 My name is Joe Berger. I live in Columbus, Ohio and my current job is I'm a project manager with JP Morgan Chase I took the program at the Art of Charm because I was married for 13 years and I went through a divorce. I was afraid of my ex-wife coming back to me And I'd be afraid that I would take her back because of my limiting beliefs. I chose the Art of Charm based on your authentic approach. I I tried the game concept from the book where I pained my fingernails I pierced my ears and it really felt fake and I wanted to just be comfortable in my own skin to be able to go and talk to girls I was not skeptical of the Art of Charm. I Personally likened it to like dance lessons But I could listen to a podcast on dance lessons on how to dance But it was never going to teach me what I need to know But when I actually took dance lessons having someone saying, oh, no, this is kind of what you're doing wrong here That's what I needed from the Art of Charm in person. Oh, I more than enjoyed the program It was the best week of my life. So I married my first girlfriend Mm-hmm, and this was new to me going out and actually approaching girls and the second field night out What was neat was I went and talked to a girl Start chatting her up as soon as I saw her and after 20 minutes of conversation. I was making out with her Oh my god, all skills. I learned at the Art of Charm. This was nothing I had ever done before so I met my girlfriend using the Art of Charm skills and Once we were dating for a while. I spoke to her about you know was looking to make a career change and she Started helping me out with networking and she passed me on to one of her former coworkers and I started talking to her And using the skills I learned at the Art of Charm She passed me on to Another HR person that chase they had me to apply to a few jobs And it got me a job it ended up with me getting a job at chase Which more than paid for the bootcamp that I took and you know that that's huge because Making two career transitions in my life. I had career coaches both times and they're both. Oh gay positive And what I really needed was aj to get up in my face and tell me You know I I was expecting every interaction to go bad. That's why I was having The bad results at first At my job that I just left I was going around bantering with all new employees And we just grew in a manner of four months by 80 people And I was bantering with every single new person that came in and it was fun And probably the highlight for me on that one Was there was a girl that just started who was going through a divorce and I was bantering with her And it was literally the week she was going through the divorce. It was going to be final She was in a very bad mood and I was able to cheer her up And then have that authentic conversation saying you know, I understand I went through a divorce And she ended up really appreciating Me for talking to her. She sent me a message And as soon as I got back to my cubicle it said thanks for the chat. It's nice to know someone understands And what was really impressive? I thought was during the interview with the big guy. He used to be Uh an account manager for mckinsey consulting. He had the chase account, right? He asked you know, introspectively, is there anything that you could change about yourself? And I said well Uh, not that I think of wrath topped my head, but last year I took a week's vacation And I showed out $7,000 To go to the art of charm To because I wanted to learn how to become more charming as a person And he lit it up like a christmas tree The fact that I said that he's like I've never heard that before and he wrote it down I would recommend it to anyone who feels that they're introverted Or anyone in general, but for me, I'm kind of introverted and I don't necessarily have A lot of energy after working all week long to go out So it really shortened the amount of time that it would take me to learn these skills. It was like Everything on steroids that I need to get in one week To get the skills I needed to go out and do this