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About Dan Sheeks
Dan is the owner and founder of SheeksFreaks LLC, an online community to help young people live their best lives by making smart money decisions. He is also the author of First To A Million: A Teenager’s Guide To Achieving Early Financial Independence.
He has been a high school business teacher in Denver, CO for 18 years and he’s passionate about teaching teens early financial freedom strategies so they can live their best lives.
What You’ll Learn
In this episode we talk about:
- How Dan’s shift from investing in retirement accounts over to different types of investments (like real estate) was mentally difficult
- The different lifestyle goals of Financial Independence
- How teaching FI to kids is so different from teaching it to adults
- The 4 mechanisms of FI
- Why you need to pay yourself first
- Strategies for increasing the rate at which you save
- Approaching the student debt conversation when talking to teens
- Dan’s personal experience with college and student debt
