What do Sour Patch Kids, Target run-ins, and dinner-table confessions have to do with leadership?
According to Derrick Kinney—everything.

In this episode, Derrick joins Nick and Marnie to talk about raising confident, character-driven leaders (especially teens), building trust through imperfection, and why financial education is really just leadership training in disguise.

Derrick is the founder of the Good Money Framework, the creator of Simple Teen Success, and the kind of guy who listens to audiobooks at 1.75x speed and rips out the pages he’s actually going to implement. (Yes, really.)

In this conversation, Derrick shares:

🧠 Why kids don’t want lectures—they want lessons (and candy)
🧃 The magic of a Target encounter done right
🧍‍♂️ How to teach influence through confidence, not charisma
💸 Why bad money beliefs start early—and how to break them
🎯 And the rule every leader should live by: Own your mistakes. Own them fast.

Plus:

• How to teach teens to talk to adults (without hiding in the chip aisle)
• The “Highs and Lows” dinner game that turned parenting into mentorship
• Why leaders should feel worse about a mistake than their clients do

🎓 Want your teen to level up?
Check out Derrick’s course: Simple Teen Success

📍 Find Derrick Kinney:
https://www.instagram.com/derrickkinney/
https://www.simpleteensuccess.com/