How do you navigate social business conversations in an environment dominated by major news events? We’ve all been there as business owners — our social channels blowing up with conversations that are overwhelming the focus of our consumer audience. As business owners, we have to walk a difficult middle ground between being sensitive to what is going on in the world and successfully running our businesses. Although no one knows all the answers to this dilemma, Kim and Cara have three suggestions to help you find your way through the distracting environment of social business conversations.

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gallop to the top of the animal industry, where you'll learn how

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to tame your wild business beast with tips, techniques, and tools

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that will take overwhelm to obedience school, and have you

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wagging your tail with joy. And now your hosts Kim Beer and Cara

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Taylor Swift.

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Hey there business animals. It's Kim with

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Be More Business

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and Cara with Fast Horse photography. Good

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morning, Kim. How are you? Good morning,

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Cara. We only have really technically 15

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minutes left of mourning in this recording session. So we'll be

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moving into afternoon. Yeah, you're right. It's lunchtime.

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stomach's getting a little hungry too.

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Yeah, I just inhaled a bunch of salt and

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vinegar almonds this morning. That's pretty much all I've had

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to eat. So I'm running on sodium and nuts.

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a podcast. Oh, my. You guys are in store for something

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interesting. Yeah,

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let's do it. So

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actually, the topic we have today, I think is

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super timely for folks out there. It's when the world

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distracts your audience. And as we're recording this, for those

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of you who are listening to this somewhere down the line, it is

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2022. It is in the middle of the summer. And there is a laundry

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list about a mile long of things that have happened in the world,

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in the political environments, in activism environments.

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There's just a lot of turmoil in the United States in particular

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right now. But even across the world, there is a lot of

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turmoil. And what we want to talk about today is how do you

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show up on social media publicly? How do you show up

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with your business as a business owner when the world is

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distracting your audience? So right now, conversations, online

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conversations at networking events, conversations

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everywhere, are being dominated by these major news events. And

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as business owners, I think that we stress a lot about how do we

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have a conversation about business, because after all,

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everything's blowing up with what's going on in the world.

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But we're over here trying to run a business. And we also

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don't know quite how to join these conversations, or even if

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we want to join these conversations in a way that

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shows up as healthy for our businesses. And so that's what

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we're going to talk about today on the show, because I think

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it's important discussion for us to have, regardless of where you

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land on any of these world events, is how are we going to

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navigate are how do we navigate it when this happens.

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And I would just add, you and I have had so

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many conversations about this. I mean, we have gone back and

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forth, we've debated, you know, on some of the topics on how

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businesses should handle this sort of thing. And there's when

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it comes down to it, I think what we decided is what we want

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to share today is just kind of how we feel about small

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businesses, especially in this climate in the world that we're

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in today. So I'm excited to talk about it. And I also feel like

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anxious about talking about this subject just between you know us

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in our you and me and our audience out there. I feel

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anxious talking about it too, because you know, like you I've

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come from such an old school. I don't want to say old school,

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but just from an old school theory of business and where how

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businesses should show up in the world and in terms of life

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events and world events and social events and everything

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that's happening around us. So this has been an interesting

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conversation that we've had. And we decided if we're having this

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conversation, then definitely animal based business owners out

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there are thinking about this too, and struggling with it. So

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we're like okay, let's do it. Let's do a show and get it at

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least get people talking about it. Yeah, let's

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have the discussion. I know what Cara is

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trying to say there is my mother ingrained in me from the time I

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was a little kid and by the way, I was raised by the greatest

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generation not a boomer but uh, I was adopted by my

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grandparents. So even though I'm a Gen X, or I was raised by that

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previous generation, and their approach to stuff like this was

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you do not discuss certain things in public conversations.

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And those things include religion, politics, in my world

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sports as well because sports can start a big argument, but

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people always laugh about that, but it's true. I do know I live

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right in a border town between Kansas In Missouri, and let me

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tell you, it's a really vehement rivalry between these two states

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when it comes to their sports teams. So all of that said, but

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religion and politics are two of the things that you should never

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have a discussion about in your business. It's not part of your

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business. But as Kara pointed out, the times they have

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changed. And now there's a certain feeling or draw or

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expectation around having those conversations, and I think that

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line has gotten blurred a lot. And for small business owners,

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it becomes a situation where you need to consider what are you

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going to do in these situations? What What can you do? How can

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you still be a business person? And how if you want to do join

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the conversation, or how do you choose to stay out of the

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conversations that are going on. So we have three tips for you

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today, and we're gonna, of course, like we always do on the

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show, break each each of those three down, the first of our big

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three is to keep an eye on current events and run your

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social conversations through a tight filter. And this is

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especially true if you have them on autopilot. So if you're using

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those automated postings, it's important to always check those

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against what is current out there. The second of the big

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three is to shore up your other marketing channels away from

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social media, in particular, so that you're well covered when

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things are rocking. Current events are out there rocking the

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boat on social media, and everybody is engaged in the

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arguments. And I would love to say they are conversations, but

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a lot of times they do downgrade into arguments and sometimes

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really ugly ones. So if you have your other marketing channels

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shored up, it makes it easier. And then the final one of our

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big three is to remember, this too shall pass and all of our

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worlds run in a circular fashion. So it's going to cycle

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through and we will eventually be back to status, whatever the

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new status quo happens to be. So let's start with number one in

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that tight filter that we need to run our social posts through

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in our social conversations. And one thing that I see right off

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the bat that happens with this is when you have your social

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media sort of pre scheduled and something happens if you are not

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on top of the social events that are going on and what those

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conversations are, and it never seems to fail, that whatever

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posts that you have going out that day may rub up against that

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social stance. Have you ever seen that happen? Kara where

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where it just feels insensitive or wrong? And you know that the

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business owner really didn't mean it that way. But it just

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kind of occurred?

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Yeah, I mean, with social media, and the fact

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that a lot of especially bigger businesses, but smaller

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businesses as well spend a lot of time batching and, you know,

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getting their posts together for a month, two months, six months

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in advance. They're kind of planning these things out. It's

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easy to happen. And I agree with you, I don't think it's always

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an intentional thing. I think it's that they scheduled

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something. But that's a struggle that we have to deal with. Like

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we have to be thinking about that all the time, I think and

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it's, we have to always be checking and making sure what's

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coming out is still relevant to when we first sat down and put

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it all together.

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Absolutely. And we see this modeled for us in

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our world in different ways. I know Hollywood, there's been

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times that there have been things like we'll go back a few

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decades to 911. I know that there were some movies that they

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chose not to release, because they felt that they were too

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sensitive for that particular time period. So they just sat on

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them and release them later. I think in our social media and in

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our marketing, we need to be careful. And we need to run what

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we're putting out into the world through the filter of what is a

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current world events that are going on. That means that for a

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certain extent, as a business owner, you do need to stay in

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touch with what's happening out there in the larger world. I

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know that's another thing that happens to small business

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owners, we tend to be very nose to the grindstone, and a lot of

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times we're so dedicated to where we are and what we're

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doing. Sometimes we're not even aware of what's going on. So

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take a few minutes every so often and check in with world

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events and then go compare that against what you've batched or

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what you've created and take a look to see if there's something

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sensitive in there that maybe you need to redirect the next

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consideration here is what happens with your personal

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opinion, your personal stance on things and how your business is

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going to show up or not show up or remain neutral in that

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situation. And I think this is the really interesting and also

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the most difficult conversation of all of the things that we're

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talking about today. And first of all, I do want to say it is

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very possible for you to have both a personal opinion a strong

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personal opinion and then also have a neutral business stance

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on current topics and political things that are going on, you

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know, it's okay if that's where you choose to row your boat is

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straight down the neutrality of the river, then I think that you

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are just fine. If you don't want to rock the boat or get off on

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to a certain topic, I think that's an important thing to

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remember that it's completely okay with that. And there are

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statistics that do support that social media users do get worn

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out over political posts. In other words, at a certain point,

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there's a tipping point that no longer does that topic. Whatever

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the topic, Dozier happens to be that it doesn't stay relevant

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for them, or they're wanting to look for something different.

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But there are times that we want to consider or that we feel like

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we should be considering entering that conversation. So

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you know, I mean, I think that there's a fine line to walk

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Cara Taylor Swift:

It's just a constant struggle, there are so

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many things that happened during the year and historically and

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that I have an opinion on. If we were in times when we didn't

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have social media, and we had to be really thoughtful and

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strategic about the content we create for advertising, it's it

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would be a totally different story, because you're putting

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together like large scale advertising campaigns. Whereas

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on a day to day basis, we have at our fingertips an opportunity

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to spew into the world, our thoughts and feelings. And it's

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very tempting, and I do see businesses go solid in one

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direction and solid in another direction. And I know how that

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feels the desire to want to do that. It's something I struggle

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with on a daily basis, I always come back to the core of my

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business and try to bring myself back to the fact that I'm a very

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small business and a very small community. And as a business

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owner, I have to remember that who my audience is, and also

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that my business can be neutral and can serve everyone.

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Absolutely. And I think that the decision on

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whether to enter into a conversation that might be

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viewed as controversial or have two very opinionated sides to it

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is how in context is that to your business. So when Kara and

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I were kind of prepping for this episode, we were talking about

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what you as a consumer use a business's political stance to

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either hire or not hire a horse photographer, let's say or a dog

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groomer or equine massage therapist or something like

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that. And I think the reality and Kara pointed this out very

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appropriately is I don't know if you would simile over here who

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has a viewpoint and who is going to express that viewpoint in

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your friends and social circles that are private, but as a

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business, when you start to take a stance on something, is it in

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context to your business? And I will tell you a lot of the

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things that are going on in the world right now, I have some

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deep opinions on personally, but they don't really have a lot of

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context to what I do to my day to day.

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I mean, I think we have to think about

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just down the line, like the messaging and all of that. And I

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you know, I was thinking about this. And I when Kim and I were

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talking about putting this together and Kim and I thought

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to myself, and the idea that you know, in today's time, there's a

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lot of pressure on businesses to talk and to speak out. And there

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is an upside to both to some extent. So to me, if you and you

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can tell I'm struggling with this. But to me if you if you

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choose to remain neutral on topics that are important to

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you, then you are leaving yourself open to potentially

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more business which is what a lot of small business owners

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want. There's also a flip side of that, that when you choose to

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say nothing when you choose to make no comments when you choose

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to do nothing that can sometimes say a lot about your business as

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well. And so that's where I think my struggle always comes

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in with this topic. So for me when I think about am I going as

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my business to weigh in on a topic, I try to filter it or

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think about it through a couple of different things. So I so

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here are a couple things that I'm going to throw out to hear

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what to consider before deciding to speak out about a social

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issue as a business owner, the first thing and Kim has

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mentioned this a couple of times, is the topic relevant? Is

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it in alignment with your mission, your vision and your

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values? As a business owner? Can you make a difference by

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speaking out? And are you willing to put your money and

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time where your mouth is? Because there is some thought

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around it's one thing to talk about it. But it's another

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thing, though, to actually have your business take action. For

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example, has your business already been supporting, you

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know, this particular cause? Have you already been I don't

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know supporting other businesses that support the cause? Have you

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already been reaching out in your community and doing work

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behind the scenes donating your time donating your money?

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Another thing to think about is your clients, you know, will

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your clients agree with your viewpoint? Do you have a plan to

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deal with loss of potential clients, if they don't, not only

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potential clients, but loss of vendors and partners that you

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work with in your community that the loss of that that could

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happen? On the flip side, you could totally gain new clients,

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you could gain new partners, but there you have to be willing to

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balance that. I also think that as business owners, that I and I

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see this happening, we should not be intentionally using

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social issues that affect people's lives to grow our

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business, there is a term that I have recently heard called woke

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washing. And it's a term used to define practices and businesses

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that provide the appearance of social consciousness without any

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substance. And that really hit me because that is it was like,

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Thank you, you're giving me a term for something that I have

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seen out there. So I think that as business owners, we have to

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think and filter and really spend some time thinking about

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these things in terms of our businesses, you know, and then

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in the big picture, how do you think or feel that speaking out

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will impact your business. So as a business owner, it's sad to

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say, but we have to come back down to the aspect of working in

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the context of our business. And then one last point I want to

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make on this because I think about this a lot, especially in

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today's you know, social media realm, as small business owners,

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there is a difference between how we operate and can function

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successfully in this world compared to a larger business.

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And we have to take that into consideration as well. Big

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companies that serve hundreds of 1000s, or millions of people

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have a different sort of leverage and a different sort of

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power than a really small business. That is we're

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operating in a little tiny town of people. So you know, I think

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that all of these things that I've listed, if you can sit down

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and weigh them and feel comfortable with each one of

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I'm gonna give you permission did if you don't

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want to get in the conversation, if you look at your business,

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and you say yes, taking a stance would align with my vision and

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values personally. But as a business, you don't have to make

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a public stance, you don't have to change the PRINT FRAME on

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your profile picture. You do not have to scream it from the top

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of the roof, what your opinion is, you can support the things

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that you want to support quietly, without causing a big

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scene over it or posting a lot about it. So if you want to

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still support those things personally and go over there and

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deal with needing to look and listen to those conversations,

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but as a business owner, I know if I comment on it personally, I

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am going to be commenting on it professionally because I don't

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have a lot of separation between me in this business. So I will

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let a tie to the face of our business. Yeah, I don't I don't

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tend to comment, even though sometimes I would really like to

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and even more than commenting. There's other subtle ways that

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you show up in that by liking or even by being the person who

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follows or reads those. But those out rhythms definitely

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work to favor that engagement, what happens to businesses and

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advertising and all of those things that we do when the world

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is quote unquote, normal, they tend to get silenced by this

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bigger conversation that's going on. So as those arguments and

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engagement are consuming all of social media, your advertising

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your blog posts that you're putting out on social media, the

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little posts that you're doing to announce the episodes of your

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podcast, and all of those things, they're getting drowned

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out in that bigger conversation, because that's what the

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algorithm is going to favor and placing in front of you. And

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chances are, we all take or a lot of us take that bait. So in

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times like this, when the conversation is so overwhelmed

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with something that isn't even relevant to our businesses and

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our marketing, we need to make sure that we don't have all of

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our eggs in the social media basket. And now we're sitting

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over here twiddling our thumbs because people aren't seeing or

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engaging with the content that we're putting out there. So this

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is why it's important to have an email list. This is why it's

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important to make sure you're always building your networking

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connections. This is why it's important to make sure you have

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connections with joint venture partners. So that as more than

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one voice as a as a business, you can get heard to a certain

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audience, and that you have other ways of reaching your

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customers and getting in touch with them during these social

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media crises. So you're not left just with an empty bag, and no

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one to talk to sitting over here in your neutral zone. So it's

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just really important for you to be able to do that.

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I would also just add that when there's

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things happening in the world, it can be regardless of your

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thought process, your stance, your beliefs, it can be

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emotionally draining, it can be exhausting. It can be social

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media overload, I mean, just overload. And it's, it's

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definitely okay to take a break. I know personally, if I don't

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feel like it's appropriate to have neutral conversations in a

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time when the world just feels weird to me, then a lot of times

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I just tend to go silent. And I tend to focus on other things in

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my business. So I'll write my blog posts, I'll work on my

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newsletter, I'll work on getting other areas of my marketing in

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line, because it gives me a way to move my business forward, it

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gives me and it lets me take a break from those areas that

Cara Taylor Swift:

aren't healthy for me to be in all the time. So I mean, yeah,

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100%, it's okay to take a break when you need to take a break.

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Absolutely do realize that if you do slow down

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your posting, or if you do take a break and become silent for a

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little while, there will be an effect to your post, because

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honest to God, there is going to be an effect anyway. Because

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everybody else is having the other conversation and nobody's

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engaging with what you do anyway. So even regardless of

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whether you go silent, or you keep posting there is going to

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be an effect to your social media. And you can get that

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back. You can you can like you can rebuild that you can you can

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re engage and you can pump that algorithm back up again. And

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I'll never forget when my friend Marci, for Marci Jo Photography,

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I

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said to her one day I said, I just haven't

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felt like posting anything in the last three days. And she

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said to me, I think I've said this before, she said to me,

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Cara, she says, no one sitting at home going, Man, I haven't

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seen anything from Fast Horse Photography today, they're not

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looking for you. They're not sitting around waiting for you.

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But when you show up, they'll be there and they'll be ready to

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hear what you have to say. So I think about that comment all the

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time, and the freedom that it gave me to just step away when I

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needed to.

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And I love that comment as well. And it's, it's

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so important to realize that that is the case and that you're

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not messing things up it no one is going to notice and they but

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they will notice when you come back and probably the best way

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for you to start that engagement again is after the conversation

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starts to die down and they do and then everybody gets back

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into talking about all the myriad of different things other

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than the topic of the day, then, you know, buy a few boosted

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posts or run a few ads to kind of get your audience back in

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engagement really post high value content so that people can

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really engage with it and and just get your numbers back up.

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It really is okay, if you just don't want to participate and

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you feel like you're you're not gonna get hurt in any way it is

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okay to step away and I think that permission is a really

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important thing to give. The final piece of this puzzle is to

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remember that none of these things are going to remain

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permanent conversations. Okay. They may last A really long

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time, but eventually it will change. And my mother's favorite

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statement when I was in the middle of a crisis, which I do

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get myself in crises a lot, and she would always try to get me

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to calm down and breathe. And just remember, this too shall

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pass. This too shall pass. So world history is fraught with

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events and distractions and businesses have always gone on

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to survive and to thrive. So the important thing to remember when

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it seems like the world is falling apart, is to remember

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that you can stay the course navigate your own ship, stay in

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your lane, whatever metaphor you want to use for that, and stay

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focused on serving your customers and consumers in the

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best way that you can and stay intent on seeing in the future,

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what is beyond happening right this minute.

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Yeah, and, you know, you can support a

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cause quietly, because for me, it's like, if it's a big social

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issue, and it needs to be corrected, if if history needs

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to be corrected, if the course needs to be corrected, then it

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doesn't mean that we're sitting around waiting for all the news

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to go away so that we can get on with every day, you know,

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running of our business, it means that stuff still needs to

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happen. And if we can find a way to support those causes, and do

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the things that we believe in, we need to do that. However, the

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conversations that affect your business and have you you know,

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still making your income and putting food on the table and

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supporting your horses and all the animals that you work with

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that will come back. And that will continue. And we can dive

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back into that side of things again, too, because we have to

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do that we have to we have to make it through each day every

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day. So for me, this has been a tough conversation, Kim, as you

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can tell, and I'm sure its audience can tell I go back and

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forth constantly on what's the best thing for my business? And

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what's the best thing for me? And I know you do too. And I

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know gosh, I know so many of our listeners do, too. I've had this

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conversation with other business owners and I know other folks

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are struggling as well. So gosh, is there anything else you want

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to add?

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It's filled with hate and vile behavior of

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humans, and frankly, not dependent upon my political

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stance or my religious stance, I don't want to participate in all

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of the hate and the vile behavior. So you know, it's

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perfectly okay to have these conversations with another

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business owner in a completely neutral term, stay upstate up

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front, hey, I really want to talk about this and how it's

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affecting my business. And let's Let's make a pinky swear that

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we're not going to have a discussion that has anything to

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do with our own opinions on this. But how does this climate

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that we're living in how does that affect how you show up with

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your business? And how can we support each other in knowing

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that no matter what road we go down, we've picked the right

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road because I really, at the end of the day, at the bottom

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line of everything, I think that this comes down to I don't want

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to see any business owner lose their hope in their business

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over what is going on in the rest of the world right now.

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So we see you guys, we're having the

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conversation that you guys are having. So we hope you enjoyed

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this episode. We hope it at least encourages you to put some

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thought into you know what you're putting out into the

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world or not putting out into the world. We know you're

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already thinking about this. So we hope that we gave you guys

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some things to consider and that some of the stuff that we've

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included around kind of filtering some of these

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conversations that you'll consider and we're thinking

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about you guys so if you enjoyed this episode, let us know find

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