Well, hello, everybody. It is Melanie Metro, the host of the Women Inspiring Women podcast. And we're back for a Tuesday episode. And I'm so pumped to see you all. You guys, we are getting ready to start the fourth quarter. We're getting ready to go into September and, you know, kids are

going back to school, hopefully. And there's a lot of unknowns in the world right now. And I'm

finding in business that whenever there are, when there's a lot of uncertainty, we sort of have

two kinds of people. We have people that retreat and withdraw and put up

the walls and really shut down to any possibilities of success happening. We just sort of stop trying.

And then we have the other kind of person that really looks at being backed into a wall and feeling like they don't have any

other, they don't have any other option as a place that they don't desire to be, which what

happens is when you push somebody back into a wall that doesn't like to be forced into a certain

position or decision, they rebel or

they basically take control of the situation and they say, you know what, I'm going to control

what I can and I'm going to, I'm going to create opportunity. And I see this moment where I'm

maybe being forced in a direction I don't want to be forced in as an opportunity to seek out another

option, right?

To really create a plan B.

And so today we're going to talk about like, what do we do when life hits us hard?

When there are things that are happening all around us, how do we still create success for our business, for our lives,

and how do we do it in a way that we feel fulfilled? And I'm going to give you some advice

based on personal experience today. So listen, I want to start out by saying this,

life is not hitting you hard any differently today than it has maybe in the past.

So for example, right, there have always been obstacles, especially to growing my business.

And I remember when Lannon and Bryce were six months old and two and a half and I was first

launching my beachbody business. I had a lot of obstacles standing in

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