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serious xm. Triumph 111. Melissa, welcome to the program.

Oh, Dr. Laura, I'm so happy to talk to you. Thank you so much for taking my call.

Thank you. You are the reason why I have XM radio and you are the reason why I can get over bridges now.

I listen to your podcast on panic attacks every time I know I have to cross a major bridge and it just helps me get through it.

So I just want to say thank you.

Yes.

Excellent.

So I found myself in a little bit of a situation.

I got married and I moved to a different state.

I got married a little later in life at 37 and I moved to the next date over and pretty much started

my whole life over again.

I ran into, oddly enough, I ran into an old friend that I had known down where I used to live and she had a little catering business.

And at the time I was kind of thinking about doing the same thing

but I guess insecurities was holding me back. I helped her on a few jobs and I didn't like when I was

working with her for the fact that everything was I and when she would post on social media she never gave

credit to the team that helped her. Nevertheless, her business, her thing. I

found the courage to start my own business and I knew nobody where I lived.

So I relied a lot on social media doing a lot at home and creating beautiful tables to

display them on social media. It was a tremendous amount of work and money of course and money and so here I am a year later and my business is

finally blooming and it's incredible and I'm very fortunate.

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