more than my day to day life. it was the stress that we encountered, it was the scare, the uncertainty, the. you go out, you don t know what to do, so what am i supposed to do now? the dollar is at 30, tomorrow it s going to be at 35. what to do? how am i going to survive? so, basically, yeah. can you relate, nour? yes, definitely. it s really a challenge that you have to take day by day in lebanon and what these challenges have taught me is to be more lenient with uncertainty, to adapt to things that are going to change along the way. and i would say that these challenges have also pushed our business to go into certain directions that otherwise we wouldn t have ventured into. so, this is kind of a virtue. but on a personal level, it has taught me a lot. yeah. let s come back to 2020,
the shop and then i had to fix also my house, because my house was also destroyed and even if everything was destroyed around you, we had to be supportive towards each other, so, as i told you, i lost five people i know, so i had to go and see if their friends are ok. nour, those days that came right after the blast, what were you doing? we were also helping on the ground and we were really trying to make sense of things in our heads, but physically, we were working. we had some energy to put somewhere. we had to help each other. of course, it took us time to be back on our feet, slowly, after that. and you can see it also with the students who were coming and they wanted to express all the feelings that they were feeling because at the end
i think i had to seek help from my entourage and i had to talk about it, but there is still a scar, but i try to, like, temper it, maybe. yeah. and. yeah. and you have to fight. yeah. joelle and nour, thank you so much. it s been such a pleasure speaking to you both. thank you. thank you for having us. thank you. thank you so much. hello there. you know, over the weekend, i ve seen quite a lot of these. funnel clouds. the latest one was spotted between boroughbridge and harrogate, around the north yorkshire area, but i ve seen quite a few over the weekend. that particular one formed along this convergence line
and after the blast, all my sisters left beirut, so i had to stay alone and work, and do something with the shop. that must have been difficult. oh, yeah! trust me! because you know when you re four, it s easier, you know, but when you handle the responsibility on your own, it s much more difficult. but what s amazing about lebanon is that whenever you need help, you will find it, so it s. that s true. our heart is. maybe we can hate each other, but when someone needs help, everybody will come and, like, help you. yes, totally. i think that people s help to one another was really a major factor in being able to rise again after the explosion. nour, when you look back, what were some of the hurdles you faced at the beginning? well, i started my entrepreneurialjourney a couple of weeks before
of the day, it s a traumatic experience. and how long do you think, nour, it took you until you felt that you were back firmly on your feet? i would say at least several months. this was happening gradually. and, like, this is the natural occurrence of things. but there s really always a small part of us that is sad because of this, but despite it, we came back stronger and this has taught us a lot. i mean, on a personal level and our business. yeah. joelle, how long would you say it took you to feel that you could. things were back to. well, i hesitate to say normal, but back on your feet? physically, the second day. but mentally, it took me a while, so i kept the shop closed for more than a month