How To Manage Your Business During an Extended Personal Crisis

Plan for the unplannable

6 min readSep 19, 2022

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I’m not gonna sugar coat it. Last month was a pretty bad month for me.

On top of the normal day-to-day business problems, my personal life took an unexpected turn when my wife took a spill on the tennis court, broke her wrist, and required two back-to-back surgical procedures of the “it has…

Joe Procopio

Written by Joe Procopio

Multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. NLG pioneer & eService expert. Building TeachingStartup.com & GetSpiffy.com. Uncommon founder. More at joeprocopio.com

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