Hey everyone and welcome back to BU with BU.

Today's episode is a mashup of Brian and Jay Shetty from an event in December of 2022.

The two of them explore why we should fight contentment in a post-COVID economy and how to create opportunity during an economic downturn.

Here's episode 86 of BU with BU, creating opportunity in a recession.

When I think of Jay, I think of like relationships. I think of Zen Master. I think of monk. I think of clarity. I think of coping, right? And, you know,

what's amazing is I've been doing a lot of like reflection over the last couple months.

When I kind of look back and reflect, you know, COVID has had a huge toll, I think, on human beings around the world. Would you guys

agree? Yes or no? Literally shifting people's mindsets. And we're kind of at this flux stage,

if you want to say, of the economy. Or, you know, back when COVID hit, I feel like there was this

huge urgency for consumers. There was a lot of stimulus money

in the market, so consumers were actually spending more. And it gave a lot of companies these

huge spikes, really that were false sense of growth because there was just more money coming in

through the stimulus and people were at home, I think maybe bored or doing

whatever, have this money buying. And a lot of different segments across the board, any type of

luxury item went up for the first six months. Our industry and our company thrived. And I also

think that there's people that were a little bit nervous, and they had this

energy saying, I'd better get a plan B because I don't know what's getting ready to take

place.

But then if you kind of look at the news and you listen to the narrative, everyone was talking

fearful.

Everybody was talking doom and gloom.

There was all kinds of conspiracy theories going on.

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