THE AUTHORS
Charly and Les are passionate about helping others live happy and fulfilling lives in fun and creative ways.
Charly Ligety
Charly works in the affordable housing industry in Los Angeles. The book was developed when Charly was a graduate student at The University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, where he worked on innovative projects with world-class designers and product developers in Los Angeles. Prior to getting his MBA, Charly worked in commercial real estate finance in Los Angeles. Charly lives in Los Angeles with his wonderful wife, Carley, who has been patient enough to play through many iterations of the book over the past year. A native of Park City, UT, Charly received his BA from Dartmouth College in 2009.
Les Starck
Les currently works in finance in Washington D.C. Prior to his current role, Les and Charly worked together in the same commercial real estate office in Los Angeles, CA. Les lives in D.C. with his supportive wife, Ashley, who has been generous enough to lend out her husband for many late nights writing the book with Charly. A native of Reston, VA, Les received his BA from University of Southern California in 2009.
Charly and Les have been working on writing Let’s Do Us (and its previous version, Very Engaging) since early 2016. It has been a labor of love years in the making.
While the inception of the book derives from Charly and Les’ personal relationship experiences, the book’s content was developed and honed after countless interviews and reviews with several licensed marriage and family therapists, Ph.Ds in behavioral sciences, and interviews with dozens of dating, engaged, and recently married couples from around the United States. Many of those couples' stories of challenging conversations, funny quirks, and romantic moments have greatly influenced the overall structure and narrative of the book.