The Stages of Job Loss
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The sluggish employment landscape explains why workers are now “job hugging,” rather than job hopping. The challenge is to fight the urge to hunker down and instead try to be proactive and focus on what you can control.
That means raise your hand for any new opportunity at your company, update your LinkedIn profile/fire up your network, and consider pursuing any side hustle that might help your cash flow and spark creativity.
For those who have been unlucky enough to lose a job, know that the loss is not just financial. I reached out to business Psychologist and Executive Coach Dr. Sharon Melnick, PhD, after talking to a variety of folks who were let go recently.
The author of two best-selling books, In Your Power and Success Under Stress, Sharon joins us today to discuss the various stages of job loss.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It is Thursday, November 27. It's Thanksgiving. So happy Thanksgiving. Hey, Mark, get on the mic. Mark, I'm so grateful for you. I'm so thankful for you. Happy Thanksgiving. How is it Thanksgiving already? I mean, geez, Louise. It's nuts. Didn't we just do this last year? Yeah, exactly. And the year before that. But it's exciting because in January, we get to celebrate our 10-year anniversary of the show. |
| 0:28.7 | Of the podcast, yes. The pod. Yeah. Radio. You and I working together will be 15 years. Podcasts will be 10 years. |
| 0:35.6 | Incredible. Incredible. Aren't we so lucky? Listen, we got a treat |
| 0:39.3 | for you today. I love that I have super duper smart friends. And some of them I get to just |
| 0:45.7 | highlight when I'm going through something. I'll get in touch with them because I'll get |
| 0:49.5 | their feedback. It's exactly what happened with our guest today, Sharon Melnick. Sharon and I went to high school |
| 0:55.6 | together. We actually played soccer together on the same team. But I got in touch with her right after |
| 1:02.2 | CBS did this big huge round of layoffs. And I was sort of thinking about like what is the right |
| 1:08.2 | tone to strike with some of the younger employees that are left at CBS |
| 1:12.6 | with some of the folks who lost their jobs? |
| 1:15.1 | Even just talking to you guys when you lose a job or a federal worker who is lost a job, |
| 1:20.2 | I feel like I wanted professional guidance. |
| 1:23.8 | And Sharon is a PhD. |
| 1:26.0 | She is a business psychologist, executive coach. |
| 1:28.7 | She's got 25 years of experience. |
| 1:31.2 | You know, it was really helpful for me. |
| 1:33.2 | I mean, I get it. |
| 1:34.1 | I'm not exactly her normal client because she's got, you know, all this experience. |
| 1:38.5 | She works with, like, huge visionary leaders at the height of their successes and on the edge of their next chapter. |
| 1:44.9 | She's seen as a global authority on the influence and personal power in leadership. |
| 1:49.9 | She's twice been named on one of the top 50 coaches worldwide. |
| 1:53.4 | She's been selected to the Marshall Goldsmith top 100 coaches community. |
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