53-Rob Phelan - Financial Literacy Teacher

<p>Through his classroom work and Simple StartUp Virtual courses, Rob has helped beginner entrepreneurs form over 250 new businesses, across all different types of industries. The ChooseFI Curriculum has been used by hundreds of teachers across the United States and helped bring free financial education to many underserved populations when it comes to personal finance.</p><p><strong>SHOWNOTES:</strong></p><p>•  Financial independence is a point at which you can say, I no longer need to work, and I'm not talking about traditional retirement, it can apply a traditional retirement here, hit 65, like, Okay, I'm done. I better have enough money left to get me through the rest of my life, that is technically financial dependence when you have enough money to get you through to the rest of your days, whenever that happens to be. (3:57)</p><p>•  So I'm a teacher first and foremost. I still teach full-time Math and Personal Finance. I love working with kids, and in particular, I love educating kids about personal finance, so it's one of my favorite things to do is why I love getting up in the morning, going to school. I also love working on creating these curriculums, to talking to people like you and telling everyone else out there like, Hey, there is a way to do better with your money. (8:14)</p><p>•   I'll give you a prime example that a second, but we have assessments that are about the financial literacy side, but also how can we measure, how do the kids attitude towards money change, do they feel they are good managers of money, do they cost by themselves as saviors or spenders, what would they do if they're presented with different scenarios and we start measuring like? (12:58)</p><p>• That's again, going back to personal finance education, I see the kids that I know their situation at home is not ideal, and they're the ones who are paying the most attention and taking that home to their family, mean like, Oh, we can do this to... Save some money, or here are some ways we could earn more or... One, just ask me a qu