This is the Terry Cole show and as you might have guessed I'm your host Terry Cole

For over two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist love and boundaries

expert and I'm also the founder of the Rail of Revolution and Boundary Boot Camp.

On this show I'll bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology,

inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations from my time on the front lines in the fascinating

world of entertainment, empowerment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode. I am so excited to welcome Ashley Stahl to the Terry Cole show.

Ashley is a counterterrorism professional. How friggin cool is that? Turned Career Coach, and she's the author of U-turn,

get unstuck, discover your direction, design your dream career.

And she is on a mission to help you step into a career you're super excited about that is actually aligned with who you are and who you want to be.

She's got an amazing TED Talk, she's got millions. She got courses like there's tons of stuff. I just want to say I know we've been trying to do this for a while Ashley, but we're doing it. So finally at long last welcome to the Cherry Cole show.

Thank you so much for making the time.

I love what you put out there.

I just love it, and having you been on my podcast,

so many people message me about your episode

because you just got so much to share so

thank you. Sure mutual admiration society right there. All right so let's

start with first of all I have to ask just because I must know.

Counterterrorism what?

So how did you get involved with counter terrorism?

And can you say anything about it? Yeah, I write a lot about it in my book, like I actually bring chapter, I open up chapter one with me walking into the Pentagon,

realizing I got my dream job and then realizing maybe it wasn't such a dream for me and I think a lot of people go through that. So for me,

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