Raul struggled with pornography addiction that drained his energy, destroyed his focus, and kept him from starting a business despite having the resources. After quitting with program support, he regained mental clarity, launched an online business, and left his job.
All right, so how can you tell me how was your life before you really quit porn?
Okay, so before finding your content, I was in a very bad place with the addiction, and I really couldn't focus. I was feeling all the time sad. I didn't have a social confidence. I was feeling all the time ashamed. So this made me feel like really, really bad. I was very frustrated.
So by shame you mean like it's like you have this negative feeling inside of you that prevents you from doing what you want to do, basically?
Exactly. I was— I wasn't able to trust myself. Because I was failing in this addiction. So at the end, I knew I was failing myself. So that, that's why I, I couldn't trust my own work.
Oh, okay.
The worst feeling ever. Yeah, yeah.
No, obviously, right? This is something that a lot of people struggle with, right? And trusting yourself is one of the most important things because that's how you even do— like, you know, you have a business, that's how—
imagine you don't trust yourself and you're trying to start a business or you're trying to start a project Yeah, before, before the program, I was like 3 years having a lot of ideas, having all the resources, the tools, all my friends like doing the business already were telling me, what's going on with you? You have everything to succeed and you are not doing anything with it. And that, that was why. Because I couldn't put my attention with focus. I really couldn't. My attention span was like, fuck. Yeah. And this was like a daily, so I didn't have energy. I didn't have energy to working out. I didn't have energy to read, to put the work on the computer. So I was feeling really bad and stuck. It was even affecting my finances.
Right, like porn basically takes away everything from us and gives us nothing in return, right? That's the thing.
Actually, I even lost a relationship because my mind was always thinking in like pornography way.
Yeah, lustful.
Yeah. And like my, my last relationship, the, the ladies could, like, they were able to realize something was bad with me. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, that's, that's one thing too, right? It pornifies our mind. So what happens is we see the world in a way that is not how naturally humans really look at things, right? And because of that, now we have false perceptions on things, whilst those perceptions are just negative for us. They don't give us anything, and we think it's good for us, but in reality, it's slowly destroying us. So I get you. I get you. And can you tell me then, how's your life now that you've quit porn completely? How did it change?
Big change. Big change. Um, at the beginning was difficult for me, like, believe and understand that this was my main issue. This was my main problem. After I started your program, uh, and I actually did the everything you say, uh, everything started getting into place. Like, I have more energy, so I was able to actually put the work I was having more mental clarity, so I, I wasn't feeling like lazy to do the things I had to do. And I was able to finally start a business, an online business. It's a, a, a growing business. It's like partner, and that's been really good. I was able to quit my job.
Wow.
Yeah, that was like big change, and all because— all thanks to leaving the addiction of porn.
Yeah, that's the thing. It's not because you quit porn that now it became like, oh, I'm successful. It's because when you quit porn, you get more resources in your life. It's like you You're gaining back what you were losing from watching porn. So it's like you have more time, energy, focus, attention, all of those things, right?
So it's like, yeah, without the focus, I couldn't do anything without the attention. So I start putting the attention every day, was like more time investing in that. Um, and then when I had my first sale, Like everything changed in my mind and I continued doing it, continue doing it. So at the same time, the job I had was making me feel bad as well. So it was a lot of things. So, um, quitting porn led me to start focusing making like money through internet. And that made me to quit my job. So like, I, I don't have words to thank you for all the support.
Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. I mean, you know, because I was there before you started your business, right? And you were telling me about how you wanted, you know, start a business online. You were asking me questions and then you actually, you know, you took the action. And you get rewarded for your actions. So that's amazing to see. We'll wrap this up, but it was great talking to you, and I hope you guys become free just like how— and you change your life.
All right.
