{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"And She Spoke","title":"COVID-19 and the Online World","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1583,"description":"It’s been a long few weeks.  And full disclosure, they’ve been some of the worst for us and our business. We’ve had to process the fact that our partnership with our work, our business’s core values, and our day-to-day operations have been shaken up, maybe even permanently.  All in the span of a few days.  Our business has always stood for sustainability, digital artisanship, and slow growth. It’s what we’re passionate about and we’ve worked very hard for over the years.  But, a few weeks ago, we had to scale our business incredibly fast. And that meant having to make some very difficult decisions - ones that sometimes went against our core values and caused us to have mini breakdowns at our desks.  Of course, we understand that in many ways, we’re hugely lucky. At a time of immense turbulence for so many businesses, the mere fact that we’re growing is nothing short of incredible. We’ve also had to hire people to meet our demand, and we’re glad we can provide our new employees with job security and a sense of stability.  But, this kind of quick scaling has never been what we’ve envisioned for our business, which was built on the idea of humane growth.  Our business was this beautiful, living, breathing, evolving experiment that the two of us were sharing with the world.  And it feels a little bit like we lost control of that.  The past few days, we’ve just focused on showing up, powering forward, and holding each other up through this. Of course, we’re aware that we’re a couple of weeks behind on releasing new episodes, only because we felt that the episodes we had in queue were a bit insensitive for right now and because we’re still trying to process everything around us.  Moving forward, we’ll be talking about some actionable strategies, tips, and industry trends we’ve been noticing to help stabilize your business and pivot if you need to.  But today, we just felt like sharing a very real conversation between two business partners and friends.     Here’s a peek...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/cTVhHT0LtJl5rjm1cQy1LOj4djnWmXO4Z7FmQ2qDFkc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM0OTg1LzE2Njk3/Nzc3OTItYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}