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This is Help Launtine. The show that tackles all the big work questions you cannot ask anyone else.

I'm Jason Feiffer, Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine.

And I'm New York Times' bestselling author and money expert, Nicole Lapin.

The Help Line is open.

The big headline in Financial News this week is the fall of Silicon Valley Bank or SVB, a big bank that catered mostly to startups.

If you want to hear that story more in-depth, I did an episode on my other podcast Money Rehab, which I linked in the show notes.

Today for Help Wanted, I'm taking over and doing a solo episode where I'm speaking with a founder who banked with SVB.

Ashley Mills, co-founder and co-CEO of Obey Fitness.

As you're about to hear, it has been quite a tumultuous week for Ashley.

This conversation, though, is a masterclass on how to deal with a crisis at work, how to rally help in unlikely sources, and how to communicate some really hard shit.

Here she is.

Ashley Mills. I was going to say Ashley Davis because I know you for that long.

Thank you so much for having me, Nicole. It's been like a minute since I've seen you and had congratulations on the network.

Thank you and congratulations on Obey and I want to get to all of that.

But should we tell our listeners how we know each other?

Sure.

It goes all the way back to your maiden name and also a decade ago?

More than a decade ago.

I think he was more than a decade ago.

We were babies.

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