Hi listeners, it's Chris Goethea, producer on Masters of Scale.

Quickly dropping in with an invitation for you to join us at an upcoming strategy session with Reed,

along with a few very special guests. During this live virtual event, you'll hear some game-changing

wisdom and insights that will help you make smart and financial decisions for your business.

So take a second to save the data in your calendar for Monday, May 8th at 3.30pm Pacific,

and register at mastersofscale.com forward slash strategy session to receive your link to join.

We'll be tackling some of the most top of mind questions for entrepreneurs,

with a special focus on how your business can thrive even amidst an economic downturn.

It's a really important topic, and you'll hear timely strategic insights that will help set you

and your business up for success. So go to mastersofscale.com forward slash strategy session to

register for free. Now on to the show.

First, let's start by operating on science.

Pandemics bring out the worst in society, for some reason.

They expose the fault lines of communications and leadership and politics and halves and

have-nots in this horrific way they were now seeing. Every company is going to have to make their own

decision. This is a good time to do the things that you were afraid to do in the past.

Prioritize the business, focus on the things that are important, cast away the things that are

unimportant and take those resources and put them on the highest and most important goals in the

company. The pandemic, which is a horrific thing, is an opportunity to really look at a mirror and

say, is this the country that we want? Is this the kind of leadership that we want?

If you don't address health first, you create fear and with fear, it's very hard to run a business.

I've decided to spend my time on trying to get this righted because until this problem gets fixed,

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