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Andrew Mizzoni (Photos by Tom Bartsiokas)
By Connie Adair
Andrew Mizzoni is no typical 20-year-old. He has lifted some-more than $400,000 for pediatric cancer investigate during a Hospital for Sick Children, was a Ontario Community Newspapers Association’s Ontario Junior Citizen of a Year in 2005 and was one of Today’s Parent magazine’s Our Heroes winners in 2006. And he has a year underneath his real estate belt.
Mizzoni, a sales repute with HomeLife Metropark in Vaughan, Ont. was innate Oct. 14, 1991 in Toronto. He lived what he calls an “average childhood” until he was nine, when he was diagnosed with cancer.
“My relatives beheld a strike underneath my left eye. They took me from alloy to alloy and dilettante to specialist, afterwards finally to Sick Kids Hospital. They did a CT indicate and some tests and after that same night, my oncologist told us a news,” says Mizzoni.
Mizzoni was certified that night and began 9 months of chemotherapy followed by 5 weeks of radiation. After about 10 months, he was in remission, though that was not to last. A few months later, a follow-up indicate showed a cancer was back. Five additional months of chemo was not enough, and he underwent medicine to mislay a tumor. Surgery enclosed stealing his left eyeball and eye lid.
Despite a struggle, Mizzoni says in a approach it was a “blessing to accept (cancer) as a child. Children don’t recompense courtesy to statistics. we played with friends and went to school. we had a certain state of mind.”
He was partially scholastic during a sanatorium during diagnosis though whenever probable continued to attend in sports. Twenty-four hours after medicine he went home. Two weeks after that, he played his initial basketball game. A month after that, he was behind in idea with his ice hockey team.
“Sports were a proclivity to do what we had to do,” says Mizzoni. “It was severe to recompense with one eye during first. For sports, we worked with a innumerable of good coaches who enabled me to recompense and learn several tricks to make my life easier. It was really identical to a rest of life’s activities.”
Mizzoni went on to attend high propagandize during Holy Cross in Woodbridge, where he graduated on a honour roll. Next, he was off to Seneca College for business administration and entrepreneurship. However a year and a half into a course, he felt unfulfilled. He motionless he wanted to sell genuine estate, following in a footsteps of his uncle, Danny Mizzoni, a attorney with HomeLife Metropark Realty and his great, good uncle, James Mizzoni, who was boss of a Toronto Real Estate Board in 1976.
The immature Mizzoni got his looseness during a age of 18, and is finishing adult his studies during Seneca part-time.
He sells residential real estate (his initial sale was a relative’s condo) and is removing his feet soppy in a universe of blurb genuine estate. “It’s a smashing knowledge holding a sale from indicate A to B,” he says. “So distant my real estate career has progressed down a highway of condominium sales and we am regarded as a condo dilettante with double number condo deals this year value over $3-mllion. This is something we adore traffic with since we (work) with immature people and investors who are as encouraged as we am.”
He says immature clients find him out, preferring to work with someone their possess age, though that he’s also a renouned choice of buyers 3 times his age. “I’ve always had a certain opinion on my life and a clever faith, that is what we try to brazen to others. we know my clients conclude that trait as good as my enthusiasm.”
Despite his success and achievements, Mizzoni says his many unapproachable impulse was when he lifted some-more than $30,000 during a cooking dance fundraiser only following his cancer diagnosis. “That fundraiser has continued over a years,” he says.
Every year, a enterprising Mizzoni also hosts The Andrew Mizzoni Charity Golf Classic, that only distinguished a 10th anniversary. “At a final golf tournament, a alloy told me they took supports from a initial contest and started a investigate project. It showed wish and they were means to get additional supervision funding. My efforts have resulted in tens of millions in supervision funds,” he says.
For Mizzoni, it’s all about lifting income for a Andrew Mizzoni Cancer Research Fund for Rhabdomyoscarcoma. “A apportionment of each understanding we do goes to Sick Kids and we send a customer a label to let them know we donated in their name,” he says. “My priority is creation income to give to a hospital.”
Mizzoni skeleton to “grow and pierce on to bigger and improved things” where real estate is concerned, now putting together a group of immature people meddlesome in investing in genuine estate. He’s also looking during a grill business. “My relatives possess a Tim Horton’s franchise. I’ve taken that imagination and wish to try into opposite avenues of business,” Mizzoni says.
“There’s no reduction to what we can do. we have my past to appreciate for that. Whatever we wish to do we can do, and will do on a worldwide scale.”
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