Financial WISDOM: Side Hustles and Making Money as a Teen B E1149

When: Thursdays, 2–3 pm, 1 October – 5 November
Who: Grade 9 and up
Where: Online via Microsoft Teams

Most of the world’s wealthiest people are not members of royal families, Hollywood celebrities or heirs to vast fortunes. They are almost exclusively entrepreneurs—people who started their own businesses. And anyone can start a business.

But how? Even the idea can feel overwhelming. In this course, Travis Callaway makes starting a business simple to understand, using practical examples and real-life scenarios drawn from teaching entrepreneurship and business planning at universities. Students will learn how to plan and prepare to launch their own businesses.

The course includes six lessons that cover the full business planning and business launching journey.

Class 1 — Entrepreneurship: Discovering Your Business Potential

Class 2 — Types of Businesses Teens Can Start

Class 3 — Creating a Business Plan

Class 4 — Money Basics for Young Entrepreneurs

Class 5 — Marketing, Branding & Finding Your First Customers

Class 6 — Launching Your Business: Legal, Practical & Ethical Steps

Looking to achieve CALM outcomes?

Money and Finance Made Easy aligns very well with General Outcome 2: Resource Choices of CALM 20 by covering banking, budgeting, credit, saving, investing, and real-world financial decisions, helping students learn to use their financial resources prudently, while Investing Made Easy builds depth in the saving and investing portion of this outcome. Signing up for both courses would offer a comprehensive foundation in financial literacy that meaningfully supports the CALM 20 General Outcome 2: Resource Choices. Additional supplementation of learning activities may be necessary. Please consult the Alberta Program of Studies for more information. 

Participating in the Financial WISDOM: Starting Your Own Business Workshop will help you achieve many of the specific learning outcomes associated with CALM 20 within the General Outcome 3: Career & Life Choices. The strongest alignment with the CALM outcomes is in the areas of exploring and advancing careers through entrepreneurship, as well as in developing planning and decision-making skills essential for lifelong career growth. Additional supplementation of learning activities may be necessary. Please consult the Alberta Program of Studies for more information.

Instructor Bio: Travis earned a Bachelor of Arts in Law & Society at the University of Calgary, a Master of Business Administration in Finance at Durham University in England, the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is currently completing a Master of Theological Studies at the University of Toronto. He has worked in the advertising, technology start-ups, real estate and higher education industries in addition to working in the finance and investment industries. He was previously Vice President of Finance for an AI-dependent technology business and a venture capitalist who invested in multiple AI start-up companies in Canada, the United States, Europe and Latin America. He teaches at both the University of Calgary's medical school and Mount Royal University's business school.