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David, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. How are you today? Good. How can I help? I'm going to try and give you a shortened version of my lifetime story movie that I've lived.

I am 57 years old.

I am remarried, went through a very acrimonious divorce.

During the years, I did the best I could to be supportive financially and otherwise to my children in every way possible.

But since the divorce, it's been extremely difficult treading with both of my children.

One is 27, the other is 25.

In the late years of 28, in the late months of 2017, I committed a crime, a white collar crime.

I was a financial professional for 28 years and I misuse funds from clients in my trust

account. I cooperated with the authorities in every way I could. And ultimately, I had one client.

I gave back all the money to the clients who were harmed.

And I had one client who decided to take this to another level.

And three years after the administrative procedure that was taken against me was settled,

they brought criminal charges against me.

I had already pleaded guilty on the administrative level, so it transported in Canada to the criminal level.

I cooperated the best I could, but as a result of the circumstances, within my small community

in Canada, I was victimized by my own doing, of course.

I assumed full responsibility, and there's no question that I did this to myself.

But I had tried to do the best I could in the circumstances.

I ended up serving an 11-month prison term, which was extremely shameful to my children.

They put me on the Montreal news, and it was in the newspaper, and they felt a great sense of shame.

So as best I tried to make a bad situation into a better one by admitting my guilt, making restitution with my investors, and all of that,

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