Entrepreneur Now Teaching 12 Year Old Students How to Invest

Business owner, Shayne Webber, has begun teaching 6th-12th graders how to invest in the stock market. The program is called My Intentional Success & students not only learn how to invest, they actually do invest with profits from the program.
 
LUBBOCK, Texas - Feb. 25, 2015 - PRLog -- Lubbock, TX, February 25, 2015 –

Wish you knew more about money when you were younger?  Shayne Webber, Ph.D. a local entrepreneur and owner of several Lubbock business is now teaching students as young as 12 years old to invest in the stock market.  These students aren’t just learning how to invest.  They are actually doing it.

Dr. Webber has devised a program from which students work as if the board of directors for a small business.  The program is called My Intentional Success or MIS.  At MIS, students create business plans, marketing plans, create budgets, work on graphic design, branding, and more for a podcast radio show, a magazine and printing department.  These students, while learning about the process of developing a small business, receive profit shares from their efforts.  In fact, they receive 75% of all project profits.

Of the funds the students earn, 25% is given directly to the student and 75% is sent to a local financial planner and deposited into the student’s very own investment account.  These students, with their parent(s) or guardian, sit down with the financial planner and decide how to invest their money.

Meanwhile, the students attend weekly classes and learn about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, options, futures and commodity trading, gold and silver, real estate, hedge funds and more from local experts.

Dr. Webber is on a mission to change the way Americans, especially our youth, think about and use their money.  Dr. Webber states, “We have a growing debt.  Many families spend more than what they make every year and live paycheck to paycheck.  We need to retake control of our finances.  And, it made the most sense to me to start young, so we are starting with 6th-9th graders.”

“If our young people aren't financially literate, we are part of the problem, not part of the solution. And as a nation, we have a huge problem.” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said at Pensions & Investments' Investment Innovation and the Global Future of Retirement conference.

Dr. Webber adds “If we are to make a difference, we need to teach delayed gratification to our youth. Economics is all about expenditures.  We can either spend our money now or invest our money and buy a lot more later.”

To find out more about MIS and the work that Dr. Webber is doing, visit www.myintentionalsuccess.com.

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Dr. Webber is a 2-time graduate of Texas Tech University with a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy.  Dr. Webber has been an entrepreneur for over 13 years.  He currently owns Griswold Home Care of Lubbock and My Intentional Success.

You can get more information regarding My Intentional Success at www.myintentionalsuccess.com.  You are also welcome to call MIS and Dr. Webber at 806-577-7217.

Dr. Webber is available for interviews or to provide articles on a variety of business or investment related topics.

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