 I hope you're doing super well. And if you're watching this video, that means you played a huge part in my success in 2022. And I hope I played a huge part in your success in 2022. And I would just want to give you a huge thank you for that. I appreciate our friendship. I appreciate being connected to you. And I hope for many, many, many years to come. I want to give you a quick recap on how my year went and a few things that happened along the way. And what I'm looking at moving into 2023, first off, my daughter turned three years old this year. And that was really the big highlight for me, honestly, is watching her grow and turn into this from infant to child here. This is an amazing experience. I just want to just take a moment to appreciate fatherhood and how much fun I am having raising my daughter along with my wife. And we have the most amazing relationship. So I'm just super grateful to be in the position to have a great relationship with my family and be able to knock off at five o'clock and spend time, quality time with them every day and on the weekends. That is a big part of why I do what I do. And they're my big why, honestly. So I just want to take a moment to reiterate that because that is what it's all about. Earlier in March, I was stepped out of production. I stepped out of the day-to-day sales and the day-to-day grind of going to listing appointments, showing properties, negotiating deals, going to closings and all that stuff. And I handed those responsibilities over to my father who handles the day-to-day for the Careuth team and is doing an amazing job. He took it on and he hasn't looked back and every single client, every single deal, does nothing but sing his praises. So I just want to give a shout out to Rick Sr. for taking that responsibility and that position by the helm and going out there and absolutely crushing it for the Careuth team. We did close the year out this year with $40 million in sales, which was the goal. This is the ninth year in a row that we have accomplished that goal. And I'm just super proud to be a part of that. I'm still doing behind the scenes, I'm still doing the weekly email, I'm still doing marketing, I'm consulting, me and dad. Talk every day because we work out now and that's been really cool. Something else has happened this year as my father meets me at the gym Monday through Saturday at six o'clock every single time. He does not miss. He never misses a day and neither do I and we really work out hard but we have a chance to spend time which we didn't really talk every single day but now we do and that time that we get to spend together is quality time that we get to talk about personal things and business and I think it's very healthy for us to do that. So I'm super grateful for that as well. A couple other things that happened. So when I stepped out of production this year, I did that in an attempt to go expand by other businesses and so that's what I did, right? And so the first one of course is Zero to Diamond, right? The real estate coaching and social media platform for real estate agents. So I went out there and we did so many events last year. You probably went to one of our events and it was just an incredible ride. We went on tour all over the country and met so many incredible agents and those events really meant something to me and to get all the love and support from you guys during the, before, during and after those events meant everything in the world and it's literally the reason why I keep going. It's just the support and feedback I get from you guys that what I am teaching, the message that I'm spreading is really helping you and it's really helping other agents. So back in December, we switched the platform from the old platform, which was just a course basically to this social media platform of Zero to Diamond. So we started over with zero users last December. Right now we're over 18,000 members and growing by about 50 to 100 a day and so that's incredibly exciting. The overall goals to get to 100,000 agents on that platform, which I feel like we will do in the coming years, we're this close, we've been working on it all year to release an app that you can just download the Zero to Diamond app on your phone and you have the entire social media platform with all the free courses right there in the palm of your hand. So I'm really excited about that. So the future of Zero to Diamond for 2023 is gonna be in-person workshops. I'm gonna be doing all day in-person workshops in different places around the country. The first one I'm doing is in Orlando, that's gonna be January 25th, that's part of a two day event there in Orlando, Gold Bar Live number one. The second one's gonna be here in my hometown in Gulf Shores, Alabama, that's gonna be February 10th and we're already well over halfway sold out on the Gulf Shores event. We're just releasing the Orlando event. So at these workshops, I'm gonna be releasing a lot of information, these micro details that I can't really get out in these videos. It's hard to really map out every little thing and all the finer details behind the scenes in these videos. So that's what I'm gonna be sharing. I'm gonna be talking about how to become number one in your market. I'm gonna be talking about how to scale your social media and all the hacks I've learned along the way as well as real estate investing, either buying your first rental or expanding your portfolio, whatever it is. And I'm really excited because I was born to teach in classroom type settings. The keynote speeches are great, but it's not 100% natural for me. The classroom setting, really teaching people all day long, that's where I shine. And I'm really excited about the opportunity to do that this year and it's gonna be a lot of fun. The next business that I wanted to expand was my own name, my personal brand, the Ricky Caruth brand, which I'm building to become a billion dollar brand. And so the idea of there was to be able to spend more time on content, to create better content and more content. And you guys can see on Instagram, I'm posting five to six times every single day and that is working. I'm picking up more than a hundred new followers organically every day and I'm growing there. Moving forward for the Ricky Caruth brand, I'm actually gonna build this room out that I'm in right now into a full blown studio where I'll have a podcast set up and also a green screen that I can film my reels and anything else that I want. I'm also gonna be upgrading my equipment and really going all in with creating more media for you to bring you the most value possible. The next company that I wanted to expand this year was the Brokerage, our Brokerage goal bar. And we hit over a thousand agents in that Brokers this year and did over a billion dollars in sales. So I'm really excited about the growth there. Next year, the goal is to double the agent count to 2,000 and also the sales volume to $2 billion. So that's nothing that we can achieve and we're gonna be working together every day to bring agents into our Brokerage, coach them, train them, help them with every little thing that they need to make sure they're in the best possible situation to multiply their volume, which we've done with hundreds of agents that are part of our Brokerage now. The next thing that I did was real estate investing and I expanded my footprint there. I bought several new residential and commercial properties that are all rented out and going just fine. And I'm excited about 2023 because I'm getting in to syndicating these large apartment complex deals. I'm looking for deals right now as we speak and my goal is to go out there and acquire over a hundred million dollars worth of multifamily deals all over the Southeast, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, any of those states in the Southeast, even Texas, I'm looking for properties in those markets and trying to find properties that fit what I feel like are a good deal. So I'm really excited about that moving forward. My goal was 50 million and I thought, wait a minute, that's too low. I need to really shoot for a hundred million. So that's a good recap on 2022 for me, kind of what I'm looking at on the horizon for 2023. Let me know in the comments what your 2022 look like, what you're looking to do, what your goals are for 2023. And I'm wishing you and your family a happy, happy new year. And again, I'm looking forward to continuing the collaboration with you, the friendship with you, and so that we could all grow together. We'll see you guys on the next video. I'll see you guys next year and we'll talk to you soon. Take care. I want to, I want, love, I 35 with the top down.