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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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At age 60, Laura is feeling depressed and anxious about getting older. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.5	Laura, welcome to the program. Thank you, Dr. Laura, for taking my call. And I am a first-time caller, so I'm a little nervous. So I'm going to give a little background.
0:22.1	I am 60 years old.
0:24.3	I am active, always been active and healthy, stayed in shape.
0:28.6	Been to the gym since I'm in my 20s.
0:31.5	And yet, and with work, I achieved my goal, excelled at it, and yet for some reason...
0:38.5	I'm sorry, what goal is that?
0:41.0	What goal are we talking about?
0:43.2	With goals...
0:44.0	And never start a sentence to me where I don't know, never start a sentence like that, ever, to me.
0:50.5	Okay?
0:50.9	But let's go back over what was the goal? You only had one in 60 years? Oh, no, I'm in at work.
0:58.6	I'd have a goal at work that I'd set for myself. And what's the goal?
1:03.2	What's the goal? At work? Yeah.
1:07.5	Oh, my goal was just to, I do paralegal work.
1:14.1	And I had set myself up to maybe go to law school, but I was asked to become a judge as a law clerk.
1:20.8	And he said, I had excelled to the point I didn't need to that I could do the job.
1:26.1	And I did it.
1:28.2	I'm sorry, I have no understanding as to what you said.
1:32.0	You were going to go to law school and somebody told you you could be a lawyer without law school?
1:37.1	No, ma'am, no.
1:39.3	The job requirement was to get a law degree, but they way all the judges met and waived that requirement
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