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		<title><![CDATA[The YOUTHpreneur Community: Phillip Lechter]]></title>
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	  <title><![CDATA[Phillip Lechter]]></title>
	  <description><![CDATA[<p>I am a dad, business owner, real estate investor, and educator.&nbsp;I am&nbsp;co-founder and President of Pay Your Family First (YOUTHpreneur) an organization dedicated to providing financial and business education to youth.&nbsp;I am&nbsp;also co-founder of Community First Financial, LLC; a mortgage company specializing in construction and investor loan programs. Along with&nbsp;my mortgage and education companies,&nbsp;my investment portfolio has included 11 residential rental units and a retail business.</p>
<p>In the fall of 2000,&nbsp;I joined&nbsp;the Rich Dad Company to be &lsquo;apprentice&rsquo; to Sharon Lechter (my mother) and her partners. Over the next 7 years&nbsp;my responsibilities as Chief Communications Officer included strategic partnerships, PR, direct marketing, customer acquisition, messaging, branding and Rich Dad&rsquo;s coaching and seminar divisions. Along with&nbsp;my &lsquo;employee&rsquo; duties&nbsp;I was also responsible for training coaches, seminar leaders, clubs and individuals how teach the Rich Dad principles and how to play the CASHFLOW game.</p>
<p>From 1997 to 2000&nbsp;I worked various sales, management and marketing positions.&nbsp;My&nbsp;experience includes managing a janitorial service, and working for E &amp; J Gallo Wine. In addition,&nbsp;I worked for an equipment lease finance company where I further expanded&nbsp;my sales abilities by soliciting financing over the phone and was later responsible for building and training a sales team that tripled the company&rsquo;s revenues. I graduated from Arizona State University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management.</p>
<p>My&nbsp;wife Angela and I reside in Phoenix, Arizona and are the proud parents of 2 boys, Kristian and Dylan.</p>
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