Teaching Teens Entrepreneurship and Financial Independence with Dan Sheeks
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
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 on college, community colleges are a great option. Do an internship or apprenticeship that won't put them in tens of thousands of dollars in debt.
2. The system is setup where if a high school student wants to pursue high level of education, they're going to be much more attractive to colleges and universities if they have a high level math and science classes.
3. It's difficult to know what you want to do for, potentially, 40 years of your life when you're 18 years old, and to pick a major that you're not going to be interested in for decades.
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| 0:00.0 | Boom! Shake the room, Fire Nation! JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire. |
| 0:08.8 | Brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network with great shows like Marketing Made Simple. |
| 0:13.5 | Today we'll be breaking down how to teach teens entrepreneurship and financial independence. |
| 0:19.4 | To drop these value bombs, I brought Dan Sheeks into EO Fire Studios. Dan is the author |
| 0:24.4 | of First To a Million, a Teenagers Guide to Achieving Early Financial Independence. And he's |
| 0:29.4 | the founder of Sheeks Freaks, a community of young entrepreneurs and early FICers that's |
| 0:35.8 | financial independence. Dan has also been teaching high school business classes for 19 years. |
| 0:41.0 | And today, we'll talk about why schools fail so miserably when it comes to financial |
| 0:44.9 | education, how we can change that, how to get your youth fired up about financial |
| 0:50.5 | futures that they have, and also what we can do to allow them to achieve the highest |
| 0:56.5 | potential possible. And so much more, when we get back from thinking hours, sponsors. |
| 1:02.4 | Vista Create is a graphic design platform where anyone can easily craft professional and |
| 1:07.1 | unique visual content for social media and digital marketing in minutes. Visit vistacreate.com |
| 1:14.0 | today to try it for free and see how easy it really is. |
| 1:18.3 | Business Made Simple hosted by Donald Miller takes the mystery out of growing your business. |
| 1:23.4 | Check out recent episodes like How to Escape a Villain Mindset and the framework that makes |
| 1:28.8 | marketing easy. Listen to Business Made Simple wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:34.7 | Dan, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming |
| 1:41.7 | successful that most people disagree with. |
| 1:45.0 | Awesome. Yeah, what's up everybody? To answer your question. I would say the one thing |
| 1:51.8 | that I stress quite a bit to my community is that you have to love to fail. You have |
| 1:59.0 | to thrive in your failure. And you have to sometimes seek failure because that is where |
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