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Sponsors Melio Payments: https://cloudaccountingpodcast.promo/melio Jirav: https://cloudaccountingpodcast.promo/jirav Show Notes https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/coronavirus-relief-options/paycheck-protection-program-ppp Connect with Michael and Sabrina Michael Ly, Founder/CEO of Reconciled Website: https://getreconciled.co/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelly/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/michael_ly_ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/burlingtoncfo Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software and Board Member of Oregon Pacific Bank Website: https://www.opbc.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabrinaparsons Twitter: @mommyceo Get in Touch Thanks for listening and for the great reviews! We appreciate you! Follow and tweet @BlakeTOliver and @DavidLeary . Find us on Facebook and, if you like what you hear, please do us a favor and write a review on iTunes , or Podchaser . 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Now, paying the rent can lead to earning those credit card points your clients love. To learn more about Melio Payments, and to get your very own Melio.me link that you can use to receive payments from your business clients, head over to cloudaccountingpodcast.promo/melio. That is Cloud Accounting Podcast dot promo forward slash M-E-L-I-O. ____________ Blake Oliver: [00:01:29] Welcome to The Cloud Accounting Podcast. I'm Blake Oliver. David Leary: [00:01:32] And I'm David Leary. Michael Ly: [00:01:34] And I'm Michael Ly. Sabrina Parsons: [00:01:35] And I'm Sabrina Parsons. David Leary: [00:01:37] Blake, I've got special guests for us tonight. Blake Oliver: [00:01:40] I am so excited, David! Thank you so much for setting this up. David Leary: [00:01:43] There's lots of questions on what the programs rolling out from the SBA are. Even me, as a small business owner, I don't know what the answers are. I'm trying to navigate them myself. So, I brought on an accountant/bookkeeper, Michael Ly, who is advising hundreds of his clients, probably, on how to navigate this process; and then Sabrina Parsons, who's been on the podcast before. She actually is on the board of directors at a bank, and Sabrina has inside tracks with the SBA, and the SBDC, so she can kind of give us, like what's happening behind the scenes during this process, as well. With that said, Michael, and Sabrina, if you guys wanted to jump in and maybe say hi? Michael Ly: [00:02:19] Yes, hi. Thanks, David and Blake, for having us; for having me and for having both of us. David, yeah, your situation is very similar to many millions of other small business owners across the country. Sabrina Parsons: [00:02:31] Yeah, thank you. I'm really happy to be back with you guys, Blake and David. The last time we were together, we were actually at a conference, which seems so far away and so foreign now, since we're not allowed to ever do that in person for I don't know how long. So, I'm glad to be talking to you guys in some way or another, and I'm really glad to be doing this content today because the number of small businesses in the United States, right now, that are struggling is staggering. But there are some programs that can help them, and these programs are very difficult to wade through and figure out what...