 What's up guys? My name is Rick, go by Rectastic. I am 32 years old, currently living in San Diego. I'm an aspiring entrepreneur, focusing on writing, do little coaching, sales, and meal prep for different organizations and companies. I first heard about Art of Charm through the podcast back then, it was 2008, 2009. Listening to the podcast, I felt like the guys, AJ and Jordan, were very relatable. They just seemed like chill dudes that it would be fun to hang out with and have a conversation with. I started listening to the podcast because I had broken up with my ex-girlfriend after like four and a half years and I wanted to learn how to be social. I felt like I spent most of my time in college playing video games, studying, and talking to her on the phone. So when I broke up with her and I only had a year and a half left of college, I'm like, oh man, how do I make the best of this? How do I go out and start meeting people? How do I make friends? I didn't know anybody at this school and listening to AJ and Johnny and everybody talk about developing confidence, developing social skills, I started to play around with it and go out more and have fun with it, really get into the whole self-development thing and try and push myself to grow as much as possible. So I went through the program back in 2010 for the first time and met a really good friend of mine through the program who also lived in San Diego. So after the program, we went back to San Diego and we were just going out all the time, constantly pushing each other, coming up with fun games to play that would constantly push each other out of our comfort zones. I think the two biggest growth points that I got out of the program and then the after effect, you call it, was this idea of what confidence means and what it means to continuously push the comfort zone, push the battery of the comfort zone. Because over the past year or over the past eight years, I've gone through a number of evolutions, changes, leaving jobs, trying new fields of work, leaving work altogether to travel the world. It's completely blown my mind as to what is possible in life. I feel like I was stuck in this idea of always needing a 95, always needing some kind of income to succeed in life. And when I just let go of all of that, I started to realize how much is actually possible.