Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions

who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do. Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Ernie Vecchio, and our topic, A Day in the Life, what's it really like to be a trauma psychologist? Welcome, Ernie. Thank you, Dawn, so much for having me. It's great to be here. Well, it is our pleasure. Are you using your talents doing work that you love, Ernie?

Of course. How could I not be?

All right. Well, we want to hear the whole story.

Ernie L. Vecchio is a mentor, spiritual teacher, and trauma psychologist.

During his 30-plus years' career, he's treated over 10,000 patients who suffered severe trauma that ranged from amputation, head injury, sexual assault, and paralysis.

Fetio is a licensed clinical and rehabilitation psychologist who's written four books, including his latest release, feelings and reason,

activating your heart as compass despite the ego's interference,

an international bestseller in four self-help categories.

Well, as we discussed, Ernie, we want to give us some statistics on the profession that you're in

from U.S. News and World Report and the Bureau of Labor Statistics

on this fascinating profession you're in. This is from 2019. Number one, the profession of

psychologists is number 21 of 100 of the best jobs in the country. The unemployment rate is very

low, 0.5%. There are 181,700 professional psychologists. The growth rate from 2018, actually, to

2028 is 14%, which is far far higher than the average, or an additional 26,100 jobs. Median pay

is a little over 100, thousand the top 25 percent is

113 thousand psychology is ranked number one of all the science jobs and in the scorecard of

stress and so forth and flexibility the work life balance is very high the flexibility is above

average and the stress is slightly

above average, as I'm sure you will know. Before we dive into a day in the life, take us into the

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