Paul, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s Chief of Staff, stepped into the role a week before the pandemic arrived in his state. While just prior to the new role he was serving the Governor as Chief Operating Officer, Paul stepped off the ledge into the complexity of leading the most challenging health crisis in a century. What has surprised him the most is how everyone has stepped up, citizens, state and local government staff, and state leaders in neighboring states (New York and New Jersey, specifically). Paul talks openly about the need to pay attention to the mental health toll all the work, stress and uncertainty is having on people in government.