Spark Creators

For this episode, we invited Ellie Zika and her dad Steve Zika. Ellie is the founder of Kidnits, and Steve is the Executive Director of KidKnits. Kidnits mission is to create awareness in American youth about poverty in the world and empower kids to make a difference and to change lives of women in Rwanda and Chile through their yarn making ministry. Currently Kidnits has sold more than 25,000 ball of yarn and taught hundreds of kids in the U.S. how to knit. But how did this whole family get involved in selling knitting kit to begin with? What kind of life does the women and kids live in Rwanda and Chile? Along with Ellie and Steve, let's tune in and listen to the Zika's story with Kidnits.

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For this episode, we invited Neha Gupta who is the founder and CEO of Empower Orphans, a nonprofit that strives to help orphans and underprivileged children with education, healthcare, and self-sufficient skills set. Neha started this nonprofit organization at the age of 9 years old and she has helped to raise $2 million (in cash and kind) and has impacted the lives of 30,000 children worldwide. But how did she get involved in saving orphans around the world? How did she raise so much money? What kind of ripple effect did she create over the years? Let's tune in to hear what Neha has to tell.

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For this episode, we invited Ryan Hickman and his dad Damion Hickman. Ryan is the founder of Ryan’s Recycling Company and has recycled over 460,000 cans and bottles as well as donated 8500 dollars to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center. He also appeared on many shows, such as the Ellen show, the Pickler and Ben Show and his story is just all over the internet. But how did Ryan become a recycling hero? What's the drive to recycle for 7 years as a kid, and how did Damion help his son along the way?Let's tune in to hear what Ryan and his dad Damion has to say.

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This is a special episode introducing the next series by Li and Ria. We talked about what's coming for our next series "Small Hearts Big Love", and we discussed the concept of love, compassion, and empathy. We chatted about the definitions about those concepts, and also some practical ways to put them into action. Want to know what's coming up for our next series? Stay Tuned for our next 4 episodes on "Small Hearts Big Love"!

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For this episode, we invited Rhia Catapano, a PhD candidate in Behavioral Marketing at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She will be sharing with us about her journey as the first generation college student and also about her research on happiness and meaning. How can we make our happiness last longer in our memory? Let's listen to Rhia and what she has to say on her research related to happiness and meaning.

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For this episode, we invited Tevin Ali, who is currently a senior graduate student from Johns Hopkins University to share with us his journey in education. Tevin was selected as a National Recipient of the Sallie Mae Bridging the Dream $20,000 Scholarship and also named the 2017 Student of the Year in the State of Florida. Before this however, Tevin has actually gone through the lowest point in his life. What was that experience like and how did he stand up from the low and shine bright as diamond now? Let's tune in what Tevin has to tell us.

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We invited Lucy Chen, a senior college student from Minerva School to join us and share her unique college journey. Minerva is known as an online university whose acceptance rate rivals with Ivy League schools like Harvard and Stanford. Students at Minerva will explore up to seven cities during four years of study. What does that really feel like, let's hear what Lucy has to say?

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For this episode, we invited Ayush Alag, a Senior high student at Harker School in San Jose, CA and also the Founder and CEO of Allergezy Inc. He came to share with us about How to solve a real-world problem as a high school student？Ayush faced allergy problem when he was young and he had to go through painful allergy test as a kid. So let’s see what Ayush decided to do and how did he start his research and also build a business from the problem he faced.

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This is a special episode about Spark. Why did we start making Spark and how Spark was made by Li and Yang. We summarized what we learned from the Entrepreneur Kid we featured from the previous series and also introduced what's coming for our next series "Study and Become". Stay Tuned for our next series!

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This episode we brought the Martinez brother who founded Are You Kidding Socks together when Sebastian was only 5 years old. Together with their Mom, Rachel Martinez, they want to share with us what it really means to start a business at a young age and why giving back is important.

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