charity

Have you ever wondered what kind of a house a man like Warren Buffett lives in? Friday morning, I found out, and it gave me some serious food for thought on the final leg of our road trip back to Reno.

It’s been almost 3 years to the day since we brought our new son David to our home in Phoenix, Arizona from a Juarez, MX orphanage. He had just turned 14 years old. A long period of adjustment for all of us ensued. He never forgot where he came from and for the first time, he talked about his past a little from the stage at my San Diego seminar earlier this month.

The title of this post, “Entrepreneur 2.0,” comes from the owner of a new website with a great strategy for combining business with social purpose. If you’re looking to make an impact in the world, and at the same time do some last minute holiday shopping, please check out www.feedyourfamilyfeedtheworld.com. Tell him Diane sent you!

I’m off to Juarez with 19 kids as part of my son David’s charity, Thunder Missions. We’re driving from Phoenix to Juarez (about 7 hours) with 2 vans and a pick-up full of paint, soccer equipment and clothes for La Casa de la Nueva Vida, the orphanage that David came from.

Smiling Faces

I’m writing this just as I’m about to go visit an orphanage in Mexico that Maui Mastermind 2003 helped build. It’s also the orphanage that gave us our fantastic son David.

The sub-title of Part 2 of this blog series might very well be “Sometimes Doing Good Helps Your Business More Than You Can Imagine.” A complaint I made to my personal mastermind group led to the formation of MMG and eventually fulfilled a long held dream of a family for me. You’d think the story would end there, but it didn’t! The business model got turned inside out by a simple question one Sunday morning.

The sub-title of Part I of this blog series might very well be “How We Started Out By Doing Good and Made the Best Business Decisions Ever.” Isn’t it interesting how often you can start out doing one thing, with high integrity and intent, and accidentally get results you never intended? This is the story of how we started a business started from a complaint at a mastermind session, morphed when a community made a heartfelt plea for help and somehow along the way we made a lot of money and helped a lot of people.

Hi this is Diane Kennedy. Today is Day 27 of the 30-day Countdown to the release of my new book, The Maui Millionaires™ that I co-wrote the book with David Finkel. The book is now shipping from Amazon, and is scheduled to be released in bookstores on November 3, 2006. I’ll be checking in every day with a Wealth Tip excerpt from the book, written either by myself or by my co-author, David Finkel.

Hi this is Diane Kennedy. Today is Day 26 of the 30-day Countdown to the release of my new book, The Maui Millionaires™ that I co-wrote the book with David Finkel. The book is now shipping from Amazon, and is scheduled to be released in bookstores on November 3, 2006. I’ll be checking in every day with a Wealth Tip excerpt from the book, written either by myself or by my co-author, David Finkel.

Hi this is Diane Kennedy. Today is Day 25 of the 30-day Countdown to the release of my new book, The Maui Millionaires™ that I co-wrote the book with David Finkel. The book is scheduled to be released on November 3, 2006, and from now until then I’ll be checking in every day with a Wealth Tip excerpt from the book, written either by myself or by my co-author, David Finkel.