Message audio to text as follows:

Hello everyone this is Lynae MacLellan with RadioActive and Devil’s Haircut. I wanted to give just a brief message regarding Covid-19 and what the future can look like.

The salon has been closed for a little over a week now. For those who know me know that I’m a workaholic. People ask me what I do for fun? And I say that I love working. I love creating, networking, building businesses and designing brands, and cutting hair and talking to people. I’m a very passionate person. My highs are very high and my lows are very low.

I was just coming off of a very exciting February. The highest of highs. My salon won the business leadership award just a week before the nation started mumbling about Covid-19. My acceptance speech follows this message, for those who are interested. A line I used in my speech was “Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.”

Just one week later I was told we might have to close, and one week after that I was told we definitely have to close. That Saturday night I stayed at the salon and cried for about 3 hours. Sunday was a family day where I was an incoherent zombie and Monday I decided to get my tears in during the afternoon.

After those three very low days, I started texting a friend who is also a business owner in Chelsea and fed me the advice that I had given to the city just three weeks earlier. He said “Change your perspective and focus on the opportunities, the outcomes and the possibilities! What a great time to start building an empire.”

And then it occurred to me. What if you could freeze time and rearrange all of the elements of your life in a way that works best for YOU, and when it’s time to hit play again, you’ve got everything right where you want it? That’s what this time is. Time is frozen. Instead of concentrating on driving the car, it’s time to park it and work on the engine.

In the words of my friend. “This is THE time! When else are you or I going to have three weeks to mostly focus on ourselves and goals and dreams! Never again in this lifetime. What a gift.”

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Seize the moment.

Up next is the audio clip from the Business Leadership Awards beginning with Anne Nauts with her presenting speech followed by my acceptance speech. Thank you Randy Lee for the audio.