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

Just delighted to be here today. As always, with you. Wow. And Mark, with you too. Yes, a little warm greeting there.

That's more of a cordial warm greeting rather than a pumped up energy, you know, ACDC intro.

So, you know, different strokes for different folks, you know.

Yep, here you go.

Yeah, welcome everybody.

This is the Open Forum Week.

Oftentimes one of our most listened to programs on a consistent basis.

I think it's just fun for a lot of investors and business owners to hear other questions of those

around the country and go, you know what? I didn't even think of that. Or I'm not that bad.

That's a pose. We're like, wow, that guy's question was dumb.

I must be doing pretty good.

We will not indicate what that's up for you to decide. Yeah. Or, all the questions are good. Or, wow, that question was over my head. I got to get my crap together. Yes. Oh, yeah. It's so everywhere in between. I want to let you know it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, apparently, because I'm wearing pink today. Wow. Real men, wear pink. Well, that's very, uh, non-profit of you, very charitable

of you to mention that yeah this we should

probably say to last weekend was our summit our second semi-annual I don't

whatever semi-annual live since COVID conference in person in Phoenix whatever we want to call it, on self-directing.

And we announced our foundation as well for helping small business owners get financing

and micro loans and micro grants to start a business.

And last night, I'm in Texas right now.

And I was at a Waffle House in Texas. Of course you were. Of course you were. Of course I was. What am I crazy? I get off the plane. My first stop is Waffle House. I had to get some grits. Oh, so good. But I, I, the same guy that was there a month ago when I was in Texas is now the manager. And I was like, hey, his name's G. And I was like, I remember you. And he was like, I remember you. And I'm sitting at the bar. I was sit at the bar at Waffle House. Yeah. And I was like, we just started talking to business for two seconds. And he goes, let me tell you about, I got a business idea. What are you doing? You know, and he started telling me about his business and so excited to hear about it. And I'm like, just take action. He's in this analysis paralysis stage and good stuff. That's awesome. Well, we had, it was a great time, by the way. There'll be a recording coming out if you missed it and want to get it. You can go to sdiri summit.com. But we launched the foundation for entrepreneurship and financial literacy. It's a foundation market. I've been wanting to do for a long time. We had a golf tournament connection with it that we're contributing all the profits from the golf tournament to. And then our law firm and Mark's accounting firm will likely be, you know, throwing in money over the years to help grow this. We're not taking any money out of it. Nobody's paying any expenses. No one's getting a salary. We're all trying to get it back out. There are to small business owners, young entrepreneurs starting out, people starting over

in their life.

And so we hope, hopefully it'll be a great resource.

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