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.

Shirley Buck, thank you so much for being our guest on the Michael Littin experience.

I am super excited about our time together. And like we said before we hit record, everybody has a story and our passion is to help them tell it. We know that you're going to tell us your life story today and our listeners are going to connect with you

somehow and it's going to inspire and motivate them to go do things that they've

been putting off and that's what we're all about. So thanks again for being here.

Thank you for having me. I was really looking forward to this. So with your permission we're going to start with

where you're born all the way up to today and we want to talk about your book and we also

want to talk about the impactful transformational coaching that you're doing, okay?

Okay.

So where were you born?

I was born? I was born in Where was I born in winter?

Okay, I was born in Chicago.

Okay. I was born to deaf parents.

And that does carry a challenge because you become their ears and their voice at a very young age.

For example, they were divorced when I was five years old and I interpreted that divorce for them at five years old.

So I had to take on a lot of responsibility at a very young age.

Unfortunately, throughout the divorce, my mother had remarried a man that was abusive and she started to drink and became an alcoholic.

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