Amee Quiriconi Marketing and Business Consultant by day and self-help vigilante by night. She podcasts at One Broken Mom and today she shares insights on exposing our kids to the negative side of entrepreneurship.

• Start with your origin story.
  • Amee’s been an entrepreneur for 16 years.
  • She developed a way to make a recycled content countertop.
  • She actually enjoyed working
  • Having your own business is a very stressful place to be with a lot of ups and downs.

• How did you handle the balance between your kids and your business?
  • The balance between she and her spouse was really tough
  • There’s a lot of guilt when you try to do someone else’s approach.
  • In the early days, entrepreneurship requires all of your energy.
  • If you go into it knowing there are going to have to be some down periods, that makes everything easier.
  • Always double how long you think it’s going to take to get your business off the ground.

• How do we determine how much to let our kids in on and where those boundaries lie.
  • Your kids will let you know if you’ve gone too far.
    • You have to look for their behavior.
  • Kids will start to feel needy to you and respond to you in that way.
  • As kids get older there’s a danger ignoring your kids own autonomy.

• What kinds of jobs did you have as a child?
  • Her mother was entrepreneurial.
  • As the oldest, her job was to take care of her younger siblings.
  • When she opened her first shop, she hired a group of young men like her brothers.
  • She would take babysitting jobs, and worked at an ice cream shop.

• How many siblings do you have?
  • She has three younger brothers.

• How do you think providing for your kids and giving them a better life is affecting them?
  • It’s a matter of letting them see what it’s like, but also not scaring them.
  • She doesn’t talk about every hardship she has with her job and clients.
  • You have to overcome the scarcity mentality.
  • You need your children to understand the value of what they get for the money.
  • You have to consider age-appropriateness for kids too.

• Do you do a lot with financial coaching?
  • She maps out finances for her clients.
  • One of the best determiners of whether someone will default on their loan is whether they grew up in a family of entrepreneurs or not.

• Tell us more about your podcast.
  • She started it because she went through a huge metamorphosis as a parent.
  • She realized how much childhood effects you as an adult.
  • Your self-awareness allows you to start doing a better job of tuning into your kids.

 

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