Dan Sheeks - SheeksFreaks and Financial Education for Young People @ PodMAX

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.
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