All right, so I don't know how to start off this show. I'll start off by saying that this is,

what's today? Monday? Today's Tuesday, the Tuesday after, unfortunately, Kobe Bryant passed away.

And obviously it's been a rough two days if you lived here on the

West Coast it's been very difficult I think we're finally starting to

understand who Kobe Bryant was for all of us I think we're finally starting

under to understand the impact that he had on our life.

And we just had a meeting here at the company, like we do every day.

We started off the day by practicing our role play and our skills.

And today it was just a little difficult to do that, right? And so I just shared, I believe from my heart on our experience with Kobe.

And I thought I would share with you guys.

So we're recording a podcast.

We're going live on Facebook.

We're going live on Instagram.

Somebody just said they can't see me.

No, you guys should be able to see me.

Gabriel, let me know.

Just let me know if it's okay.

Anyhow, guys, people mourn differently, right?

People go through things differently. The best way for me personally to go through things is to like talk and to share and to try to teach. That's just who I am. I don't know any other way to be really, quite frankly.

And so what I want to do is I want to share with you guys on this episode of the show.

I want to share with you guys not only our time with Kobe, but some of the lessons that we learned with him.

And I'm going to start off by just kind of prefaceing what it's like to hire a quote-unquote celebrity speaker to come to your event.

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