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Discover more at fidelity.com slash It's Time. Her money comes to you through PRX. Hey it's Gene Chatsky. So a few weeks ago, those of you who are regular listeners will remember that we talked with Jeannie Thompson about a piece of research

from the Stanford University Longevity Center and Fidelity about life events and stress.

And the research found that these events,

and these are things that happen at every person, every day,

things like divorce and changing jobs and having a baby and moving and caring for a family

member. They impact our health, our happiness, our weight, our performance at work. In other words, they impact our total well-being. And we

also learn that the average person has four of these events every single year.

Well, my guest today, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, my friend Dr.

Nancy Snyderman, has just come through a period in her life where she had way more than four.

Way more than average, including as many of you likely know, leaving her job at NBC News where she'd been for a decade and

as many of you probably don't a divorce and the loss of her dad but she has regrouped she has moved on she's in the studio with

me today to talk it through hi Nancy this is so great to see you it's so great to

see you too you look fabulous thank you I can't believe and I said this to you on the phone when we were chatting last week. I can't believe it was 2014 that all of this happened.

I mean Ebola crisis happened in 2014 and for those who don't remember I and an

NBC team went to Liberia we reported a stringer we picked up as a was a day higher, ended up becoming positive with

Ebola, survived and it's fine, but we returned to a nation unhinged and I'm

such a scientist and I knew I wasn't exposed or

posed no public health risk nonetheless was quarantined at my house and I

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