I was always like a hard worker, did well in school, and then when I was hit with something that was out of my control, like medical depression, in and out of the hospital, like, at one point, like, I didn't know if I wanted to live. And I lost everything and things that I had worked for and things that I was given. And I felt alone and I had nowhere nowhere place to start. So when you have to take

every single piece of your life back, like I work three part-time jobs starting at 20 hours a week

because that's all like my mental capacity could take. And then I had to work my way to 30 hours

and then 40 hours and I slowly built back my

endurance and my my fucking confidence like my confidence was wrecked I was like do I have the capacity

to work am I smart enough to stay in school and just to slowly build and build something

progressive I didn't like go out of the gate and go from super depressed to like running my own

business and getting two

degrees. What is happening, Ricky? I'm so honored and appreciative that you're here to join us

today. And I'm excited to introduce you. Guys, this is our client friend, somebody whose name

is brought up quite a bit within our client success team because of just the, you know,

it's one thing to hear about students who have fast success, which I shouldn't even frame it as

that because you were in business before IFCA. You've been building your business for some time,

and I want to go into that. But you had a quick ascension in terms of like fast success in IFCA,

while, which is just a crazy thing

taking on not just one master's program or doctorate program in physical therapy but also

getting your master's in public health which is just pretty insane and I want to talk to you all

about that how do you balance this what were some of the things that you did to create space and

reduce overwhelm or are you just white knuckling and just running on, you know, Celsius and Adderall?

That might be that might be the case too, and that's fine. But I want to know all about it. So

anyways, what's up, man? How are you? Doing good, doing good. Just finish some studying, actually.

That's not surprising. Not surprising at all. Midterm season. studying, actually. So that's not surprising. It's not surprising at all.

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