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Hello, Smart Money Tree Podcast listeners. Welcome to this week show.

My name is Kirk Chisholm and I will be your host. So today, we're talking with George Bravante.

How you doing today, George?

I'm doing great. How are you?

Doing well. So George, we're going to get into one of my favorite topic areas, but why

do you tell the listeners a little bit about your background? Yeah, my background is a little

varied. I grew up in a New York area. I went to school in the South. I started in public

accounting with Pete Marwick in Charlotte, North Carolina, and then quickly moved to

Newport Beach and works for Ernst & Young. Shortly thereafter, I became the CFO for Robert M. Bass

Group's real estate arm in L.A., you know, segued from there into some private equity real estate

transactions, pretty significant ones. That company kind of turned into TPG and Colony Capital.

I started having children, didn't want to work globally 24 hours a day anymore, and started

a small investment company with a high net worth family in Newport Beach, California,

and somehow landed in the Central Valley on a deal.

We had three sons, that's three little boys at the time,

and we decided to stay in this little farming town that live there and raise our children there.

As the deal junkie personality that I am, we started investing in troubled citrus groves.

And, you know, after I got into it, I figured out the cash flow characteristics to tax

treatment and decided to kind of power into it.

Segway 20 years later, we have a, we have farmed about 5,000 acres, we have a vertically integrated

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