Sarah LaFleur

Thank you so much.

I'm so excited to be here.

Oh my gosh.

Well, I feel like I have lived 10 lives.

And I think last time I was on your show, I think I was seven months pregnant and now my kids are five and a half.

So yeah, it's been a wild five and a half years.

And yes, COVID was horrible for my business.

Our revenue in 2020 was down 60% from 2019.

We had to go through three rounds of layoffs.

It was so painful.

We had to close every single one of our stores.

And then,

reopened some of them.

And then we actually opened some new stores as well.

So, um, you know, we, we got the business to profitability in 2022, uh, again, and, um, have just been steadily growing since.

And it feels like in many ways, I'm, I feel lucky that I, I got to have a second shot, um, at it.

You

And it's been this amazing experience of getting to build and rebuild the brand and hopefully doing it smarter the second time around.

Yeah, for sure.

I mean, I think for the majority of, you know, white collar professionals, there's some virtual work mixed in with just how we work these days.