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This is just a thank you. There's no way that I could try to make a post where I wrote something or I edited something. I just have to say thank you. So if you don't follow me, this is going to be completely nonsensical. And this is just for TikTok because y'all actually and literally made me and changed my life. And if I don't take a couple of minutes to say it this way now, as this continues to gobble me up because I'm figuring all of this out in real time every day and there's days that are scaring the shit out of me and there's days where I've never felt more alive and thankful. And I have you to thank for that, especially if you've been following me for a minute like some of y'all go back to 2020 and to think of where I was as a human being, what was happening in my life, who my boss was before the pandemic. And then flash forward to today, I mean, I've joked around a lot about how quickly you go from 27 to 47, but how quickly you go from being okay with the fact that nobody knows who you are and I could do whatever I wanted and y'all accepted me. I'll never forget walking back to my house. This was, I mean, y'all knew me before I started running in some cases and I was trying to respond to every single comment as best I could. And somebody named Yuli said, literally, this guy's responding to every single comment because you gave me a chance and all I've wanted to do is have fun and provide some value, hopefully. It's not lost on me any single day. The main point of this is for me to tell you, thank you, and then it will never be lost on me. I can promise you that wholeheartedly. There will not be a single day, regardless of how goofy or awkward or God knows what, because I make myself cringe with the vast majority of what I do. But never will it be lost on me that your willingness and acceptance to take the time to spend the time with me is what did all of this. The ways in which you've changed my life are astronomical. I will certainly allow myself to take credit for having done the work. You saw me do the work. I literally documented all of it from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. with the crazy 15-minute increments and now I'm starting from scratch in a lot of cases. It's been 151 days since I left my corporate job and I'm, just to give you some underneath the hood stuff, so obviously brand deals are a big part of how I'm making this work. I've got some executive coaching stuff happening. I got the book deal at the end of last year. That's in the works. That'll be on shelves not until next September, but that's humming along well and some consulting stuff here and there. It is fascinating to try to rebuild a business model for yourself at 47 years old and be comfortable and confident in the value that you bring to the table. As you go through your career, if there's another point that you take away from this, as you go through your career, who fucking cares, pardon the language, what the name of the company is, who your boss is, what you're stuck doing, etc. You are grabbing skills by the bucket load every single week for yourself. Don't forget that. You're doing it for yourself. Nobody can take those things away from you. Even if you feel like, well, I won't even go there, but it's all possible. Take care of yourself. I'm going to be fighting my ass off to do weird Mr. Rogers meets corporate America tutorial content. I'm going to be working my ass off to try to help you continue to be as comfortable as you can be in a completely fucking batshit crazy world. Is the guy who feels like he snuck in the back door of corporate America and then popped out on the other side in 30 seconds, but at the same time, 27 years later, and I'm like, this is how it works. The number one thing I'll tell you is you deserve to be comfortable and confident. I'm sweating. It's hot in my office. A lot of people ask about like, how do you just kind of navigate through it? And when you feel like you can't find a job or they're getting stuck with a promotion, just don't lose confidence in yourself. I lost confidence in myself a bazillion times since we met. In a lot of cases, some of y'all like picked me up off the ground on the streets of New York mentally because you said hi or because you came and wanted to take a picture with me. It is super surreal. It is super surreal to just get like, feel like a slingshot right into all of this. But the number one thing that I wanted to do, I mean, the, the things that I've gotten to do is just the list is, the list is so nuts. I mean, on what planet is the Stanley Cup in my house? Oh my God. But the number one thing I wanted to do is to be able to pick up my daughter more from school and you helped make that happen. Believe in yourself, believe in what you can do over the longterm. You've seen me chipping away at things and I was doing that for 13 years before I left school and didn't tell anybody that I didn't have a college degree and then started fumbling my way through it. I just wanted to say thank you. I know this is like six or seven minutes long at this point, but I don't, I don't care. I don't get a chance to come out from behind a single piece or a voiceover very often and just be like, you. Thank you. I'm going to be working my ass off to make you proud that you said he gets a chance. My name is Tim and I effing love you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.