Speakers: Arynton Hardy
Arynton Hardy: Hi, my name is Aaron and Hardy and I took the youth program when I was just a kid around 11 or 12 years old. Um All the lessons within the program were instrumental for me during my teen years throughout high school and in college, a lot of the lessons like cause and effect treating people with human dignity and adding clarity to my life. Um I still use many of the lessons today and they've helped me both in my personal life, whether its interaction with me myself, relationships, relationships and with my career and my work, I don't think I would be where I am today. Without the lessons I've long at such a young age, it's definitely saved me years of mistakes and if you're
Arynton Hardy: so I think going into high school, a lot of people are trying to figure out who they are, where they fit in the world and what they're trying to do with their life um by taking these classes, I was lucky enough to figure out who I was and understand who I am and what my values were early on, and so I don't really have to do much fitting in. Um in fact it actually resulted in the opposite result where people wanted to fit in with me and be around me instead. Um I was lucky to have a very diverse set of friends um who had a lot of different interests and and share different commonalities with them. Um but I figured out who they are, um what they're interested in, and so the class is really, really helped me with that um and not trying to be pure pressured into anything, or trying to fit into places where I don't need to be or don't have any business in. Um and it's a really impactful class for me to fit in where I wanted to be and make sure I wanted to be around people who I wanted to be around with instead of, you know, maybe people who shouldn't be around
