Last Summer, in the middle of the COVID-19 #pandemic, #Niceville #Teenager Reace Early, his dad, mom and sister had 🤪cabin fever🤪. Bad. Like, really really bad. 

🛑🏫🎒 @Rocky Bayou Christian School 🎒🏫🛑 had shut down. Family members were starting to get on each others nerves. 

That’s when Dad decided that the kids should try out their entrepreneurial spirits and start businesses! @Yard Sharks was born. It started with one yard, once a week. Now, its up to 4️⃣2️⃣ yards and plenty of 💵 in Reace’s pockets! 

His secret weapons: 

🔨 Hard work

👩🏻‍💻 Mom’s groups on Facebook. 

The Rocky Bayou Christian School student has owned Yard Sharks for almost a year and a half and almost has 50 clients in the eastern portion of Niceville. 

💵 While the work is hard, he has making money is easy. It all comes down to wanting it bad enough. 

Probably the most amazing part of Reace Early’s small business? The 14-Year-Old owner of Yard Sharks has 👤👤👤👤 employees!

Those four employees are all friends, and their working relationship is made stronger through their participation in sports (🏀🎾) at Rocky Bayou High School ♞

Want to know what the secret sauce is for becoming a successful entrepreneur, starting a successful smart business and retiring at 40 as a kajillionaire? 

Us too. 

We are pretty sure it has something to do with how you manage your time, though. 

Most kids can’t wait to spend money. Heck, most adults can’t wait to spend money - especially if it isn’t their own! 14-year-old entrepreneur Reace is different though - he knows just how much everything costs in terms of how long it takes to earn it mowing lawns and is very conservative with how he spends his money. 

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It’s Florida - it’s 🌡️🔥H-O-T🔥🌡️hot in the summer ☀️. That means it’s a smart idea for all of the @Yard Sharks team to work smarter 🧠, not harder 🥊. 

Last year, the crew tried out laying pine straw as one of their services. It. Did. Not. Go. Well. And it wasn’t very profitable. Rather than beat his head against a wall, Reace decided to subcontract out his pine straw work and focus more on moving and edging. The bet paid off! Yard Sharks is able to make more money mowing lawns, while still making a profit on customers who want pine straw too! 

👩🏻‍🎓When Crystal finished up her undergraduate Degree at UWF School of Business, she saw her degree as a means to an end - build up capital with the skills she had in order to be able to one day launch her own business and work for herself. 

🗑️🚚Crystal and Her Husband, Nathan, bought Adams Sanitation with the goal to do just that!

Brice Early, Entrepreneur Reace Early’s Dad, thinks that Reace can do anything he wants, especially with the success of Yard Sharks, but he is still encouraging him to get his college diploma. The video gives the details as to why. 

Brice Early, Reace’s dad and the pastor at Crosspoint South Crestview, gives a talk pretty frequently about ⌛. 

📅Parents have 936 weeks from when a child is born until they are 18 to spend with them. After that, they are out of the house and on their own. 

👨‍👦It’s just one of the many reasons that Brice is so excited about his son’s business: it teaches Reace skills he will need no matter what he does in the future, he is able to help out with the business and spend time with his son - and his son isn’t beholden to someone else’s time clock. All in all, it makes for a pretty great family life situation.