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Because our core group of business owners has been talking to each other pretty much every week since before the pandemic, we\u2019ve gotten to know each other. We\u2019ve come to trust each other. And as a result, our conversations sometimes take unexpected turns. This week, our conversation takes an unexpectedly dark turn. We start out talking about Laura Zander\u2019s efforts to manage personnel conflicts and Dana White\u2019s visits to potential salon sites on military bases and Jay Goltz\u2019s bizarre battle with his phone company, and we think we know what we\u2019re talking about. But we keep talking until we realize that some of the issues we are discussing are more complicated and more painful than we\u2019d understood, as is often the case with matters of mental health. You should know this conversation contains frank discussion of depression and suicide. For listeners, this may be surprising\u2014not because anyone would think that entrepreneurs are immune to the afflictions that plague us all, but because there aren\u2019t many public forums where people confront those afflictions openly and genuinely and in real time. For us, this conversation was a strong reminder that we often don\u2019t really know what others are experiencing, whether they be friends, colleagues, or family.