Welcome to AAPC starting points where we speak with newly certified members who are working and learn about their journey, how they did it, how they passed their exam and how they found our first job. Today our first interview is Abby Duncan. Abby, how are you? Good, how are you? I am great. Now, Abby, we've spoken before and talked about your journey. I'm excited to share this with our APC members. First off, tell us where you live and give us a little insight into what led you on this journey. Okay, so I'm from a very tiny town in Nebraska called Claytonia. It's only about 230 people. And so what led me on this journey was because my husband was previously military. And so I wanted something that I could take with me wherever he was. And then he decided to get out. And I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to continue on this career path because it's very interesting. And I've already started. So we ended up back here and I continued with my education and ended up passing all of my exams within my curriculum and then I didn't mess around. I didn't wait. I took the, what do you call it, the AAPC exam. Yeah, the certification exam. Yep, I took that within two weeks of passing my curriculum. And all I did to kind of prepare for that was took the online APC pre-exams, if you will, is that what they're called? Yeah, just the practice exams that are online. Yep, the practice exams. I kind of took my average of all the exams and felt like I was ready and I went for it. So and I ended up passing on my first try. Oh wow