Welcome to the Shaline Show. Shaline is a New York Times best-selling author, celebrity fitness trainer, and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

Thanks so much for joining us. My name is Shaline Johnson. I'm Brett Johnson.

And we are the founders and creators of a program called the Marketing Impact Academy. And the reason why I mention that is because we together have over 25 years of experience building countless businesses in seven different industries, businesses that we've created seven and eight figures in.

And we've sold businesses. We have folded businesses. We've had incredible success. And we've also had to build back from nothing, from being a half million dollars in debt at one point.

In the product space, in coaching, in exercise, and fitness, all kinds of physical products, online products, you name it. So we've had ups and downs. We've had lots of employees. We understand what it takes to survive this kind of thing.

Today, what we're going to do is kind of break down part of the cares package or the cares bill specifically that relating to the coronavirus stimulus package for individuals.

This is for those of you who are you're either an employee, you have recently been laid off. Maybe you're an independent contractor.

Or there's a couple of other folks, a gig worker. So that's what we're going to cover today. We're going to talk about what those benefit packages look like generally speaking.

But please know that there's a lot of nuances to them. And there are stipulations, regulations that are particular to each and every state and each and every individual.

Before we go any further, please know that we are not giving you financial advice. We are not telling you what to do. And we are not making any claims.

Consider this to be educational purpose only entertainment purposes, if you will. Don't come sue us. It's your responsibility to talk to your CPA to do the research on what your individual state is offering in terms of benefits.

And then also to know that much of this is at the moment based on well informed, but speculation from experts because a lot of it's still pending on both the government and or a federal and state level.

We've created a lot of businesses, but two that were not we're not CPAs and we're not financial advisors. So, but we are qualified because we've done some research on this and we're going to give you some of the, you know, how to relate this.

And a lot of you haven't even read the act or don't have access to people that Shalina and I have access to. We've been on the phone with our financial advisors, people from Bank of America that, you know, a lot of people are like walking in their bank and everybody's walking in their bank.

And they're just not getting the right answers and just fortunately the position that Shalina and I are we actually have a personal banker that's like we can just talk to also mirror Lynch.

We had an opportunity to speak with several CPAs to just confirm some of what we are assuming our best practices, but again, we really need you to check with yours.

For those of you who are marketing impact Academy students, I need you to stay on to the very end because Brett and I are doing something really special for you. There's no cost involved in this.

It's for those of you who have already invested in one of our academies. If you're one of our students, stay on because we want to walk you through this process.

We're going to coach you through the first four coaching calls. We're going to bring you through the foundational pieces of the program. We're going to restart that together as a group because some of you have made that investment and maybe you just started your business or you started something but now with the current circumstances, it just ain't going to work.

And you need to go back to the drawing board. And frankly, no one could have planned for this. There are no lessons right now in the marketing impact Academy that are specific to this environment.

There's no there's no coronavirus module play. No, so we're going to coach you through that. That is our responsibility to you. We're stepping up as leaders. We've put everything else on the back burner. We just committed not just the two of us, but our team to like everyone on our team.

We've been working remotely and everyone got together and we said, okay, this is our focus. This is 100% our focus right now. Who do we need to bring on because we have thousands of students who are now in panic mode.

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