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 For

• Reasons why personal finance should be taught to teenagers
• Things young adults should do to set themselves up for financial success
• How young people can get involved in real estate investing
• Is it common for schools to have financial classes?
• Tips for young adults to be financially independent early

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

• First to a Million by Dan Sheeks | Paperback & Audiobook 
• BiggerPockets
• chooseFI
• Free Apartment Syndication Due Diligence Checklist for Passive Investor 

About Dan Sheeks

Dan 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.”

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