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Hey everyone, so as many of you know, we launched this special series back in March to talk about how businesses are building resilience during this really challenging time.

We've had some amazing conversations, and I hope they've been helpful.

In this week, we plan to have conversations with lots of people from the entertainment industry to find out how they're dealing with the global health and economic crisis.

But we decided to take a pause. We didn't want to take any attention away from a much, much more important conversation happening in America right now over racial injustice.

So we postponed most of those conversations, except for two, including this one you're about to hear with Troy Carter.

We first profiled Troy back in May of 2017 on the podcast.

How we grew up in West Philadelphia with no money or connections and rose to become one of the most influential people in the music industry.

And I would add to that one of the kindest as well.

Troy's managed everyone from Lady Gaga to John Legend and also founded several of his own media and music companies.

We were originally meant to talk entirely about how the pandemic has disrupted the music industry, which we did as you will hear later.

But of course, the more pressing story about the demonstrations and protest demanding justice was something we wanted to talk about first.

How are you doing?

You know, I can't even lie and say I'm going well right now.

I'm probably where a lot of people are right now, just, you know, I think already dealing with the global health crisis.

And then to sort of have the events that unfolded over the last few weeks and the aftershocks of those events happen as well.

I think it's been it's been a lot just unpacking things emotionally and but also intellectually and strategically and just getting to work on on on somebody's issues.

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