Hello, you are listening to the Secular Buddhism Podcast and this is episode number 28.

I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm talking about being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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Have you ever felt like you were stuck between a rock and a hard place? I'm sure you've heard the

expression, damned if you do, damned if you don't. And I think this is something that we all experience

from time to time. It's typically the feeling that we get when it seems like we have no good way out

of a situation and the situation can be all kinds of different things. I recently experienced this

or have been experiencing this for a while with running my own company and sometimes the decisions

that have to be made own in a business and deciding, for example, what to do with excess inventory

or deciding if I should negotiate a deal with a specific chain of stores. From time to time,

I've had this feeling of feeling like I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. And recently,

I was in Germany attending the world's largest photography expo called Furokina for my work.

And I've been working on this deal with my suppliers, the owners of the factory,

who manufacture all of my products. And I've been starting to feel more and more this feeling of

being stuck between a rock and a hard place, specifically in terms of how I negotiate a deal

that I've been working on with regards to the ownership of the company, how to manufacture the

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