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Maya Penn - Entrepreneur, animator, philanthropist ...
Maya Penn makes eco-friendly clothes and accessories, which she sells on a site she built -- and gives away a percent of the profits.

Why you should listen

To sell her line of luscious knit scarves and eco-friendly hats, teenaged entrepreneur Maya Penn built and maintains her own retail website. (She started the business when she was 8.) She’s also an animator and a geek, and an eager evangelist of teaching kids of be entrepreneurs at any age. Bursting with ideas, she recently started a side nonprofit called Maya’s Ideas 4 The Planet.

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Maya Penn: Meet a young entrepreneur, cartoonist, designer, activist ...

Maya Penn: Spoznajte mlado podjetnico, animatorko, oblikovalko, aktivistko ...

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Maya Penn je odprla svoje prvo podjetje pri osmih letih in dobro premišlja o odgovornosti do svojih strank kot tudi do planeta. Na tem simpatičnem predavanju deli svojo zgodbo - in nekaj animacij, in dizajnov, in nalezljive energije.
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Maya Penn makes eco-friendly clothes and accessories, which she sells on a site she built -- and gives away a percent of the profits. Full bio

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and a grilledna žaru codingkodiranje kabobmi kabob.
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ServerStrežnik: Would you like any dessertssladice, sirGospod?
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CustomerKupca: I'd like a batchserija of some
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Stranka: En sveženj
zombi sledilnih piškotkov bi imel, hvala.
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ServerStrežnik: ComingPrihajajo right up, sirGospod.
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Vaša hrana bo kmalu prišla.
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(ApplauseAplavz)
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MayaMaya PennPenn: I've been drawingrisanje ever
sinceod I could holddržite a crayonKrejon,
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Maya Penn: Rišem, od kar sem
prvič v roke prijela voščenko,
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and I've been makingizdelavo animatedanimirano flipflip booksknjige
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in že od tretjega leta
izdelujem animirane slikofrce.
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sinceod I was threetri yearslet oldstar.
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At that agestarost, I alsotudi learnednaučili
about what an animatorAnimator was.
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Takrat sem se tudi naučila,
kaj pomeni biti animator.
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There was a programprogram on TVTV about jobsslužbe
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Na televizorju je bila oddaja o poklicih
za katere otroci ne vedo.
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mostnajbolj kidsotroci don't know about.
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When I understoodrazumel that an animatorAnimator
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Ko sem doumela, da animator
ustvarja risanke na televiziji,
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makesnaredi the cartoonsrisanke I saw on TVTV,
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I immediatelytakoj said, "That's what I want to be."
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sem si takoj rekla:
"To bi jaz rada bila."
Ne vem, ali sem si to le mislila
ali sem to rekla na glas,
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I don't know if I said it mentallyduševno or out loudglasno,
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but that was a greatlyzelo definingdefiniranje momenttrenutek in my life.
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toda vsekakor je to
bila prelomnica v mojem življenju.
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AnimationAnimacija and artumetnost has always been my first love.
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Animacija in umetnost sta
vedno bili moji prvi ljubezni.
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It was my love for technologytehnologijo that sparkediskreno the ideaideja
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Iz moje ljubezni do tehnologije se je
tudi razvila ideja o "Škodljivih jedeh."
01:39
for "MaliciousZlonamerno DishesJedi."
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There was a virusvirus on my computerračunalnik,
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Računalnik se mi je okužil z virusom
in sem se ga poskušala znebiti,
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and I was tryingposkušam to get ridreši of it,
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and all of a suddennenadoma, I just thought,
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naenkrat sem pomislila,
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what if virusesvirusi have theirnjihovi ownlastno
little worldsvet insideznotraj the computerračunalnik?
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kaj, če imajo virusi svoj lasten
majhen svet v računalniku?
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Maybe a restaurantrestavracija where they meetsrečati up
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Morda imajo gostilno, v kateri se družijo
in počnejo virusne zadeve?
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and do virusyran things?
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And thustako, "MaliciousZlonamerno DishesJedi" was bornRojen.
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In tako je nastala
risanka "Škodljive jedi".
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At fourštiri yearslet oldstar, my dadOče showedpokazala me
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Pri štirih letih mi je oče pokazal,
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how to take apartRazen a computerračunalnik
and put it back togetherskupaj again.
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kako se razstavi računalnik
in nato zopet sestavi.
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That startedzačel my love for technologytehnologijo.
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Tako se je začela moja
ljubezen do tehnologije.
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I builtzgrajeno my first websitespletno stran myselfjaz in HTMLHTML,
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Ustvarila sem svojo prvo
HTML spletno stran
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and I'm learningučenje JavaScriptJavaScript and PythonPython.
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in se trenutno učim JavaScript ter Python.
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I'm alsotudi workingdelo on an animatedanimirano seriesserije
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Delam tudi na animirani seriji
z naslovom "Opraševalci".
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calledpozval "The PollinatorsPolinatori."
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Zgodba se vrti okrog čebel
in ostalih opraševalcev v našem okolju,
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It's about beesčebele and other
pollinatorsPolinatori in our environmentokolje
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and why they're so importantpomembno.
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ter tega, zakaj so tako pomembni.
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If plantsrastline aren'tne pollinatedoprašenih by the pollinatorsPolinatori,
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Če opraševalci ne bi opraševali rastlin,
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then all creaturesbitja, includingvključno z ourselvessami,
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bi vsa živa bitja, vključno z nami,
ki so od teh rastlin odvisne, stradale.
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that dependodvisno on these plantsrastline, would starveod lakote.
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So I decidedodločil to take these coolkul creaturesbitja
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Tako sem se odločila,
da bom ta fina bitja
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and make a superherosuperheroj teamekipa.
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združila v skupino superjunakov.
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(FootStopala stompstomp)
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(Teptanje z nogami)
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(Glasba)
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(RoarBučanje)
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(Krohotanje)
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PollinatorOpraševalec: DeforestsaurusDeforestsaurus! I should have knownznano!
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Opraševalka: Gozdokrčnež!
Morala bi vedeti!
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I need to call on the restpočitek of the PollinatorsPolinatori!
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Poklicati moram ostale Opraševalce!
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(MusicGlasba)
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Thank you. (ApplauseAplavz)
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Hvala.
(Aplavz)
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All of my animationsanimacije startZačni with ideasideje,
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Vse moje animacije se začnejo z idejo.
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but what are ideasideje?
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Toda, kaj sploh so ideje?
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IdeasIdeje can sparkIskra a movementpremikanje.
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Ideje sprožijo trend.
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IdeasIdeje are opportunitiespriložnosti and innovationinovacije.
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Ideje so priložnosti in inovacija.
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IdeasIdeje trulyresnično are what make the worldsvet go roundokrogla.
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Ideje so resnično nekaj,
zaradi česar se naš svet vrti.
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If it wasn'tni bilo for ideasideje, we wouldn'tne bi be
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Brez idej ne bi nikoli prišli
tako daleč v tehnologiji, medicini,
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where we are now with technologytehnologijo, medicinezdravila,
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artumetnost, culturekulturo, and how we even livev živo our livesživi.
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umetnosti, kulturi in načinu življenja.
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At eightosem yearslet oldstar, I tookvzel my ideasideje
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Pri osmih letih sem vzela te svoje ideje
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and startedzačel my ownlastno businessposlovanje calledpozval Maya'sMajev IdeasIdeje,
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in sem odprla svoje
podjetje z imenom Mayine ideje
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and my nonprofitneprofitna organizacija, Maya'sMajev IdeasIdeje for the PlanetPlanet.
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in neprofitno organizacijo
Mayine ideje za planet.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
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And I make eco-friendlyEco-prijazen clothingoblačila and accessoriesdodatki.
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Izdelujem okolju prijazna
oblačila in modne dodatke.
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I'm 13 now, and althoughčeprav I startedzačel my businessposlovanje
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Zdaj sem stara 13 let
in čeprav sem podjetje odprla leta 2008,
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in 2008,
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my artisticumetniško journeypotovanje startedzačel way before then.
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se je moja umetniška pot začela že prej.
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I was greatlyzelo influencedvplivali by artumetnost, and I wanted to
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Umetnost je name imela
močan vpliv in sem jo
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incorporatevključi it in everything I did, even my businessposlovanje.
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želela vključiti povsod,
tudi v svoje podjetje.
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I would find differentdrugačen fabricstkanine around the househiša,
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Po hiši sem poiskala različne
vrste blaga in dejala:
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and say, &quotquot;This could be a scarfšal or a hatklobuk,&quotquot;
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"To bi lahko bil šal ali pa kapa,"
imela sem ogromno oblikovalskih idej.
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and I had all these ideasideje for designsmodeli.
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Ko sem nosila svoje stvaritve,
so me ljudje ustavljali in spraševali:
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I noticedopazili when I worenosil my creationskreacije,
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people would stop me and say,
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"WowWow, that's really cutesrčkano. Where can I get one?"
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"Vau, to je res srčkano.
Kje lahko dobim kaj takšnega?"
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And I thought, I can startZačni my ownlastno businessposlovanje.
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In sem pomislila,
da lahko odprem svoje podjetje.
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Now I didn't have any businessposlovanje plansnačrtov
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Toda, nisem imela poslovnega načrta
pri osmih letih.
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at only eightosem yearslet oldstar.
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Vedela sem le,
da želim ustvarjati lepe izdelke,
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I only knewvedel I wanted to make prettylepa creationskreacije
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that were safevarno for the environmentokolje
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ki so varni za okolje
in jih lahko okolju vrnem.
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and I wanted to give back.
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My mommama taughtučil me how to sewšivati,
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Mama me je naučila šivati
in sem sedela na verandi
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and on my back porchveranda, I would sitsedi and make
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ter izdelovala naglavne trakove,
04:29
little headbandstrakovi out of ribbontrak,
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and I would writepiši down the namesimena
and the pricecena of eachvsak itempredmet.
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nato sem jih poimenovala
in jim dodala ceno.
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I startedzačel makingizdelavo more itemspredmetov like hatsklobuki,
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Začela sem izdelovati tudi kape,
šale in torbice.
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scarvesšali and bagsvrečke.
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SoonKmalu, my itemspredmetov beganzačel sellingprodajo all over the worldsvet,
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Kmalu so izdelki bili v prodaji
po celem svetu
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and I had customersstranke in DenmarkDanska, ItalyItalija, AustraliaAvstralija,
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in sem imela stranke na Danskem,
v Italiji, Avstraliji, Kanadi in drugje.
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CanadaKanada and more.
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Now, I had a lot to learnučiti se about my businessposlovanje,
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O svojem podjetju sem se morala
še veliko naučiti
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like brandingblagovno znamko and marketingtrženje,
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o blagovnih znamkah, trženju,
ohranitvi sodelovanja s strankami
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stayingostati engagedangažiran with my customersstranke,
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and seeingvidenje what soldprodano the mostnajbolj and the leastvsaj.
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in sledenju, kateri izdelki
so najbolj in kateri najmanj prodajani.
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SoonKmalu, my businessposlovanje really startedzačel to take off.
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Kmalu je moje podjetje
postalo zelo uspešno.
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Then one day, ForbesForbes magazinerevija
contactedstikali me when I was 10 yearslet oldstar.
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In nekega dne, me pri desetih letih
pokličejo z revije Forbes.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
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They wanted to featurefunkcija me and my companypodjetje
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Želeli so napisati prispevek o meni
in mojem podjetju.
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in theirnjihovi articlečlanek.
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Now a lot of people askvprašajte me,
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Veliko ljudi me vpraša,
zakaj je moje podjetje prijazno okolju?
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why is your businessposlovanje eco-friendlyEco-prijazen?
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I've had a passionstrast for protectingzaščita the environmentokolje
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Strast do varovanja okolja in njegovih
bitij v meni gori že od majhnih nog.
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and its creaturesbitja sinceod I was little.
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My parentsstarši taughtučil me at an earlyzgodaj agestarost
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Moji starši so me že zelo zgodaj učili,
kako vračati okolju in biti njegov varuh.
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about givingdajanje back and beingbiti a
good stewardskrbnik to the environmentokolje.
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Povedala sta mi, kako
so nekatera barvila v oblačilih
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I heardslišal about how the dyesbarvila in some clothingoblačila
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or the processproces of even makingizdelavo the itemspredmetov
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ali pa sploh postopki izdelovanja oblačil
škodljivi za ljudi in planet.
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was harmfulškodljivo to the people and the planetplanet,
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so I startedzačel doing my ownlastno researchraziskave,
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Zato sem to začela raziskovati tudi sama
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and I discoveredodkriti that even
after dyeingbarvanje has beingbiti completedzaključen,
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in sem odkrila,
da se problem pojavi že po barvanju,
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there is a wasteodpadki issuetežava that givesdaje a negativenegativno impactvpliv
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in sicer z odpadnimi snovmi,
ki imajo negativen učinek na okolje.
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on the environmentokolje.
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For exampleprimer, the grindingbrušenje of materialsmaterialov,
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Na primer, mletje materialov,
ali pa odlaganje suhega prahu.
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or the dumpingdampinga of driedsušimo powderprašek materialsmaterialov.
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These actionsdejavnosti can polluteonesnažiti the airzrak,
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Izvajanje teh del lahko onesnaži zrak,
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makingizdelavo it toxicstrupeno to anyonekdorkoli or anything that inhalesvdihne it.
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ki postane škodljiv za vsakega,
ki ta zrak vdihne.
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So when I startedzačel my businessposlovanje,
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Torej, ko sem začela s poslovanjem,
sem vedela dve stvari:
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I knewvedel two things:
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All of my itemspredmetov had to be eco-friendlyEco-prijazen,
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Vsi moji izdelki morajo biti
ekološko prijazni
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and 10 to 20 percentodstotkov of the profitsdobiček I madeizdelane
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in 10 do 20 odstotkov dohodka
bom vložila v lokalne in globalne
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wentšla to locallokalno and globalglobalno charitiesdobrodelne organizacije
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dobrodelne organizacije
ter okoljevarstvene organizacije.
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and environmentalokolje organizationsorganizacije.
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I feel I'm partdel of the newnovo waveval of entrepreneurspodjetniki
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Imam občutek, da sem del
novega vala podjetnikov,
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that not only seeksželi to have a successfuluspešno businessposlovanje,
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ki ne stremijo samo k uspešnem podjetju,
06:09
but alsotudi a sustainabletrajnostno futureprihodnost.
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ampak si tudi želijo
trajnostno prihodnost.
Mislim, da lahko zadovoljim
potrebe svojih strank
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I feel that I can meetsrečati the needspotrebe of my customersstranke
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withoutbrez compromisingogrožanja the
abilitysposobnost of futureprihodnost generationsgeneracije
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ne da bi ogrožala
zmožnost prihodnjih generacij,
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to livev živo in a greenernovinec tomorrowjutri.
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da bi uživale bolj zelen jutri.
06:19
We livev živo in a bigvelik, diverseraznolika and beautifullepo worldsvet,
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Živimo v svetu,
ki je velik, raznolik in lep,
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and that makesnaredi me even more passionatestrasten to saveshranite it.
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in zato si ga še bolj vneto želim rešiti.
06:24
But it's never enoughdovolj to just
to get it throughskozi your headsglave
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Toda nikoli ni dovolj le razmišljati
o stvareh, ki se dogajajo na našem svetu.
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about the things that are happeningdogaja in our worldsvet.
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It takes to get it throughskozi your heartssrca,
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Te stvari moramo začutiti v srcu,
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because when you get it throughskozi your heartsrce,
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kajti le srčni občutki o teh stvareh
sprožijo gibanje.
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that is when movementsgibanja are sparkediskreno.
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06:35
That is when opportunitiespriložnosti
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Takšni trenutki ustvarjajo
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and innovationinovacije are createdustvarjeno,
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and that is why ideasideje come to life.
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in tako oživijo ideje.
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Thank you, and peacemir and blessingsblagoslove.
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Hvala, želim vam mir in blagoslov.
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the amazingneverjetno parentsstarši who are behindzadaj
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neverjetnih starših, ki stojijo ob strani
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this incredibleneverjetno womanženska. Where are they?
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tej neverjetni ženski. Kje sta?
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Please, MrG.. and MrsGospa. PennPenn. Would you just -- AhAh!
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Translated by Miha Helbl
Reviewed by Matej Divjak

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Maya Penn - Entrepreneur, animator, philanthropist ...
Maya Penn makes eco-friendly clothes and accessories, which she sells on a site she built -- and gives away a percent of the profits.

Why you should listen

To sell her line of luscious knit scarves and eco-friendly hats, teenaged entrepreneur Maya Penn built and maintains her own retail website. (She started the business when she was 8.) She’s also an animator and a geek, and an eager evangelist of teaching kids of be entrepreneurs at any age. Bursting with ideas, she recently started a side nonprofit called Maya’s Ideas 4 The Planet.

More profile about the speaker
Maya Penn | Speaker | TED.com

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