Jimmy John Liautaud

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1,897 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2017 last heard Nov 2021

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Franchise Today · As We All Give Thanks, Jimmy John Liautaud's Lifetime of Giving Continues! · 27 Nov 2019 podcast

They want to kick me out of my school.

And he said, uh, if you kick Jimmy out, I'm gonna leave too.

And they said, Well, uh, if we let him stay, then you gotta take care of him.

And you gotta make sure that that Jimmy doesn't get in trouble and and you gotta watch over him.

And Jim Lyons watched over me and he got me through high school.

And and from that, you know, I was dyslexic and I didn't know I was dyslexic and I have ADD and I didn't know I had ADD, and I'm a smart guy.

But uh I couldn't I didn't know that because I was ADD and I was dyslexic, the teachers assumed that I was they knew that I was somewhat smart, but they also at the same time thought that maybe I was I was a bit of a a smart ass because of my inability to comprehend.

They're like, Well, if Jimmy would just apply himself.

Well, in with dyslexia and ADD

you know, I can read a book, but I I can't comprehend the book.

So long story short, with education, my first big give back in education was I gave a million dollars to Elgin Academy, my high school.

And they wanted to name it the Leoto Upper School.

And I said, There's no way you're naming it the the Leoto Upper School.

You're naming it the Leoto Lions Upper School.

And then I brought Jim Lyons uh to the school and we and we broke the bottle or we had the celebration and and that was the I did that.

At the same time, my father uh was interested in partnering with the University of Illinois.

He wanted to give some to

And named the University of Illinois Chicago campus the Leoto Business School.

So I partnered with my father also back in the early two thousands and we together gave a significant amount of money.

I think it w I w it doesn't matter what it was multiple millions of dollars and it's now the the Leoto Business School at UIC in Chicago.

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