Dan is a high school Business and Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, Colorado. In his 18 years of teaching high school, he has taught a variety of business subjects, including financial literacy, entrepreneurship, personal finance, and marketing.
Throughout his career, Dan has worked with thousands of 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 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.
In late 2021, Dan’s first book will be published and released by Bigger Pockets Publishing. The book is about achieving early financial independence and is specifically for teenagers. Dan is also a contributing blog writer for Bigger Pockets having written several articles 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.
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.
In his free time, Dan enjoys the Colorado outdoors with activities such as mountain biking, road biking, hiking, camping, and golfing.
He lives just outside of Denver, Colorado, with his wife, Vanessa.
How to contact Dan:
LinkedIn: Dan Sheeks
Instagram: @sheeksfreaks and @dsheeks
YouTube: sheeksfreaks
Email: sheeksfreaks@gmail.com
Website: www.sheeksfreaks.com