First to a Million with Dan Sheeks - Member Spotlight Episode 162

Dan is a high school Business/Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, Colorado.  Dan launched SheeksFreaks in late 2019, which is an online community dedicated to helping young people learn money management skills, start investing in real estate, and pursue early financial independence. Working with teenagers, personal finance advocacy, real estate investing, and the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement are Dan’s four passions.

Highlights of the Episode:

01:16 - Background about Dan Sheeks

03:19 - Start of Teaching Career

05:44 - Teaching Personal Finance in High School

07:57 - Why Personal Finance is not a requirement

09:52 - Importance of Personal Finance as a subject

13:09 - Tipping point in Personal Finance

15:47 - Mission of Dan Sheeks' book

17:22 - How Happiness related to Financial Independence

22.03 - Typical American Pathway

23:48 - Who needs to be educated on Financial Independence

25:48 - Making Teenagers want to learn about Financial future

27:03 - Dealing with pushbacks

29:18 - Getting in with Bigger Pockets

31:53 - Building the community of Sheeks Freaks

34:58 - Teenager's Success stories

37:03 - Classroom vs Online

37:23 - Vision of the future

34:54 - First to a Million Workbook of Dan Sheeks

42:13 - Dan being a Father

43:53 - Best lesson from Parent

Notable quotes from the Episode:

"If you retire at 30 or 65, there's a lot of time where you can choose your own pathway, but until they know that's an option, there is no other pathway."

"Here's the information that people don't have, now that you have it, now that you understand that there are other options, only you can get to decide how you want to live your life, what do you want to do".

"The early financial independence movement is about freeing up your time to spend it, on the things that make you happy"

"Success happens when you surround yourself with like-minded people. That's the whole idea of Gobudance, you want to be with people that challenge us, that level us up".

Connecting with the Guest

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