This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast is Elfjee Get Hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.

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, Bakita 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. It makes sense that that's a fearful moment. And they jump into it,

and it can be really detrimental, actually, just jumping right in, especially if you're operating out of fear.

People can feel that. And I think we've all experienced interactions with somebody who is coming

from a place of feeling desperate versus somebody who's secure and confident. And if you just pause

and like check in with yourself and how that feels when you're interacting with those

types of people, you can tell that you would be more inclined to want to interact more with

somebody who is more secure and confident.

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