Hello everybody! How has your day been?
As you may know, I was recently interviewed by the wonderful Sarah Cook of RaisingCEOKids.com. So today I was pleased to see my face (okay, a terrible picture… but it’s me!) on her website.
Although at the beginning I was extremely nevous as it was actually the first audio interview I have done, there is a lot of answers (and of course questions) that you will enjoy reading and take a lot away from.
You can read the whole interview at Raising CEO Kids. Be warned though, being an audio interview there it is a bit “all over the place”, there may be a couple of errors in what I said, as I do mumble a bit, but I believe we have corrected them all!
Below is a small extract of the interview, I hope you like it!
Shane
“Sarah – And so what about for parents? I know you’re parents have probably really supported you so what about for parents? What would you recommend to other, because you’re not a parent. But if you could say, “This is what I love that my parents do or this is what I wish that my parents would do to support me.” What were some ways that you feel like parents can best support their kids in being in business and in archiving their life goals?
SH – Well, I think that parents that give their children money to start up, although that will help them, I think that you’d learn much more if you start with little money. I know some people, not many of us. Some people get given large amount of money from their parents just like that and they do successful. But they’re not as successful as they would be if they started with nothing.”
You did such a great job Shane!
Welfare for the poor hardly affords them a lifestyle they can live, as a matter of fact if they are happy with that lifestyle they'd never become productive anyway. Their impact on the system is no where near as bad as subsidies that turn into bonuses.
I noticed your interview! Nice work
Wow congratulations! Great job.
I think you raise a good point here which is line with my own thinking. My wife and I are due to have a baby in June and one of the things I'm thinking is that should we die before he reaches 25 then there will be no inherittence paid until 25 with only a token amount paid then and the balance when he's 30.
Now I'm not talking millions here, but who knows, in 25 years time it might be!
Congratulations!
When I was answering the question I did not think of inherittence, I suppose I am just really optimistic! I was talking more about if a child (eg. under 18ish) wanted to go into business then you should help them with advice but do not give them all the start up fees, making the money needed to start a business is part of the learning process and you learn so much more if you have to go through having very little money and it will make you appreciate it when you make more money.
Sounds like an interesting interview. I'll be sure to go and listen in (when I don't have a houseful of noisy, excited children!)
The audio file is not actually availiable, though I may see if I can get hold of it and upload for you all. It has been transcribed though so you can read it!
Good interview, very interesting. Balanced parenting is definitely not easy.
Till then,
Jean
Well, really what I do is just update what you said. I mean I’ll update Twitter, I’ll update my blog, I’ll answer comments. I’ll talk on forums, I’ll, I have connections on LinkedIn and that’s really it.
No kidding! Each and every one! And their entire board of directors have been predominately white males, too . .
Yes I have noticed it, and the obvious inference is that white males are the only ones that care about their employees.
Sharing good interview about raisingceokids. Good job!!