The Code To Winning - A 15 YEAR OLD CEO TEACHING KIDS FINANCIAL LITERACY & ENTREPRENEURSHIP || CADEN HARRIS || EPISODE 090

Episode Date: October 11, 2026

In this episode, we sit down with Caden, the 15 year old CEO of Caden Teaches, who graduated high school at just 13 years old and is proving that age is not a limitation when it comes to building something meaningful. On a mission to empower and educate young minds, Caden is inspiring a new generation to take control of their financial future and pursue their dreams regardless of where they start. His message is simple and powerful: "If Caden Can, You Can Too." We dive into Caden's journey as a young entrepreneur, from finishing high school years ahead of his peers to becoming a CEO before most teens get their driver's license. He shares how his father took him along to business meetings at a young age, which sparked his passion for money, and how he went on to write books, create financial flashcards, and become a sought after speaker. Caden also opens up about handling the word no and the challenge of raising the money to bring his biggest dream to life. That dream is his Financial Learning Bus. At just 11 years old, Caden bought a school bus and, with the help of his father, transformed it into a mobile classroom on wheels that brings financial education directly to schools and communities. Inside, kids experience a mock bank, a mock grocery store, and tablet stations where they learn about earning, budgeting, saving, and investing through hands on experience. Caden has already taught around 50,000 kids, and his mission is to reach 500,000. We also break down "The Cash Code," Caden's comprehensive program designed to give middle school students real financial literacy skills, from budgeting and saving to investing, while connecting real world scenarios to math and economics. His financial learning center features a mock banking station, a mock grocery store, and a mock stock exchange, giving kids a firsthand look at deposits, withdrawals, budgeting, and stocks. Whether you are a parent looking to raise money smart kids or a young person ready to start your own journey, this episode will leave you inspired to start now. Chapters 00:00 Who is Caden Harris? 01:58 How Caden Started His Business at 11 06:30 Building the Financial Literacy Bus 10:42 Why Caden Left Traditional School 14:01 Speaking on National TV & the White House 15:58 The Role of Supportive Parents 18:44 Overcoming Rejection & Early Mistakes 26:32 Learning to Command the Stage 27:51 Caden's Financial Literacy Tools 32:55 What the School System Gets Wrong 34:44 How to Network on LinkedIn 38:57 Caden's Daily Routine & Filmmaking 41:15 Why You Can't Do It Alone 45:20 Caden's Vision for the Future 48:10 What Winning Means to Caden

Canaan teaches this is just the start of my journey. One thing my dad has always told me is that you can't just go into a room, knock you on the door. Hey, can I come in? My name's Canaan and I do all this. You have to kick the door down and let everyone know who you are. What do you want your legacy to be, not just as an entrepreneur, but as a human being who decided to use his gifts to change how the next generation thinks about money? I want to be seen as someone that was a changemaker and someone that was actually able to make change. in the communities and I want to be seen as someone that actually was able to change the history. The code to winning insights you need today to seize the world tomorrow. Today we have a very,

very interesting and fascinating guest. We are here in Atlanta, Georgia. If ever you're curious about learning about financial literacy and you know, increasing your knowledge in that specific topic. I have an interesting guest who actually graduated high school at the age of 13, right? Currently, he's 15 years old right now. He's a founder. He's a CEO. He teaches people how to be able to gain the knowledge of financial literacy at the same time. I'm going to give you a brief overview of who he is. His name is Caden Harris. Caden's mission is centered around empowering and educating young minds. As a CEO of Caden teaches his target audience includes youth, aiming to inspire and equip with essential life skills such as financial literacy and entrepreneurship.

So without further adieu, this gentleman again super young, extremely brilliant, the man, the myth, the very legend himself, Caden Harris. How you doing, brother? I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me. I did tell yesterday about a phone call that you broke the record, you're right? You are the youngest guest we've ever had on the co-twinning right now. So when I met you for a brief, like, you know, short second at the event, I was very, very, very inspired by your message. When I look at myself, when I was 15 years old, I was giving my parents a headache. Thank you so much.

And so I'm grateful to have you at the studio. I want to just talk a bit more about how this whole process and the procedure started for you. Well, it all started just with my parents, specifically my dad, taking me to different business meetings and conferences when I was younger. He would always take me to these conferences where I didn't quite understand what was going on. I would always hear these entrepreneurs talking about things like assets, loan, liability, debt, all these terms that I didn't quite understand. But once I learned the importance of financial literacy and why kids need to learn it at an early age, I knew that I wanted to start a business teaching kids about it.

And when I did start my business, I started with a $200 investment for my dad. And with that $200, I was able to use it to create my very own, my first product, which was my financial flashcards. And with those flashcards, when we first started out, looking back there, these big white boxes with little fonts, and it did not look good looking back at it. And one of the most important things in business is just to start, and that's what I did with my business. It didn't matter how the flashcards look. They had the information on it. people bought it and I was able to go from there. So as long as you're just starting, then you can just start from there.

Have you always been curious in finances and, you know, those various topics of entrepreneurship? Was there something that you developed over time? It's a mixture of both. Once I would go to these business meetings and I would hear about financial literacy, I knew that I wanted to teach it because the earlier we learned about financial literacy, at least to us having better cities, better communities, and better environments overall when we learn about financial literacy at an early age. Okay, no, I love that so much.

Obviously, like most kids, your age, are very curious about video games, even grades within their schools as well. What made you decide to start a business instead of actually, like, taking it serious the first time? I knew that I wanted to start entrepreneurship when I saw that my sister started her business. She started her business because of an incident at her school where she was taken away by D-Fax because they mixed her up with a different Kennedy. Her name is Kennedy with an I and the other girl's name was Kennedy with a Y. And they ended up confusing them, didn't check any backgrounds.

All I saw was Kennedy Harris and didn't check anything else. And we were this close to never seeing Kennedy again because they were going to connect her with a family out of state. so we don't know what would have even happened from there. And she started her business where there were these lockets, and it said the parents' name, the parents' information, and the phone number so that if something did happen, you could get in contact with the parents. And I would help her with these winning events

when she wasn't there or she couldn't make it to one. And she also started selling dolls from there. And seven-year-old me didn't want to sell dolls. So I knew that I wanted to start my own business Because I saw how much money she was making as well Running her own business And the impact that she was making And I knew that I wanted to make the same impact

And be able to make some money like that as well Wow You know, I look at So I don't know if you hear my accent I'm originally from South Africa to Hannesburg So I look at my first experience in entrepreneurship There wasn't as much structure Compared to like where you act right now

which is very impressive very very impressive i i my my first experience was um we had these lollipops because of the exchange right i'm going to make it kind of simple to kind of explain a bit more so we had these lollipops that i'd buy for about uh 40 dollars according to the currency and from those forty dollars i'd sell each uh there were 48 inside for about two dollars and so remember just doing that and then doubling like my income over that you know so 40 dollars and you make like 48 times 296 as well and then i remember remember just doing that all the time, just studying all your pops in high school and then you start realizing, oh my gosh, like, there's actually money coming in, you know, that that experience

is just, it's life changing for that time, what, 16 year old as well. So still older than you at that time. Yeah, I'm very, very impressed at this experience that you have been talking about. And I know you have the financial literacy box and I want to talk a bit more about that stuff as well. I want our audience to see the company and everything you've did as well. If you walk us through the concept of the cadence financial bus, where did the idea come from and how did you go from the idea to actually having a physical bus on the road? Well, the financial literacy bus, that was probably my most challenging journey. With the financial literacy bus, one night, me and my mom, we were just brainstorming of different

ideas and different things that we could come up with. And she said, what if you have a bus that's like a classroom and you teach financial literacy on it. And I believe I was 10 or 11 when I heard this. I said, this sounds like a great idea and I definitely want to make this happen. So 11-year-old me was determined to have this financial literacy bus. I started coming up with ideas for it, sketching it. I knew that I wanted to have a mock bank, a mock grocery store, and a mock stock exchange. And before I even got the bus, I knew I was going to get it. And I went around calling my dad bus driver. because I couldn't drive out 11 years old.

I still can't drive now at 15. So I would go around saying bus driver, and I hadn't told him the idea yet, and he was confused on why I was saying that. He would ask my mom, why have he calling me bus driver? So after about a week of messing with him, I finally told him the idea I had,

and that I wanted to be able to make impact and have a classroom on wheels. So we started looking around for different places, that we could get buses. We went to a couple of different places. We had like short buses and some long buses. And originally we were going to get one of the shorter buses, like a shuttle bus. You see like at the airport. But we ended up finding a really good deal for an actual 55 passenger bus, a bluebird. And we were able to finally make the purchase on it. At 11 years old, I've purchased with my own bus.

And from there, it was a kind of a rundown bus, so we had to make some renovations to it to actually make my DIA pad out. And I was able to do a capital race for $50,000. And that was also a very challenging route to go down. And we ended up going on a show from there called Big RV Remakes, which is on Hulu, Disney Plus, Apple TV, PrimeV.

So that ended up in a lot of places and we ended up being able to show the entire renovations of the bus and We had two months to raise $50,000 because the show is very fast paced and they wanted to be able to show the entire Renovations in that two months like you get the filming done and be ready to publish it So that two months was super hectic trying to get the money and trying to raise the capital to be able to make my idea become a reality But after going through a lot of nose, after all the challenges, I was able to be able to fundraise that $50,000 and turn my idea into reality. Wow. Wow.

And, you know, when you did this in the two-month period, were you like getting investors or people involved or were you doing trying to do like donations? How did that process work like? When we first started, we were trying to go with donations. but $10, $50 at a time, was it really helping a ton towards the $50,000? So that's when I went out and started finding investors. I found investors they were willing to donate $5,000, $10,000,

and we were able to go to different connects I have and offer different sponsorships and different packages to them. So it would seem beneficial for them as well to sponsor for the bus. No, I love that. And just, I mean, a side note with all, that you've been doing. One of the things, I graduated in financial economics, but I look back at just college and high school and stuff, they lack the curriculum to actually emphasize on teaching people financial literacy and the importance of investing, the importance of stock, the important

of understanding where your money is going as well. Have you always just had that, um, zeal and understanding where did this background start off for you. I know I just have so many different stuff there. In school, I never really like school. I would always just be bored, looking out the window, waiting for class to end. And I never really like school because they teach everyone the same way, no matter what style of learning you have, whether you're a visual learner, audio learner, you like to actually get your hands on things and be interactive.

They just teach everyone the same way and they teach everyone the same way. and they teach everyone to go down the same path. And I knew that that wasn't right for all students. And I would be emailing my parents from school saying, please come pick me up. I don't want to be in the school anymore. And my parents would pick me up. And at one time, my mom thought that maybe I was getting bullied

because I would just randomly have to come home from school every day. And she just asked me one day, why do you want to keep coming home from school? I said, I just don't like it. kid. I don't think that it takes that long to complete a day's worth of work in school. And I said the school shouldn't take all day. And I asked her, because she homeschooled me. My mom said, I've never been a teacher. I don't know how to homeschool you. I don't know anything about this. And I said, you've been to third grade, right? She said, yeah, of course. I said,

then we can start from there. And my homeschooling journey started from there from third grade all the way until eighth grade where I ended up joining a program where I could graduate at an accelerated pace. So what would usually take three years in that program, I ended up doing in nine months because I was skipping summer breaks, skipping all the different spring breaks and everything because I wanted to get it done. I started at the beginning of February, I believe, and finished September 28th of 2023. So I was able to complete all of that. in that nine months. Unbelievable, man.

Unbelievable. I'm just so impressed by not only how knowledgeable you are, how articulate you are, how intelligent you are, and considering that at such a young age, like, I know for sure in about 20 years time you have my vote to be Mr. President. Is that okay? Thank you. I'll be in the campaign trail for you. One thing I've always said is that I don't think the president's fear political route is something that I would go down because it does seem like a stressful role and for not that much personal benefit.

I'm sure that I could make some change, but the amount of stress the presidents do go through. And the compensation isn't quite enough for that amount of stress. So I don't think the presidency route is something I would go down, but still thank you for your vote. Speaking of that as well, obviously you've spoken at the White House, you've been on Good Morning America, NBC, ABC, Fox as well. When was that moment that you realize that finally now people are starting to notice the importance of your message? I would say it was after I got the financial literacy bus. That was really the turning point for everything when I felt like steam was starting to pick up and people were starting to notice what I was doing. It was once I got the financial literacy bus,

I was doing news interviews every week after that with every news channel in Atlanta. I've been on every news channel here, probably twice at least, some even more than that. But that was when a lot of people started noticing me. And that was when Good Morning America noticed me from the Financial Industry bus. And for two years before that, my dad would always tell people, Kada's going to be on Good Morning America soon. Kada's going to be on Good Morning America. That was two years before we had no idea if I was ever even going to be on Good Morning America.

But that's one thing that my family is always believed in is speaking things into existence. And my dad spoke being on Good Morning America into existence, and that ended up actually happening. So I was able, we got an email one day from Good Morning America, and they said that we would love to have you on the show. We got all the details worked out, and they came here to Atlanta to see what I actually. actually do. They came and saw the bust, what happens when I'm actually teaching in a classroom, and then about a month after that, they actually brought us up to the studio, and I was able to do a live interview with Michael Strayhan. So from there, I felt like the steam really started picking up. As you've been talking as well, I think people fully underestimate the importance of goodly parents

and how important parents are as well. I've been in the United States for over 10 years, 12 years right now. And despite me being 32 years old, I'm still a big mama's boy, big time. Like, I cannot face time. I cannot go without a week without speaking to my mom. At the same time, my dad is like a hero to me as well because he kind of also like instilled a lot of discipline at a young age as well. And I've seen just your parents walk inside the other day.

what's the biggest lesson that you think your parents have taught you to where you are today right now? There's so much that my parents have taught me, and they're the main reason why I'm here and why I'm able to even do this, because a lot of parents, if they heard that their 11-year-old wanted to own a financial literacy bus, they call them crazy and tell them to just keep playing their video games or keep going to school. But my parents actually listen to me. They actually helped me with that idea, and they actually pour it into it and help this idea become reality.

And they've taught me so much. Dad, I always compare him to people like Sir Richards, Serena and Venus Williams' dad, how he would always push them, and his job is just to get them over the fence. It didn't matter how he got over, what he had to do, who he had to fend off. He just wanted to get his kids to the other side. And that's what my dad has been like. He's always set us on third base. So no matter what you hit, if you hit a bun, if you actually hit a home run,

no matter what you do, it's pretty much guaranteed that you will get a home run. So my dad is all, and my parents have put us on third base, and we never had a silver spoon. We were never really just given everything, but they put us in a position where we could win at an early age. They put us in a position where we could get in those rooms and actually be able to learn. because one of the most important reasons of why I'm here is just being in different rooms and being in places where probably at that age I shouldn't have been, but my parents pushed me to be able to be in those rooms and to get the knowledge. Whenever I've interviewed a lot of entrepreneurs, I'm curious in your situation.

Everyone always sees that image, obviously, of you being in Good Morning America. the success that you currently have with your financial literacy company the bus speaking at the White House all these different accolades or achievements or credentials per se

my question to you nobody often sees the grind behind and the effort that's been put and like the sleepless hours that you end up by gaining as well I'm just curious has there ever been a moment

that you've actually felt like this overwhelming and I actually want to quit right now. There were definitely some challenging moments, but my parents have always pushed me to never be a quitter. They've always said, or they've always really showed that you stick to something. If there's something that you do want to venture out from, you don't just quit in the middle of it. You finish it. There's been some things that I did have to go through in business, especially with the financial literacy bus. I was raising that $50,000. I had to go through a lot of noes, a lot of people saying that they would love to help me

with my idea, and then I never hear back from them. And I had to go through a lot of just hearing that. And at 11 years old, trying to fund this financial literacy bus, just constantly being told no, or that they would help me and not actually doing anything, that was kind of heartbreaking at that time. and kind of it just made me think, why don't people want to help me with this idea? But for all of those nose I got,

I ended up getting yeses back to back to back, and I ended up being able to have the financial literacy bus. And even when, now that I do have it, it's still an old bluebird bustler. There is still some challenges with it. A lot of people just think that I can bring the bus out for free, but I do want to, there are communities that I do want to just be able to bring the bus out to,

actually be able to help them, but we physically can't with the bus. The bus is an old 55 passenger bus. It's not the fastest, and it does have some things with some problems that you may have with it. Gas is not cheap with it. There's different expenses, and a lot that does come with it. And just a follow-up question on that, is there any financial mistake that you made earlier when you were building Caden teachers that you feel like became a lesson for you?

I would also I kind of goes hand in hand with the bus I would say the biggest mistake I made was not charging enough at that time because at the time I was charging $800 to $800 to bring the bus out but paying it takes about $200 to $220 to fill up the bus

we have to resupply new books after each event have things like pencils actually hiring a driver so there's a lot that does go into it to where I didn't need to raise my price and there wasn't a big enough profit from that. So locally, I do charge $3,000 to $5,000 and out-of-state I do charge a minimum of $10,000. So I did have to raise that price to where it would allow me to further grow my business and further and make a better profit to where I could do more things in the community.

So I could be able to do these things. No, I love that. besides mom and dad you currently have like a team that you're working with like with in-house and stuff like that my team currently is my family and then some a lot of my mentors as well okay love that no there i've seen just the importance of a team obviously i've been running my media company and podcasts for like over two and a half years i've been in the east coast the last few months and it's been hard outsourcing without my team because you become reliant like not necessarily you see the significance of a team with how everything works like yesterday i slept at like two o'clock

preparing questions you know woke up at six today and i i like the grind i love it so much but sometimes you don't realize i don't realize personally like when i'm you know back in salt lake and everything is like running smoothly my questions are sent out everything is done and then i focus on on what i got to do so that's one of the things my mentor always taught me is it's always important like to outsource. So it's important to get the right people in the right, you know, feel to try and like also like make your life easy as well. That was one of the biggest mistakes I made early on about success

and just thinking that you can do it by yourself. I thought that I could just do these speaking events by myself. Just have my parents take me there and I'm good from there. But I do need a team. I have my dad who's my business manager. We always say that he's the business manager that can, never be fired. So he's always been there for me since day one, making sure that all these

speaking events do happen, because without him, I wouldn't be able to do these speaking events like this and be able to do it at such an early age. My mom, she had a ton of the creative ideas behind the scenes and the ideas for the products. So without my team, I wouldn't be able to do a lot of the stuff that I do. No, love that so much. I mean, a lot of kids even growing up in environments sometimes where money is not discussed or sometimes only discussed when it isn't enough, how did that reality shape up what you currently building? It really made me, when I see communities like that where they don't, where they're in a less fortunate situation, I really just want to be able to help them out because when you learn about financial literacy at an early age, that sets you up at a better position in life, One of my mentors, Dr. Dennis Kimbrose says, the earlier you learn about financial literacy determines where you go to school, where your kids go to school, your kids, kids go to school, and how they live, what type of environment they live in, what type of house they live in.

So all of that factors in from how early you learn about financial literacy so that you can keep creating that generational wealth. and I do my best to try to give back and try to help out less fortunate communities. But a lot of the times when I do go to these communities, I'm able to teach them financial literacy, but as soon as they go home, they don't have an actual parent that can't help them fertilize it, and they end up kind of stuck in the same position. So that's one of the biggest challenges that I'm facing right now, is trying to help these less fortunate communities, and in a way that when they go back home to their parents,

it doesn't just all go away and it was off or not. And is that a big part of your target audience currently right now? It is, definitely. All right, awesome stuff. You know, you obviously spoke at the Forbes BLK Summit and you addressed an audience of a lot of high-level professionals, a lot of adults as well. Obviously, when you're still young yourself,

how did that feel for you? It felt really great just being able to know that I have, that I have a room of adults on the Forbes stage that do respect me. Of course, in my entrepreneurship journey, as a youth, I've been able, I mean, I've had people that do try to challenge me, and they do try to test me and see if I really know what I'm talking about, because I am younger. So I do have the people that do try to challenge me, but for the most part, the brooms that I speak in, they see the social proof that I have, the fact that I have, the fact that I've been on Good Morning America, that I've been, that I'm the youngest speaker at the Disney Dreamers Academy, that I've been able to do these things at an early age, and they want to know how they can do the same thing for their kids.

So a lot of the times I do get that respect from the stages that I do speak on. And one of my mentors, the number one speaker in the world, Eric Thomas, he commands his stage and he always, no matter who he's speaking in front of, demand his respect pretty much. A high-energy speaker, he loves just get crowd interaction and loves them giving him his energy back. So if he has kind of like a dead crowd, he makes sure they get on their feet and that they're into it, and he always commands his stage. That's one thing my dad has always said as well. Every time I go up on stage, he tells me, command your stage, make that your stage. Don't let the crowd try to overshadow you or try to talk over you. So that's one of the biggest things that I have learned is commanding your stage.

Love that so much. I really do. Eric Thomas did do that in the current podcast summit. And I think he was probably one of my favorite speakers there because you could feel the energy just resonate in the room. And he got you involved. We were all up on our standing up. And he just literally had the aura and he commanded it. you know he was there and you had like i felt like people that were not trying to resonate with

that you just you know the energy exactly just made you get up made you feel like you were part of everything it was just the aura that he brings is unlike any other exactly i want us can you walk us through that the the financial literacy that you built as well the box yeah yes and any of your products just walk us through all of these and show the audience so this is my financial literacy toolbox this is pretty much a bundle of the majority of my products so I have things like my budgeting puzzle because a lot of kids do like to they do like interactive things they do like learning about financial literacy in a fun way so it teaches them in a way where it's interactive and

there's questions in it to where they can still learn and have fun doing it I do also have my financial literacy flashcards so this is the first product I ever created. I told you I had like these big bulky white ones. We made it more modern and sleek and now it looks like this because that other one didn't really look the best. I also have my book, Cadens Rich Kid Guide, Tips to Earn 10K under 10 years old. This was the second book I wrote and it was forwarded by Dr. George F. Fraser, one of my mentors as well who's helped me a ton along this journey. And then my activity book, which was the first ever book I wrote. So it's an activity book with a lot of fun activities. It has things like your allowance, multiple streams

of income. So there's lots of things in this activity book to where you can learn it in an interactive way. Awesome stuff. And then what's the bigger book as well? This is my financial literacy curriculum. This is the cash code. So since I can't be ever where I want to, speaking at all these schools, it's a middle school aligned curriculum that teaches kids everything that they need to know before they graduate. So it teaches some things like taxes, insurance, how to actually earn, say, budget, and invest. So it teaches them all of the important things that they do need to know before they graduate because that's one thing that school doesn't really touch on.

School doesn't teach financial literacy at an early age, so I figured I might as well step in and do it myself. Love it. Love it, love it so much. And with those, obviously I've noticed with the cash cards, the flash cards, the books you have and the puzzles, is it all like one bundle the offer or do they have like various steps depending on what situation people are in currently? So you do have, I do sell them individually. So if you do want to just purchase one of those things to really just narrow down on the financial terms with the flash cards. But it does come as a bundle to where you can have all these different things and it has.

something for each type of learner. That's the flash cards, which is more for audible learners. You can go have a parent hold the flashcards and they give you the term and then you have to give the definition of it. Or vice versa, they can give you the definition and you have to tell them the term. So there's multiple different ways that you can use that. Also the book as well, which a lot of people love books. And then you also have the puzzle which is more interactive. Love that. I'm a big fan of that. Like I said, despite me studying financial economics, I did an internship in NASDAQ in New York and also Bloomberg. But at the same time, like throughout all of high school, before I even got to college, there was no, like, I never learned anything about taxes. I never learned anything about the importance of investing. I never learned anything about even the bonds or treasury bills. I never knew any of those stuff until I got to college as well. I know you spoke about, um, Getting your first 10, or like making 10,000 under, how old do you have to be?

I made my first 10K under 10 years old. Wow. And what's probably the most important principle that you teach in that book regarding that? It's consistency because consistency is everything. No matter how good of an idea you have, how good your business is, if you're not consistent in it, then you're not going to be able to grow. So always sticking to it, always staying consistent. showing up and being there is what gets you success. And that's how I was able to make my first 10-k under 10 years old.

And even going back to what you were just mentioning about not learning about financial literacy into college, a lot of the times with school, they just don't teach you enough about entrepreneurship. And by the time that you do get to college and you are an adult, you just are thrown into the real world without having any knowledge about financial literacy. And then you get credit cards thrown in your face. You go to college. And then before you even 20, you have credit card debt and student loan debt before you're even 20 years old. So there's a lot of things that are flawed with the school system to where a lot of people are in tough situations.

Which I think you actually will answer the next question because I was going to ask, what does the school system fundamentally get wrong? And I think that is so true. you see people working their first job with like 100,000 in debt studying something like art. Art is it going to get you? Nothing wrong with art. You know, nothing wrong with that. Art, I would say, it's not one of the big college degrees, something that you would need to go to college. Precisely.

Of course, art is a great thing. Everyone, you do love art. But it's not something worth going hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt in just to study art when there's better ways to do it. One of the biggest ways I love to learn is from shadowing people. This past Friday, I was able to shadow a DP, which is director of photographer, on the set for Country Wayne. He does different skits. He has 11 million followers on Facebook, 3 million on Instagram, and I'm forgetting how many on YouTube, but he's one of the biggest content creators right now and the biggest skit maker. So,

So that's why I love about shadowing people, because you get to see what they do if you're interested in it. If you're interested in being a doctor, a nurse, or an artist. You can even ask your parents, see if they have connections with people that you can meet to do those different things, so that you can see if you do like that career. If you shadow a doctor, you could find out that you don't like blood, you don't like dealing with all these different things, or you can find out that you really love it, and that's what you want to do. So instead of going in years of student loan debt and going to college and finding out that you don't like it, instead you could shadow someone and see if you like it before you even go through all of that.

And I couldn't agree with I'll concur 100% with that. And just I want to add on that and ask a follow-up question because you are a master in terms of networking. For someone out there that is extremely young and is really feeling shy, inadequate or unable to find the right connections, what's a tip that you would? try and give them to try and get out their comfort zone and network and find a way in those right rooms. One of the biggest things I would say, as I mentioned, just getting in those rooms and some ways to do that, one of the biggest social media apps that I love using is LinkedIn, because you're able to connect and network with people. And even if you are shy, with LinkedIn, it doesn't really matter. You don't have to actually talk to someone, have someone be in front of you.

You can just connect with different people. If there's something that you want to do, message them. You can see if you do want to shadow and see what they do. You can connect with them, have different partnerships. So LinkedIn is one of the biggest apps and one of my favorite things to use. I actually, I was in New Jersey a couple years ago, and I messaged the owner of Scrub Daddy. I have loved that idea, and I love their pitch on Shark Tank,

where it's a sponge that is really revolutionary, and it's a really great product. So I love their pitch and I reached out to the owner on LinkedIn. And that same night I got a response and I was able to get a tour at their facility the next day. So it was really cool seeing how they do things. And that's just how powerful LinkedIn is and networking is. You know, you say your network is your net worth, you know, so I couldn't agree more.

And I think people just seem to underestimate the value of that. I was, when I did, like I said, my internship, I can't even remember when in Bloomberg, I realized I didn't want to really work corporate. I haven't told people that, but I didn't want to work corporate. But the entire purpose of me just going there, I just wanted to be able to meet at that time, the CEO of Michael Bloomberg. And I was like, okay, fine, he's the ninth richest man in the world. What on earth am I going to do to do that?

And so I literally gave myself a time frame to try and meet all the right people, or whether it was like my managers, the mentors there, you know, people in HR. I went through about seven different channels, then I got 20 minutes, and I felt like my 20 minutes there were far greater than the three months that we spent there. And I actually, I couldn't agree more. And I just love the fundamental tools that you end up using. I think LinkedIn is very important. And especially with how social media is working like today, I could not agree.

Like, it's everyone is very accessible right now. So the more you just reach out, if you get no, it's okay. the more you just continue to reach out, you end up getting the right people that are willing to help you. And I've just been extremely, extremely inspired by just the people you connect with. I know how you end up like finding the right people, leveraging the mentors, like putting yourself out there. It's just I'm really inspired by you. Thank you very much for what you're doing. Thank you.

And like you're saying with your job at Bloomberg, how it wasn't really something that you wanted to do, but you wanted to have those connections. that's one thing that having a job can do for you. One saying you'll hear is use your 9 to 5 to 5 to 9. So my granddad, he worked at a copier company, and he didn't want to really work a job. He wanted to have his freedom of being an entrepreneurship. So he used that job to get connections with those people

because there were still jobs at nighttime or in the evening when the copier company wasn't servicing. So he would use those connections and give them. him his card and say reach out to me if you need anything and then he was able to go out and make his own money individually from being able to work in that copy of company so he was able to eventually quit his job and then create his own company with those connections he got from it to where his five his nine to five turned to his nine to five to nine which turned to his 24 seven 365 to where he got his freedom 24 seven 365 days a year

what does a typical day look like for you from the moment you wake up literally to the time you end up sleeping like what does your day look like a lot does go on in my day there's things i do like responding to emails reaching out to different schools and different events for speaking opportunities there's things like watching podcasts listening to different interviews uh checking bases with my mentor saying if there's any opportunities coming up so There's a lot of things that do go on in my day. Content creation. I'm currently in a film fellowship where they're teaching us a lot about film and how all of it works and editing and everything about that. So that's helping me further be able to reach my message with my financial literacy company. Because my company, I can't be everywhere speaking everywhere at once, but my YouTube channel can. So the videos that I'm putting out there, the films I'm making about financial literacy,

is able to reach further communities. And speaking of filming, aren't you like an award-winning filmmaker? Can you run us through that? That's very fascinating. So it was my series Road to the Mic. I've done Road to the Mic, Georgia, Road to the Mike, L.A., and the film that did win an award is Road to the Mike Fox Theater, where it showed the actual road to me speaking and what goes on

and what goes into everything. And it told the history about the Fox Theater and how black people had to go to the, or had to sit at the top of the stage, at the top of the building in the Fox Theater, while white people got to sit on the floor and they got to actually be down there, while black people were forced to go up the side stairs and had their own entrance, and they were forced to be further away. So it showed the history of how much has changed, and now I get to actually be on the stage and speak. I've been able to make a lot of films.

I've made 11 films as well. And I've also been able to make my own financial literacy films because I don't see enough films teaching what I want to be able to show the youth and be able to show other people about financial literacy. So I figured why not do that myself as well. What's a belief about success or money that you held early that you've completely changed your mind about? If there is.

I would say it also goes back to what I was saying earlier with that you can do it by yourself. Because you hear the saying it takes a village. You can't just start a company on your own, but you can't continue growing on your own without spreading yourself too thin. And that's how you end up in situations where you don't have time to do everything. You're over here trying to run your business over here, trying to edit, over here, trying to film. over here trying to handle the finances over here trying to handle the booking and there's a lot that goes on instead of you just hiring a team and having people that can actually help you out if it can help you further grow and i can that's one thing i can 100% attest to every time i've always tried

to even save and go a little cheaper off and spend way more money if i try to like go a little frugal in everything i've done i remember got a car that had less mileage because it costs it i think 10,000 dollars less it costed me way more because i was charging way more than i should as well so in the long run doesn't pay off just the small examples of trying to not necessarily cut a corner but save a penny or not try to outsource and do everything you either burn out and you know things don't go the right way that's why sometimes i just spending extra doing a bit more so i could i 100% agree with you regarding that that's another big thing i've learned as well not going with the cheap route should A funny story with my dad

I do a lot of drone flying. I love drones. They go hand and head with my filmmaking and being able to get these really cool shots that some other people don't have. And I have a DJI drone, which is one of the best drones you can get out there. And my dad, he didn't want to pay $500 for a drone like I did. So he said, hey, I found this $150 drone. And I bet it's going to fly better than yours.

So he ordered it on Amazon. It came a few days later. He went outside, grabbed the box, excited to open it. He opened it up. And once he finally set it up, it was a complex journey to set it all up. He had to come and ask me for help. It took us both like 30 minutes to get that thing set up. And by the time we finally did, it was raining outside.

So he was like, you know what? I'm just going to fly it inside. So we were in my parents' bedroom, and he flew the drone, and it just immediately started gliding on its own without him pressing the controller and flew right into their bed on the frame. And we both just looked at each other like, uh, moms have got to get us after this. So he said, you know what, this just isn't an open enough area. So we went downstairs. We went in the foyer of our house, and he said, let me try from here. He took off, and once again, the same thing started happening.

It started gliding, and it hit the wall and always hit a glass picture frame off the wall. Oh, no. Had a ton of scratches and everything. And my mom wasn't home at the time, so we had to paint it really quickly. And he learned that you don't go cheap, especially when buying drones, buying things that fly in the air. And when he finally did actually get to put it up outside, he took off. and he was expecting the drone to actually look good,

and the only problem with maybe just the drifting, that thing is so shaky. The stability is horrible on it. You can just see, it looks like someone's holding the drone and just shaking it like this when it's flying. That is wild. He definitely learned from that experience, and it just gets blown around in the wind.

He tried to land it, and it ended up hitting the curb because the wind just blew it, because it's not wind-resisted whatsoever. That is wild. We live, we learn. So now, gosh, damn, I can't believe time went by so fast. Where does Kaden teachers go from here? Like, what is your version of that reaches millions of kids that look like you?

Caden teaches, this is just the start of my journey. One thing my dad has always told me is that you can't just go into a room. knock you on the door, hey, can I come in? My name's Cater, I do all this. You have to kick the door down and let everyone know who you are. So in my journey, I think I'm at the point where I've kicked the door down and I've let everyone know who I am. And now it's just a matter of going around that same room, networking and finding out how to further grow. So this is just the start where I'm still connecting with tons of people to be able to learn how to further grow Cady teaches and how to reach more people. So this is just a just a lot of people. So this is just a lot of people. Just the beginning. I love that so much. And when you think about legacy, not just as an entrepreneur, but as a human being who decides to use his gifts to change the next generation that thinks about money. Can you tell us a bit more like what you have envisioned for that?

I've envisioned a lot of different things for, you said, to further, could you repeat the question? Yes, sir. Sorry about that. What do you want your legacy to be, not just as an entrepreneur, but as a human being who decided to use his gifts to change how the next generation. about money. I want to be seen as someone that was a change maker and someone that was actually able to make change in the communities. And I want to be seen as someone that actually was able to

change the history. And not just as an entrepreneur, I want to be able to make change within my family and to be able to further control and keep generational wealth going on to where the next generations are set up for life and all they have to do is just keep going from there. So what I want is just to be seen as someone that was a true change maker. Love that. Love that so much. Every time, so my other podcast, obviously, you know, it's the co-winning insights you need today to seize the world tomorrow.

Interviewed hundreds of guests and there's an important question I always ask because winning is so different for everyone that we come across. For Caden Harris, for you today, what is a lot of? the term winning mean for you? For me, winning means being able, there's different definitions of winning. You have winning as a person there. You may have small wins that you set, such as just getting up, making your bed, just the first big thing of the day. One book, one of my favorite books is make your bed. It talks about having small wins throughout the day. It's the first one, making up your way, making up your bed. It's the first one. Making up your bed. It's

second win, brushing your teeth, third win, getting ready for if you have a job, you're running your business, getting ready for that. So just having these small wins throughout the day lead up to bigger wins because that consistency of just doing all those things lead up to you having bigger things that come your way. So those small wins all lead up to big ones, which will be different things and different opportunities that can change your life. Love that so much. If you could let the viewers know where they could get a hold of you if they want to learn about like your financial literacy, your programs, you know, the buses, everything else. Can you let our viewers know, including your social media?

You can find me on all my social medias at Canaan Teachers. That's C-A-D-E-N-Teachers and my website, cananteachers.com, where I have my products, my courses. You can book me for speaking from there. I do keynote speak all around the world at different schools, different corporate events. So I do do speaking as well. And I really, really, looking forward to continuing to change the world and continuing to teach my peers. I have a goal of teaching over 500,000 kids. So that is what I'm on my journey of doing. And remember, if Kaden can, you can too. The code to winning insights you need today to seize the world tomorrow. Kaden Harris, thank you very much, brother. Thank you.