Will AI Take My Job, or Is It a Business Opportunity?

Originally aired Monday, March 9, 2026. Businessing is now a weekly show with a new episode every Monday.

Short answer: Look at the gap between what AI can do in your field and what it's doing today. That gap is your opening. If you know an industry well, start using AI there now, before everyone else does. Expect AI to become a team member in almost every small business soon.

Anthropic released a labor market study with a circle graph. The blue area shows how much of each job AI could do. The red shows how much it's actually doing today. Today I explained why I read that gap as opportunity, not doom, and why you should be first to use AI in your field. We also covered the war in Iran and oil prices, how the time change broke my AI tools, and Microsoft's new Copilot Cowork. The Idea Slam asked two questions: where would you spend one extra hour this week, and what would you tell your 2020 self about business? I shared my answers.

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Key takeaways

• Look up how much of your industry AI could handle, then compare it to how much it's handling today to find your opening.
• If you have deep know-how in a field, start using AI in that work now so you lead instead of catch up.
• Plan for AI to be a team member, then ask what new products or deeper service it lets you offer.
• When you find an extra hour in your week, spend it on sales, like reaching out to the partners you want most.
• Put your next vacation on the calendar today, because time off you don't block will get filled by someone else.

Questions this episode answers

Will AI replace jobs in my industry?

AI will touch almost every industry, but the useful question is where the gap is. Anthropic's study showed jobs like management and business and finance where AI could do a lot but isn't used much yet. That unused space is where an owner with real know-how can move first.

What's the best use of one extra hour in my small business?

Pat's answer was sales. You can't spend enough time on it. An extra hour should go to reaching out to the prospects or partners that matter most right now.

Should my small business make video content?

Pat said it's the one thing he'd tell his 2020 self: make video every day. Video can be cut into short clips, turned into an audio podcast, and its transcript can become blogs, social posts and newsletters.

Worth quoting

I think we have to have our eyes on the red line. 'cause on the red line will show us where the opportunity still exists.

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We can't spend enough time doing sales, and if I had an extra hour, I would use it for sales

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If you're not on camera every day, if you're not creating video content, you're missing all of those downstream content effects.

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Time is compensation. Especially when you run your own business. You only have to ask the boss for time off.

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On the show

• Idea Slam question: Two questions for the audience: if you got back the hour lost to the time change, where would you spend it, and what one thing would you tell your 2020 self about running your business?

In this episode

• War in Iran and oil prices
• The time change broke my AI tools
• Anthropic's study on AI and jobs
• How to read the gap as opportunity
• Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork
• Idea Slam: where to spend one extra hour
• Idea Slam: advice to my 2020 self
• Plan your next vacation now

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Full transcript

And good morning. It is Monday, March 9th and we are Businessing. This is Small Businesses weekly show. I'm your host, pat Miller. The had a week off.

Friday's off Guy. Also the founder of the small business Owners community. We're sponsored this morning by our friends at Gen Head and Angie, thanks to them both for being a part of what we're building here every day on the air.

Great to see you this morning, Barbara. It's, uh, awesome to see you. Stephanie's here and we're chit chatting in, uh, the chat this morning that we're using the SBOC theme song before the show. Uh. Innovation friend of mine gave me, Hey, why aren't you using that song? That's a great idea. Wendy Babcock wrote that song for us, and, uh, it's a great way to warm everybody up for our show.

So thank you Wendy, and thank you to Nikki and Stephanie and Barbara and everyone else that suggested that we use it. Might as well have some fun. Let's start with what's on the news today and on the show in general. We're gonna talk about the war in Iran. Not fun, daylight savings time. Super, not fun. And our lead story.

Our lead story could be interpreted as not fun, unless you think about it for a second, and then it could be really fun. Anthropic, the folks that, uh, came up with Claude, they, uh, have suggested that there are areas of the. Ecosystem, the work ecosystem that are gonna be replaced by AI. Now, that's the way a DOR would look at it, but if you look at opportunity in ways you can make money, it could.

Give us a lot of chance to make some big cash. So I'll walk through this study that they released, uh, and we will see where the opportunity might lie for you for today's idea. Slam questions, really kind of two-way questions. I'll ask the question and then you can kind of give me your opinion as well.

The first one is, if we had that hour back, the daylight savings time took from us. Where would you spend it? Where would it be most valuable to spend that extra hour? And if you could go back to 2020 and give yourself one piece of business advice, knowing what we know now, what would you say? Okay. Those are the two questions for today.

And of course when you tune in, make sure you say good morning in the chat and tell us that you're along with us. It's always nice to see you. And bonus point if you share your business URL, so we can give you a little bit of publicity as well. Let's get the news outta the way because it's war. And who likes to talk about war?

Nobody does. But here's what's going on in Iran. Terrible news this morning. A seventh US Service member has died. A 26-year-old Army sergeant from Kentucky, Benjamin Pennington was reported this morning as the seventh US death in the war in Iran and the Iranian Assembly of experts. They have appointed Ali KO's son to be the new Supreme leader.

So we'll see how long that lasts because they've had a few supreme leaders already, uh, that had a very short tenure. So we'll see what happens with this one. Oil prices, and that's the story that's happening now. Last 24 hours, the oil prices story has been really the story. Uh, oil prices going up, oh my gosh, they're over a hundred dollars a barrel.

Well, overnight they spiked. They got up to $116 a barrel. Since then, they've been going straight down. So I think it was one or two in the morning. It was $116 a barrel.

But then when I was checking earlier this morning, oil prices were back down to $98 a barrel. So. We're zoomed like way in on this, like we're paying attention to hourly gas price, oil prices.

So it's really hard to know how it will affect gas prices. Although gas prices are up in the US the average now is $3 and 45 cents. So that's where it stands right now. But where is this all headed? I was off the air all last week, or we, I would've been talking about this war in Iran the whole time.

Where is this headed? President Trump is calling for unconditional surrender. He's going for it. He wants to control what Iran's gonna be able to do and make sure that they just don't go back to the way that they were. So that's the goal of the administration. But the Iranians are saying, yeah, we're kind of waiting for a ground invasion.

So come and get us. You can bomb us all you want, but we're waiting for a ground invasion. Okay, so that's the next big question. Will we or the Israelis put boots on the ground? No one's really saying that, except they're saying there's, I've heard a rumor that we may send special forces in to capture the enriched uranium that they've been, uh, supposedly enriching.

And that's what we were afraid of in the first place. Are they going to get a bomb? So we may send in special forces or someone to go in and get the uranium. Meanwhile, we're just bombing everything that moves. Missile launcher, bomb it, plane bomb it, everything. They're bombing everything. That might be a threat.

So for now, it's kind of no end is in sight. People are sticking out their positions and we're kind of watching. What's going to happen? Uh, will it affect gas prices? What's going on with oil prices and sadly, another US casualty.

Let's hope there's no more of those. That's for sure. Daylight savings, time saving, daylight saving.

It's not plural. Dammit. I know that daylight saving time happened and it kind of did me in. It wasn't a sleep thing. Usually daylight saving time gets it Sounds funny to say.

Saving. Damn it. Now I'm saying it right. It sounds wrong. Seriously, say it out loud.

Daylight Saving time. Doesn't that sound wrong?

Say it. I say it. See? Doesn't that sound wrong? Screw it.

Daylight Savings time. I'm gonna say it that way. Come at me. Daylight. Savings time.

Police. We lost an hour of sleep last night. Can you tell a little cranky? But that wasn't the part that did me in, the part that did me in is all of my technology decided to flake out all at the same time, and it was an entirely new first world problem.

Daylight savings, time savings, the time change happened and I log in to Claude, sit down at my desktop. I open Claude. Claude's giving me the beach ball of death. I'm on Mac Beach, ball of death. It's just pausing me.

I'm not gonna do any work. Me like, what the hell is going on? Close it. Reopen it. Update it.

Reopen it. Restart the computer. Reopen it. Beach ball of death. Me dammit.

So how am I gonna fix this? Aha. I opened Claude in a chrome window saying, Hey, what the hell is going on with Claude? Claude, you're not working. I had to go to like terminal level code commands to clear its memory to get it to work again.

And by doing that, I nuked all of my conversations. Turns out in Claude Cowork, I had scheduled tasks, and when you open Claude Cowork, it checks the time, then it runs the tasks. But because the time changed, Claude. Spazzed out, like it didn't work at all. Got the beach ball of death until I had to uninstall, reinstall, scramble, its brains and then it worked again.

So that got me salty. So I'm not not happy about that. So the time change, that was Strike one, strike two. I get ready to do the show this morning and I open the software to do the show like, Hey, good morning Software. How are you? Great to see you software and my camera doesn't wanna work. What the literal hell is going on there?

Same thing. I think the time change. Got it. And after farting around with it for like an hour, it just decided to work, oh, I'm good. I'm gonna work.

Like, I don't know if the time, like literally it was an hour, so I wonder if it just had to something like something voguing to get it to work something.And then just being cranky this morning. So really, those are the three strikes and you're out. Daylight savings, that'd be the fourth strike 'cause no one knows how to say the name of the freaking time change. And even saying it right sounds wrong. Daylight savings time, all of that was annoying.

However, I gotta say, hitting golf balls in the sunshine at five o'clock in the afternoon.

I.

It just feeds me in a way that few other things feed me. So I'm not happy with you. Time change, uh, but you're not, you're not the worst. And while I was annoyed with the time change, I don't think I got the worst of it at all. How, tell me how. International Women's Day was on a day with only 23 hours.

How? Like that's not right, don't you think? I mean, international Women's Day might be on the fallback day, so it's on 25 hours. No. International Women's Day fell on the day that only had 23 hours.

That it's, that's not right. That's not right. Abby's having tech problems too. What's going on? My entire website domain is in cardiac arrest.

So I'm with you on the tech problems train. It's happening. Yeah. I think our technology is just revolting against the time change. Sorry about that, abs.

Hopefully you can get that fixed. Okay, let's talk about one more thing in the news. If you see me doing this.

During the show, it's because NFL Free Agency just opened 11:00 AM central NFL Free Agency just opened. And a certain team from a certain city is going to find the missing pieces for DA Super Bowl today, my friend 11:00 AM Bears, so they're gonna be signing champion players here in just a few minutes.

So if you see my eyeballs go over here because something dings, I'm gonna be checking to see who the bears add. I guess the packers too, but who could possibly care about them? Lead story today. Now this is important. Anthropic, the makers of Claude, released a study about the labor market and how AI will impact it.

Now, I'm on the Claude train, you know that. But this study is really important because Claude took a look at what AI just general AI can do, and it balanced it against. What AI is currently doing. So I'm gonna show you a graph, and the graph will show different industries. Now I'm telling you about the graph first, so you don't start reading the graph.

It's a circular graph, and around the outside are all of the different industries. Then they've colored in two parts of the graph. One part if it's colored in all the way to the line, will say, AI can do everything in this job. If it's not colored in at all, it'll be AI can't do any of this job. So construction is one of the items.

It's not colored in at all 'cause AI can't do anything there. But then another area, consulting, sorry, is almost completely colored in 'cause it's saying AI can do almost all of it. That's the first part of the graph. Circular graph colored in areas. Then there's another area that's colored in red that shows what AI is currently doing in that area.

So let me show you the graph and I'll explain it. Okay, so here's the graph. Around the outside you see all of the different industries. You see management, I'm reading from the top management, business and finance, computer and math, architecture, life and social sciences. On and on and on and on and on. The blue area is saying AI can do almost all of the business and finance job, but it can do almost none of construction or transportation.

Are you reading that? Do you see the blue area there? Here's where our opportunity lies. The red area is showing where AI is already working in those sectors. So if you look at management, there's a hole that's at 12 o'clock management, big area that AI can do, but not very much of it is being done with AI as we speak.

The first way to look at this, uh, graph is to say, oh my gosh. I'm in business and finance. AI's gonna take my job. I better go to a farm or drive a bus. I gotta do something different.

I don't think that's how we should read this at all. I think we have to have our eyes on the red line. 'cause on the red line will show us where the opportunity still exists.

Let's pretend you're a management consultant. Your management consultants and you are seeing a lot of area in that blue shade that is not being captured. How can you take your subject matter expertise and apply AI for all of that blue area that's not being used? We know that much of management will end up being done with ai, but can you take a leadership position and begin using AI presently?

With all of that opportunity space, I think that's the right way to read this graph. And now that you've seen the graph, I'm gonna turn it back off because think about it in the big picture, uh, almost all of that wheel is going to be affected by ai, even transportation, even farming, everything is gonna be affected by it.

We will all be using it. As our number one employee, I mean presently, or in the next six months, I guarantee it. All of you are gonna have a team member that happens to be AI as your right hand person. So it's not a matter of if this is going to happen, it's a matter of how quickly are you going to adopt it, how quickly are you going to get comfortable with it, and what are you going to do with it?

The easy thing to do will be to automate some of your tasks, move a little bit faster, not work on Fridays. All of those things are great. The more challenging thing will be, how can I offer new products? How can I offer more thorough service? How can I do new things? All of those things will be possible when you start adopting it.

So that graph gets us thinking one. Then two, it's an idea of, well now what do we do with it? Does that make sense? So you should be thinking about that. And one thing I'm gonna be rolling out this week is I'm going to roll out the AI installation group. I've now had my third, like, do you believe in signs?

Like signs from above? Like, oh, signs from above. I do, but I also really believe when the smart people that I trust tell me the same thing independently this morning, a third person, smart person that I trust who has the balls to tell me it's a stupid idea, called me independently and said, what's going on with your AI groups?

I want in, I guess I should go tell people about the AI groups then shouldn't I? I'm obsessed with this. I know this is the transformation that you need to make your business work now and in the future. So I'm starting AI installation groups, and my point of view is that I'm a normal guy. I'm not a techie, but I'm a small business advocate and I know how this is going to change our businesses.

And the one thing that I do for people is I help them understand what's going on and I help them think. About how they solve their problems. So if I can explain to you what's going on and I can create an environment where people are working together to install these tools in their business, we're gonna move so much further and so much faster.

And as our theme song and our community positioning statement says, don't grow it alone. So I'm starting the AI installation group. These are gonna be mastermind groups with new AI slams. A custom newsletter with the AI news to pay attention to and not pay attention to. And a asynchronous communication where if you need help, you reach out and I give you help.

All of that is going into the AI installation groups and like I say, I've had three super smart people reach out to me already say, saying You've gotta do that. So I believe in them and I believe in the sign, and I know that you need it. That sounds good. If you're thinking, yeah, this, I need that. I need to get my butt in gear.

I need to start claiming more of that circle, then you need to message me. Many of you are watching on LinkedIn right now. Message me and tell me that you want in. I'll hit you up with the details, but our first group meeting I think is gonna be next week. I was not just looking at Twitter. By the way. I think it's next week is our first group meeting, and then that would include our AI slams, which are gonna be awesome because we're gonna learn so much from each other doing show and tell.

I think that's where the big breakthroughs are gonna happen. So if you want to get on this train and you want to install AI as a team member, then you need to let me know. Let's get going. Jared. Good morning friend.

Thanks for tuning in. Awesome to see you. Okay, let's get on with the idea slam. We've got, uh, the idea slam.

Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Before the idea slam, we're gonna do the idea slam in a second, but there was one other piece of breaking AI news that happened before I came on the air and I kind of had a double take, like what I'm getting ready for the show and the chairman, CEO of Microsoft Tweets. All excited to announce their new product called Copilot Cowork.

Wait a minute, it is Claude Cowork. No, this is copilot Cowork and this is how they describe it. When you hand off a task to co-pilot cowork, it turns your request into a plan and executes it across your apps and files grounded in your work data and operating within Microsoft 365 Security and governance boundaries.

So while I'm annoyed that the name is the same as Claude Cowork, it makes a lot of sense that now Microsoft has cowork. So if you are in the Microsoft ecosystem. You need to know that that's going to be there now. So look it up inside. Copilot, you now have tools similar to Claude Cowork to help you get stuff done.

So I saw that this morning and I thought I needed to share that just so you knew if you're in the copilot ecosystem. Alright, idea slam two questions on the idea slam and I'd be curious to see how you would answer this. So I'll ask the question. Give my answer while you give your answer. Maybe we'll feature it on the air.

Okay. So kind of brainstormy questions today. First one is that one hour that daylight savings time took away from us. If you had that hour back, where would you spend it this week? From Maximum Impact. So what's the one hour you could spend this week to make the biggest impact? The second question, if you could go back to 2020 and tell yourself one thing about running your business, what would it be?

We have hindsight now. We go back and we could say, here's the one thing. What would you share? Think about those two things. We'll talk about them in the idea Slam in just a second.

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Or help you capture an opportunity in your business and it's open for you to do one of two things. Send me a question that has you stuck or book a time and come on the show and we'll talk about you right on the show. With myself and the audience working on your behalf. That QR code right up here, scan the qr.

Send in your application, tell us you'd like to come on the air, or you can send in an anonymous question and I'll work on your behalf that way as well. Either way, it's our chance to help you solve a problem and get further down the road. Okay, let's talk about our first question. Daylight savings. Time happened.

We lost an hour in our life. If we got that hour back in the business, where would I spend it for maximum impact? I wanna know where you would spend it for maximum impact. As I thought about this question, I thought, hmm, an extra hour, and I couldn't get around the idea that it had to be sales. It has to be sales.

We can't spend enough time doing sales, and if I had an extra hour, I would use it for sales specifically, I would reach out to my 2026. SBOC conference, sponsorship and partnership targets. Basically just saying, Hey, the conference is coming. We're gonna start talking about it here on the show. I wanna make sure that you are involved in all of the exposure that we're doing the the show, the Fridays off newsletter, getting on stage at the conference, basically making an impact at our three day conference event in September.

That. Is where I would spend that extra hour. So where would you spend an extra hour? If you had it, what would you do? And I, I think the answer probably has to be sales.

Unless there's some other transformational item that you've been trying to get done. We never can spend enough time on sales. That's where I would spend it.

Second question, if you could go back and tell your 2020 self one thing about running your business, what would it be? Hmm. One thing. Now, I made a lot of mistakes since 2020, so it took me a while to come up with this answer. But I think the thing I would share, and I'm kind of stubborn sometimes, 'cause smart people kept on telling me this and I resisted it.

So this is why I think this is the one. Don't stop creating video content. I think that's what I would, I would say start creating and continue to create video content every day, no matter what. Do not stop as a radio guy. Video content always rubbed me the wrong way. I just would rather do, this podcast is an audio podcast, but I know that having a picture makes it so much more effective because, I mean, come on, look at me.

I'm gorgeous. No, I'm just kidding. I know it's important. Video podcasts and video content powers everything. If your native content, if your primary content is video, it will power all the short form video. It'll power YouTube. You can always take the audio and put it out on podcasts like we do of this show on Apple and Spotify.

The transcript can become blogs. The transcript can also become social media and newsletters. If you're not on camera every day, if you're not creating video content, you're missing all of those downstream content effects. I think that's what it would be, is creating video content would be the thing I would share.

And I, I could also talk about, you know, don't be afraid to run ads. That was another thing I was thinking. We've got this weird pride factor that I grew my business without running ads. Well, great. You put it on hard mode.

What'd you do that for? Or don't stop in-person networking. I mean, we could come up with a lot of stuff, but I think the answer today is don't stop creating video content.

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And there are people that I talk to every day that don't know that I love Las Vegas. I love Las Vegas. I can't tell you how many times I've been there. It's fantastic.

Well, what do you love about Las Vegas? Everything. Well, what specifically? All of it. Well, do you like to gamble?

Yes. Do you like to Dr. Yeah. The food. Sure.

Getting a massage. Why not? Pool time, of course. Check, check, check, check, check. Did all those things on the trip this year.

Fantastic. The best part was spending time with my brother-in-law and my dad, which the three of us going out there together is just absolutely priceless.

So, spent a couple of days out there in the desert. Had a great time, but I got suckered. You wanna hear the story about me getting suckered? 'cause I did. There is a casino there called the Golden Gate, which is right across the street from Circa. We stay at Circa downtown on Fremont Street. It's just so much fun.

Beautiful hotel right across the street and over at the Golden Nugget. They've got a new promotion. No, not Golden Nugget. Golden Gate. They've got a new promotion and it's suckered me in bad.

I'm actually embarrassed that it suckered me in this bad. So you go in there at five o'clock. And you register and they give you a, an envelope that's got free play inside of it.

Then starting at six o'clock, you can use your free play, which is like free spins on the slot machine. Okay, cool. That makes sense. And then at six o'clock they also have open bar for an hour. Ooh, did did you say free beer?

Excuse me. So we go into the Golden Gate, we get our tickets. It's like $10 in free play.

It's nothing. Nothing. Thank you. But $10. But we thought, okay, we'll hang around for the open bar part.

Well, while we waited an hour for the open bar, we lost our shirt playing slot machines. It was just terrible. But hey, we're gonna get a free beard. Six o'clock, fine. So six o'clock comes and I go up to the bar, I'd like a Miller Light, and the bartender goes, here you go.

Like, wait, that's two Miller Lights. He goes, yeah, it's open bar. And I go, oh, oh. So we had a good time, a really good time that evening. I mean really good.

And I lost all my money. Not good. So now I feel totally suckered. I fell for the free play that was only tell 10 bucks and then the open bar came and it won, and now it's like nine o'clock and I'm out of money.

And what happens if you've ever been to Vegas, like really gone to Vegas and you like to gamble? I hope this story will make sense to you. Nine o'clock lost all my money. I'd had a beverage. You've got two choices. Go home, go to bed, or go back to the room and get some more money and see if you can win your money back.

Okay, well there's only one decision to make. It's only nine o'clock. I get the brainchild. I'm gonna go back to the room. I'm gonna reload, and I'm gonna win my money back.

Any predictions on how that one worked out? Go to the room, come back. Go to the golden gate. Sit back down at the same machine. Stupid Miller Light. Of course. Thank you.

And the machine got hot. I won all of my money back and like another $1,500 sitting there playing, which is so stupid. I do not recommend it, but damn, it was fun. Oh my gosh. Walking out of the golden Gate after being suckered, thinking I was stupid and it worked. It was, it was the best. Here's the best part.

Not only did I get suckered lost up my money and won it back. We went back to the Golden Gate the next two nights and repeated the whole thing. Won the next night. Won the next night. It was so much fun. And that is Vegas Stupidity friends. And that's why I go, because when I'm on this show, I need to be responsible.

I gotta help you business. We gotta make money. But when we go to Las Vegas, brain is on the charger. Beer is unlimited. Bad decisions are encouraged.

And it was just a great trip for those of you that wanna know. Yes, I won money. I left with more money than I went with, so you know, bad decisions were rewarded and a good time was had by all.

I will share one thing before I get off the air. Do you have your next vacation planned? I know where I'm going next. You need to know at all times. The next time you're taking time off on the business. If you're saying, yeah, I really don't have a vacation planned, you've got a new red priority today. Go pick three or four days.

Go pick a week. Go pick whatever you think you can take and block it off. Now we all have to have vacation time blocked off and we gotta know when we're gonna take it or it's gonna get filled by somebody else. And you're gonna be sad because you're not taking vacation, because remember, time is compensation.

Especially when you run your own business. You only have to ask the boss for time off. So make sure you're doing it, um, consistently. And Theresa, good morning. Yes, love Vegas.

For all those reasons, Theresa, please tell me you've been suckered before. You know exactly what it is and, oh, see, I love you. Cheers to bad decisions being rewarded.

Damn right. Damn right. Okay. Uh, outta here for today, but one exciting thing is happening, well, actually, two exciting things are happening in the small business owners community. Uh, the first thing that's really exciting about the SBOC, while I was in Las Vegas, we had 10, 10, 9, or 10. Members join the community.

It is absolutely on fire right now with new members joining us from all around the country. One of 'em is from Missouri, one of 'em is from New York. Someone from Maine, I think joined all getting together to make better decisions inside the small business owners community. It's $19 a month. We're working together with Idea slams, the legal hotline, the accounting hotline, the tech support hotline.It's just the place where you don't grow it alone.

So if you're out there trying to make all these decisions by yourself, if you're out there trying to make better decisions, this is a group of small business owners that are all working together. So it's absolutely on fire. Think it was nine new members in the last week.

So shout out to all of our new members and shout out to the small business owners community. Lake Country chapter here in the greater Milwaukee area. There's an area to the west that they call Lake Country. Out in Oconomowoc, lots of os Ocon, moc. We're going out there this afternoon for the first ever late Country Meetup between four and six, and if you're a community member, we'd love to have you.

If you're not a community member, you can show up and join on the spot and start experiencing the goodness that is the SBOC. So thank you to Barbara and Lisa for leading the SBOC Lake Country chapter. I'll be out there this afternoon from four to six as well. It's gonna be awesome. So thanks to them for leading out our conversations.

Okay, I think that's it for today. I'm gonna go, uh, wrestle more of my technology. It's still not behaving the way that it should. So daylight savings time, and I are going to continue the conversation thanks to our sponsors, gen head at Enji. Thanks to Gen Head for producing the show as well. And don't forget to like.

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