Why people recommend it
The Simple StartUp by Rob Phelan is an educational student workbook and beginner's guide designed to help young people conceptualize, plan, and launch their first entrepreneurial ventures. The book received extensive praise on the ChooseFI podcast, where host Brad Barrett and other contributors frequently recommended it as a valuable tool for interest-led learning and financial literacy education. Brad Barrett shared that his own children went through the workbook and found it refreshing how it cultivated an entrepreneurial mindset and sparked engaging business questions. Other guests, such as David McKeegan, also highlighted the text as a practical resource for families starting new commercial ventures. Throughout multiple episodes, the hosts discussed how the author built a live coaching series around the publication, making it available through ChooseFI Publishing as a structured manual that teachers and parents can utilize to guide students through the fundamentals of business creation over the course of a semester.
Who recommended it
- Brad Barrett Recommended
- David McKeegan Recommended
Brad Barrett — 4 mentions
“you know this past week we just talked about we talked with Rob Phelan about his brand new book The Simple startup it's a manual for teachers and students that allows you to over the period course of a semester really help a student create their first entrepreneurial venture and do so kind of with the ethos of a pop-up”
“and Rob's book The Simple startup series”
“my kids went through the simple startup workbook and it made them think like entrepreneurs and it was just so refreshing to see the questions that they came back to me with while they were going through the book”
“so for everybody listening now so Rob Phelan has the simple startup which is a a student workbook it's a beginner's guide to starting a business so you can purchase that now at thesimplestartup.com”
David McKeegan — 1 mention
“so I don't know if you've heard of the simple startup the book yeah I know uh the guys did an interview with the author get a copy of the book and start having a look at it”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker — 3
“Don's podcast really inspired Rob Phelan who's the author of the simple startup the educational that we're going to be bringing out through chooseify publishing”
“Brad you and I talked about Rob's book The Simple startup and how you're using that as a project with your kids so talk about interest-led learning”
“about a year ago Rob was able to launch his workbook series The Simple startup and was able to build around that a live kind of coaching series”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Rob is releasing a new book with us called the simple startup really taking some of the massive lessons that you've learned through his desire to teach financial literacy and Entrepreneurship in the classroom put it together in a wonderful workbook which we're going to be releasing later this year”
“and the other one is the simple startup Series this is by Rob Phelan”
“the simple startup is the name of the book it is the curriculum that you can use for your home school”