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Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

195: From Aerospace Manufacturing to For-Profit Fundraising? Find out How... w/ Howard Gottlieb of Read-A-Thon ⭐

Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

Millionaire Interviews Podcast & Sir Austin Peek

Careers, Business:careers, Business

4.7 β€’ 2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Howard Gottlieb is the founder and CEO of Read-a-thon but in the office, everyone just calls him the Big Cheese. Howard spends most of his waking hours obsessing about how to make Read-a-thon the absolute best school fundraising idea anywhere on the planet Earth. Their goal is to have every elementary school and school library in the world raise the money they need by focusing on reading rather than selling fundraising products. Listen to Part II, right now: How the Rise & Fall of Athletic Attic... led to an Easy Fundraising Idea! (a Continuation of EP 195). This Episode is Sponsored By: With Fundrise, you can invest in a low-cost, diversified portfolio of institutional-quality real estate. They combine state-of-the-art technology with in-house expertise to reduce fees and maximize your long-term return potential. Start building a better portfolio today and have your first 90 days of advisory fees waived by going to millionaire-interviews.com/fundrise Believe In People by Charles Koch and Brian Hooks is the collected stories of social entrepreneurs who created uncommon solutions for the common good. For anyone in the country looking right now and thinking there has to be a better way, this book is for you. Preorder the book today at millionaire-interviews.com/bipbook and gain access to bonus content ahead of its Nov 17th publication. Rommel in the Dominican Republic has a great time talking one-on-one with Austin on how to become a billionaire. If you want to jump on a call with our host, Austin, and have a lively, entertaining, and enriching discussion on how to become a billionaire, then become a Patreon member today. Sign up at millionaire-interviews.com/patreon Anthony in Dublin, Ireland thinks that it can be a great investment to become a Patreon member and gain access to our exclusive Patreon contents. Join us now by signing up at millionaire-interviews.com/patreon Want to Support the Show? Well we'd love for you to join our Patreon Group! What's in it for you? Well you'll instantly get a scheduled call from Austin, where he'll help you with your current or future business... Sign-Up Now at millionaire-interviews.com/patreon. πŸ˜€πŸ˜ŽπŸ˜ *** For Show Notes, Key Points, Contact Info, Resources Mentioned, & the Fabulous 4 Questions on this episode visit our website: Howard Gottlieb Interview. *** Support this Podcast via Patreon Feedback? Questions? Comments? We would love to hear from you! Hollar at us via: Facebook Group (@MiPViPs), or Twitter (@acpeek or @millionairepod), Instagram (@millionaire_interviews), LinkedIn (@austincpeek), Facebook (@millionaireinterviews), or Email: [email protected]. πŸ˜ŽπŸ˜πŸ˜€

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0:00.0

He came to our house.

0:02.6

Lisa was just embarrassed, but a walk guy back to our bedroom.

0:07.8

He sat on the edge of our bed as I showed him what I do and how I do it.

0:13.5

So are we talking about business still?

0:15.0

Are we talking about something else?

0:16.7

This is countdown aviation, getting financing.

0:19.4

I'm joking, Yourton.

0:20.4

I'm sitting on your bed and how you do it.

0:22.8

There were no chairs.

0:25.8

Okay.

0:26.8

This is more bedroom.

0:27.8

Okay.

0:28.8

This is a business podcast.

0:31.3

He asked me after I had the check in my hand, why did I sell it?

0:38.7

And I said, because you paid me a crazy amount of money.

0:42.0

And he said, well, let me just tell you about people like you, which you know when a conversation

0:46.8

starts like that, it's going to get good.

0:51.4

So you could imagine some of the stories over the years of meeting your wife at screw products.

0:57.4

But it was a hard discussion when I called my sister to say, I'm letting your husband

1:02.8

go today.

1:04.4

And that, you know, it does take luck and hard work and a lot of things to be successful.

1:09.6

You know, it doesn't just happen.

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