Welcome to The Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Milet.

This time on the show, sometimes you leave a job in less than ideal circumstances.

You might be fired, you might be pressured to leave, you might choose to leave because of a personality clash.

I don't understand the psychology of it, what was happening between her and me,

but there was undermining and erosion of my spirit.

That's the only way I can describe it.

And losing a job can leave you reeling.

Whereas I think the first time I was fired, I'd had these series of transgressions.

This time, I absolutely didn't see it coming at all.

And it was a physical reaction to it.

I felt completely sick.

Coming up, two women, two stories, and some advice on how to get your mojo back after a bad

breakup with work.

But first, this episode of the Broad Experience is brought to you by M.M. Lafleur,

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I've owned one of their dresses for a couple of years years and I'll tell you more about them a bit later in the show.

Marion Cain is a food writer who lives in Toronto.

Actually, she calls herself a food sleuth.

For years, she wrote for Canada's daily newspapers.

She spent 18 of those at one of the Big Toronto Dailyes.

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