Eamon - Founder • Entrepreneur • Dad
I built businesses to prove I could. I built this so my kids never have to prove it to themselves.
Kidpreneur Academy exists because one feeling — turning an idea into something real — changes how a child sees themselves for good.
📍 Ireland & Australia
"The best thing entrepreneurship gave me wasn't the money. It was the feeling that ideas count. I want every child to feel that at eight, not twenty-eight."
Eamon Eastwood
Founder · Entrepreneur · Dad
Father of two beautiful daughters. Founder of a multi-million-dollar global food distribution business — built from a backpacker's bedroom with one packet of crisps.
What I believe
Three convictions from ten years teaching kids to build things — in classrooms, kitchens and after-school clubs.
Kids learn by making, not by being told.
Nothing sticks like a prototype your child built themselves. Every mission ends in something visible — an idea card, a photo, a pitch video, a badge. Business theory can wait. Making things can’t.
Eight to eleven is the sweet spot.
Old enough to think for themselves. Young enough not to be self-conscious. This is the window where curiosity turns into agency — and where “let’s try it” beats “what’s the plan?” every time. Ready Set Launch is built for this window. No younger. No older. No pressure.
Confidence is a habit, not a moment.
It’s not built in one big pitch day. It’s built in the ninth mission, the third prototype, the second time your child says “I made this.” Ziggy exists to celebrate every tiny try — because that’s how kids come to believe they can.
How Ready Set Launch came together
From kitchen-table experiment to guided 9-mission program.
2015The first kids' entrepreneurship programme
As Director of the Club Kidpreneur Foundation, Eamon co-created the first after-school kidpreneur programme and taught it in schools across Australia.
2020ABC of a Kidpreneur
Eamon publishes ABC of a Kidpreneur — a practical children's book on business and life, drawn from years of teaching kids to think like founders.
2023Ready Set Launch takes shape
Design and testing begins on the Ready · Set · Launch programme. Ziggy joins as the kid-facing guide who cheers every tiny try.
TodayReady Set Launch, online
A fully guided, 45-minutes-a-week online program — built for families anywhere, with lifetime access.
2027Teen Track
More missions. More skills. More impact.
Meet Ziggy - the spark behind every idea
Ziggy is your child's guide through all nine missions - cheering the tricky bits and high-fiving every tiny try.
Ready to help your child build something real?
9 guided missions. 45 minutes a week. Lifetime access.