Biz Kid$ is the fun, new, fast-paced TV series where kids teach kids about money and entrepreneurship. Created for school-aged children, each episode features several young business owners and philanthropists who share their success stories. Kids learn about saving, budgeting, investing and giving back to the community.
SEASON 2
201. Have a Plan, Stan!
Explore the different elements of a business plan and meet a teen who opened a snow-cone shack.
202. Money Math - Who Needs It?
Learn the importance of math and meet students helping save the environment and a handbag designer.
203. Building Your Business Online
Learn the advantages and potential pitfalls in Internet businesses and meet a graphic designer.
204. Financial Institutions - All The Same?
Services of different institutions, including checking accounts and online banking are discussed.
205. How Credit Affects Your Life
Join the Biz Kids and learn about building good credit and how the credit laws affect your life.
206. The Art Of Negotiation
Discover effective strategies for negotiating with parents, teachers, friends, siblings and bosses.
207. The World Is A Risky Place
Learn ways to protect your business and your assets. Meet the owners of "Small Town Skateshop."
208. Economic Cycles (What Goes Up Must Come Down)
Learn how trends can affect a business and discover how to protect against negative effects.
209. The Green Economy & You
Discover your impact on the environment and learn how there's green to be made in thinking green.
210. Secrets To Success
Learn about the many ways to pay for your education and the importance of learning every day of your life.
211. The Marketing Mix
Learn how a barber service, a dog groomer and other businesses promote their services and products.
212. Hidden Careers
"Behind the scenes" careers in sports, music, entertainment, art and even aviation are showcased.
213. Learning From Failure
Learn how mistakes can make you stronger by looking at the work of Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs.
SEASON 1
101. What Is a Biz Kid?
Anybody can be a Biz Kid with hard work and the right attitude. Biz Kids identify a need, make a plan, and take action.
102. What Is Money?
Take a grand tour through the history of money from the days of bartering, through the first coins and currency, all the way to the electronic transfers of today.
103. How Do You Get Money?
Follow a Biz Kid on a job hunt reviewing help wanted ads, filling out the application, and going through the interview. The Biz Kid$ also look at the many ways kids get and use allowances.
104. What Can You Do With Money?
Join the Biz Kid$ and you’ll ponder the merits of spending, saving, donating, and investing money.
105. Money Moves
Follow a single dollar bill as it moves from a depositor’s hand across the counter, down to the vault, over to the Federal Reserve, and finally out to a project the bank is financing.
106. Taking Charge of Your Financial Future
The Biz Kid$ figure out where they want to be financially and make plans on how to get there.
107. A Biz: What Is It?
A successful business supplies goods or services and makes profits when it earns more money than it spends.
108. How to Succeed in Biz-Ness by Really Trying
A business can be anything from babysitting to owning vending machines. You’ll discover the three key steps to success: identifying a need, making a plan to fill a need, and taking action.
109. Cash and Credit
Learn about the power and pitfalls of credit, which is essentially using someone else’s money temporarily (for a price).
110. How to Achieve Your Financial Goals
Learn to track your expenses, get control of your spending, and invest what’s left over to reach your financial goals.
111. Don’t Blow Your Dough
Protect the money you already have by putting it in a safe place. Beware of scams and schemers. Discover ways to avoid the growing problem of identity theft.
112. Introducing Entrepreneurs
An entrepreneur is someone who sees a financial opportunity and acts upon it. Learn the stories behind the Frisbee, the Slinky, and blue jeans.
113. The Biz Kids Challenge
The Biz Kid$ learn the world of marketing through the Project Lemonade Challenge. It’s up to the kids to decide the price and promotion strategy to sell the most product.
114. Being a Smart Consumer
Explore smart shopping strategies by learning how to avoid common pitfalls and traps set by savvy marketers and high-pressure salesmen.
115. Credit (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
See the true cost of purchasing with credit, have an unsettling look at credit scores and the increasing number of people and places that are using these scores to make major decisions that could affect your future.
116. Budgeting (You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Know)
Look at spending and expenses and examine several proven methods on how to gain control of both.
117. Business Ethics
Discover what it means for management to lead by example and how employees must take responsibility for their behavior.
118. Saving and Investing for Your Future
Learn along with the Biz Kid$ about the powerful potential of starting a savings plan early in life and discover various savings and investing options available to young people.
119. Careers
Look at what it takes to find your true calling and learn ways to start exploring new careers.
120. The Global Economy
Follow the flow of imports and exports that make up the interconnected world economy and discover who makes the many things we use everyday that come from all over the world.
121. Bulls, Bears, and Financial Markets
Examine stocks, bonds, and commodities, and the markets where each of them are traded. Discover various ways young people can get involved with the transactions, aim for profit, and avoid risk.
122. Sell, Sell, Sell (The Science of Sales)
Join the Biz Kid$ in sales training as they explore philosophy and sales techniques. Discover the traits in common with all good sales people.
123. Understanding Income and Expenses
Learn proven methods for getting expenses under control while growing income with new ideas, smarter work habits, and innovation.
124. Building and Growing a Business
Learn the necessary steps for organizing, staffing, training, and building a new business. See how effective communication increases morale and makes the business grow.
125. Understanding Your Paycheck
The Biz Kid$ use a modern American pay stub to explore various social movements of the last century. From unions to social security and from workman’s compensation to 401(k) plans of today, it’s all there on the stub.
126. Social Entrepreneurs
Meet social visionaries who use the same tools as profit-oriented entrepreneurs, yet instead of building companies and large profits, these people create thriving organizations and powerful movements for social change.
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