This is Hello Freedom and I'm your host Terry Cole.

For almost two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist and transformation coach, and on this show I will bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations from my time on the

front lines of the fascinating worlds of entertainment, impairment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode. Well, hello and welcome to today's show.

I'm so happy that you decided to hang out with me for this next little bit. I have a really special

guest today, someone who's been a mentor to me and is a friend to me now. But before I share

the Debbie Phillips interview with you, I want to start with a question, how is your community? Do you have support that you need? Do you feel that there are people in your life, women or men?

I'm more of an expert, maybe on female community,

and so is Debbie.

But I'm just wondering, do you have people

that you feel like you can talk to who uplift you because that's basically what the entire

interview is about and I feel like especially living in a city like New York

New York has a lot of people and yet there are many many people in this city who are really very lonely and feel alone.

There's something very specific about female communities.

We act differently than men.

We're socialized differently than men.

And as I mentioned in the interview,

there are studies that are happening

and have been out for actually a long time the tend and

befriend study basically came out of I believe it was Harvard where they just

where they looked at women how do women respond to stress and then they looked at how men respond to stress.

So men in this lab when they were stressed out,

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