Natajia Miller
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So that was first priority.
Second priority was Natasha does not work alone.
Neither does her mom.
I have a housekeeper that has a family to feed on another island.
I have a maintenance person that has to send money to Haiti.
I have all of these people that are also depending on me.
So in that time, that was a crash course in leadership that I didn't even know that I needed.
So when the pandemic happened, of course, like I said, no money, no money coming in because the country is closed down.
But I still have these.
I think at the time it was probably like 10 people.
that are looking to me to guide them and to help them and to figure out what we're going to do from here.
So we started off paying them half salary.
When that ran out, we went to one week's worth of salary.
When that went out, we went to here's a bag of chicken, here's a bag of rice, here's some cereal, milk, eggs.
And we did that for as long as we could.
And
That has, having done that, because there are so many hotels that just closed, right?
And that was another thing.
In the Bahamas, I think there were two to three other boutique resorts that they just couldn't handle it anymore.
And I'm watching that and seeing that on the news and I'm there like,