Welcome, everyone to the Main Street Business Podcast with Mark Kohler and Matt Sornson.

We're just delighted to be with you today with another amazing topic, which Mark would like to introduce.

Yeah.

The topic is today.

Some of you may have just fallen upon us and we'll introduce why we're kind of making jokes

and a little dorky here in a moment.

But our topic is I'm in a partnership.

And the reason why I wanted to introduce this topic was last two weeks, I've been on the

road doing my two day workshop workshop and wonderful, uh,

experiences, meeting people in Dallas and then in Chicago, uh, so many small business

owners out there, just anxious to talk about their tax planning, their structure and building

their business. We had a little of everything. Their tenure plans, their board of director meetings,

their tax writeoffs that are the most valuable. It was, and Orange County is sold out right now,

unless we get a new venue. Hawaii, we're waiting to hear on COVID rules for groups. Anyway,

it was really a great experience. And I said to Matt, do you know what? And he didn't

know. This was interesting. I didn't expect this either. The number one topic that I think got the most

hands up in the air and, hey, could you explain this more and in the back of the room at break

was, what do I do? How do I structure this? Do we do an escort? Do we not? What do I need? Can I do a

JV? Can I, you know, where can I cut corners to save money? Common question. And where should I not

cut corners? And then I did an attorney training meeting with our associates. I had all of them

captive on Monday for a full day. So I went

from training our clients to training our attorneys, which was a great experience to let them know

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