Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA Show, powerful Business Insights You Can Count on with our practical business lessons. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher Omar Zenholm.

And in today's lesson you will learn what I learned raising $12,000 for charity.

I'm going to be honest with you.

In recent years, I haven't been great when it comes to charity.

I haven't really given back in the way I should. I've really had my head down growing my software company

webinar Ninja building this podcast growing this podcast and I really didn't prioritize

giving back to those who need help and need support.

But in the past year, Nicole and I decided to commit to doing something to give back.

We've done pretty well in business, and's our obligation really to pay it forward and help

those who can't help themselves.

As business owners, you will get to a level of success where you don't need to worry about your own financial means.

You don't need to worry about paying your bills.

You have a surplus and that's a good position to be in.

But what I found in my experience is that the more you give, the more you get.

So if you do decide to do some charity work, whether it's through time or with money, you're

going to find this episode very helpful because I learned a ton in this process of raising money for a charity

called Hands Across the Water. I'll explain what this charity is all about.

I'll explain the process of how we raised this money, why we chose this charity in particular,

and how to make sure that your charity actually gets the money to the people that need it.

When I went into this, I realized how murky the waters are when it comes to charity organizations.

It's not super clear what's going on behind the scenes.

I'm going to show you how to get clarity, how to have an action plan,

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