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.

Joel Kedeski, thank you so much for being our guest on the Mike Litton show.

I cannot thank you enough for taking time out of your

schedule to do this from the bottom of my heart. I'm super excited to get your life story

on tape. Like we talked about before we hit record, everybody has a story and our passion is to help them tell it because here's what we know.

People who listen to our podcast are looking to connect with you and there's something about your life story they're going to connect with some sort of commonality right could be anything and what we know is it's going to inspire and motivate them to do something that they have been

putting off like maybe writing a book about retirement right or maybe you with me so that's

what we're all about we're all about inspiring and motivating and I cannot thank you enough for being here.

It's my pleasure and I'm very excited to tell my story. I love telling my story.

So what we're going to do is we're going to start with where you were born and go all the way up to today.

Okay. And then we need to talk about the book and then we also need to talk about anything else that you're working on for the future.

Okay? Sure. Perfect. So where were you born?

All in sound Ontario, Canada, November 11, 1945. There you go. There you go. Did you grow up there?

Yes, I did. I grew up. I went to public school, high school, graduated, and then I went to university after that out of town, one year in the University of Toronto, where I did abysmally and I failed. Then I ended up at the University of Guelph, and Guelph Ontario and fortunately I realized I have to study and not party and I did both but I did more studying than parting and I got my undergrad degree so I do have a BA. So yeah.

It's amazing. It's amazing how many people we have on here that they go to college and they really major in partying in the very beginning and then they figure out, oh, I'm actually here to study.

I got a buckled. It took one year. The problem with the University of Toronto, Mike, was that I came from a small town of 17,500 and I went to the Toronto, which at that time at about maybe million and I have two million people and I couldn't adapt to the big city and I just could not and I got homesick and I was 18 and that was just a horrendous year for me. I didn't live on on campus which was also difficult.

So I was living with an older couple about 70 years of age which in retrospect was young, but now back in was old, they couldn't identify with me.

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