Welcome to the How of Business with Henry Lopez and David Begin, the podcast that helps you start, run and grow your small business.

And now here are your hosts.

Welcome to this episode of the How of Business.

This is Henry Lopez.

My guest today is David Wood.

David, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Henry. Happy to be here. Absolutely. We've had some challenges getting this scheduled,

so I appreciate your patience and perseverance, and here we are. I'm looking forward to this

conversation. We're going to chat a little bit about David's entrepreneurial journey,

and then we're going to get into his specialty, which is having tough conversations

or we're going to apply that to small business owners like myself and how that can help us

get better at what we do or if you're aspiring to become a small business owner.

If you want to receive more information about the Hawa business, including the links

for the show notes for this episode,

the show notes page, that is.

Just text the word biz, B-I-Z to 3196, and I'll reply with the link.

So David Wood is a business owner, a coach, an author, and the founder of Play For Real

and Tough Conversations International.

David is a former consulting actuary.

I don't know what that is.

I'm going to ask you that in a moment.

Consultant actuary to Fortune 100 companies,

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