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It is indeed a brand new year. Welcome to Side of Social School. My name is Chris Bilabau.

Today I have the first story of 2021 for you. Over the past few years, I have very much

enjoyed bringing you so many different stories. It's one of my favorite things. Looking

at all the different ways people have navigated the new economy, as well as, let's say, more

recently, navigating all the changes that last year, 2020 brought to us. It's always fun

to hear different pandemic pivots and how people are reinventing themselves. Let's just

jump right in here because today's story comes right from our own SideHussell School

Backyard. It's actually about a couple that I have been fortunate to know for many years.

If you have been on one of the monthly calls we do for the third way group, you may have

met Jed Chang, my SideHussell Sidekick, or if you've ever been to the World Domination Summit,

WDS, the event that I have hosted in Portland every year for the past nine years, except for

last summer, of course. Jed is our concierge for that. Together with his wife, Michelle, who's

also been very involved with WDS, he started a new project that's all about continental cooking.

This traveling couple pulls the ultimate pandemic pivot, helping a friend transition her

Tuscan cooking classes into an online Italian cooking school. They also have a special

offer for a free online cooking class for you. I'll give you the link for that at the

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