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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. It's crazy to think that, I guess it would have been a great pleasure to be here.

I guess it would have been in early March, I was scheduled to have today's guest come in to the Daily Stoke offices. We were going to record and then she had invited me to an event she was having an Austin, which I was very excited about, because they were opening a new Jenny's ice cream in Austin.

I do love ice cream and I think the Stokes would have liked the two. Seneca certainly would have been a nice cream fan. Even Marcus really sort of deprived himself of the tea this probably, but what I love about today's guest Jenny Britain power is that she's dedicated craftswoman, craftsman about what she does, even though what she does is make ice cream.

Actually, she's been doing it for more than 20 years now and Jenny's splendid ice creams is one of the best ice cream companies. I think in the world their stuff is delicious. We absolutely love it in my family.

I always love talking to people who are passionate about what they do. Not passionate because it can make them lots of money or passionate because it's popular, but passionate because they love the craft of it, they love the essence of it, they love just every element of the thing.

And then that commitment is manifest or obvious in the final product. And I think Jenny's ice cream is a great example that it's not just a great product, but it's really successful business with stores all over the states.

But it's not just a happy story. I mean, anyone who's been running a business in the midst of this pandemic knows, do you have anything that involved customers coming into stores? You just got hit by a truck.

What I wanted to talk originally, I was going to talk to Jenny, it was going to be a much more fun conversation. But in fact, I think this version ended up being a much more stoic conversation because we had to look at the adversity that she's been forced to overcome over the last several months, the opportunities that that's presented the business, how she's actually managed to improve and expand elements of the business because of it.

So that's the idea of the obstacles the way. And I think it's just a great conversation, which I'm really looking forward to you sharing. And if you've never tried Jenny's ice cream, I highly recommend it. And anyways, support local businesses when you can, especially places like Jenny's ice cream.

And most importantly, whatever business you support, whether you're getting a pizza at Domino's or something, what you definitely have to support and be conscientious of and pathetic for are the people that are having to show up every day.

And take risks for not very great amount of money. And so that's one of the things I talked to Jenny about is how do you keep your faith in humanity when you are experiencing a certain amount of callousness or indifference on behalf of what we net once a society called care and the people that come in and treat waiters and retail employees and other human beings like crap.

Because they're to sort of selfish or self-absorbed or dealing with stuff in their own life. And she has, you know, she's a very bubbly person as you can tell. And I think she's got a lot to teach us as far as sort of maintaining your faith in humanity in the midst of what is, it clearly a great test of humanity.

And so here's my interview with Jenny Britain-bound founder of Jenny's ice cream and fellow traveler student of the Stokes.

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