On this episode of the Playbook, I have a milestone entrepreneur, Christina Russell, CEO of Solas

Alon Studios and Woodhouse Day Spas. And we're going to talk about taking responsibility for your

employees and changing the trajectory of your business during the pandemic. Join me for all of this

and more on the Playbook. This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook. For each week, I bring you some of the

greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional

playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.

I'm your host, David Meltzer. I have Christina Russell, the CEO of Solas Alon Studios

and CEO of the Woodhouse Day Spas. Welcome to the Playbook, Christina. Thank you so much, David.

It's a pleasure to be here. You know, we were talking about earlier before being a milestone

and I think extraordinary entrepreneurs like yourself are so important because, you know, a lot

of entrepreneurs and CEOs don't look like you. We know that percentage-wise and I think it's important

as a father of three teenage daughters that they see people that look like them that have achieved

certain things so they know where they can go past. But yet, you didn't have many milestones

in your life to look at to get to the success that you've had. What was for you that inspiration

or milestone, a book, a movie, a personality? Was there something that you looked at and said,

hmm, I'd like to do that, but I could do it better. You know, I say it's interesting. I would say

probably the biggest influence of getting me into business was my husband. I actually started out,

not in an entrepreneurial career at all. I started out as a science editor at Los Alamos National

Laboratory, working in the physics division, editing really heavy scientific research work.

And it was my husband who discovered the world of franchising and said, hey, you know, we should

take off these golden handcuffs that we have working for the government and go figure out what

it is to be an entrepreneur while we're still young. So I was 29 years old and started exploring

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