Let's dive into today's episode.

We're going to be talking about the recession and how to thrive in this next probably 12, 18 months.

It could be longer.

You know, we wrote the looming recession, but I really think the recession is already here.

The layoffs I've already started across the board on major companies.

Companies that never layoff are laying off, specifically in the tech space where they're just

historically known to always higher, higher, higher, higher, higher, are laying off for the first

time in their entire history.

It's one for sure that's been rattling through my mind being very new into this space and

even in the throes of my feverish, or not so much feverish, but my flu nightmares or dreams that were going on throughout

the weekend. I remember waking up, I think it was Sunday afternoon or Sunday morning or

something. I was like, oh man, like I just had that all of a sudden, that feeling of exactly

what a lot of this centers around. that's a scarcity mindset, right?

You know, you're talking about job loss, whether you're an entrepreneur,

whether you're in a very well-established career.

It can absolutely instill that scarcity mindset.

And I know for myself, when I first entered the professional workforce,

it was actually during the housing crash, 2008, 2010. Yeah, and I was in very, very

fortunate at the time working in the forest industry because we were directly tied to a commodity to the housing industry.

So, you know, I was broke anyways, right? I had no sweet clue. I was like getting my first paycheck.

I was grateful for anything at that point. Right, right. But there's going to be, you know,

in working with a lot of clients with a lot of men, there's been many of them who weathered that and

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