Episodes in this Series
- 101. What Is a Biz Kid?
- Real-life stories of how to identify a need, make a plan, and take action from a skateboard designer, a rap music producer, and a boy who started a rock-a-thon to raise money for hospital rocking chairs. 29 minutes.
- 102. What Is Money?
- A grand tour through the history of money, from the days of bartering to the first coins and currency to today's electronic transfers. 29 minutes.
- 103. How Do You Get Money?
- A teen goes job hunting, and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos talks about his first job. Also, a look at the different ways kids get and use allowances and a profile of a young person whose love of animals turned into a profitable dog-walking business. 29 minutes.
- 104. What Can You Do with Money?
- A visit to the New York Stock Exchange, advice on avoiding compulsive shopping from the author of Not Buying It, using a financial diary to track spending, and the story of a teen who opened a candy store at age 15 and helped revive an ailing business district in her small town. 29 minutes.
- 105. Money Moves
- Follows a single dollar bill as it moves from a depositor's hand across the counter, into the vault, over to the Federal Reserve, and finally out to a project the bank is financing. 29 minutes.
- 106. Taking Charge of Your Financial Future
- The Biz Kids figure out where they want to be financially and make plans for how to get there. One young man sets up his first savings account, and an innovative program rescues street kids and gets them back into education and business. 29 minutes.
- 107. A Biz: What Is It?
- Illustrates the definition of a successful business with three examples: a junior high school boy who makes healthy dog biscuits, high school twins with a cake decorating company, and a college student seeking investors for his corporation. 29 minutes.
- 108. How To Succeed in Biz-ness by Really Trying!
- Outlines three key steps to success—identifying a need, making a plan to fill that need, and taking action—and introduces a prep school boy whose new take on the old school tie caused a sensation. 29 minutes.
- 109. Cash and Credit
- Stories of two young entrepreneurs who started businesses using credit, one selling bath salts and one selling his design services, plus a cautionary tale from a young woman who had fun buying with credit until she found herself in bankruptcy. 29 minutes.
- 110. How To Achieve Your Financial Goals
- Tracking expenses, getting control of spending, and investing what's left over to reach your financial goals. Some high school entrepreneurs tell how they started a sports business. 29 minutes.
- 111. Don't Blow Your Dough
- How to avoid the growing problem of identity theft, an interview with Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, a look at the work of the Better Business Bureau, and some "lessons learned" from young people who blew their dough. 29 minutes.
- 112. Introducing Entrepreneurs
- The stories behind the Frisbee, the Slinky, and blue jeans, plus a profile of a young entrepreneur who started a lemonade stand to raise money for playground equipment and was so successful she was able to make over the entire park. 29 minutes.
- 113. The Biz Kids Challenge
- In the Project Lemonade Challenge, two teams start with identical lemonade stands and then formulate pricing and promotion strategies to see who can sell more product. Their efforts are critiqued by marketing guru Scott Bedbury. 29 minutes.
- 114. How To Be a Smart Consumer
- Smart shopping strategies, including advice on how to avoid common pitfalls and traps set by savvy marketers and high-pressure salesmen, plus profiles of some smart consumers and successful entrepreneurs. 29 minutes.
- 115. Using Your Credit—Crazy or Compelling?
- The true cost of purchasing with credit; 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; and entrepreneurs who have successfully navigated credit pitfalls. 29 minutes.
- 116. Budgeting Basics
- Proven methods for gaining control of spending and expenses. 29 minutes.
- 117. Understanding Business Ethics
- What it means for management to lead by example and how employees must take responsibility for their own behavior. 29 minutes.
- 118. Saving and Investing for Your Future
- Introduces various savings and investing options that are available to young people. 29 minutes.
- 119. A Closer Look at Financial Careers
- The kids talk to several celebrities about how they got their starts. 29 minutes.
- 120. The Global Economy
- Follows the flow of imports and exports through the interconnected world economy and reveals who makes many of the things we use every day. Several entrepreneurs explain how they made their businesses successful. 29 minutes.
- 121. Bulls, Bears, and Financial Markets
- How young people can get involved in the financial markets while avoiding risk. 29 minutes.
- 122. Sell, Sell, Sell (The Science of Sales)
- Sales philosophies and techniques, traits common to all good salespeople, and some entrepreneurs who demonstrate superior sales skills. 29 minutes.
- 123. Understanding Income and Expenses
- Monitoring the ebb and flow of income and expenses; proven methods for getting expenses under control while growing income with new ideas, smarter work habits, and innovation; and entrepreneurs who have seen success with cash low. 29 minutes.
- 124. Building and Growing a Business
- Steps for organizing, staffing, training, and building a new business; how effective communication increases morale and makes the business grow. 29 minutes.
- 125. Understanding Your Paycheck
- The Biz Kids show how a modern American pay stub reflects various social movements of the last century. Interviews with entrepreneurs explore how they started their businesses. 29 minutes.
- 126. Social Entrepreneurs
- Social visionaries use the same tools as profit-oriented entrepreneurs. But instead of building companies and large profits, they create thriving organizations and powerful movements for social change. 29 minutes.
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