Eleven year old GaBBY Bows CEO and Inventor Gabrielle "GaBBY" Goodwin takes children on her journey to overcome shyness. Gabrielle inspires all kids to push past whatever is holding them back from doing great things through stories of her ups and downs, popular cartoon clips and pictures.
This 30-minute interactive training comes with a free downloadable coloring workbook to reinforce learning, and is filled with practical lessons on public speaking, dealing with rejection and business terminology.
Boys and girls will be motivated to conquer limitations through igniting the power they all have inside to follow their dreams.
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Eleven-year-old Gabrielle Goodwin is President and CEO of GaBBY Bows. She and her mom invented the Double-Face Double-Snap Barrette by GaBBY to save families time, money and frustration. Solving the age-old problem of disappearing hair barrettes, the Double-Face Double-Snap Barrette is engineered to prevent hair slippage.
GaBBY launched and began selling barrettes through its online store at gabbybows.com in February 2014. In just three years of operations, GaBBY has filled online orders to all 50 states in the U.S. and in nine countries. The patented barrettes are also carried in 50 Once Upon a Child and beauty supply stores in 16 states across the US, Canada and South Africa.
The newly released children’s book Gabby Invents the Perfect Hair Bow by Entrepreneur Kid chronicles Gabrielle’s entrepreneurial journey.
GaBBY's story has been featured on The Real, The Harry Connick, Jr. Show, The Tom Joyner Morning Show and The Today Show , and in Kiplinger Magazine, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Free Enterprise Magazine, JET.com, Essence.com and Madamnoire.
Gabrielle was named a 2015 South Carolina Young Entrepreneur of the Year, the youngest to ever receive this award. She and her mom were also named as one of 15 national finalists for the 2015 U.S. Small Business Administration InnovateHER Competition, a 2016 SCORE and Sam’s Club American Small Business Champion, and the 2016 SCORE Foundation Outstanding Diverse Business of the Year. Gabrielle was also named the 2018 Black Enterprise Teenpreneur of the Year.
She is engaged in all aspects of the business, from inventory to speaking to schools and community groups and helping with sales taxes to writing thank you notes to every customer who orders barrettes online. GaBBY also hosts the GaBBY Play Date to teach girls in children’s shelters about entrepreneurship.
Gabrielle loves to read and dance and is a straight “A” student. Her favorite subjects are science, math and language arts. Gabrielle, her father Comedian Mike Goodwin, mother Rozalynn and little brother Michael live in Columbia, SC.