HELP YOUR KIDS ACHIEVE THEIR DREAMS
In this pathbreaking book, based on interviews with 70 top entrepreneurs and their moms, Margot provides a guide to help your kids identify their passion and figure out how they can spend their professional lives doing something they love.
Margot shows parents that their well-intentioned efforts often boomerang and that by ignoring their kids' skills and interests, they can inadvertently create pressure and anxiety, thwarting their kids' ability to excel and find happiness.
Too often, Margot writes, following your heart is deemed impractical, whereas it’s often exactly what leads to success and fulfillment. This book shakes the longstanding assumptions of parenting. Through 99 stories of people who are now changing the world, it shows you how to raise creative, confident, resilient children who are filled with joy and purpose.
This second edition has been updated and expanded, and includes then and now photos of all 70 entrepreneurs.
Help Your
Kids Achieve
Their Dreams
In this pathbreaking book, based on interviews with 70 top entrepreneurs and their moms, Margot provides a guide to help your kids identify their passion and figure out how they can spend their professional lives doing something they love.
Margot shows parents that their well-intentioned efforts often boomerang and that by ignoring their kids' skills and interests, they can inadvertently create pressure and anxiety, thwarting their kids' ability to excel and find happiness.
Too often, Margot writes, following your heart is deemed impractical, whereas it’s often exactly what leads to success and fulfillment. This book shakes the longstanding assumptions of parenting. Through 99 stories of people who are now changing the world, it shows you how to raise creative, confident, resilient children who are filled with joy and purpose.
This second edition has been updated and expanded, and includes then and now photos of all 70 entrepreneurs.
About The Author
Margot Machol Bisnow is a writer, wife, and mom from Washington, DC. She has a BA in English and an MBA, both from Northwestern, and spent 20 years in government, including as an FTC Commissioner and in the White House as staff director of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Margot and her husband Mark have two kids. Austin has written successful pop songs and started a popular LA-based band, Magic Giant. Elliott founded Summit, a noted international conference series for Millennial entrepreneurs, and led the purchase and development of the Powder Mountain ski resort in Utah as a permanent home for the Summit community.
In book talks around the country, Margot has been joined by entrepreneurs and parents featured in the book. They discuss how to raise children who are confident, creative, resilient, and happy.
Praise
“Your child could become the next visionary entrepreneur. Margot guides parents on how to foster their entrepreneurial spark.”
Steve Case, AOL founder, Revolution Chairman
“Through dozens of insightful interviews with today’s top entrepreneurs and change-makers, and, critically, their mothers, Margot has uncovered a recipe we can all use.”
Claire Shipman, ABC News
“Entrepreneurs don’t just spring up as adults. Margot shows how parents can guide their development.”
Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO
“Margot offers moms, dads, and grandparents the perfect textbook for learning that important lesson.”
Barbara Harrison, NBC News
“Raising an Entrepreneur is a must-read for anyone who wants to raise children to have the courage to be passionate self-starters.”
Keith Ferrazzi, New York Times best selling author
“This wonderful book is written by a mom to help other moms (and dads) nurture their children’s entrepreneurial potential. This is a must-read.”
Melanne Verveer, former US Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues
Book Summary