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 Litton 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.

Schipur and Ajad, thank you so much for being our guest on the Mike Litten experience. 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're going to start with where you were born all the way up to today and then we want to talk about what pizza guys is doing in terms of delivering amazing food and then also in terms of franchise opportunities.

Is that okay?

That's fine.

Thanks for being here, man.

Thanks for having me.

It's great to have you.

So where were you born?

So originally I was born in a small town northern part of Iran by Caspian Sea called Sari. Sorry S-A-R-I, sorry Iran.

And that was a long long time ago and when I turned 16, I moved to United States and the reason for that being is just it was very fashionable that that the parents could afford it or you know they send their kids abroad.

Usually it was during the college but it was like my parents I guess were very excited.

Yeah, So I actually finished my high school in United States and moved to Cleveland, Ohio.

Really?

And I was in a private school over there, Christian school, and that's how I got started in Cleveland, Ohio high school and then Cleveland University. I did my mechanical engineering, graduated there and there was a lot of twist in between because I left Iran during the best time, the glorious time of the country as far as prosperity and happiness

for the people during the old regime, it's just a sharp Iran. My best memories is from that era and what I remember, you know, I was only, I spent 16 years of my life over there and then the rest of my life here in United States.

So it was it was a very good time and when I moved to the United States. I was a rich kid driving a trans and the eagle under hood and going to high school and having a lot of pocket money and stuff and all those good things came to an end when there was a revolution in my country and my dad

couldn't send money anymore and so I had to get my first job and my first job was working at a pizza shop and I had to I had to work to earn money to pay for school tuition because in order to stay full time and not get deported,

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