Things were happening. I was like, oh, well, I'm going to quit this job because it's all happening.

Then I took out a loan, a business loan, because I was very naive that I just thought I didn't live in LA you remember this I do no

one entertainment no one was doing what I was doing and I thought that if my lawyer called me and said

they want to syndicate your radio show for five days a week and it's an

800,000. I don't know what I'm saying this to me like that's an $800,000 I was like oh my

God it's all happening to take our loan to get me by because I had no money and then the recession hit in 2009.

Hey friend, welcome back to the Light Watkins show. I'm Light Watkins and I have conversations with ordinary folks just like you and me

Who've taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified as their

mission in life. And today, I have a bite-size plot twist episode for you. A plot twist is a shorter clip from a past episode where the guest shares the story of that pivotal moment in their life trajectory where they found the gateway to their calling.

And the idea behind sharing these plot twists is to inspire you

to lean into those plot twists whenever they happen in your life.

Because usually, when you get turned around from whatever you thought was supposed to be your path in life,

what's actually happening is you're being detoured towards your actual path.

And sometimes that looks like a life-changing diagnosis, or maybe you got fired.

Or in the case of today's guest, Dr. Emily Morse, it's losing all of your

friends to the money and having to sleep on couches and drive your friends to the airport to make ends meet.

Today, Dr. Emily Morse is recognized as one of the world's most foremost

Sexsverts in addition to being an author and a media personality and this is

the plot twist that propelled her in the direction of that calling. Let's listen in.

I know you worked with Barbara Boxer and Pelosi and Willie Brown. What did you glean from your time in politics that kind of informed your path leader. In politics I remember seeing Barbara Boxer speak so I drove to San Francisco when I graduated from Michigan and

Barbara Boxer was running for Senate. It was her first campaign for Senate.

And I remember I was an intern, so I went to her first event and I saw her speak.

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