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Dr. Laura Call of the Day

How Do I Say “No” to a Friend?

Dr. Laura Call of the Day

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.46K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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What's the right way for Melissa to decline her friend's offer to go into business together? Email questions or comments: [email protected] - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live

0:04.7

radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on

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

0:14.0

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

0:18.4

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

0:27.5

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.

0:37.0

So I just want to say thank you.

0:40.0

Yes.

0:41.1

Excellent.

0:41.6

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

0:45.4

I got married and I moved to a different state.

0:50.0

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

0:58.4

my whole life over again.

1:00.6

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.

1:12.0

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

1:17.1

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

1:28.8

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

1:35.0

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

1:41.2

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

1:49.0

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

1:56.7

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

2:12.2

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

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