Tory Burch
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But I remember during COVID, my boys were enjoying Miami a little too much.
So I sent them to work with Navy SEALs in North Carolina.
It is the best decision.
If they wanted a bath, they had to build it.
It's like we were all taking it easy during COVID.
No, but they were going out to parties in Miami during COVID.
If you think about 5,000 employees, you think about, well, at that point, 375 stores shut.
We had no visibility on when they would open, if they would open, and we had to pay health care.
And so I was trying to figure out how do we do the payroll so people could get health care.
And it was very real because that March, someone very close to me that had worked with me for 15 years, I was in a meeting with her on Friday, and on Monday she was dead.
And it was from COVID.
And I just knew she hadn't come to a meeting.
And I was really worried about her.
And that it was four days after I was with her.
And she, anyway.
So we knew it was incredibly serious.
And it was incredibly tough.
How does Tori cope in a crisis?
Well, I get better in a... I don't want to say that because I don't want to... I don't want you to be tested.
I don't want to keep them coming, but I do get pretty... I get better and more focused in a crisis.