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Hey friends, it's Ellen.

Welcome back to the show.

We have a lot to cover on today's episode.

So I'm just going to coin this a coffee chat, if you will.

There's been a lot of discussion,

a lot of questions around current events with the coronavirus pandemic and what that means for your business, how to move forward. And then I also want to do a quick review of quarter one,

2020, because despite all that is going on in the world,

I really love being able to come back together with you guys and share my progress in my

business, what's going on, what's working well, what's not working well. But let's start

with current events. You know, there's so much information out there already

about what business owners can do during this time. So I'm not going to really dive too deep into that.

I just want to give you my quick thoughts on the topic of selling because I think that some people are worried

that they will come across insensitive. They're not sure if it's okay to continue on with business

as usual when for many people their lives are not continuing on as usual, right? People are losing

jobs. Kids are out of school for a while.

My sisters are seniors in college this year and their graduation isn't happening. But I think

what's important to remember, and I'm actually going to pull up a post that I made today and I sent

out to my email list, I said, I've been asked a lot lately how to approach marketing

your business during this global health crisis. Is it ethical? Should we stop selling? Here are my two

cents if it's helpful. It's more than okay to profit during this pandemic. It's not okay to profit

from this pandemic. Fear is not a sales strategy I believe in, hope is. The more we can

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