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Ken McElroy Show

Do this one thing to finish the year strong | The gift of giving yourself for others

Ken McElroy Show

Ken McElroy

Business, Investing, Education, Business News, News

4.8692 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Join Ken McElroy as he talks with Lyn Marquis, Director of Philanthropy at MC Companies. MC Companies is the property management company owns with his partners that manage his real estate investments. Lyn talks about the work of the Sharing the Good Life Foundation and then reflects on small acts that we can all preform to better the world during this holiday season.Follow this link to learn more: http://bit.ly/38sOBC7Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Real Estate Strategies podcast.

0:04.0

I'm Ken McRoy and I'm here to give you creative ideas on how you can get started or continue your journey in real estate.

0:10.7

Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations with successful people and their path to obtaining or investing in real estate.

0:19.9

Enjoy the episode.

0:23.2

Hey everybody. It's Ken McElroy here. And so obviously we talk a lot about real estate

0:27.7

strategies, making money, investing, et cetera, et cetera, but I'm really excited to have Lynn

0:34.1

on the show. I, Lynn. Hey, good to be here. So Lynn is our director of philanthropy.

0:40.1

And so one of the things that we decided to do, as Lynn knows, I used to be a check writer,

0:45.3

mostly for taxes.

0:46.5

Not necessarily good, but the truth.

0:49.0

I used to just write a check because I got a tax deduction.

0:52.5

And then one year, somebody asked me to come to an autism walk because his son was diagnosed

1:00.1

with autism and it changed my life.

1:02.7

And I was like, okay, there's a lot more to check writing.

1:05.6

I need to be involved in the community.

1:08.1

And then from there, I involved the company in the community. And lo and behold,

1:12.8

my partner was doing the exact same thing, Ross, and all the employees. And everyone's like,

1:18.5

well, we're all doing this independently. Why don't we embrace this as an organization and put some

1:25.1

effort around it, hire somebody who knows what they're doing. Lynn definitely

1:29.3

knows what she's doing. We created a foundation called Sharing the Good Life Foundation. There's a link

1:35.1

below if you guys want to take a look at it. And we are giving away money. We are raising money.

1:41.0

We have some of our investments actually fund this with our money. Our investors are giving us money. We have some of our investments, actually fund this with our money.

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