43. The Power of Focusing on the Youth and Influencing Our Future with Maria Dismondy

🌟 Maria and Adrienne love conversations without sugar coating. 01:37
🎙️ Podcasts are an amazing place to have real conversations about all the things that are happening in the USA these days. 02:22
👩‍🏫 From teacher to writer and publisher who supports parents: open conversations with kids showed her how kids are embarrassed of their culture. 04:01
😇 Maria loves to present reality without sugar coating to the hesitant parents because there are too many bad things in front of our kids: “You are influencing the future”. 09:21
🎯 Maria’s focus is on targeting educators with free content and books because they can influence a lot of kids. 12:47
🤩 The importance of exposing youth to diverse ways of thinking: Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed. 14:40
😍 Teaching young children to be upstanders: giving hope, authority, and confidence to kids is important. 18:43
👂 The bystander effect appears in the crowd, and how female entrepreneurs can keep the movement forward by focusing on children. 23:09
🌷 Social media tends to show false glimpses, so reality has a hard time coming through: the importance of being real out there. 26:09
🚴‍♀️ Maria’s issues with business and why she decided nothing will take her bike time from her anymore. 30:30
👩‍💼 The negative narrative of entrepreneurial perfection. 31:56
🐌 Why a snail is Maria’s mascot and motto. 33:39
🤯 Leap of faith for Maria: purchasing a new business while having issues with the previous one. 34:24
👉 Positive reinforcement from her husband: women entrepreneurs don’t have to do everything alone. 39:41
💬 The importance of networking and being in the community of your industry. 41:41
🤓 Maria reads and answers all of her emails. 43:52

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