Hi everybody!
Ok! So we have had RECORD temps here in Canada all across the country!
It's beeeeen cooking let me tell yah! 🥵
I mean we are talking about soooaring temperatures of above 40 C (104 F) in some places.
Whew!
Us Canadian's just aren't used to baking in the sun like this...
Soooooo! That's when we got to thinking... ABOUT LEMONADE!
And we were helped along with that zesty idea when out of the blue the Exodus T.E.A.M. contacted me in the DM's on Twitter!
Previously I had Tweeted out a picture of my two girls @littleM @tinyM (#Lemonpreneurs officially!) cheering behind the lemonade stand we had built together!
The people at Exodus were startingUP a Twitter conversation around the question of why our Schools (everywhere right?!) don’t teach financial education. (??!)
So I commented back, included the picture, and mentioned that I had been wondering about that (for quite some time now) as well… and had decided to do something about it!
Here's the Tweet if you wanna take a look! 👇
Before my oldest daughter, @littleM, enrolled in Kindergarten I decided that I would build a Lemonade Stand with her… I consider myself (and her mom) to be her first teachers and so I wanted something that would remind (us both!) of that AND be a practical focus point THAT WAS ALSO A FUN WAY TO LEARN, EARN, AND BOND!
Organization doesn’t come naturally… All you gotta do is watch a kid pull their books off bookshelves and dump toys on the fool realize that! Putting things back into place doesn’t come naturally and must be learned!
Same thing goes with Financial Education!
Kids need to learn how to think like business SHE-EO’s (and HE-EO’s) AND Savvy Little Investors!
They have to learn how to operate AND build an entrepreneurial venture:
- save
- spend
- treat their customers right
- pay their Tiny helpers (In lollypops lol!)
- sell their services or products
- think up new products!
- think and plan ahead
- do inventory
- count their money
...not to mention clean up after themselves! etc! etc! You name it!
Best thing about a Lemonade Stand is it can do all that AND MORE!
As it turns out my two #Lemonpreneurs, once they started accepting Bitcoin, also started gaining all sorts of world wide attention!
Elizabeth, from exodus.com, told me that my two girls had raving fans over there and that, ever since I had Tweeted out the picture and comment, that people in the company were talking about the girls little lemonade business! Everybody LOVED what they were doing and that they were accepting BTC for Lemonade!
Sweet! Sweet! (with a bit of Smart!) Success for my girls! You should have seen those SILLY GRINS when I told them that Exodus wanted to send them $100 in Bitcoin!!!
SERIOUSLY! At first their mouths drop wide open and you could almost see what dreams are made of! 🤩 (Well! You’ll get to see that in the video! HAHAHA!)
So, we decided to put together a little video (This is it!!!) as a way to thank Exodus for their super sweet generosity! I mean those people over there have stand up class! So much so that I am actually thinking of investing in the company! (There’s a way to do that if you download their wallet and look around! I didn’t know this until today but what an opportunity!)
Trust and real genuine connection are so hard to come by… And man-oh-man have I got a good lemon shot of that this week! THEY ARE JUST SO DARN NICE OVER THERE! And the level of authentic connection has been nothing short of AMAZING! VERY PROFESIONAL & VERY PERSONAL!
In my opinion, they are one of the premier Bitcoin Wallets & Exchanges out there! Wouldn’t you agree? Everyone in the crypto space has heard or used the Exodus wallet, right? And if you haven’t yet… You gotta give it a go! I have been using the Exodus Wallet for over 4 years now and THAT experience was what showed me WHAT EXACTLY transacting in Bitcoin could and would be like in the future… ONLY IT WAS RIGHT NOW!
I just LOVE the KA-CHING sound (and my girls do too!) the wallet makes every time some crypto lands in my wallet!
So YES!
This little video is a little THANK YOU to the wonderful people at Exodus!
You guys are GREAT and I want you all to know that you have 4 RAVING FANS over here in Canada!
So!
If you like Lemonade…
If you like Bitcoin…
And you have wee ones…
I just want to encourage YOU ALL!
Start a Lemonade Stand with your kids! Accept Bitcoin while your busy making Lemon zEsT! Annnnnd consider checking out the Exodus Wallet!
Kids + Lemons + Bitcoin = The #Lemonpreneurs of the Future! 🍋
Thank you EXODUS!!!
…and let’s all keep innovating the future here on the Hive Blockchain!
@wil.metcalfe
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P.S. In the next bit I'll be doing another post all about the M&M Lemonade Stand and how we built it! Keep an eye out for that you all! 🍋
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AMAZING post! I completely agree with parents being the kid's first teachers and not just that we are the ones they pay closest attention to. I love that you're teaching them about business and finance now. My parents didn't and I didn't learn it in school either. Your kids are so blessed and I LOVE the lemonade stand so cute. Your kids are adorable. @ryzeonline and I work with rebel-preneurs in our mastermind group and teach them things that their parents never taught them about business (or life really) so it makes me happy to see you doing this with your kids! #Lemonpreneurs
OMG @ryzeonline look! these kids are being taught right and they have a cute hashtag too! They're already lil #rebelpreneurs 😂❤️
Hi @cynshineonline!
Thank you soooooo much for this comment! It's so true... I didn't get anywhere close to having the sophistication I needed to openUP a life of freedom and real excitement in my early years. I had to learn everything the hard way by trial and a lot of error. I totally identify with being a #rebel-preneur! 🏴☠️
This is such a needed thing in our scarcity mindset society. People operating according to the old rules of money and wondering why it's not working in the new and exciting world of #SocialFinance & #FinacialCapital! I'm glad that you and @ryzeonline have #TeamedUP to tackle this!
It's when you have kids that you really realize how much you learned when you were younger... how far you've come... and how many holes you have in your understanding of the world. Kids ask why all the time and that's when it really hits home!
I'm glad to find like minded people here on the Hive Blockchain and I'm glad we are forging new and better ways to Human together!
BIG #HighFive's from me! 🙌
@wil.metcalfe
Wooo! Abundance-mindset! And yay for passing it on to future generations! :) #TogetherWeRyze 🙏
I love this reply! I adore meeting other rebel-preneurs who get it.
I think this is true for all areas of life.
And I think that kids asking why is so amazing for their quick learning and being more open-minded than many adults. I wish more adults asked why as much as kids do.
Yay for like-minded people on Hive. It feels nice to connect!
🙏❤️
Aww, tinyM is the cutest! 😍 Great job, girls.
heheeee! Isn't she @arrliinn! 😁 Man I love those girls to bits!
It's been so amazing watching them learn together and bond around the Lemonade Stand!
@tinyM was already asking me today if we could do Lemonade again! 😂
She just LOVES it! 😍
Thank you for watching our little video and commenting @arrliinn!
I'm going to check in tomorrow to see how you and your little tribe are doing! 😊
Your article is so good. I like it very much
THANK YOU @manh20!
We had so much fun making the lemonade AND the video! I'm so glad that you enjoyed watching it! 😁
Great video and good job by the little girls, am glad you are teaching them entrepreneurship at this early age. unfortunately the school system mostly teaches on how to be an employee. Thank you for sharing, keep cool in those high temps and enjoy the weekend :}
This is heartwarming, and you girls deserve it, bravo! I have been thinking of creating a MetaMask Wallet for Srey-Yuu so she can learn more crypto skills. NFTs are the way to go kids, keep producing them! Save me a glass of cryptonade would ya?
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Hi Justin!
Sorry, my friend, for my delayed response to your comment! I honestly have been run right off my feet dealing with certain unfriendlies here on Hive.
But I absolutely HAD to get back to this comment as it represents the usual positivity and good Wil I feel here on the Hive Blockchain!
THANK YOU JUSTIN!
Thank you for making Hive a better and more friendly place for us all!
Annnnnd thank you for taking the time to watch our Lemon Zest video, comment, and support in such a HUGE way!
Because I have been dealing with some pretty heavy heady stuff lately... you, my friend, are like a breath of fresh air!
I appreciate you and your family so very much and look forward to when things are a bit quieter when I’ll have a chance to catchUP with all the things you guys are up to!
Wishing you well and well-being on and off the blockchain! 🙌
@wil.metcalfe
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Thank you so much @naturalmedicine! You guys ROCK! I’m looking forward to finding out more about your community of positivity and health! I’ll be sharing pictures of this years garden very soon! As soon as I get back from my family vacation!
Thank you again for recognizing and supporting this post! 🙌
I was literally (as in the pure definition of literally) talking to my father about running a lemonade+custom tie dye shirt stand and take crypto for it with my 2 daughters and 1 niece. I got some tie-dye kits and some cheap white cotton t-shirts and we did some custom shirts and it was really fun. I thought lemonade + custom shirts that can dry out on a hot scorching day would be a cool sell.
make the t-shirts here, we will pin them up to dry/bake color in the sun, come back in a few hours and get them! Or, better yet, my dad lives in a small town community, we could just deliver!
Dude you rock on so many levels for doing this with your daughters. They look about identical to age of my daughters too. Thats crazy cool.
Hahaaaaa! YES! Do it! 🙌
My kids just love their lemonade stand! And it's great fun to be creative with it to! There's just so many things you can do once you have the lemonade as a draw! And let's be honest! It's the kids that are the real draw when it comes to a lemonade stand! Who doesn't want to see what some cute #Lemonpreneurs are UP to right!? 🍋
Thank you for watching out little video, following me here on Hive, and giving me such a boost with all of your positivity about what my girls and I are UP to! Your comment made my day! 😁
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