Episode Descriptions
101 What Is a bizKID$?
102 What Is Money?
103 How Do You Get Money?
104 What Can You Do with Money?
105 Money Moves
106 Taking Charge of Your Financial Future
107 A Biz: What Is It?
108 How to Succeed in Biz-Ness by Really Trying!
109 Cash and Credit
110 How to Achieve Your Financial Goals
111 Don’t Blow Your Dough
112 Introducing Entrepreneurs
113 The bizKID$ Challenge
114 How to Be a Smart Consumer
115 Using Your Credit—Crazy or Compelling?
116 Budgeting Basics
117 Understanding Business Ethics
118 Saving and Investing for Your Future
119 A Closer Look at Careers
120 The Global Economy
121 Bulls, Bears, and Financial Markets
122 Sell, Sell, Sell (The Science of Sales)
123 Understanding Income and Expenses
124 Building and Growing a Business
125 Understanding Your Paycheck
126 Social Entrepreneurs
You’ll learn that anybody can be a bizKID with effort and the right attitude. bizKID$ identify a need, make a plan, and take action. Join us and you’ll meet a skateboard designer, a rap music producer, a boy who started a rock-a-thon to raise money for hospital rocking chairs, and more. You’ll also discover the entrepreneur who built a wildly successful garden products business on … worm poop. All successful. All bizKID$.
The bizKID$ say: “Show me the money!” Join us and you’ll take a grand tour through the history of money from the days of bartering, through the first coins and currency, all the way to the electronic transfers of today. Watch as the bizKID$ put on cowboy boots and get a crash course in the art of negotiation and exchange at a high-energy cattle auction in Colorado.
Join us and you’ll explore many ways to make money. Follow a bizKID on a job hunt—reviewing help wanted ads, filling out the application, and going through the interview. Hear from business celebrities, including Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, as they talk about their very first jobs. The bizKID$ also look at the many ways kids get and use allowances. Meet a young person whose love of animals turned into a profitable dog walking business.
104 What Can You Do with Money?
Decisions, decisions! Join the bizKID$ and you’ll ponder the merits of spending, saving, donating, and investing money. Visit the New York Stock Exchange, get tips from the author of Not Buying It, and learn to avoid compulsive shopping. You can also learn how to create a financial diary and track spending. Meet an ambitious teen who opened a candy store at age 15 and in the process fulfilled a dream and revived an ailing business district in her small town.
When money moves between individuals or groups it is called a transaction. Join the bizKID$ and you’ll follow a single dollar bill as it moves from a depositor’s hand across the counter, down to the vault, over to the Federal Reserve, and finally out to a project the bank is financing. Visit the branch of a real credit union inside a high school where the students are the tellers. Watch the ebb and flow of money as the kids examine the concepts of supply and demand. Meet a young man who began collecting books to read to his grandmother and soon found himself as the head of a national book business.
106 Taking Charge of Your Financial Future
Join the bizKID$ as they figure out where they want to be financially and make plans on how to get there. You can work on your plans and meet some new kid entrepreneurs, too. Follow along as a bizKID sets up his first savings account. We also look at an innovative program that rescues street kids and gets them back into education and business.
You’ll see that a successful business supplies goods or services and makes profit when it earns more money than it spends. Meet the junior high school boy who makes healthy dog biscuits, the high school twins with a cake decorating company, and the college student seeking investors for his successful corporation.
108 How to Succeed in Biz-Ness by Really Trying!
A business can be anything from babysitting to owning vending machines. You’ll discover the three key steps to success: identifying a need, making a plan to fill a need, and taking action. Join us as we meet the prep school boy whose new take on the old school tie caused a sensation. We also meet the young founder of Logan magazine.
You’ll learn about the power and pitfalls of credit, which is essentially using someone else’s money temporarily (for a price). Meet a young entrepreneur who used credit to start a successful bath salts business and another who launched a successful design firm. And, as a cautionary tale, we talk to a young woman who had fun buying with credit until she found herself in bankruptcy.
110 How to Achieve Your Financial Goals
Join us and you’ll learn to track your expenses, get control of your spending, and invest what’s left over to reach your financial goals. You’ll see the importance of starting young, while time is on your side. Meet some high school entrepreneurs who started a sports business.
bizKID$ Beware. Protect the money you already have by putting it in a safe place. Beware of scams and schemers. You’ll discover ways to avoid the growing problem of identity theft. Meet with Washington State’s Attorney General Rob McKenna and the Better Business Bureau. You’ll also see young people who did blow their dough, and find out what that experience has taught them.
You’ll discover an entrepreneur is someone who sees a financial opportunity and acts upon it. Learn the stories behind the Frisbee, the Slinky, and blue jeans. Meet an entrepreneur who started a lemonade stand to raise money for playground equipment, then grew so successful she was able to make over an entire park.
The bizKID$ learn the world of marketing through the “Project Lemonade Challenge.” Two teams, two identical lemonade stands. It’s up to the kids to decide the price and promotion strategy to sell the most product. The proceeds go to their favorite charities. You’ll see the preparation and the results when they are critiqued by marketing guru Scott Bedbury, the force behind Nike’s slogan “Just do it.”
114 How to Be a Smart Consumer
Get the most for your money. Join the bizKID$ and you’ll explore smart shopping strategies. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls and traps set by savvy marketers and high-pressure salesmen. Meet some smart consumers and successful entrepreneurs.
115 Using Your Credit—Crazy or Compelling?
Don’t live on borrowed time. Join the bizKID$ and you’ll see the true cost of purchasing with credit. You’ll also have an unsettling look at credit scores and the increasing number of people and places (employers, insurers, colleges, etc.) who are using these scores to make major decisions that could affect your future. Meet entrepreneurs who have successfully navigated credit pitfalls.
The bizKID$ learn the first rule of money management: you can’t manage what you don’t know. Join the kids and you’ll look at spending and expenses and examine several proven methods on how to gain control of both. You’ll also meet several successful entrepreneurs.
117 Understanding Business Ethics
Do the right thing! You’ll learn with the bizKID$ as they examine several aspects of ethics in business. You’ll also see the downside of not following ethical business practices. In this episode you will discover what it means for management to lead by example, and how employees must take responsibility for their behavior. Meet several entrepreneurs who are successful on all levels.
118 Saving and Investing for Your Future
You’ll learn along with the bizKID$ about the powerful potential of starting a savings plan early in life. You’ll also discover various savings and investing options available to young people. As always, you’ll meet individuals who are successful at saving and at their businesses.
When is a job more than a job? The bizKID$ look at what it takes to find your true calling. You’ll learn ways to start exploring careers. The kids talk to several celebrities and find out how they got their start and how they keep achieving their dreams.
Around the world with the bizKID$! Join us and you’ll follow the flow of imports and exports that make up the interconnected world economy. You will discover who makes the many things we use every day that come from all over the world. You’ll also see how several entrepreneurs have made a success of their businesses, despite the pressures of the world economy.
121 Bulls, Bears, and Financial Markets
Kids and bulls and bears, oh my! The bizKID$ examine stocks, bonds, commodities, and the markets where each of them are traded. You will discover various ways young people can get involved with the transactions, aim for profit, and avoid risk. Meet some successful entrepreneurs along the way.
122 Sell, Sell, Sell (The Science of Sales)
All sales final. Join the bizKID$ in sales training as they explore philosophy and sales techniques. Discover the traits common to all good salespeople. You’ll meet several entrepreneurs who demonstrate superior sales skills!
123 Understanding Income and Expenses
Go with the cash flow. The bizKID$ watch the ebb and flow of income and expenses. Join them and you’ll learn proven methods for getting expenses under control while growing income with new ideas, smarter work habits, and innovation. Meet some entrepreneurs who have seen success with cash flow and more!
124 Building and Growing a Business
From start-up on up! Follow the bizKID$ as they learn the necessary steps for organizing, staffing, training, and building a new business. You will see how effective communication increases morale and makes the business grow. As always, you’ll meet some individuals who have successfully built their businesses.
125 Understanding Your Paycheck
What’s on your stub, bub? The bizKID$ use a modern American pay stub to explore various social movements of the last century. From unions to social security, and from workman’s compensation to the 401(k) plans of today—it’s all there on the stub. Plus, you’ll meet entrepreneurs and explore how they started their businesses.
Join the bizKID$ and you’ll meet social visionaries who use the same tools as profit-oriented entrepreneurs. Yet instead of building companies and large profits, these people create thriving organizations and powerful movements for social change.
