Dreamer ENT – Dream. Dare. Soar.

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Kellin is a teen who decided to meet a need by creating a business called King’s Cleanup where he cleans houses that are under foreclosure so that the owners can sell them. A tip he gives on starting your business is to plan and to figure out how you’re going to fund your start up costs (the funds that you will need to buy items to start your business).

Have YOU thought about starting a business this summer? How about taking your passion and talents and finding a way to serve others with it while earning enough to invest. Check out the Small Business Administration’s site for teens that gives you steps on how you can take your idea and create a plan of action into becoming an entrepreneur. I started my own businesses in elementary school and high school and it was a great way to make money while doing what I loved and helping others! What’s your passion and business idea? Feel free to share it in the comments section below!

“You don’t have to be a superstar, you only have to be just you…If you can dare to dream, you can do anything…” – Elizabeth South

We love this inspiring video from Elizabeth South, who is both a singer/songwriter and teacher. “Superstar” will encourage your heart and motivate you to make a difference by being uniquely you wherever you are. The song is from Elizabeth’s latest album “I Love You” which you can check out here.

Super Star Lyrics

You say you always feel like you’re in the dark
That you feel alone, don’t know where to start
You say you always feel like you’re lost at sea
With no light to guide where you’re meant to be

You say you always feel you’re not good enough
Seems everyone else has all the luck
Don’t need your name in lights to know what you’re worth
Let the light shine in you until it bursts

Don’t be just like all the rest
Just stand out and shout it out

Don’t have to be a Superstar
To show the world just who you are
You only have to be just you
Just believe in what is true
Don’t have to be a Superstar
Not the size of fame, but the size of your heart
To let the world know it is true
You only have to be, you only have to be just you

You feel like no one sees you when you’re in a crowd
That you could disappear and not be found
Just look at all the good that you’ve already done
The journey that you’re on has just begun
Be the best at what you were made to be
If you can dare to dream, you can do anything
There’s no limitations to what you can do
Except for what you think, you know its not true

A Star, Star, Star is who you are
A Star, Star, Star, will take you far

©2012 Elizabeth South Music
written by Elizabeth South and Billy Smiley

More About Elizabeth South

Elizabeth South is not your average singer/songwriter. She is also a full-time elementary music and drama teacher. She pursues her goal of a worldwide music ministry to both young and old with as much passion as she always devotes to her teaching.
Elizabeth’s music explores the eclectic styles of country, theater, spirituality, romance, ballad, and even dance. She pours her heart into every song she writes. Her Music Therapy background has also found a home in her music, being both healing and uplifting. Her voice has been described as dynamic, mysterious, magical, soothing, and angelic.

Since Elizabeth first began singing in public when she was about seven years old, she has been involved in many live performances, singing solos at various venues, singing in choirs and musicals, and performing in various plays including several at the North Carolina Theater. As part of her artistic development, she attended prominent schools such as the North Carolina School of the Arts and New York University (NYU), where she studied in the musical theater program and in the drama program at the Tisch School of the Arts. She has two undergraduate degrees, one in drama and the other in Music Therapy, and she also received a Master of Arts in Teaching at UNC-Chapel Hill. She now teaches music and drama full time in a prominent elementary private school in Durham, NC.

To learn more about Elizabeth, click here to visit her website!

Watch this creative, encouraging video by inspirational Youtuber Shirley (FarAwayDistance) who wants you to know that you are BEAUTIFUL and you are loved.

SMILE, Because Happiness Looks Gorgeous On You!:)

Below Shirley shares another inspiring video, “A SMILE is the prettiest thing you can wear!”

GRACE UNPLUGGED is an inspirational movie starring Amanda “AJ” Michalka as 18-year-old singer/songwriter, Grace Rose Trey. Beautiful, highly talented and restless, Grace is undiscovered outside church, where she performs each Sunday with her gifted father, Johnny. A former rock star, Johnny Trey charted a Billboard number one single 20 years ago. When the hits stopped coming, he crash-landed hard before finding Christ and starting a new life for his family, far from the Hollywood Hills.

One day without warning, Grace leaves for Los Angeles. She has landed a record deal with the help of Johnny’s ruthless former manager and producer, “Mossy” Mostin. Mossy sees in Grace a potential pop superstar. Cutting off contact with her parents, Grace seems prepared to walk away from her Christian faith and music to achieve her long-suppressed fantasy of Hollywood superstardom. Will the experience cause her to reject her faith, or rediscover it? IN THEATERS OCTOBER 4, 2013

Check out the trailer for the film above, also starring Grammy nominated singer/songwriter Jamie Grace as Grace’s friend Rachel. You can find out more about the movie at http://www.graceunplugged.com.

Youth Venture Teen Ambassador Laura White is a former competitive swimmer who decided to use her talent and passion for good – she teaches swimming to lower income children through her organization Wild and Water Swimming. Watch the video to hear her story.

More About Laura

Laura has been involved in service for a very long time. In her sophomore year of high school, Laura and her venture team, with the support of Youth Venture, started Wild and Water Swimming, a nonprofit organization that provides free swimming and water safety lessons to low-income children. Laura also served for two years as the President of the Youth Service Advisory Board of Hands On Atlanta, and started a club at her high school called Helpings Hands, which engaged other students in Hands On Atlanta projects. Laura is also the Founder of the Dream Prom Project, a program that works with Enchanted Closet to provide high achieving low-income high school senior girls with their dream prom. In the fall, Laura will be starting her freshman year in college as a Tulane University Honors Student and plans to double-major in Social Policy and Practice and Environmental Studies.

Want to start up your own organization to make a difference in your community? Visit Youth Venture to find out how you can get a grant to fund your big dream, they have supported I and thousands of other young people to change the world a person at a time. Whatever your talent or interest is there is a way for you to touch somebody’s life today – what are you waiting for?