Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor.

And today, we are going to acknowledge the elephant in the room,

that after months and months of great resignation talk,

we may be looking at the possibility of a great recession,

and possibly some layoffs ahead.

So if this is something that's on your mind,

let's talk about some steps you can

take to be ready for anything that may come your way. I was 16 the first time my heart was

broken. I saw it coming. And even though it was done with kindness and empathy, seriously,

he had a lot of emotional intelligence for an 18-year-old guy. It hurt like all get out.

Thought I would die.

But then I didn't.

I healed, and now I can look back and see that he wasn't the one for me.

And that that heartbreak was a gift.

Yes, I know.

Insert vomit-faced emoji, but time healing all wounds and all that.

So why the choice to overshare today? Well, because after months and months and months of talk about the great resignation,

about companies fighting to hold on to warm bodies, we're starting to see signals of the

pendulum swinging back the other way. For the first time in a long

time, I'm hearing rumblings of layoffs, and people around me are getting anxious, and I'm thinking

about breakups, personal and professional. Granted, my teenage heartbreak did not have financial

implications, and I don't mean to trivialize. But at the time, I thought it would end me,

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