TMS37: Dan Sheeks - SheeksFreaks and Financial Education for Young People @ PodMAX - a podcast by The Morning Spotlight

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.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-sheeks-0ab489106/
Instagram: @sheeksfreaks and @dsheeks
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-zSyE5oX0L_npo00xDCsYw
email: sheeksfreaks@gmail.com
Website: www.sheeksfreaks.com
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