Everyone, please welcome @Ashley Melton @Devin Trent @Rodger Heard 🍀 Apologies @Ashley Melton as you already joined over a week ago. We had a chance to chat in the DMs and I am super excited for you to have joined this space! Your community for single mothers who are entrepreneurs is a great fit thematically. @Audrius Stankus is also very much at the intersection of parents running their own business so you two should connect 😎 @Devin Trent and @Rodger Heard welcome! We have not had a chance to chat yet, but I am very excited to learn more about you! Please make yourselves at home 🏠

I used to be exactly like the teen sons I now help. It sucked because I had crippling social anxiety. I couldn't connect with people I actually wanted to talk to. I numbed the pain with screens, wasted years in avoidance, and told myself I'd figure it out eventually. I didn't figure it out in my teens. Or my early 20s. The process of becoming a confident, socially proactive man took me far longer than it should have. And there was no mentor, no structure, no one to give me a real-world challenge and say "go do this today." That's what changed everything for me. Not therapy. Not motivation. Small, calibrated real-world actions, almost like games. Repeated exposure without drama. Confidence built from doing, not talking. Which led me to becoming socially free and fearless. I initiate the conversations I want to have. I take up space. I lead. And now I help teen sons of single parents do the same thing, years earlier than I did. Want to know how I did it? [photo: from when I was working as a Red Carpet VIP host, speaking with Emilio Piano https://www.instagram.com/emilio.piano/]