I'm Nicole Lapin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand.

It's time for some money rehab.

Throughout the course of the last few years, and especially recently, we have heard many,

many stories about people getting laid off.

In the face of economic uncertainty, countless companies have decided to furlough or lay

off their employees to offset financial losses.

Massive companies that you might think would be less affected by the overall economy,

companies that feel too big to fail, like Meta, Google, Salesforce, Spotify, Microsoft,

Disney, Goldman Sachs, have all laid off employees.

And sadly, I don't think we're out of the woods just yet.

So I wanted to put together an episode on how best to prepare.

And I realized this was such an important resource after talking to some listeners who

were totally blindsided by company-wide layoffs.

Here's one.

Hey, Nicole, my name is Abby, and I live in Providence.

Before the pandemic, I was working for a digital media company, and over the course of the

past year, about 100 employees were laid off.

And I was one of them.

I know that we can't predict things like pandemics, but can we predict layoffs?

Are they somewhat predictable?

Should I have even seen it coming?

I don't ever want to be in this situation ever again, so I want to make sure I have my

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