Sarah Owens: ...that the world needed a reset

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When we were celebrating the holidays in 2019, could we have ever imagined how different things would look just a year later?

This year, we're spending our first Christmas without Jan's daughter and Laura's sister, Sarah, who made the tough decision not to travel home. In this episode, we have an honest conversation about how the pandemic has impacted our relationships, the lessons we have learned from spending so much time at home, the impact of an overnight transition to a digital workplace, what the holidays mean to us, and how at the end of the day, we feel more gratitude this year than we ever have before.

We hope that you enjoy this very, very special conversation as much as we did!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black. The pandemic has defined our lives since last March as it's taken many, many lives and altered the lives
0:22.3	of the rest of us. And on this episode, we want to talk openly about how it's impacted us and
0:27.2	our family and what our hopes and fears are for the future. Laura and I live in San Francisco.
0:32.3	My older daughter and Laura's sister, Sarah Owens, lives in New York. She's joining the conversation on this
0:38.0	segment to compare notes with us. We hope that wherever you're hearing this episode, you'll feel
0:43.3	a part of our conversation, too, because after all, as we've been hearing so much these last
0:47.8	few months, we're all in this together. Sarah, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much
0:53.3	for having me.
1:00.7	What is life like now in New York versus when we all started to stay home when the pandemic started and we just didn't know how long it was going to last and we were all getting adjusted
1:04.7	to this work from home thing?
1:06.6	I think that New York was one of the first places that was hit really hard with the pandemic.
1:11.8	In March especially, it was a very dire time. We were seriously on lockdown. We were experiencing
1:18.6	a shortage of ICU beds. We were in a position where it really felt like the world was ending.
1:25.8	And slowly but surely, New York got a bit better and
1:29.2	unfortunately the pandemic continued. But in summertime and in the fall, we began to reopen
1:35.1	pretty strongly. And I think that at least for us, New Yorkers took it to heart that they needed
1:40.9	to distance. They needed to wear masks. They were following direction. And we were able to get to a pretty good point. Now, of course, you know, things have definitely
1:49.6	spiked again. This second wave has come, but still, we seem to be a lot more open than California
1:55.7	is at this time. We'll see what happens after Christmas, but as of right now, it seems like we're in a better place than
2:02.5	San Francisco is for sure. Now, you used to travel and we looked forward to your visits every couple of weeks.
2:08.3	You would travel between New York and San Francisco because your company is based here in San Francisco.
2:12.7	You were born and raised in San Francisco. But since last March, you've only made the trip home once, and that was back
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