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Welcome to Life In Twenty’s community of free mentors.  Discover all of our 20 minute episodes below and learn all the stuff to get ahead, not taught in schools.

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How A Custodian Got Set For Life

Tim LaBlanc was a head Custodian in the Seattle School District for 35 years, raised three kids in a house in Shoreline.  He contributed to his union pension every paycheck for 35 years.  After just 2 years in retirement, Tim had already received every dollar he had contributed to his pension in those 35 years of employment.  For the last 17 years, he continues to receive his monthly pension.  Click to listen to find out how he did it…

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Episode 6: Creative Director Jesse Merriam

May 15, 2023LIT Episode 6: "If you are standing still, you will never win" - Jesse went from GED to Creative Director of Mojang. He's been with Microsoft for 25 years, specifically focussed on video games for the past 12. He once repaired former President Jimmy...

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Episode 5: Senior Underwriter Mandi Pratt

May 11, 2023LIT Episode 5: Mandi has spent 24 years as a Senior Underwriter, assessing the risk of school districts, their history of claims pertaining to wrongful terminations, building/property deficiencies, and others. Find out how she's 5x'd her income, works from...

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Episode 4: Engineering Technician Jeff Whatmore

May 8, 2023LIT Episode 4: Jeff is a Engineering Technician for the city. He reviews plans for permits, conducts field inspections, makes sure projects in the city are up to code. Jeff talks about how he took a pay cut to join the city, married too young but landed the...

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Episode 3: Teacher Jackie Marino

May 4, 2023LIT Episode 3: Do you want a career that offers you full benefits, a pension, the weekends off, the summers off, and earns over $100,000 per year? Jackie is a teacher with special education endorsement, find out how she got to where she's at, why it's ok to...

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Episode 2: Office Assistant & Bargaining Chair Patty Lewis

May 1, 2023LIT Episode 2: Patty works for the Renton School District as an Office Assistant at Lakeridge Elementary. She helps remove the barriers that keep students from attending school on a regular basis. Patty also invests her time as the bargaining chair for...

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Episode 1: Retired Head Custodian Tim LaBlanc

April 17, 2023No Free Ride, the Importance of Family, Retired at 55.  LIT Episode 1.  Tim LaBlanc is the father of the Life In Twenty Podcast host Paul and the grandfather ("Papa") of co-hosts Carsyn and McCoy.  In this interview, Tim talks about coming from a...

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Episode 0, Introduction to Life In Twenty

April 01, 2023Our Purpose, Our Why.  Warning:  Not Sold In Schools  Paul, Carsyn, and McCoy's introductory episode of the 'everything not taught in school' podcast, created to help accelerate real-world learning for Gen Z for those interested in not being left...

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