diff --git a/tomodachi/launcher.py b/tomodachi/launcher.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/tomodachi/launcher.py
+++ b/tomodachi/launcher.py
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class ServiceLauncher(object):
 
         cls.restart_services = True
         init_modules = [m for m in sys.modules.keys()]
-        safe_modules = ['typing', 'importlib.util', 'time', 'logging', 're', 'traceback', 'types', 'inspect', 'functools']
+        safe_modules = ['typing', 'importlib.util', 'time', 'logging', 're', 'traceback', 'types', 'inspect', 'functools', 'google.protobuf']
 
         restarting = False
         while cls.restart_services:
added google.protobuf to safe_modules to enable hot-reloading