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Dan Sheeks is a passionate educator and advocate for Gen Z financial independence. As the founder of the SheeksFreaks community, Dan has helped young people achieve remarkable financial milestones, including members with million-dollar net worths, real estate portfolios, and thriving businesses. He's the author of First to a Million, a bestselling guide for young people seeking early financial independence, and a frequent speaker at schools and conferences nationwide. Dan's unique blend of real-world investing experience, teaching expertise, and commitment to empowering youth makes him a standout voice in the world of personal finance education. On this episode we talk about: – How Gen Z can start building wealth early—even as teenagers or young adults – The power and practicality of house hacking as a first step into real estate – Creative side hustles and business ideas for young people to earn $2,000+ per month – The importance of financial self-education and actionable steps to get started – Using credit cards responsibly to build credit and unlock travel rewards Top 3 Takeaways 1. Self-education is the foundation of financial success. Dan emphasizes that young people must take the initiative to learn about personal finance—whether through books, podcasts, or online resources—to build the knowledge base necessary for smart money decisions. 2. House hacking and creative real estate strategies can make property ownership accessible. Even without significant upfront capital, young people can leverage house hacking—renting out part of their primary residence—to start investing and generate extra income. 3. Discipline with credit cards unlocks major benefits. Used responsibly, credit cards can help build credit history and provide valuable perks like travel rewards, but only if balances are paid in full every month. Connect with Dan Sheeks: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-sheeks-0ab489106 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sheeksfreaks/?hl=en Website: sheeksfreaks.com SHOW SPONSOR: Check out FranBridge Consulting for premier non-food franchise opportunities: travischappell.com/franbridge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Sheeks, founder of SheeksFreaks and author of First to a Million is back! He discusses. his ultimate teen money hack for parents, strategy he says is the BEST way for a parent to prepare their children to crush their financial future. More about Dan: He is a high school Business/Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, CO. His students have competed at the national level in entrepreneurship, personal finance, marketing, and hospitality services with much success over the years. The SheeksFreaks community aims to help teens use specific methods of saving, earning extra income, and investing to set them on a track to purchase real estate investment properties in their early 20s and achieve financial independence at a young age. Email him dan@sheeksfreaks.com to receive his free downloads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Sheeks, founder of SheeksFreaks and author of First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Freedom shares strategies, concepts, and the mindset teenagers need to achieve early financial freedom. More about Dan: He is a high school Business/Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, CO. His students have competed at the national level in entrepreneurship, personal finance, marketing, and hospitality services with much success over the years. The SheeksFreaks community aims to help teens use specific methods of saving, earning extra income, and investing to set them on a track to purchase real estate investment properties in their early 20s and achieve financial independence at a young age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you or someone you know a young person obsessed with making intelligent financial decisions? Then you or the person that you know might be a SheeksFreak! Dan Sheeks, a high school educator and author of First to a Million, has built a community of people who are committed to reach early financial independence and live their best life. And he calls the members of the community SheeksFreaks. Dan comes onto the NGPF Podcast to talk about his book, his decision to write it, and his side hustles outside of teaching.

Dan is a high school Business/Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, CO. In his 18 years of teaching high school, he has taught a variety of business subjects including personal finance, entrepreneurship, and marketing.  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. The SheeksFreaks community aims to help teens use specific methods of saving, earning extra income, and investing to set them on a track to purchase real estate investment properties in their early 20s and achieve financial independence at a young age. Dan and his wife have a variety of real estate investments including multifamily, single family, Airbnb, and out-of-state BRRRRs. They currently have 15 units in Colorado and Michigan. Websites & Social Media SheeksFreaks website SheeksFreaks Instagram @sheeksfreaks SheeksFreak Youtube Dan's LinkedIn Dan's Instagram @dsheeks  

Dan Sheeks is the Author of First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence and the founder of SheeksFreaks: a community of young entrepreneurs and early FI seekers. Dan has also been teaching high school business classes for 19 years. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. If you are a young person, or a parent of a young person. Flip the script on the status quo. If a person is going to go on college, community colleges are a great option. Do an internship or apprenticeship that won't put them in tens of thousands of dollars in debt. 2. The system is setup where if a high school student wants to pursue high level of education, they're going to be much more attractive to colleges and universities if they have a high level math and science classes. 3. It's difficult to know what you want to do for, potentially, 40 years of your life when you're 18 years old, and to pick a major that you're not going to be interested in for decades. Cheek out Dan's website and join a community of like-minded people - Sheeks Freaks Sponsors: HubSpot: Learn how to grow better by connecting your people, your customers, and your business at HubSpot.com! LinkedIn Advertising: Scale your marketing and grow your business with LinkedIn Advertising! And right, LinkedIn is offering a $100 credit on your next campaign. Visit LinkedIn.com/onfire to claim your credit! VistaCreate: A graphic design platform where anyone can easily craft professional and unique visual content for social media and digital marketing in minutes! Visit VistaCreate.com today to try it for free!

Dan Sheeks is the Author of First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence and the founder of SheeksFreaks: a community of young entrepreneurs and early FI seekers. Dan has also been teaching high school business classes for 19 years. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. If you are a young person, or a parent of a young person. Flip the script on the status quo. If a person is going to go on college, community colleges are a great option. Do an internship or apprenticeship that won't put them in tens of thousands of dollars in debt. 2. The system is setup where if a high school student wants to pursue high level of education, they're going to be much more attractive to colleges and universities if they have a high level math and science classes. 3. It's difficult to know what you want to do for, potentially, 40 years of your life when you're 18 years old, and to pick a major that you're not going to be interested in for decades. Cheek out Dan's website and join a community of like-minded people - Sheeks Freaks Sponsors: HubSpot: Learn how to grow better by connecting your people, your customers, and your business at HubSpot.com! LinkedIn Advertising: Scale your marketing and grow your business with LinkedIn Advertising! And right, LinkedIn is offering a $100 credit on your next campaign. Visit LinkedIn.com/onfire to claim your credit! VistaCreate: A graphic design platform where anyone can easily craft professional and unique visual content for social media and digital marketing in minutes! Visit VistaCreate.com today to try it for free!

Being young should not hold you back in gaining financial independence and real estate investing, and Dan Sheeks is here to shed light on learning about money management at an early age. We'll talk about how young people can learn more about personal finance, get into investing business, and things to do early in life to set themselves up for financial success. Key Takeaways To Listen ForReasons why personal finance should be taught to teenagersThings young adults should do to set themselves up for financial successHow young people can get involved in real estate investingIs it common for schools to have financial classes?Tips for young adults to be financially independent earlyResources Mentioned In This EpisodeFirst to a Million by Dan Sheeks | Paperback & Audiobook BiggerPocketschooseFIFree Apartment Syndication Due Diligence Checklist for Passive Investor About Dan SheeksDan Sheeks is a high school Business/Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, CO. In his 18 years of teaching high school, he has taught a variety of business subjects including personal finance, entrepreneurship, and marketing. Dan's passions include working with teenagers, advocating for personal finance education, investing in real estate, and promoting the FIRE movement. Embedded in his classes is the co-curricular DECA club in which students travel, compete, acquire leadership skills, do community service, and have fun! His students have competed at the national level in entrepreneurship, personal finance, marketing, and hospitality services with much success over the years. 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. The SheeksFreaks community aims to help teens use specific methods of saving, earning extra income, and investing to set them on a track to purchase real estate investment properties in their early 20s and achieve financial independence at a young age. He is also the author of the book “First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Freedom.”Connect with DanWebsite: Sheeks FreaksFacebook: SheeksFreaksInstagram: @sheeksfreaksYouTube: Sheeks FreaksTo Connect With UsPlease visit our website: www.bonavestcapital.com and please click here, to leave a rating and review!SponsorsGrow Your Show, LLCThinking About Creating and Growing Your Own Podcast But Not Sure Where To Start?Visit GrowYourShow.com and Schedule a call with Adam A. Adams.Dream Chasers PodcastWant to listen to another Next Level Show?Subscribe to DREAM CHASERS | Interviews with the Future Podcast!

Join me for a conversation with Dan Sheeks! Dan is a high school marketing and entrepreneur teacher from Denver, CO. He's the founder of SheeksFreaks, an online community to help young people live their best lives by making smart money decisions. He's also the author of the new BiggerPockets published book First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Financial Independence. Dan is passionate about investing, real estate, and helping others find their own financial path to financial freedom. First to a Million Bookwww.SheekFreaks.com 

Dan Sheeks is one of the newest BiggerPockets Publishing authors, with his book, First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Freedom. The book introduces teenagers to the strategies, concepts, and mindset needed to achieve early financial freedom. He is a high school Business/Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, Colorado. He and his wife have a variety of real estate investments including multifamily, single-family, Airbnb, and out-of-state BRRRRs (buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat). Dan's passions include working with teenagers, advocating for personal finance education, investing in real estate, and promoting the FIRE movement. In his 19-plus years of teaching high school, he has taught various business subjects, including financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and marketing. In this episode, Dan will share with us his passionate work how he is helping teenagers in personal finance, passive income, real estate investing, and early financial freedom strategies so they can live their best lives. Episode Links: https://www.sheeksfreaks.com  https://www.instagram.com/dsheeks/?hl=en https://store.biggerpockets.com/products/first-to-a-million https://www.amazon.com/First-Million-Teenagers-Achieving-Independence/dp/1947200461 --- Transcript Before we jump into the episode, here's a quick disclaimer about our content. The Remote Real Estate Investor podcast is for informational purposes only, and is not intended as investment advice. The views, opinions and strategies of both the hosts and the guests are their own and should not be considered as guidance from Roofstock. Make sure to always run your own numbers, make your own independent decisions and seek investment advice from licensed professionals.   Michael: What's going on everyone? Welcome to another episode of the Real Estate Investor. My name is Michael Albaum. And if you're watching this on camera, I've clearly got a shiny head tonight. I think it's my lighting.   On this episode, I will interview Dan Sheeks, author, investor, teacher, and just someone who's full of wisdom and golden nuggets. So let's get right into it.   Dan Sheeks, what's going on, man? Thanks so much for coming on the show with me. I appreciate you.   Dan: You bet, Michael, great to be here. Thanks for having me.   Michael: Oh, my gosh, my pleasure. So we were chatting a little bit before we recorded, we you know, hit the record button. And so I know a little bit about your story. But I would love if you could share with all of our listeners, who you are, where you came from and what it is has to do now with real estate.   Dan: Sure. Um, it's not it's not a crazy exceptional story. It's… so I'll keep it short. It's… I've been in Colorado for a little over 20 years. My main gig currently is that I am a high school business teacher in a public high school, just south of Denver and a suburb. This is my 19th year doing that. And I teach classes like entrepreneurship, personal finance, marketing, stuff like that. I love my job. I absolutely love my job. I have great kids and great program. All my classes are electives. And so most of the kids that are in their want to be in there. And so it's it's fun to teach them.   I bought my first property…. say 10 years ago, but I really started investing I would say about six or seven years ago, when my wife and I, at the time we weren't married, we had just started dating actually. But we both were just kind of starting to scratch the surface around real estate investing. And when, when we met, we also both found the BiggerPockets community and the Choose FIRE community and really dove like full on into those communities and their blogs and their podcasts and all that good stuff. And so luckily for us, I guess that's probably why we're married. We were really in sync with our future financial goals. And the idea of real estate investing to build wealth. So we've been hammering it ever since. Today, we own 17 units, mostly in Colorado. We have three houses out in Detroit, Michigan, or suburb of Detroit. And a little bit of variety in there. We have single family, small multifamily, we've done some burrs, we have a couple of short term rentals. We house hack, so we rent out our basement as well.   Michael: Love it, love it…   Dan: Most… mostly long term buy and hold properties. So that's, that's it in a nutshell.   Michael: Okay, man, that's awesome. I mean, I think there's a ton there that I want to unpack. But you said at the beginning of that sentence, that's not a very exceptional story. And I'm going to push back a little bit on that, because you said that you're a high school business teacher in a public school. I mean, those words don't exist, didn't exist in a sentence when I was in school. So what is a high school business teacher? I mean, that's, that sounds incredible.   Dan: Yeah, there's a lot of people say that, like, Oh, I didn't know they had those classes in high school.   Michael: Yeah.   Dan: And when I was in school, too, we did… we did have one business teacher, he taught typing and accounting. And that might have been it. I took accounting from him, and I really liked it. But business classes have been around, but nowadays, they're really started. There's a lot of them, especially in the larger urban schools where there's enough, enough of a you know, class size and students to to fill those rooms with with kids. So we have all kinds of classes at our school, we have, I think, seven business teachers… 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, sorry, six full time business teachers that teach a variety of classes. So most of your bigger urban schools are going to have business classes, and even some of your rural schools will have the things I mentioned, like, you know, accounting, and maybe an intro, intro to business class, computer application, stuff like that. So, yeah, they're out there, but they are usually always elective.   Michael: Okay. All right. Well, I know I would have for sure jumped on that when I was in school. So I'm so glad to hear now that it's being offered. But it's so cool to hear that. I mean, you're living, like you're living and breathing what it is that you're teaching these kids, right.   Dan: I teach personal finance and I teach marketing that's… Marketing is my main, the main thing I teach marketing classes, Social Media for Business and I guess entrepreneurship, too. And so in those classes, because it's a passion of mine, I will drop in, you know, a day here a day there. I call them FIRE-days, Financial Independence Days, and we'll just talk about some random strategy. Maybe it's house hacking, maybe it's frugality. Maybe it's side hustles, maybe it's passive income. And we'll just have some good conversations around it. In the personal finance class, of course, I can get more into that because it's more relevant to the actual curriculum. But even in that class, I still have to cover a lot of the basics. So there's that foundation, because when I get into things like, let's say, real estate investing, or these higher level FIRE-strategies, you know, they have to have that foundation first.   Michael: Okay. And when you say the basics, what is that? Because I think so many investors, or people that are just getting into investing in general, hear that real estate's a great investment and think, okay, I gotta go, you know, I gotta go get some real estate, but maybe don't have some of those basics and those fundamentals down. So when you say that, you know, what are you referring to?   Dan: Yeah, just the basic personal finance stuff would be things like checking accounts, savings accounts, brokerage accounts, the basic stock market investing, knowledge, credit cards, building a good credit score, using credit, having assets and not liabilities, things of that nature. Insurance…   Michael: Okay.   Dan: Pay stubs, good doing your taxes.   Michael: Love it. And you recently wrote a book, right?   Dan: Yeah, I wrote a book, came out about two months ago.   Michael: Awesome. And what is it called? And what can people expect to find in it?   Dan: Yes. So the book is called: “First to a Million” and the subtitle is “A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence”. And so it covers, it covers a lot. It's actually pretty, it's kind of a longer book for a teenager, but it's a pretty easy read, I think. But it's not something that someone who read in it in an evening, it's, it's got, it's got some, some girth to it, I would say some a lot of good content. But when I wrote it, I wrote it for teenagers, obviously, that's in the subtitle, but really, it's a book, anybody who's just getting started in the early financial independence world, or, you know, that idea that, hey, I don't have to work till I am 65. The book has a lot of value for anybody. I don't care what, what age you are, it's really an introduction to that, that community, that strategy. And so you know, I wrote the book, assuming the reader knew nothing, right? They were, they're starting with a clean slate, they knew very little about personal finance. The good news is though, and I always laugh about this, because there's a lot of people out there who are very passionate about teaching adults, personal finance, and early financial independence strategies, and bless them for doing that. But I think it's actually easier what I'm doing because a teenager is a blank slate, right? They, they haven't really started bad habits, they haven't tanked their credit score, they haven't incurred a bunch of debt, they don't have any debt. And they haven't engaged in lifestyle inflation. So they're, you know, you can train them from the get go to make good decisions from, from a very early age. And so I think it's kind of easier to deal with teens and to teach them right out of the gate.   So that book is really just about introducing the young person to savvy personal finance, the foundation, some of that's covered in the book, and then going into those bigger topics. Like I mentioned before it, frugality, entrepreneurship, side hustles, passive income, real estate investing, index fund investing, and there's a couple chapters in there about should you go to college? Is that a good decision or not? Obviously, teenagers, that's a big decision they have to make.   Michael: That's a very big, I'm sure you've got some angry parents of folks reading that book? Because that's a question for so many people, right? It's like you have to go.   Dan: Yeah. I mean, I don't have any angry parents because I don't tell anybody what to do. I just lay out the pros and cons. Like if, if you, the reader are interested in early financial independence, then here's the pros and cons of college and I ultimately say it's your choice only, you know what you should do? But a college degree isn't necessary for financial independence. And that sometimes can actually be a hindrance, because, you know, especially if you incur debt, you know, in the book I talked about if you're going to go to college, great. More power to you, but you need to find a way to do it without incurring any student loan debt.   Michael: Yeah, yeah. I mean, you think about and just look at the math like an average college costs about 20 grand a year 25 grand a year. If you go put that on a down payment on a house, you could have four properties by the time you would have graduated college.   Dan: Yeah, especially if you how sacked one a year you will…You'd have four properties without a doubt. And I know guys who are financially independent with four properties and the house hack to meet, so you can parallel universe there, you have someone who's graduating at 22, let's say with 100,000 / 50,000 in credit card debt, just starting their career in parallel universe, there's their, their twin who's basically at financial independence are very close. Now. They're, they're living pretty meagerly and frugally, but they can, you know, slowly continue to buy more passive income assets and grow that over time. Yeah, so it's, there's a choice. And I don't tell anyone what choice to make. It's everyone's got their personal path to walk. But I do believe everyone should be educated on the options.   Michael: Totally, totally. And I mean, you're teaching this stuff day in and day out, Dan. So what inspired you to actually write a book about it?   Dan: Um, it was, it started six or seven years ago, when when my wife and I found bigger pockets and Choose FIRE. Because before that, I really, I knew about investing. And I knew about savvy personal finance, but I didn't know about early financial independence. And so as my wife and I learned more and more and more, and I was reading books, and blogs, and listen to podcasts, and all that stuff.   I was like, Wow, this, you know, these options that are included under the financial early financial independence umbrella, nobody knows about this stuff. It's just, it's a pretty new movement, at least the last 10 or 15 years. So I, you know, teenagers being my thing, I love working with young people. I just knew that I had to write a book, specifically for that young person, about these early five strategies, because there's nothing else out there. You know, there's nothing, there's no other book out there for young people to introduce them to these other options.   Michael: Yeah. And I mean, I love that, I love that. So many people, I think, especially if talking to a financial advisor, or financial planner, get overwhelmed with all of the different options, all the different choices, all the different possibilities out there. So how do you break it down for younger folks to really understand and digest? And, and do you think that they really do?   Dan: Um, I know they do. Because I've worked with so many young people who are, who are using these these strategies and these tools and these tactics to be well on their way to early financial independence at a young age. Does every kid soak it up? Don't know yet, right? Because a lot of the students in my class or in my classroom, or in my… sorry, my online community, they're probably listening to stuff and they may not, they may not employ it right away. But it's always going to be in the back of their head. So maybe 15 years down the road, they hate their job. And then that's the impetus that makes them say, you know what, I cannot do this for another 30 years. But I remember that one guy, or that one book, or that one guy…   Michael: The Dan guy…   Dan: Yeah. Yeah. And so let me Google that and see what that's about again, I want to look into that some more, because now they're more motivated, perhaps. Yeah…   Michael: I love that. I love that. So and let's talk about your online community. What's it called? And kind of who's it for? Dan: It's called SheeksFreaks, which is kind of a funny name…   Michael: I love the name.   Dan: Well, it's my last name plus the word freaks in the whole, you know, the first 2 million book, the whole kind of premise, or the theme of the book is around being freakish. And same with my community. And that that is, you know, it's it's the idea that very few young people are motivated enough to spend time learning and executing personal finance strategies. It's not the norm most young people don't want anything to do with that. That was me when I was younger. So the young person, like if someone reads my book, and they're a teenager, that's, that's exceptional, right? That's, that's a book about personal finance and money that a teenager just read through. Kudos to them, but that's not normal. It's freakish in a good way, right? It's exceptional. So the SheeksFreaks community is an online community been around for about two years, it's for young people, I like to say 15 to 25, who are either beginning or, you know, maybe intermediate level around early financial independence stuff, we have several different subgroups within the community, like different topics that they can join, that they're more specifically interested in. We have like 40 of those. And so that it's just a place for young people to come together to interact and connect with likeminded young people because again, these are their freaks, they are different. And so even in their home group, there's not a lot of people like them, their best friends probably aren't engaging in the conversations that they want to have around money, but in my community, that's all that we're doing.   Michael: I love it. I love it. And how do you find the conversation is best started. You know, for a lot of our listeners out there maybe their parents and have young, young kids or teenage age kids in their life, and this topic has never come up at the dinner table or never come up in life. So how do you start to facilitate? How do you start to have that conversation? You give them a book and say here, go, go get learned?   Dan: Yeah, well, I think you have the, you have the conversation at the dinner table, even you just do it, right. And I mean, it should go well, before that, I think money conversation should be held in the household from a pretty early age, you know, I mean, from the get go, and it just, it becomes part of your family culture that we are open with money, we talk about our, our incomes, and our expenses and our, our financial status in our house, and you can try to make it you know, don't tell them too much, until they're old enough to understand that some of that shouldn't be shared with everybody. But you have the conversations at dinner, you have the conversations in the car on the way the grocery store, you, you have your child teenager, tween whatever, you have them sit down with you while you pay the bills, click the mouse and pay, you know, pay the bill here pay the bill there you show them where your money's coming in, you show them where the money is going out for the house. So every household is like a small little business, show them the profit and loss, show them the balance sheet. So then the checking account, the savings account, the brokerage account, explain to them what's going on there. If they don't have any interest, um, you know, just keep at it every few months, sit them down again. But if you're having these conversations around the table, I think it's going to happen pretty organically. I don't have kids that age yet, so I can't speak to it. But I can say as a teacher, you know, and use terms like financial freedom, not retirement, retirement, it's kind of boring and like light years in their future, but financial freedom, financial independence, those are more catchy click beatty kind of terms that they, they might gravitate to. And, you know, just pose a question like, son or daughter, if you won $100,000 in a lottery, what would you do with that money? Here's what I would do. You know, let them explain and here's what I would do. And what do you think would be the best use of that money? Would you split it into different buckets? And why would you do that? There's a lot of things you can do to just facilitate money conversations. That's really what you got to do.   Michael: Yeah, that's a great question, that's a great question… So Dan, I would love to shift gears here and talk a little bit about your kind of personal portfolio and journey having done, you know, a handful of different things, what's been your favorite investment asset class today?   Dan: Short term rentals, we have ,too you know, we're not experts by any stretch, but they do crush it, man, the, the, the increased cash flow is significant. But they are a little more high maintenance, or sometimes a lot more high maintenance. My wife just… one of our short term rentals is about an hour drive south of here in Colorado Springs, and my wife just went down today for about an hour drive down, she spent about two hours down there, she came back for an hour, you know, she goes down there and checks up on the property every, every month or so. And just to make sure things are good touch base with our, with our cleaner, who's really kind of our property manager down there in a way.   Michael: Okay…   Dan: Umm, so I think those are my favorite, but you know, we're not, we're not real estate investors that want to own 100 properties, we will probably buy a few more, and then we'll be good. We'll probably start paying off some mortgages and, and increasing our cash flow. And we don't want to own multiple, multiple short term rentals. That's just not in our strategy for long term wealth and happiness. And that's what it's all about, right? It's about being happy. And we live pretty frugally. So we don't need a bunch. And we don't want to be having to think about a bunch of properties.   Michael: It makes total sense. And you mentioned that you and your wife are also house hacking, which I love because my wife and I are doing the same thing. And I think so many people hear what house hacking is and think oh, it's only for, you know, a single person fresh out of school, you know, can eat Top Ramen for dinner, but I mean, you're, you're a married couple doing it. So curious to know what that's been like for you both?   Dan: It's been awesome. It's like getting a $10,000 a year raise every year, or just a bonus, I guess. And by the way, my wife was a public school teacher elementary for 18 years before she retired a couple years ago, was able to retire because of our our real estate investments. Now she manages our portfolio, she grows our portfolio. She's a property manager. And she has a couple of side hustles so she's home pretty much all day except when she's doing you know, managing properties and whatnot. So we have, we have a three story house and it's a three bedroom house and there's a bedroom on each floor, each each level. So in our basement, there's one bedroom, one bathroom, a living area, plenty of storage fireplace and we've kind of made a makeshift kitchen down there with the a hot plate and a microwave and a toaster oven and a medium sized fridge. And so yeah, we ran out the basement to… well, we've we just our third tenants that we've had in like four or five years, just left. So it's right now actually listed and we'll have someone moving in soon.   And yeah, they just live downstairs, there's that we share the laundry with them, we share the main entrance. For the most part, they don't use our kitchen, but they can you know, if it's, if they need to use it, that's fine. But they pay us $950 a month to live in our basement. It's a nice house, right? The downstairs is a great living area.   Michael: Amazing.   Dan: So it's not for everyone, my wife and I are in our 40s we have a small child. I'm at work at school, you know, every day, so we only rent to females, my wife feels and I feel much more comfortable doing just females. And it's worked out great, you know, we've had three great tenants looking for a fourth, and who doesn't want an extra 10 grand a year?   Michael: Totally. And so it sounds like it's a long term rental than long term basis.   Dan: Yeah, we usually start out with three to six months and then month a month after that. I think all three of our tenants have stayed for at least one year, the longest, I think was two years.   Michael: Okay. Man, I love that, I love that. Any plans to stop that in the future at a certain… when your kids get to a certain age after you feel like, you know, just kind of over this? Do you see that in your horizon anytime?   Dan: We've talked about it, but we'll just play it by ear, honestly. I mean it. If at some point were like, you know, this isn't working anymore. We'll just say, all right, you got you got another month, here's your months' notice, and then we'll move on. Yeah…   Michael: Love it. And I think, I think house hacking is like one of the best way to turbocharge just like rocket fuel for real estate investing and wealth building. I mean, it's just unbelievable what you can do with it. So any tips, tricks, recommendations to folks listening out there that are considering purchasing a house hack for themselves?   Dan: Oh, I have tons and I agree with you.   Michael: Awesome. I thought you might…   Michael: Yeah. Yeah, Michael, I 100% agree with you that house hacking is I think by far the best real estate investing strategy for young people to get started. And I write about it quite a bit in my book. There's also a workbook that goes, there's the book First 2 Million, and there's a workbook that goes with it and in that workbook it takes, it takes a teenager over like a five year, five year period of time and gives them tasks to do every four months. And if they follow the workbook, they will own their first house sack within about four years, and when they start employing all of my strategies that I lay out. And so you know, some tips and tricks, one, if you're, if you're a teenager, you got to start saving some money. You can have a low down payment with the house set because it is a primary residence, but you got to have some cash and you want to have some emergency cash. And you want to have some initial maintenance and repairs cash, which I lay all this out in the workbook in detail, you got to have a good credit score.   I tell my, the young people I work with and this is counterintuitive to I think what a lot of people say but when you the day you turn 18 I say roll out of bed, go to your laptop and apply for your first credit card. And when you turn 19, get your second one, you turn 19 and a half, get your third one and use them all, use all three, at least a little bit every month and pay him off every month. If you do that you will have an amazing credit score in no time. And I know young people who have done exactly that caveat, right. That's only if you know how to use a credit card responsibly, if you haven't been educated on that, then stay the heck away. But the young people in my community they they're very responsible with money in there. And there they are educated on how to do that. So get the good credit score, save up some money, educate yourself. That's a huge piece, read the books. I'll throw a plug in for my friend Craig Curelop, he wrote a book called: “The House Hacking Strategy”, published by BiggerPockets.   Same publisher of my book, and it is a phenomenal book for someone who wants to start house hacking, and just wants that introductory book that takes them from step one to step 100. And now you're in your third house, that kind of thing. Yeah, so the, the piece of that puzzle for house hacking that will trip most young people up is the is the income history. Um, you know, a lender isn't going to want to lend a 20 year old or 21 year old or a 22 year old $100,000 for a property unless they know that they're going to be able to pay it back. And most young people don't have you know…   Michael: I can't, I can't show my lunch money that I got from my parents' income. When I was in high school, that allowance doesn't count…   Dan: The allowance doesn't count, you know, gifts from grandma don't count all that stuff. So…   Michael: Alright, yeah. So what do most folks do?   Dan: Well, young people in the workbook I kind of lay out a plan of how you can look for the young person that doesn't go to college it becomes much easier you work full time for a couple years, hopefully in a good job. And depending on the value of the property you're looking to buy, that could be all you need to do. For some people, it could be as easy as graduating from college, and just getting that first job that is aligned with your major and you don't even have to work for very long after obtaining that job. They just want to see that you have a pay stub from the job that you were in school for, and then you're good to go. But the best loophole, which doesn't work for every young person is to have a parent cosign on the mortgage. So the bank looks at their income history and credit score if needed and the young person can get in to their that first property.   Michael: I love it. So it's interesting you mentioned the getting a job associate with your major my younger brother, actually shout out to you, Jeff went and did this, he graduated got a good paying job at the company I used to work for and then they told him yeah, you qualify for a mortgage because we will constitute your four year degree as a as basically earned, earned time, time and you're earning income. Yep. So he's like, sweet, awesome. So it's it's a pretty good life hack.   Dan: It is, it is for sure.   Michael: No, I love it. I love it. Dan, this has been so much fun man, I want to very respectful of your time. Where can people get your book? Where can they subscribe to your online community? And if you have additional questions want to reach out to you what's the best way for them to do so?   Dan: Sure and thanks, thanks for having me, Michael, this has been a blast. I can talk about this stuff for hours. Yeah, if you're interested in the book: First to a Million you can get it at, at BiggerPockets.com, which is the publisher. And if, if your listeners are familiar with real estate, they've probably been to that website a few times already, if not every day. They can also find it, they can also find it on Amazon and other places. The workbook right now is exclusively at BiggerPockets.com however until I think spring of 2020. To the community for young people. There's a free version and a paid version, I'll just transparency there but the free version has a ton of value. Just go to https://www.sheeksfreaks.com/ and there's a button that says: Join the community and it'll tell you all about it. And if people want to reach out to me, I prefer email: Dan@sheeksfreaks.com but you can also reach out to me, DM me on Instagram, that works too.   Michael: Awesome, Dan, this was great. So much valuable in you know, what you've been talking about in the book and the online community. I can't wait to see where you go from here. We'll definitely be in touch soon, man. Thanks again.   Dan: Thanks for having me, Michael. Thanks again.   Michael: Hey, my pleasure. Take care.   Alright, well, that was our episode, a big thank you to Dan for coming on. And just a big shout out to Dan for educating our young people and teachers in general for all the work that you all have done. If you liked the episode, please feel free to leave us a rating or review wherever it is you listen to episodes. And as always, we look forward to seeing the next one. Happy investing…

I was so excited to talk to my guest, Dan Sheeks, and learn more about how he teaches teens to achieve early financial freedom.   When I look around at the cost of real estate where I live, I wonder how my kids will ever afford their own house. It's not unusual for a simple home to go for a million dollars.   If I think too much about it, it makes me worry…BUT I feel a MILLION times better (see what I did there? ;)  after talking to Dan!  Dan shares so many practical tips with me and in his book, “First to a Million” where he teaches how to build wealth and stay away from the mistakes many people make.   In this episode, we talk about: Motivating young adults to plan for their financial future before they make common money mistakes Best practices for teens and young adults to build a solid credit score Strategies and tactics young people can use to help them avoid working in the rat race until they are 65 years old Why personal finance education is not emphasized in the public school system and what we can do to change that How a young person can begin investing in real estate before they turn 21 To buy Dan's book, go to www.biggerpockets.com/teen  Discount code “Future” for the membership section To download a copy of Dan's “7 Ways to Screw Up Your Kids”, log into or join the Parent toolbox.  www.parent-toolbox.com About Dan Sheeks Dan is a high school Business/Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, CO. In his 18 years of teaching high school, he has taught a variety of business subjects including personal finance, entrepreneurship, and marketing. Dan's passions include working with teenagers, advocating for personal finance education, investing in real estate, and promoting the FIRE movement. Embedded in his classes is the co-curricular DECA club in which students travel, compete, acquire leadership skills, do community service, and have fun! His students have competed at the national level in entrepreneurship, personal finance, marketing, and hospitality services with much success over the years. 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. The SheeksFreaks community aims to help teens use specific methods of saving, earning extra income, and investing to set them on a track to purchase real estate investment properties in their early 20s and achieve financial independence at a young age. Contact Information: Email: dan@sheeksfreaks.com Social Media: Website: https://www.sheeksfreaks.com/ SheeksFreaks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sheeksfreaks/ Dan Sheeks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dsheeks/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sheeksfreaks/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-zSyE5oX0L_npo00xDCsYw LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-sheeks-0ab489106/ Thanks for listening! It means so much to me that you listened to my podcast! If you would like to purchase my book or other parenting resources, visit me at www.yellingcurebook.com With this podcast, my intention is to build a community of parents that can have open and honest conversations about parenting without judgement or criticism. We have too much of that! I honor each parent and their path towards becoming the best parent they can be. My hope is to inspire more parents to consider the practice of Peaceful Parenting. If you know somebody who would benefit from this message, or would be an awesome addition to our community, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a note in the comment section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe on the podcast app on your mobile device. Leave a review I appreciate every bit of feedback to make this a value adding part of your day. Ratings and reviews from listeners not only help me improve, but also help others find me in their podcast app. If you have a minute, an honest review on iTunes goes a long way! Thank You!! To rate and review my show go to: https://ratethispodcast.com/parentingourfuture.

A high school teacher reveals the sad state of financial education today.  Most students still think the path is: go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a job, work until you're 65, and then start enjoying life.  Dan Sheeks is a Denver, Colorado-based high school teacher and real estate investor.  He enjoys working with teenagers. He also volunteers for the Colorado Attorney General to advance financial education.   Just last month, Dan released a book with Bigger Pockets: “First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence”. See it here. He discusses solutions for teenage financial independence:  1) When you turn 18, get your first credit card  2) “House hack” real estate by age 21 3) Good debt vs. bad debt - do teens understand? 4) Mindset 5) Avoiding mistakes like “meme coins” 6) Saving Dan tells us the two main reasons why there's a pathetic lack of financial education in school today - funding and politics.   Resources mentioned: Show Notes: www.GetRichEducation.com/382 If you have a child, get Dan's book: First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence Dan Sheeks' online community for young people: www.SheeksFreaks.com Dan Sheeks' e-mail (It's OK to message him): dan@sheeksfreaks.com To learn more about eQRPs: text “EQRP” in ALL CAPS to 72000 or: eQRP.co By texting “EQRP” to 72000 and opting in, you will receive periodic marketing messages from eQRP Co. Message & data rates may apply. Reply “STOP” to cancel. Get mortgage loans for investment property: RidgeLendingGroup.com JWB's available Florida income property: CashFlowAndGrowth.com New Const. Florida SFHs & multifamilies: www.B2Rdirect.com Best Financial Education: GetRichEducation.com Get our free, wealth-building “Don't Quit Your Daydream Letter”: www.GetRichEducation.com/Letter Top Properties & Providers: GREmarketplace.com Follow us on Instagram: @getricheducation Keith's personal Instagram: @keithweinhold

This is part 2 of my conversation with Dan Sheeks. Dan is a high school business/marketing teacher, real estate investor, author, and personal finance advocate in Denver, Colorado. He founded the online community, SheeksFreaks which is a community that is specifically for young people (ages 15-25) who are highly motivated in the areas of building wealth, entrepreneurship, real estate investing, mindset, early financial independence, and networking. He and his wife have a variety of real estate investments including multifamily, single-family, Airbnb, and out-of-state BRRRR, and he aims to help teens use specific methods of saving, earning extra income, and investing to set them on a track to purchase real estate investment properties in their early 20s and achieve financial independence at a young age.   In this episode, Dan and I continue the conversation on the importance of teaching kids to be financially literate at a young age. We also talked about how motivation may vary between kids who come from well off families vs. those who are not so well off, how we should be giving kids options instead of telling them what to do, and allowing kids to explore different paths instead of forcing them to go to college. All this and more in this episode, so make sure to listen in until the end!    Continuing the Conversation with Dan  Sometimes kids who are not so well off are more interested on how money can work for them as opposed to wealthy families  Well off families usually don't have the same money motivation   Financial Independence as an Option  Giving the kids options instead of telling them what to do  Consequences of getting into student loans  Having student loans are financially crippling  Corporations acknowledging that college degrees are not necessarily worth the investment  No degree is needed for real estate investing    Teaching Financial Literacy to Kids  Learning through connecting with people their age  Teaching kids to be okay to be different  Tweetable Quotes:   “There are major corporations now Google, IBM, Apple, to name a few who recognize that a college degree isn't necessarily worth the investment. So they're hiring high school graduates who meet certain criteria without a degree.” - Dan Sheeks        Connect with Dan on LinkedIn or check out the SheeksFreaks website!    LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their business growth by sharing this episode. Are you confused about where to start? Join our community and learn more about real estate investing. Head over to our Facebook Page, Youtube Channel, or website https://www.theacademypresents.com/jointhesummit36848306. Connect with Lorren Capital, LLC. for syndicated multifamily investments, https://lorrencapital.com/. To learn more about me, visit my LinkedIn profile, and connect with me.

This is part 1 of my conversation with Dan Sheeks. Dan is a high school business/marketing teacher, real estate investor, author, and personal finance advocate in Denver, Colorado. He founded the online community, SheeksFreaks which is a community that is specifically for young people (ages 15-25) who are highly motivated in the areas of building wealth, entrepreneurship, real estate investing, mindset, early financial independence, and networking. He and his wife have a variety of real estate investments including multifamily, single-family, Airbnb, and out-of-state BRRRR, and he aims to help teens use specific methods of saving, earning extra income, and investing to set them on a track to purchase real estate investment properties in their early 20s and achieve financial independence at a young age. In this episode, Dan talks about the importance of empowering and encouraging young people to be more knowledgeable about finance, building wealth, and entrepreneurship at a young age. He talks about how his community brings together like-minded young individuals and gives them space to learn more about finances, the power of networking and building relationships with the right people, and how schools in the country should look into making financial literacy classes available for high school students. Listen in!    Introducing Dan Sheeks to the Show  Dan shares his background  Founding the SheeksFreaks to help young people be financially savvy  Bringing together young people who are interested in building wealth  How Networking Can Change Things  Having the right connection and building relationships with the right people Importance of putting yourself out there  Building the right habits and changing your mindsets while you're young  High School Electives Requiring financial literacy classes and electives in high school Different for each state, depending on resources of the school  Tweetable Quotes: “The kids that are doing things like that [entrepreneurial activities] usually get caught and get in trouble, when we should be really just praising their entrepreneurial spirit.” - Angel Williams    “The young people, they're a little bit more progressive, and they'll think outside the box a lot easier than us adults.” - Dan Sheeks        Connect with Dan on LinkedIn!    LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their business growth by sharing this episode. Are you confused about where to start? Join our community and learn more about real estate investing. Head over to our Facebook Page, Youtube Channel, or website https://www.theacademypresents.com/jointhesummit36848306. Connect with Lorren Capital, LLC. for syndicated multifamily investments, https://lorrencapital.com/. To learn more about me, visit my LinkedIn profile, and connect with me.  

How young did you begin to learn money management skills? How early are you teaching your kids these skills? When did you buy your first home? Do you wish you did sooner? How do you teach your kids how to achieve financial independence at a young age? This week's guest on the Crushing Debt Podcast is Dan Sheeks, the newest Bigger Pockets published author, with his book First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Freedom. Dan is a 19-year high school business and marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, CO. In late 2019, Dan launched www.SheeksFreaks.com an online community dedicated to helping young people learn money management skills, start investing in real estate, and pursue early financial independence. You can buy his book for a teenager that you know at www.BiggerPockets.com: https://store.biggerpockets.com/products/first-to-a-million Sam Cohen of Attorneys First Insurance supports the show in multiple ways (including offsetting many of the costs of production). Introducing him to attorneys and title companies is a great way to show your support for the show. Sam@AttorneysFirst.com or www.attorneysfirst.com. Finally, get ahold of me and let me know what you think of this week's episode- Shawn@Yesnerlaw.com or www.YesnerLaw.com. 

Dan is a high school Business teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, Colorado. In late 2019 Dan launched the SheeksFreaks community with a simple mission: to provide young people with free money advice so they could live their best lives. The SheeksFreaks movement is dedicated to helping young people learn money management skills to achieve early financial independence. In late 2021, Dan's first book, First to a Million, will be published and released by Bigger Pockets Publishing. The book is about achieving early financial independence and is specifically for teenagers.

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 Purchase First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence: https://bit.ly/3DYDSxW SheeksFreaks Community: https://bit.ly/sheeksfreaks111 (discount code: gobundance) SheeksFreaks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sheeksfreaks/ Dan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dsheeks/ Dan's email: dan@sheeksfreaks.com Connect with our growing community: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gobundance LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gobundancegbl/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/GoBundance Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoBundance Subscribe to our GoBundance Podcast: Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/gobundance-podcast Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../gobundance.../id1110145229 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/grab-life-big-podcast Not a millionaire yet but want to be a part of our ecosystem? Check out EMERGE by GoBundance. Enroll Today! https://www.gobundance.com/emerge

Early FI and what it takes to get there is not for everybody... and that's fine! It has been a year since Dan Sheeks started SheeksFreaks, an online community dedicated to helping young people live their best lives by making smart money decisions. In this episode, he returns to the podcast to talk about early FIRE and how even teenagers can become millionaires—in just a few years! He also gives a preview of his upcoming book (and workbook!), shares his FI equation, and offers advice to listeners who are just getting into FI and real estate.

In this podcast, I interview Dan Sheeks, teacher and author of his new book “First To A Million” which explores the pathway for early financial independence. Dan writes this book particularly for teens. Listen as Dan shares an overview of his book and his passion for personal finance, financial literacy and personal financial independence for teens. Be sure to check out Dan's book “First To A Million: A Teenager's Guide To Achieving Early Financial Independence” - https://bit.ly/3I1FsS7 (https://bit.ly/3I1FsS7 ) #BETTERWEALTH For more information on BetterWealth or the content you hear on the Podcast, visit us at http://www.betterwealth.com/podcast (www.betterwealth.com/podcast). Episode Links & Resources:  How To Develop Freakish Money Skills with Dan Sheeks - https://youtu.be/O_lheoqd1z8 Guest bio: an Sheeks is the newest BiggerPockets Publishing author, with his forthcoming book, First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Freedom. The book introduces teenagers to the strategies, concepts, and the mindset needed to achieve early financial freedom. Dan is a high school Business/Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, CO. In his 19 years of teaching high school, he has taught a variety of business subjects including personal finance, entrepreneurship, and marketing. Dan's passions include working with teenagers, advocating for personal finance education, investing in real estate, and promoting the FIRE movement. Embedded in his classes is the co-curricular DECA club in which students travel, compete, acquire leadership skills, do community service, and have fun! His students have competed at the national level in entrepreneurship, personal finance, marketing, and hospitality services with much success over the years. 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. The SheeksFreaks community aims to help those between 15- and 25-years old use specific methods of saving, earning extra income, and investing to set them on a track to purchase real estate investment properties in their early 20s and achieve financial independence at a young age. Dan and his wife have a variety of real estate investments including multifamily, single family, Airbnb, and out-of-state BRRRRs. They currently have 15 units in Colorado and Michigan. Dan is also a contributing blog writer for Bigger Pockets, having written several articles regarding a variety of subjects for young investors. In his free time, Dan enjoys the Colorado outdoors with activities such as mountain biking, road biking, hiking, camping, and golfing. He lives just outside of Denver, Colorado, with his wife, Vanessa, and their son, Callum. Guest Links: First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence: https://bit.ly/3I1FsS7 SheeksFreaks Community: https://bit.ly/sheeksfreaks106 (discount code: betterwealth ) SheeksFreaks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sheeksfreaks/ Dan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dsheeks/ (https://www.instagram.com/dsheeks/) Dan's email: dan@sheeksfreaks.com

Join Mike Cavaggioni with Dan Sheeks on the 71st episode of the Average Joe Finances Podcast to discuss achieving early financial independence in their early 20s. Dan is the founder of SheeksFreaks, an online community dedicated to helping young people learn money management skills, real estate investing, and early financial independence. He shares how he helps teens learn financial literacy. He is also a BiggerPockets author!In this episode, you'll learn:A passionate high school teacher helping teens get educated in terms of financesWhy someone with a mentality of reaching financial independence is a “freak”Job traps that most people, typically young, get caught inWhat the FIRE movement is all about, and who is it forThe Happiness Curve and how it affects one's financial independence journeyAnd much more!About Dan Sheeks:Dan is a high school Business/Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, Colorado. He and his wife have a variety of real estate investments, including multifamily, single-family, Airbnb, and out-of-state BRRRRs (buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat).Dan launched SheeksFreaks in late 2019, an online community dedicated to helping young people learn money management skills, start investing in real estate, and pursue early financial independence. The SheeksFreaks community aims to help those between 15- and 25-years old use specific methods of saving, earning extra income, and investing to set them on a track to purchase real estate investment properties in their early 20s and achieve financial independence at a young age.Find Dan Sheeks on: Website: https://www.sheeksfreaks.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sheeksfreaks/Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dsheeks/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-sheeks-0ab489106/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-zSyE5oX0L_npo00xDCsYw Bigger Pockets Book Link https://biggerpockets.com/teen7-Day free trial mentioned in the show: https://averagejoefinances.com/sheeksfreaks/Use code: averagejoe (all lower case)Dan's email: dan@sheeksfreaks.comAverage Joe Finances®- Our social media links can be found here: https://flow.page/avgjoefinances- Check out: https://averagejoefinances.com- Balance Your Portfolio with Passiv: https://averagejoefinances.com/passiv- Buying or Selling a House? https://averagejoefinances.com/realtor- Interested in getting your real estate license? https://averagejoefinances.com/prepagent- Use the same Audio/Video Editing Team that I use: https://editpods.com- Host your own Podcast here: https://averagejoefinances.com/buzzsprout- Social Media Management Tool: https://averagejoefinances.com/social-mediaFree Stocks:Robinhood: https://averagejoefinances.com/robinhoodWebull: https://averagejoefinances.com/webull- Consolidate debt: https://averagejoefinances.com/sofi-loans/- Get Life Insurance: https://averagejoefinances.com/ladder- Average Joe Finances Swag: averagejoefinances.com/resources/shop*DISCLAIMER* https://averagejoefinances.com/disclaimerIf you are interested in writing for Average Joe Finances or joining us for an interview on the podcast, please visit https://averagejoefinances.com/contact--------------Tropical Sensation by Mike Leite soundcloud.com/mikeleite Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/-tropical-sensation Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/avgjoefinances)

Dan Sheeks is a busy guy. As if being a high school personal teacher isn't all consuming enough, he is both a real estate investor and a founder of an online community. That community, SheeksFreaks, is made up of young people interested in strategies to gain financial independence. Dan is also an author of a new book, First to a Million. Listen to the podcast and complete this form and could be one of the first 100 educators to receive a FREE copy of his book. Enjoy! 

Happy Friday! In this special expert episode of Future Rich, Certified Financial Planner Barbara Ginty had the pleasure of discussing Early Financial Independence with Dan Sheeks! Dan is an author, high school Business/Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, Colorado. Dan launched SheeksFreaks in late 2019, an online community dedicated to helping young people learn money management skills, start investing in real estate, and pursue early financial independence. The SheeksFreaks community aims to help those between 15 and 25-years old use specific methods of saving, earning extra income, and investing to set them on a track to purchase real estate investment properties in their early 20s and achieve financial independence at a young age. Listen to this episode to learn all about Dan's journey, what inspired him to write his forthcoming book, First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Freedom, along with advice for parents to educate their children on finances. If you prefer you can WATCH this episode here: https://youtu.be/rDaqYtaQtpc - Purchase First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence: https://bit.ly/3rw0Bhb - SheeksFreaks Community: https://bit.ly/sheeksfreaks116 (discount code: futurerich ) - SheeksFreaks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sheeksfreaks/ - Dan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dsheeks/ - Dan's email: dan@sheeksfreaks.com Follow Future Rich to stay up to date, and let us know what topics you'd like Barbara to cover more in-depth this season. https://www.futurerichpodcast.com/

- The Grow Your Business and Grow Your Wealth podcast with Gary Heldt   - EP 072 Dan Sheeks, Financial Consultant – Personal Finance Advocate/Entrepreneur/Author   Dan is a high school Business/Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, CO. In his 18 years of teaching high school, he has taught a variety of business subjects including personal finance, entrepreneurship, and marketing. Dan's passions include working with teenagers, advocating for personal finance education, investing in real estate, and promoting the FIRE movement. Embedded in his classes is the co-curricular DECA club in which students travel, compete, acquire leadership skills, do community service, and have fun! His students have competed at the national level in entrepreneurship, personal finance, marketing, and hospitality services with much success over the years. 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. The SheeksFreaks community aims to help teens use specific methods of saving, earning extra income, and investing to set them on a track to purchase real estate investment properties in their early 20s and achieve financial independence at a young age. Dan and his wife have a variety of real estate investments including multifamily, single family, Airbnb, and out-of-state BRRRRs. They currently have 15 units in Colorado and Michigan. Dan is the Author of First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Freedom - Being released by Bigger Pockets on November 23rd, 2021. Dan volunteers in the MoneyWi$er initiative out of the Colorado Attorney General's Office with a few other hand-picked experts from around the state. The program strives to advance financial literacy in Colorado secondary education   About BiggerPockets Publishing: BiggerPockets Publishing is a sister company to the BiggerPockets Podcast Network. BiggerPockets family of podcasts has generated more than 110 million collective downloads across multiple industries. The BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast is the #1 Real Estate Investing Podcast and it offers a community of over 1.8 million members. Many of their books become Amazon Best Sellers.   Dan's insights include:    Dan's journey on deciding to become a high school business and marketing teacher  How SheeksFreaks started The importance of teaching the younger generation about finances How parents financial literacy can impact their children's relationship with money First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Freedom book topics include personal finance, real estate investing, and early financial independence Why you should include your children in your money decisions   Enjoy the show!   Connect with Dan:   Websites: www.biggerpockets.com/teen www.sheeksfreaks.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-zSyE5oX0L_npo00xDCsYw LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-sheeks-0ab489106/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/First-Million-Teenagers-Achieving-Independence/dp/1947200461     Connect with Gary: Website: https://sbadvisors.cc/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SmallBusinessAdvisors LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-d-heldt-jr-388a051/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The second installment of a 3 part series from the December 4th, 2020 PodMax event, Mike Ham is joined by Dan Sheeks. Dan is a high school Business and Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, Colorado. In his 17 years of teaching high school, he has taught a variety of business subjects, including financial literacy, entrepreneurship, personal finance, and marketing.  Dan and his wife have a variety of real estate investments, including multifamily, single-family, Airbnb, and out-of-state BRRRRs. They currently have 14 units in the Denver metro area, Colorado Springs, and Detroit and continue to grow their portfolio.  Embedded in his classes is the co-curricular DECA club in which students travel, compete, acquire leadership skills, do community service, and have fun! The DECA chapter at his school takes students on trips to learn about business in places like New York City, Orlando, Anaheim, and Vail, CO. The students look forward to these trips and the learning experiences embedded in each journey. Throughout his career, Dan has worked with nearly a thousand high school students on projects ranging from personal finance to entrepreneurship to marketing proposals to hospitality management. His students have had much success at the State and National levels in these business competitions. Dan's students are continually doing real-world role plays in class that build confidence, teamwork, self-assurance, professionalism, communication skills, and the ability to think on their feet. His students grow and learn as they prepare for real-world situations, find the ability and confidence to seize opportunities, and give back to their communities by volunteering for great organizations such as MDA and Bags of Fun. They have fun social events such as kickball games, bowling, and visiting haunted houses for Halloween. His lasting impact as a teacher is apparent by the hundreds of former students who stay connected after graduation by guest speaking in his classes, visiting the school, judging at DECA events, volunteering at school activities, and mentoring current students. Dan also volunteers in the MoneyWi$er initiative out of the Colorado Attorney General's Office with a few other hand-picked experts from around the state. The program strives to advance financial literacy in Colorado secondary education. Dan has also taken his high school students into local middle and elementary schools where his students have taught the importance of personal finance to younger children. Dan is a contributing blog writer for Bigger Pockets and has written several articles for the Bigger Pockets blog regarding a variety of subjects for young investors. In late 2019 Dan launched the SheeksFreaks community with a simple blog website and an Instagram page. The mission was simple: to provide young people with free money advice so they could live their best lives. The SheeksFreaks movement is dedicated to helping young people learn money management skills to achieve early financial independence. The focus is on helping youth use specific methods of saving, earning extra income, and investing. Four passions motivate Dan in these endeavors. They are: working with young people, advocating for personal finance education, the early financial independence movement, and real estate investing. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-sheeks-0ab489106/ Instagram: @sheeksfreaks and @dsheeks YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-zSyE5oX0L_npo00xDCsYw email: sheeksfreaks@gmail.com Website: www.sheeksfreaks.com  Follow us on Instagram: @TheMorningSpotlight Email us at: themorningspotlight@gmail.com www.themorningspotlight.com