On this Episode, I Zoom in Rob Phelan and we chat about financial literacy, entrepreneurship education in K-12, the money mindset and more. We also get into his journey into entrepreneurship and his new book, The Simple Start-Up.
Rob Phelan, is an entrepreneur, high school personal finance teacher and math teacher in Maryland. He has a passion for helping to create a more financially literate society, and to help break the cycle of high levels of debt and stress that come with uneducated decision-making with regards to money. Rob has co-created the ChooseFI K-12 Financial Literacy and Financial Independence Curriculum, which you can find at www.choosefi.com/k12, and this is free for educators to use in their own classrooms.
Rob is also the author of The Simple StartUp: A Beginner’s Guide To Starting A Business (www.thesimplestartup.com) and he enjoys mentoring young entrepreneurs as they start and grow their own businesses. Rob’s current businesses include a tutoring company ’Frederick Math Tutors’ and a Teachers Pat Teachers store where he posts math and financial literacy resources for teachers. You can find his store under the username FI Educator.