A Successful Businessman Shares his Playbook on How to Give Back

Kosher Money

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What would you do if you woke up and suddenly had hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank?

Meet Bentzion Heitner, a hard-working Canadian businessman and philanthropist who sold his business for many hundreds of millions of dollars not too long ago.

Since then, he’s given millions away to charities across the world.

He’s lived in New Zealand, Australia, London and has been in Toronto since 1981.

Oh, and he married a girl from Austria for good measure. You’ll notice his unique accent as a world traveler.

Mr. Heitner shared what inspires him, as well as the challenges he faces in the relatively unique position he is in.

He gives so much of his money away, which makes him the perfect person to speak to about how to give charity, the connections he makes along the way, why he gives and where.

He also dropped valuable advice for those who want to create a SUCCESSFUL business.

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0:00.0	What would you do if you woke up and suddenly had hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank?
0:04.7	Meet Ben Cien Heitner, a Canadian businessman and philanthropist who put in the work and sold his
0:09.9	business for many hundreds of millions of dollars not too long ago. Since then, he's given millions
0:15.2	away to charities across the world. He's lived in New Zealand, Australia, London, and has been in Toronto
0:20.2	since 1981.
0:21.8	Oh, and he married a girl from Austria for good measure. You'll notice his unique accent as a
0:26.3	world traveler. Mr. He opened up his home. He shared what inspires him as well as the challenges
0:31.3	he faces in the relatively unique position he's in. He gives so much of his money away, which makes him the perfect person
0:39.1	to speak to about how to give charity, the connections he makes along the way, why he gives money
0:44.9	away, and where he gives money. He also dropped valuable advice for those who want to create a
0:50.1	successful business. There are lots of gems in here from Toronto coming to you almost live.
0:56.8	Kosher Money. Enjoy.
0:59.8	Being a Jew, awesome. Managing personal finances, not so awesome. Welcome to Kosher Money.
1:08.8	Growing up, did you have accounting aspirations?
1:13.0	Was it a straight shot into finance?
1:14.8	What was that all about?
1:16.0	No, on the contrary.
1:17.3	My father was a classic schmata industry person.
1:22.0	He had, it's interesting in New Zealand.
1:25.9	The bettoch my father had. He had a business.
1:28.0	He started sort of selling clothes and then he got into a coffee shop,
1:32.5	which for the children, the family, packed up and started again in Australia,
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