GMR 184: First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Early Financial Independence

If there’s one topic that we should be teaching our teenagers and young adults is personal finance. In this episode of Getting Money Right, we’re talking with Dan Sheeks, the author of First to a Million: A Teenager’s Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence. Dan’s passion for teaching kids to understand and apply financial strategies to achieve financial independence is truly inspiring. If you have a teen or young adult, or will eventually have one someday, you will want to listen to this episode and get a copy of Dan’s book.

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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.

Author of First to a Million: A Teenager’s Guide to Achieving Early Financial Freedom - Being released by Bigger Pockets on December 6, 2021
Featured on the following podcasts: BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast, Wealth Formula with Buck Joffrey, The FI Show, Rockstar Dad Show, Martinis and Your Money Podcast, Average Joes Finances, Wealth Without Wall Street, The FI Team Podcast, Teen Financial Freedom + many more.

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.