How I Built Resilience: Sonia Gil of Fluenz

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Guy Ross.com And thanks. Hey everyone, and welcome to How I Built This Resilience Edition. On these episodes, we're talking with entrepreneurs and other business leaders to find out how they are thinking and working creatively through the global economic crisis and the pandemic. And today we're gonna hear from Sonia Gill, the founder of Fluenz. Her company offers a range of programs to help English speakers learn a new language.

starting with online video programs and eventually expanding into language immersion programs. Sony, let's start with the founding of Fluenz. I guess you founded this like more than a decade ago, and originally the idea was this was going to be an online Only platform, is that right? That's right. So we launched our first product. Fluence Mandarin.

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