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.

Derek Newborn, thank you so much for being our guest on the Mike Litton experience.

I cannot thank you enough for taking time out of your schedule to be with us and I'm super excited to share your life story with our listeners.

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, go all the way up to today and we talk about anything

that you're working on today and or for tomorrow okay

perfect thanks for having me I'm excited to I'm excited to be on here and share my

story for sure we're gonna have a blast buddy tell us about where you were born. So I was born in Fort Myers, Florida and I still know where that is. Yeah, Southwest Florida. That's a cool place. Yeah, there's not you did grow up there. Yeah, born and raised.

Beautiful.

Yeah, one if you're still around.

What was your favorite thing about growing up in Fort Myers?

The great thing about growing up in Fort Myers

is just the just the environment because we have

obviously we have the ocean but we have just beautiful forests we have things like the Everglades, we have all kinds of, every environment you could think of from like prairies to swamps to oceans to beautiful trees to all that and it's truly like a unique part of the country that has so much to offer that I think if you're not careful you'll take for granted especially if you've been born and raised here. So yeah, I was super fortunate for the outdoors. That's possible. Yeah.

Growing up, who was the most influential person to you? The most influential person was my father,

even though he was not there for part of it.

Okay.

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