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Games, welcome to the program.

Hey, Dr. Laura.

Thanks for taking my call.

Thank you.

How can I help?

Yeah.

I've got a scenario I'll try to describe to the best of my ability.

Thank you.

I would love to get your advice.

I am in a sales job in the medical industry, and I've done that for a long time. I've had a couple of jobs doing this line of work. Last year, I lost a job and came over, one that I was in

for a long time, came over to work with another company and I've been doing that for almost a year and it's been a it's kind of

been a starting over phase and it's been very difficult.

I've been on a kind of a non-compete where I couldn't I can't go into a lot of my accounts

that I've had in the past for a period of a year's

time and that's that's almost up.

So it's been very difficult.

I'm the sole breadwinner in my family.

I've got three kids, two in college and one in high school.

I've had a lot of life events too in the past year. My father passed away back in September.

He was the primary care provider for my mother who has dementia. And we've since had to move her to,

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