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I'm your host, Mac Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max List. It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that

helps you find a fulfilling career. Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the tools

you need to get the work you want. It's painful to lose your job, but unemployment also can

create opportunity.

Nicole Serena Silver is here to talk about why losing a job can be a gift.

She's the author of the Career Clarity Guide, Bekita Full Potential.

Nicole also writes for Forbes on the future of work and professional development.

She joins us from the San Francisco Bay Area. Well, let's get started, Nicole. You work with a lot of job seekers. What kind of

reactions do you see when someone loses a job? Sure. It tends to be fear. People jump into fear,

and understandably so, to disrupt somebody's income and their livelihood.

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