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Travis Makes MoneyMake Money Young: Building Wealth for Gen Z | Dan SheeksDan 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.2025-04-1843 minTravis Makes MoneyMake Money Young: Building Wealth for Gen Z | Dan SheeksDan 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.2025-04-1843 min
Mile High FI PodcastTelling People You're Retired or Wealthy | MHFI 208Doug and Carl (along with special guest co-host Georgie the dog) explore the concept of stealth wealth. Each provides their personal money story & how much work it took to arrive at their current position, the pros & cons of sharing one’s financial status with others, and how this knowledge impacts social interactions & relationships. They also discuss giving and helping others responsibly, using wealth to support people in meaningful ways rather than in response to direct requests for money.
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Mile High FI PodcastTelling People You’re Retired or Wealthy | MHFI 208Doug and Carl (along with special guest co-host Georgie the dog) explore the concept of stealth wealth. Each provides their personal money story & how much work it took to arrive at their current position, the pros & cons of sharing one’s financial status with others, and how this knowledge impacts social interactions & relationships. They also discuss giving and helping others responsibly, using wealth to support people in meaningful ways rather than in response to direct requests for money.
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Are you reti...2024-03-2655 minMile High FI PodcastTelling People You’re Retired or Wealthy | MHFI 208Doug and Carl (along with special guest co-host Georgie the dog) explore the concept of stealth wealth. Each provides their personal money story & how much work it took to arrive at their current position, the pros & cons of sharing one’s financial status with others, and how this knowledge impacts social interactions & relationships. They also discuss giving and helping others responsibly, using wealth to support people in meaningful ways rather than in response to direct requests for money.
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Are you reti...2024-03-2655 min
Forget About Money🌍 Empowering Gen Z with Dan Sheeks: Financial Literacy in High Schools 🎓Today, we have the honor of hosting Dan Sheeks, the visionary behind Sheeks Freaks and the author of "First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence." 🌟 Join us as we explore the critical role of financial literacy in high schools and learn from Dan's unique insights. 📘🚀 📚Episode Summary: Dan Sheeks, a beacon of financial education for youth, joins host David Baughier on the Forget About Money podcast. As an author and founder of Sheeks Freaks, Dan shares his expertise on financial literacy and its growing importance in high schools across the US. Th...2024-03-1553 min
Money You Should AskGen Z Millionaires in Training. Dan SheeksIf you could travel back in time and give your 18-year-old self one piece of money advice, what would it be? Would you tell yourself to save aggressively, avoid debt traps or utilize frugal living hacks or invest in assets destined to explode? In this episode, I am joined by Dan Sheeks, a high school teacher and Author whose mission is to educate young people to think like millionaires. Dan Sheeks is the author of "First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence," He wrote this and the accompanying workbook specifically for Gen...2023-12-2031 min
Quiet WealthEducating the Next Gen with Colleen Salchow | Episode 99In an ever-changing economic landscape, equipping young minds with the knowledge and skills to navigate personal finances is paramount.In the latest episode of the Quiet Wealth podcast, hosted by Camilla Jeffs, we delve into the fascinating world of early financial education and its far-reaching impact. We are privileged to have a renowned educator and expert in teaching financial literacy to middle and high school students.Colleen Salchow powerfully shares her experiences and insights, highlighting the benefits of instilling financial literacy habits early on. From understanding the power of budgeting to making informed...2023-11-3033 min
The Stacking Benjamins ShowSurprise! I've Achieved Financial Independence (plus young entrepreneurs LIVE from Camp FI) SB1411Imagine that you JUST figured out what the financial independence movement is all about. You've been saving, but doing nothing exotic. You earlier had thought that putting money in the stock market was "gambling," like many people do. Today, though, you figure out that you've not only done a great job of making your dreams come true, but you've achieved financial independence, and you're still in your 40's. How happy would you be?Today we're live from Camp FI (camp financial independence), where a group of like-minded people are hanging out for a weekend talking about values...2023-09-181h 08
The Personal Finance PodcastThe Complete Guide to Generational Wealth: Part 1 How to Build Generational WealthIn this episode of the Personal Finance Podcast, we're gonna give you the ultimate guide to generational wealth.How Andrew Can Help You:
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So Money with Farnoosh Torabi1498: The Ultimate Teen Money Hack with Dan SheeksDan 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...2023-04-1026 min
The Stacking Benjamins ShowSmart Money Moves: Building Financial Habits That Last a LifetimeDiscussing finances can be intimidating, especially for beginners. However, initiating regular money conversations early on can be a great way to introduce the topic and potentially set yourself up for financial success. In today's roundtable, we welcome Dan Sheeks, author of the new hit book, First to a Million: A Beginner's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence, Katie Brewer, a certified financial planner and professional money teacher, and OG, our in-house money expert and father of three. They will discuss the importance of having money conversations and provide tips on how to set yourself up for a life of...2023-03-101h 18So Money with Farnoosh Torabi1478: The Best Ways to Teach Teens About Money with Dan SheeksDan 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...2023-02-2234 min
The Erik Cabral ShowE261: Teaching Financial Literacy to Young People with Dan SheeksAs a parent or an educator, one of the best things you can do is to equip the kids with a roadmap to earlier financial independence. In this conversation, Erik Cabral speaks with Dan Sheeks, about his passion for helping Gen Z or Zoomers live their best lives. A high school business and marketing teacher in Denver, Colorado for 18 years, Dan is the founder of SheeksFreaks LLC where he teaches teenagers early financial freedom strategies.
Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:
Why personal finance isn’t valued in our public school system
Getting to m...2023-02-1343 minThe Personal Finance PodcastThe Complete Beginners Guide to Financial Independence (and Quitting Your Job Early!)In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, I'm going to give you a complete guide to financial independence for beginners. Join Our Newsletter here!Learn to Invest with Index Fund Pro! Our complete step-by-step guide to investing! https://mastermoney.co/index-fund-pro/ Thanks to Our Amazing Sponsors!:
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BiggerPockets Daily3 Examples of Why Workaholic Real Estate Investors Have It All Wrong by Dan Sheeks
https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/3-examples-of-why-workaholic-real-estate-investors-have-it-all-wrong
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Taking The InitiativeSuccessfully Teaching Financial Freedom To TeensWhat a great episode! If you have any teens in your life, this episode is for them!Dan Sheeks is a teacher, author, and real estate investor who has a passion for teaching teenagers financial freedom. How Dan started in Real Estate Investing and Finacial IndependenceAbout writing his book "A teenagers Guide to Early Financial Independence 1st to 1 Million."What motivated Dan to start teaching Financial IndependenceHow Dan started investing in Real Estate How teaching/having a community has helped Dan in his real estate investingWhat is the Key Factor to helping teens...2022-12-1940 min
Retire Sooner with Wes MossInstilling Financial Literacy In Younger Generations with Dan SheeksFinancial literacy is the blueprint to building financial success for the younger generation. In general, that could lead to earning your children early financial independence and increased happiness in retirement. To help us learn more about educating the rising generation regarding their finances, we called on Dan Sheeks, Owner and Founder Of Sheeks Freaks LLC, author, high school business/marketing teacher, personal finance advocate, and real estate investor for this week’s episode. Dan shares details about his life and his real estate investments along with five takeaways from his book to tell your kids about getting to...2022-11-101h 00
Journey To LaunchHow To Be a Future Millionaire: Teaching Gen Z About Financial Freedom, & Letting Go Of The American Dream With Dan SheeksDan Sheeks, owner and founder of Sheeks Freaks, an online community helping young people live their best lives by making smart money decisions, joins the Journey To Launch podcast to talk about his passion for helping teenagers get on the path to become millionaires. Achieving early financial independence is an option most people don’t know even exist, which is why Dan spends his career making financial freedom education available to Gen Z and High Schoolers. We chat about his new book, “First to a Million: A Teenager’s Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence”, how to co...2022-10-2647 minThe Personal Finance PodcastHow To Teach Your Teenager About Financial Independence With Dan SheeksIn this episode of the personal finance podcast, we're gonna talk to Dan Sheeks about how you can teach your teenager about financial independence.Join Our Newsletter here!Connect. with Dan!Purchase First to a Million: A Teenager’s Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence: https://bit.ly/3Aageh5SheeksFreaks Community: https://bit.ly/sheeksfreaks140 SheeksFreaks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sheeksfreaks/Dan’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dsheeks/Dan's email: dan@sheeksfreaks.com 2022-09-0541 min
BiggerPockets Money PodcastThe Ultimate Teen Money Hack for Parents
You’ve heard of money hacks before, but probably not like this. For the teenagers and parents of teenagers listening, this episode will give you everything you need to make yourself, or your child, financially successful, straight out of high school. Most parents think that a strong financial foundation is built through allowances, debit cards, and making their child get an after-school job. While none of that is bad advice, it doesn’t leave the teenager with a sense of financial security or knowledge of how to manage money.Thankfully, the Sheek Freak himself, Dan Sheeks, is back on the sho...2022-08-2648 min
BiggerPockets DailyCollege Gets All the Attention—Why Not Real Estate? by Dan Sheeks
https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/college-overshadows-real-estate
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Go Bucket YourselfLIVE from Camp FI Rocky Mountain '22We're live from Camp FI Rocky Mountain Week 2, in this special episode!We share the mic with guest co-hosts, Dan Sheeks--author of the Bigger Pockets book, First to a Million--and Brad Finn--of his own Brad Finn Youtube channel.Listen in to hear from so many guests (and maybe even a surprise appearance from camp host himself, Stephen Baugher) about what they'll be taking away from camp this year. You won't want to miss it!Stay in touch! 🌎 gobucketyourself.com Chris @bucketyourself on Insta Deb @imperfectprogress.me on Insta Get Deb’s book...2022-07-301h 03
Thought Hustle146. How To Become Financially Independent In Your 20s - W/ Dan SheeksDan Sheeks from Sheeks Freaks discusses the question on every budding entrepreneurs mind… how do I make money when I’m young? How do I set myself up for success? Granted, not most young folks are thinking about building wealth, no, but there are a few “freaks” out there. Instead of chasing girls, the hottest new shoe, video game or artist, there are those who want to grustle while they're young, so that they have the CHOICE to continue working when they’re older. That’s where Dan Sheek’s Sheeks Freaks comes in… a community of young, like-minded entrepreneurs an...2022-07-0745 min
The Best Ever CRE ShowJF2849: Geo Freedom Through CRE Investing ft. Michael AlbaumMichael Albaum is living his dream: traveling full-time in a renovated van with his wife. Their nomadic lifestyle is made possible through his commercial real estate investments, allowing him to invest remotely from anywhere. He’s also able to run his company, Roofstock, while on the road, which provides single-family rental opportunities for buyers, sellers, and financial management software for real estate investors. In this episode, Michael shares how he’s scaled his business, and how he manages his investments from anywhere in the world. Michael Albaum | Real Estate Background Program manager and head coach at Roof...2022-06-2125 min
MoneyDad PodcastA Teen’s Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence with Dan SheeksSend us a text#011. Today’s guest is Dan Sheeks. We chat about why financial literacy and personal finance is not a focus in the public school system. We talk about what financial independence looks like and how your teenager can achieve early financial independence as a viable option to the typical working 9-5, until 65 grind. We learn about the strategies that Dan uses as a teacher to help teens learn about personal finance and the benefits of parents working through these concepts alongside their teenager. We get into the 4 main mechanisms to achieve early FI and specifi...2022-06-0748 min
Entrepreneurs on FireTeaching Teens Entrepreneurship and Financial Independence with Dan SheeksDan 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...2022-05-1624 min
Real Estate MonopolyThe Secret To Reaching Early Financial Freedom | REM #143A lack of financial literacy is one of the main things that prevents many people from escaping poverty and reaching their financial goals. It’s important to understand how money works, and debunk some widely held misconceptions about investing in order to create new, improved financial habits and improve life overall. Financial literacy doesn’t have to be extremely complicated either— Dan Sheeks teaches teenagers how to achieve financial freedom and invest to reach their life goals.
Dan is a BiggerPockets Published author of First to a Million: A Teenager’s Guide to Achieving Early Financial Freedom. In the b...2022-05-0946 min
Real Estate RookieFrom Freak to Financially Independent & Beating the Average Joe to $1MFinancial literacy is the first step to becoming a millionaire. Unfortunately, the US is a (relatively) financially illiterate country, so to become financially independent and add more zeros to your net worth, you have to self-educate. Fortunately, today’s guest has published a book and workbook that lays out exactly how to become a millionaire, even at a young age. Dan Sheeks lives and breathes all things personal finance. He has been a high school teacher for twenty years and teaches young people everything he wishes he would have known about financial literacy. He teaches a variety of different...2022-05-0457 min
Marriage Kids and Money: Personal Finance for FamiliesIs College Worth It for My Teen? [w/ Dan Sheeks] + Vee Weir (Internet Money)If you're raising a teenager and looking at the cost of higher education, you may be asking yourself ... is college worth it?Dan Sheeks, Author of "First to a Million: A Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence", shares how parents and teens can make the decision to go to college or not.Also, on our Internet Money segment, we hear from Vee Weir who makes $10k per year dog sitting through Rover!RESOURCES**Sponsor + Partners + Deals: https://www.marriagekidsandmoney.com/sponsorsDan Sheeks (Website): http://www.sheeksfreaks.com/ ...2022-04-2536 min
How Did They Do It? Real EstateSA418 | Financial Literacy and Real Estate Investing for Young Adults with Dan SheeksBeing 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 rea...2022-04-2227 min
Wealth Formula by Buck JoffreyBonus Episode: Financial Education for KidsMy kids are little. My oldest is 12 and her sisters are 9 and 6.
Admittedly, I’ve spent no significant amount of time trying to teach them about money as of yet. If anything, I have taught them a little bit about the burden of taxes by eating half of the cupcakes and ice cream and metaphorically blaming the IRS. That one seems to get the point across!
When they get older, you can be sure that I will spend a significant amount of time with them teaching them about money. After all, it is my intent to...2022-04-0523 min
The Professional Failure PodcastEP 006: Full Time Teacher/Entrepreneur and Encouraging Young Adults Toward an Early Path to Financial Independence with Dan SheeksJoin 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 This...2022-03-2620 min
BiggerPockets Daily3 Must-Have Traits of Successful Real Estate Entrepreneurs by Dan Sheeks
https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/3-must-have-traits-successful-entrepreneurs
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Rockstar Dad ShowDan Sheeks (Author of First to a Million)On this week’s episode, Jaret and Gary talk with Dan Sheeks, who is a father, husband and author of First to a Million: A Teenager’s Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence.2022-02-161h 01
ChooseFI363 | First to a MillionJonathan and Brad talk with Dan Sheeks about exactly what a 17-year-old should know when getting started on their financial journey. A detailed synthesis of this information can be found in Dan's book First to a Million. https://www.sheeksfreaks.com2022-02-0758 min
Financially Independent TeachersEpisode 50- Author Dan Sheeks "First to a Million"-Financial Independence for TeensSend us a textDan Sheeks 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 has been a high school business teacher in Denver, CO for eighteen years, and he’s passionate about teaching teenagers personal finance, passive income, real estate investing, and early financial freedom strategies so they can live their best lives.Have a teen in your life? Most teenagers are told about only one financial path: Work until you’re old and then retire. But what if y...2022-02-061h 00