Welcome to the Mike Litten Experience Podcast.

Mike has over 31 years experience in real estate, finance, and investing.

He's passionate about being a father, a teacher, a realtor, an investor, and a leader.

Everyone has a story and our passion is to help them tell it. And now introducing the host of the Mike Litten experience, Mike Litten.

So what can you expect from the Mike Linton experience? You can expect stories that will inspire,

motivate, advice that will sharpen your focus, and expert information on real estate, finance, and market conditions.

Melissa Drake, thank you so much for being our guest on the Mike Linton experience. I cannot thank you enough for taking the time out to do this. I am so

excited to be on with you and to have our listeners learn your story. I know for a fact that it's going to inspire and motivate them.

So like we talked about before we hit record, everybody has a story and our

passion is to help them tell it. So with your permission, we'll start with where you were born. We'll go all the way up to today. I may ask you a few questions as we go, right?

To today and then we'll talk about what you're working on today. I know you're we'll talk about what you're working on today.

I know you're a best selling author.

I'm, and I know that you're also a coach.

I am thoroughly excited to get coached up today.

I'm ready.

Throw me in, coach, okay. All right. So let's talk about first of all where you were born. I was born in Des Moines, Iowa. Oh, yeah. Pretty exciting right in the middle of the West. Yeah. And I honestly I enjoyed it there. I lived there my whole life, five houses the entire time through a marriage divorce, single parenting, all of that.

Until I was 44, 45 and then I moved to Southern California.

So where did you go to high school?

I went to Valley High School, which is just like it sounds.

It's the Snobby Rich Valley High School.

Unfortunately, I wasn't, well I probably was snobby but I wasn't rich and didn't really enjoy it all that much. But I had to work a lot to be able to keep up with my friends. Like I had three jobs and did the extracurricular activities and all that kind of stuff, but it's a good school.

It's definitely.

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