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Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran

82: Coronavirus: There’s Great Opportunity in Every Crisis

Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran

Barbara Corcoran

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

If you’re smart enough to look behind the black curtain at a time of crisis, there’s opportunity waiting. Here’s how to see it and seize it. Got a question for me? Call me at 888-BARBARA or tweet me @barbaracorcoran and I just might answer on a future episode - or even call you up to discuss live. Subscribe to Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen. This episode of Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran is presented by OnDeck Business Loans (http://www.ondeck.com/barbara).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Barbara Corker, you are now tuned into business unusual.

0:07.0

There isn't a person alive who's not worried about the coronavirus,

0:11.0

and it is playing havoc, not only business on our purses but most importantly

0:16.2

on our mind.

0:18.3

Everybody I talk to is looking for a way to handle it the best they can with good intent, but everybody's feeling a little

0:25.4

bit lost. I don't know a single business that is in hard hit. I don't know a single worker who isn't

0:31.1

worried about their livelihood. It's the common

0:33.7

complaint day in and day out over the last week here in New York City where I live.

0:38.7

It reminds me so much of other fios that I live through trying to grow my business in the many years that I ran it.

0:46.2

I remember the stock market crashing and people truly believing that we would never have a stock market again.

0:53.7

No, not a high stock market.

0:55.5

I'm talking about there would be no Wall Street.

0:57.6

There was a belief like that and people in business were folding up

1:00.8

but long before they even had to fold.

1:03.6

I remember 9-11, people really believing that

1:06.4

apartments in New York City would never sell again.

1:09.3

I remember not having a sale in my business with a thousand agents for almost three months and we were

1:15.0

thinking that the business would go down but here's what I learned on all these

1:19.8

crises through all the years when When things go south, they come back by gangbusters.

1:27.3

Every time something went really bad

1:29.6

and business came to a screaming halt,

1:32.1

there was a long silence, and the smart people took advantage of that

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