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Introducing: The Unshakeables · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: There's a moment every small business owner can tell you about.
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  Speaker 1: It happens in the lifespan of every company, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a moment that tests and entrepreneurs resolve. It might also
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  Speaker 1: be a moment that changes them and their business forever.
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  Speaker 1: For Doug and Jason Barrows of Luna Coffee, this moment
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  Speaker 1: came in March of twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when I get to the back and it goes
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  Speaker 2: anything going on, Everyone's like, no, everything's perfect, and then
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  Speaker 2: one person in the corner goes but it smells like campfire.
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  Speaker 1: What did you say to each other?
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  Speaker 3: Shit? Oh shit.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Unshakables from Chase for Business and Ruby
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  Speaker 1: Studio from iHeartMedia. I'm Ben Walter, CEO of Chase for Business.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm Tanya Miebel, a lawyer and consultant to entrepreneurs.
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  Speaker 1: On the Unshakables, we're sharing the daring stories of small
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  Speaker 1: business owners facing their crisis points.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like this twenty eight two year old kid going
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  Speaker 4: up against one of the biggest companies in the world.
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  Speaker 3: At that point, we were personally all tapped out. I
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  Speaker 3: was going to need to raise more capital and I
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  Speaker 3: was going to need to be able to do it quickly.
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  Speaker 1: And telling the stories of how they got through it.
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  Speaker 1: I was like the rug got pulled from under my feet.
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  Speaker 1: You took all the losses, two million dollars of your
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  Speaker 1: own money out the door.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely have no tools.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I had no employees, no credit, you know
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  Speaker 1: I had nothing.
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  Speaker 3: These aren't the unicorn stories with big venture capitalists behind them.
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  Speaker 1: We got a box at.
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  Speaker 5: Midnight and it said fifty four hundred candles. I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: how in the world are we going to do this?
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  Speaker 3: These are the everyday regular people who you know, who
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  Speaker 3: you love, and who decided to take a risk and
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  Speaker 3: start a business because with great risk comes great reward.
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  Speaker 4: It was just like a completely bootstrapped hustle your ass off,
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  Speaker 4: non stop grind.
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  Speaker 5: There's no giving up.
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  Speaker 1: Keep going, make it happen, take the risk and do
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  Speaker 1: whatever you have to do to do what you love.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to The Unshakables on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: wherever you listen to podcasts.