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Since opening three years ago, Diana Monteleone’s salon in Chicago was every young entrepreneur’s dream—loved by customers, profitable and rapidly expanding. Then, the pandemic hit, and like millions of other small businesses, Diana was forced into a deeply challenging situation, having to abruptly make weighty decisions that will have long-term impacts for her and her employees, and put everything she had been working on at risk.   The episode today features a conversation with Diana from early March, when the pandemic was just beginning, and the effects were first being felt. You’ll then hear an update from her from just a couple days ago, on what has transpired since.