Your Cart is Empty
A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of speaking with Leslie Coles, Co-Founder & Executive Director of The Moms as Mentors® Project, a non-profit dedicated to giving moms the tools and opportunities to be mentors in their daughters’ daily lives, ultimately helping their girls to grow into confident and influential women. Moms as Mentors has recently launched a crowdfunding campaign, and we are proud to support their campaign (our coloring book is one of their rewards!).
Read Leslie's guest post about her organization and why it's important and support their campaign today!. Side note: we did not ask her to write such a lovely intro about us! We were totally surprised and totally flattered.
****************************************************************
Nurturing Your Daughter's Inner Entrepreneur
Princess Awesome exists because Founders Rebecca and Eva, two capable, hard-working, creative women turned their idea for a business into a reality. And thank goodness they did! Princess Awesome offers quality products that real girls and mothers want, and ones that aren't available anywhere else.
The original idea alone would not have been enough for them to build Princess Awesome into what it is today. Rebecca and Eva also needed an entrepreneurial spirit, resilience and confidence. Confidence not only in the idea, but in their own capabilities as entrepreneurs, business owners and risk-takers. Confidence that they could weather the challenges that all start-ups inevitably face.
How can we raise our daughters to have these qualities?
It starts with empowering them when they are young.
That's why, at Moms as Mentors®, we help moms nurture confidence and an entrepreneurial spirit starting in kindergarten. In our mom-daughter entrepreneurship program Make It Count!we are always amazed by the creativity and innovation the girls and moms display.
In our business-plan activity, a mom and girl came up with the idea for an "International Girl" Doll Store," a spin-off of the popular American Girl store. The first-grade girl informed me confidently that the store would have to charge more for the dolls than American Girl. Her reason? Because they would have to go do research in other countries to develop their products and the pricing off the dolls would have to reflect those expenses. That's the kind of creative thinking and confidence we want to promote in girls throughout their development.
How can moms help instill an entrepreneurial spirit, resilience and confidence? Here are 4 tips.
Do you have any tips on how to bring out the inner entrepreneur in young girls? Share them in the comments section!
And, for more ways to empower your daughter, check out our top 12 tools in our Empowerment Toolkit for Moms and Girls here. Learn more about Moms as Mentors.
Comments will be approved before showing up.
I’m an illustrator, surface designer and educator based in Atlanta, GA. I live with my boyfriend and our three rescue kitties, who very often make it into my art, especially the two black cats.
I feel very comfortable creating art for kids, because I'm really a kid at heart. I love cute animals and bright colors. I find it particularly satisfying to distill complex concepts into simple shapes that are stylized but easily recognizable.
Sienna Farr was one of Princess Awesome's first models, before our Kickstarter, before we were much more than a dream and a few dresses made of tee shirts and quilting material. She died in a fire that also seriously injured her mother on August 11, 2023, aged 13.
Princess Awesome is so proud to partner with Women in Aviation International to sponsor a design contest during the summer of 2023. We are looking for your awesome ideas for new clothing that features airplanes, helicopters, engineering concepts, schematics - anything that has to do with aviation.
