Barney and the Gatekeepers

How My Retired Father Made It Big in the Real Estate Business

Mitch Ditkoff
4 min readMar 20

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My father and two of his grandchildren: Mimi and Jesse

My father, a pharmacist by profession, retired to Florida at the age of 55. His retirement lasted three weeks. After a lifetime’s worth of waking up each morning with a purpose, now he had none. Golf didn’t count. Nor did watering his lawn or reading People Magazine. In fact, nothing counted.

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Mitch Ditkoff

Co-Founder of Idea Champions, Face The Music & Sage Catalysts. Author of Storytelling for the Revolution, Storytelling at Work, Unspoken Word and Free the Genie