Teaching Teens Entrepreneurship and Financial Independence with Dan Sheeks: An EOFire Classic from 2022

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

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🗓️ 7 December 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2022. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.

Dan 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 to college, community colleges are a great option. Do an internship or an apprenticeship that won't put them in tens of thousands of dollars in debt.

2. Entrepreneurship is going to matter for them, no matter what they decide to do after high school. It's just a matter of making the lessons and curriculum interesting for them by using different technologies, guest speakers, and videos that will help get students engaged.

3. It's difficult to know what you want to do for the next 40 years of your life when you're 18 years old.

Cheek out Dan's website and join a community of like-minded people - SheeksFreaks

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0:00.0	Who's Redd Rock today, Fire Nation? JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by
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0:13.2	down teaching teens entrepreneurship and financial independence. To drop these via bons, I brought
0:17.5	to Dan Sheeks in the EO Fire Studios. Dan is the author of First to a Million, a Teenager's Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence and the founder of Sheiks Freaks, a community of young entrepreneurs and early FI seekers. Dan is awesome in teaching high school business classes for 19 years. And today, Foundation, we talk about a lot of awesome stuff, about how it's difficult to know what you want to do for the next 40 years of your life when you're 18 years old.
0:39.9	I think we can all relate to that and oh so much more.
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