The show & the hosts
Sean & Dan
Unqualified Advice is a podcast and YouTube channel featuring unfiltered takes, honest conversations, and advice nobody asked for. These two are responsible. Beyond the show, they build — here's where to find that work.
A Purdue-trained mechanical engineer who fell into finance the hard way — watching his first employer restructure through bankruptcy six months into his career, and getting hooked on the wreckage rather than rattled by it. Two decades and a 50-person team in heavy industry later, he cares about the same thing on the show as off it: making the machinery of money and the economy legible to the people who were never taught it.
Daniel Hatke
@danielhatkeLinkedInFrom small-town Indiana to a Columbia MBA and a decade running operations and IT for New York hedge funds — then he left to buy and operate businesses of his own. After a year spent traveling 34 countries, he ran an 18-month search before acquiring his first e-commerce company in 2019, and now operates two. He brings an operator's eye to the show: incentives, counterparty risk, and the unglamorous plumbing that actually makes things work.
Substacks
Portfolio
Things we're learning to build — tools, client work, and side projects. The list grows as the skills do.
Tax Literacy Tools
Three interactive breakdowns of Texas property taxes — where your bill goes (Houston vs. MUD), TIRZ increment capture, and HISD's disaster penny. Built to make the mechanisms on your tax statement actually legible.
Open the tools →DanKabu Research
A paid newsletter and model portfolio covering small- and mid-cap Japanese equities — the kind of under-followed names that don't show up in your feed.
Visit getkabu.com →SeanHoward Home Realty
A ground-up website rebuild for a Huntsville, TX real-estate brokerage — before-and-after case study, work in progress. New stack, new pages, same brokerage.
See the case study →Where to Listen
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