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How to Encourage an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Children w/ Faith Farms · 5–Minute Parenting: Tips to Help You Raise Competent, Godly Kids.

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to another episode of the Five Minute Parenting Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Karen Ferguson, wife, mom, grandmom, and children's book author with a background in K-8 education and a passion for equipping parents to raise confident and God-confident kids.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: In this podcast, we'll cover parenting practices for both a practical view and a biblical view.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our goal is to help you raise kids with a positive, godly self-image so they can become all they were created to be.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: I know you're busy, so we'll keep it short.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's take just five minutes and dive in.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, listeners.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm excited for today's episode because we have two special guests on the show speaking on the topic of encouraging entrepreneurship in our children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Addison and Ashlyn from Faith Parms, right here in Tennessee, a Christian family-owned business that is dedicated to providing quality skincare products.
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  SPEAKER_00: What started out as a fun hobby for a pair of teenage twins has turned into something much bigger as they run their family business to help others live healthier lifestyles by bringing natural, non-toxic products into homes, straight from their farm to other families.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are passionate about making soap the old-fashioned way, going back to basics with simple and very few ingredients, as well as milking and raising their own goats.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, ladies, welcome to the show.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hi, thank you so much for having us.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: You bet.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm so happy you're here to share because I know this topic of entrepreneurship is about more than just business skills.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's about developing life skills in our kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: So please tell us a little bit about how you got started with Faith Farms and also any tips you have for helping parents encourage that entrepreneurial mindset in their kids.
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  SPEAKER_01: So my sister and I were twins.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we were raised homeschooled our whole lives, and we loved being homeschooled.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, our mom would sometimes threaten us if you know we were acting up or something.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: The school bus is gonna come get you if you don't, you know, stop acting up or you if you don't do your school.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we were like, no, no, no, because we loved being homeschooled.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_01: And homeschooling gave us a lot of opportunity and free time because you know, we do our school and you're not wasting all kinds of time um waiting in lines or waiting for classes to start.
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  SPEAKER_01: You've got, you know, you get your school done and then you can kind of work towards any other interests you have.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um so we were both just very entrepreneurial at heart growing up.
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  SPEAKER_01: We would try to start lemonade stands, or we would, you know, beg our mom to do a yard sale, or we would raise money, figure out ways to raise money for our local animal shelter.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so we were just really geared towards that ever since we were younger.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we joined a 4-H class when we were probably about 14.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and with that, we kind of learned about showing animals.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we we had just recently moved on to some land and we didn't really have any like farm animals.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we started with chickens, which that's usually the gateway animal into becoming farmers.
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  SPEAKER_01: But um then we kind of wanted to move on to something bigger.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some of our friends had some alpacas that they showed.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we said, what if we had goats?
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  SPEAKER_01: They're smaller, they could we we put together a whole presentation to convince our parents that we needed goats.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we came up with ways we could use their milk, ways that we could use them on the land, like you know, keeping the grass mode and the the brush down.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um, well, my mom said she really did not want goats.
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  SPEAKER_01: She actually quoted to say over my dead body, because she was like, I don't want to be taking care of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but they ended up with our presentation.
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  SPEAKER_01: We convinced them and got our first four goats.
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  SPEAKER_01: We actually currently still have our first female.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got originally got three males and a female, which we do not recommend getting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I would usually recommend starting with two females.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: You always need two goats because if if they're alone, they'll cry a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um but yeah, we we ended up with those and we still have our original female.
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  SPEAKER_01: Her name is Claire, and she's about 13 years old now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but we got Nigerian dwarf goats, they're like a little breed, and we would kind of milk them here and there, and we loved taking care of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but then we got that entrepreneurial kick and we wanted to figure out a way to make money with them.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we started a petting zoo.
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  SPEAKER_01: We would travel um to like church events or homeschool events, and we would even have homeschoolers come out and we would teach them about the farm life and we'd let them gather eggs and um milk a goat and just pet them and all kinds of things like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: That got kind of hectic some, but um, we ended up meeting a family who told us about goat's milk soap.
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  SPEAKER_01: They, I guess, had tried some at a little store and they said it's really good for your skin, and we had never really heard of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we YouTube some recipes and sorry about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: We YouTube some recipes and then next thing you know, we like we come up with our um recipe, and next thing we know, we sold out of our first batch.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think we had like 30 bars.
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  SPEAKER_01: We made a strawberry scented soap, and everyone was raving about it, but we kind of kept experimenting with it because it would kind of melt in the shower.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we learned, you know, certain types of oils or ingredients can help it become more of a hard bar.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we played with that, and I'll I'll let you kind of take over how we added more since I've been talking about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so we started going to farmers markets and selling our soaps at farmers markets, and that's really where you start to learn more about your market by bringing it to your customers and hearing straight from them what they would like.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's how our business just kind of grew from there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, we would just listen to our customers, they wanted lotion, so we came up with our lotion bars, they wanted lip butters, like cleaner, more natural lip butters.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we came up with our lip butters.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then from there is when we grew and grew, and we went to more markets, we created a website, and now we have our own soap shop that we all work together from, and we all live on the same property, too.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's kind of how it exploded and grew.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we, you know, we uh fell in love with goat's milk soap from the start because my brother and my dad they would have cracked hands in the summer and winter, they were just so dry.
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  SPEAKER_01: And after we made our soap, it healed their skin.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like they've never struggled with that again.
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  SPEAKER_01: We were like, wow, this could really help people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, we just thought it'd be kind of fun to sell soap, but this could like really help people, and we've always just kind of been trying to find a way to serve other people, and that's really what entrepreneurship is all about, especially as a Christian.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, we just want to dedicate this business to the Lord and work how whatever we're doing, whether we're, you know, mixing soap, taking care of the goats, um, packaging in order, we just want to do it as for the Lord and not men.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um but we do pray that it helps others, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so well, and the natural non-toxic products, I mean, I think more and more people are realizing how important that is for our health.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think that's great.
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  SPEAKER_00: So then this is a family-owned farm, and obviously the business has grown.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it sounds like you all work together, but through all your research and learning and everything, was that really you two that kind of drove that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or did you find your parents helped a lot?
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_01: It was a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: Me and my sister and my mom poured into it so much as well, even though in the beginning she was completely against it.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: She just kind of dove in with us and she helped to guide us a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, there's taxes and things like that to figure out insurance and all these things, and she helped us a lot with that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, it's really the three of us that team up together.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but we all yeah, have our different facets, we have our different strengths that we all use in business together.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it was definitely me and my sister that we used uh our own money to buy the goats in the very first place, and we took care of them and did all the chores and stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you girls were driven for sure.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: That's great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for tips then, what would what type of tips would you give to parents, you know, wanting to encourage that entrepreneurial mindset in kids?
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I know we all have our own strengths, and so some people might be more predisposed to wanting to go down that lane, but I just feel like there's a lot of great skills you can learn, you know, in general, life skills from that type of mindset.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: What do you recommend to parents?
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: I think being able to own your own business is one of the most valuable things, especially here in America.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I would say no matter your interests, I feel like you can turn a business into anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like whether your kid loves music, they can start teaching music classes to other people, other kids.
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  SPEAKER_01: They can do it online even.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um we just yeah, we just loved animals and we loved making things.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we kind of just took the reins on that.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_01: But I feel like our mom gave us the resources and the freedom to be able to do that.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um but yeah, I feel like no matter what your kid has interest in, they can eventually turn it into a business of some sort.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's a bit funny.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I know my husband, um he started doing electrical work and now he's running his own electrical business.
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  SPEAKER_01: Her husband, um, he loves music and he started doing music classes with kids and teaching kids about music, and he's also making hats on the side, he does that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So whatever you have interest in, I feel like you can turn it into a business in some way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I truly feel like if you find a way to serve people then and it's doing something you love, then that is a great place to start, is finding where there's a need out in the world and how to help somebody.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then we're raising our girls.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have two girls, and then my sister has two girls, and they're here at the soap shop every day.
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  SPEAKER_01: They have a playground, they have baby goats to play with all the time, but then they love to come in with us and you know put together orders or put lip butter tops on or, you know, label things for us, and they feel so accomplished in doing that.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: And whether they, you know, one day make soap with us or not, or they go on to do something else.
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  SPEAKER_01: I really feel like if you encourage working hard, then that's a really, really good place to start with your kids.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, kids love to feel like they're contributing and accomplishing something.
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  SPEAKER_01: So whether that's something small around the house that they could do or later on when they get older, just giving them responsibility and those are great things.
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  unknown: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what a what a cool lifestyle.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it really sounds like it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh I love that.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever thought of, I don't know, providing your story in some way, you know, as a type of mentorship to kids?
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: Well, right now we do host farm tours.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we actually just started that last year.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_01: And so we right before this, we had a tour come out and um we just teach them the same thing that we used to teach them with the petting zoo, which is um, you know, we're teaching them about farm animals and then we're also showing them the process of how we make soap and everything.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: And then at the end, we kind of give, you know, a little encouragement to these, whether they're homeschoolers or people from churches, um, we give an encouragement to that you can do this too, you know.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, this has been great.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for being here and sharing um super inspiring and insightful your story.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I do want to mention before we close, just some other creative ways to use your goat milk.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: I saw you post this.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you mentioned using it not just as a bar soap, but as a face cleanser, shaving cream alternative, pet shampoo, natural insect repellent, and baby soap, among many other ways.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: So, so listeners, I just want to encourage you, check out Faith Farms.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: We will have links to their website in the show notes so you can visit their website and order their natural non toxic products for your family.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you again for being here, ladies.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: And thank you.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's been a pleasure.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: And thank you, listeners, for joining us today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, have a blessed week.