clients asked her to pitch some podcast ideas. Hale agreed, since she had just done some internships that gave her the foundational skills needed to pitch podcasts. Within six months of Hale starting, the service earned their highest profits ever and Hale was able to hire to keep up with the work. Hale has expanded her PR firm to cover not just podcasts, but editorial, TV, radio, and speaking gigs.
What sets Hale and her firm apart is that she is invested in creating quality content that is meaningful and relevant to today’s society. She believes in promoting women’s businesses that spreads kindness and social change. Hale is a first-generation Taiwanese American who understands the lack of coverage on minorities in the media and she wants to change that. What inspires me is that she is a female entrepreneur who has a driving passion for storytelling and meaningful content that you don’t see too often in today’s society. She understands the importance of being kind and tries to do one act of kindness each day. Hale has created not just a company, but a community that sparks inspiration and kindness.
https://ideamensch.com/cher-hale/
Bees, they’re pes
ky, buzzing, and can cause a pretty painful sting. Lemonade, it’s a tasty, cool, refreshing drink on a summer’s day. The two don’t have much in common but, Mikaila Ulmer decided to bring these ideas together with her business Me and the Bees Lemonade. Mikalia Ulmer was born in Austin, Texas to parents who inspired her to be innovative.
When she was four years old, they encouraged her to sign up for a children’s business competition, where she had to come up with an idea for a business and pitch it to judges. Before the competition, a big idea came to her after two surprises happened.
The first surprise came in the mail when her great grandmother sent her an old family cookbook from the 1940s. This cookbook contained a particularly delicious recipe for Flaxseed Lemonade.
The second came from a less exciting surprise, a pretty painful one to experience as a kid playing outside in the summer, a bee sting. There were two bee stings, to be exact. Mikalia was scared at first, scared of bees and their hurtful sting. Yet, something about bees captivated her, she wanted to learn all about them. She learned how crucial bees were to our ecosystem, why even though they bring a painful sting, they also bring beautiful things, like flowers. She knew that wanted to help them.
That’s where she brought her ideas together, bees and lemonade, and started with a lemonade stand. This lemonade stand led to her business Me and the Bees Lemonade. Here, she sells Flaxseed Lemonade sweetened with honey and donates 10% of the money that she makes to organizations that help the honeybees. She started her own non-profit, the Healthy Hive Foundation, which works to raise awareness and to create more safe environments for honeybees.
Since, then, her business has grown from a lemonade stand and a recipe in her great grandmother’s cookbook. Makaila went on Shark Tank when she was 9 and got a deal with Daymond John for $60,000. The business has grown over the years, Me & The Bees Lemonade has expanded from the website and small grocery stores to grocery chains like Whole Foods and Wegman’s. In 2017, she was named as one of TIME’s most influential teens. She’s used her experience to help out others who are interested in entrepreneurship. She travels with the Dell Women Entrepreneurship Network and helps out with their youth program, where she taught with a Finance 101 class in Cape Town, South Africa.
She’s currently writing a book on story and how she came to be the CEO of her own company. Mikalia says to young entrepreneurs, “You’re never too young to start a business. ” She wants to inspire kids, and adults, to create something based on their passions. On her own future, she says, “I definitely have a lot of goals, but as my dad always said, it’s important to work step by step and take each little goal at a time.” Mikalia really is an example of a young entrepreneur taking steps to grow a business, one goal at a time.