Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to Life, Death, and the Space Between podcast.

I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and medium and here we explore life, death, consciousness, and what it all means.

Today we're going to try my first, my first attempt at a new segment,

life, death, and the space between questions where you could email in questions that you have

for me and I will answer them on the show. So you can email LDSB Questions at gmail.com and that's

where I'm going to take these questions from and try to

answer maybe one or two each week just for a little short mini segment for you all. So I think this

is the perfect one to start with, which is from a listener that said, what attracted you to your

chosen profession and how do you feel your knowledge and experience from

it impacts your interest and curiosity in the afterlife and what surrounds it? Has your interest in

it changed how you approach or help others or those in your professional life? So what attracted me

to my chosen profession? That's actually a long kind of winded story.

I went to college. I thought I was going to become a lawyer. I had come from a family of doctors and lawyers and thought that that was going to be the path I took. When I was in college,

I actually majored in psychology, but it was sort of the last thing on my list of things that I was

going to do. I wanted to be a very high-powered corporate executive somewhere. I didn't even

really understand what that meant. I had hoped to become a consultant because that

was when kind of consultancy was really getting big. And I got rejection after rejection,

after rejection after rejection letter and ended up going, moving home and getting a job working for

a radio station selling radio airtime, which I hope I'm

not offending anybody who does this for a living. But for me, it was the probably worst six months

and the hardest six months of my life. I was miserable. I did not like the job. I was commuting an hour and a half every day and then from there

was driving all over the city trying to get clients and it just was not was not my cup of tea. So I

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