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Entrepreneurship
To Dianne Linderman, entrepreneurship is about the freedom to be what you want to be. It’s about confidence, passion, and discovery. It’s about the journey, not the destination. Dianne has been an entrepreneur since she was thirteen years old. When she was just sixteen, she opened a jewelry and antique retail store. By the age of seventeen, she had become a silversmith and later bought and sold vintage cars. Dianne set her own boundaries; her attitude and love of entrepreneurship took her on a journey that landed her at her own radio show where she encourages other to follow their dreams.
Dianne teaches entrepreneurship to kids through her award-winning, four-book series, “How to Become an Entrepreneurial Kid.” Dianne wrote this series after her own five-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son tried their hands at a garage-sale cookie stand. What they learned that day changed their lives. The seventeen-dollar profit they shared opened up a whole world for them.
Entrepreneurship helps kids develop confidence and self-motivation. It also gives them a reason to learn academics and keeps them out of typical teenage trouble, as Dianne can attest; she was so busy with her real-life businesses that she didn’t have time or the inclination to get mixed up with the wrong crowd. Entrepreneurship helps develop both creative and intellectual capabilities to form strong, independent visionaries who have the ability to utilize the many skills they have acquired in any profession they choose to master.
With her radio talk show, Dianne also inspires adults along with kids to reach for the American Dream of starting a business. Her inspiring, magazine-style format show includes a 20-minute, healthy but decadent recipe segment and Dianne’s parenting advice handed out by the bucket full. She truly understands that there is no such thing as a troubled kid and knows that her advice hits home with most parents. She believes that most kids are bored, but we shouldn’t fill their minds with meaningless distractions. Kids flourish when they are creating, and being creative keeps kids grounded and focused. Entrepreneurship gives them everything, including the self-confidence to achieve whatever they put their minds to.
Contact Dianne • dianne@thefirstmomsclub.com
or call 541-761-2007 |