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Job Loss & Retirement / Job Loss After 50 / Mental Health After 50
A LinkedIn Notification Brought It All Back. 10 Months Later, I Wasn’t Ready.
I’m 57, and 10 months ago at the age of 56, I lost my job. It’s been a long 10 months. I’ve been building this channel, writing, connecting […]
Job Loss & Retirement / Job Loss After 50
Were You Pushed Out After 50? Here’s the Thing Nobody Warned Me About.
There is a statistic that stopped me when I first saw it. According to analysis cited by Harvard's Kennedy School, about 24 percent of people over 50 who […]
Job Loss After 50
At 57, I Was Targeted Because of My Age. The Conversation Nobody’s Having.
It took me a long time to decide whether to make this video. Not because I wasn’t sure it was true. Because I wasn’t sure the world was […]
Job Loss & Retirement / Job Loss After 50 / Mental Health After 50
Losing Your Job After 50? You Need To Hear This.
Losing a job is never easy, but losing your career in your fifties or sixties is a different experience altogether. It is not just the loss of income […]
Job Loss & Retirement / Job Loss After 50 / Relationships
Unemployed After 50 And 8 Months in | Why Nobody Warns You About This
Eight months. That's how long it's been since that Wednesday afternoon call that changed everything. The shock was the easy part to describe. It's everything that came after […]
Job Loss & Retirement / Job Loss After 50
The Moment I Realised My Money Had a Deadline
Something new starting next week. Every Monday, I’m going to be reading your comments on camera and responding to them directly. The stories you’ve been sharing in the […]
Job Loss After 50 / Mental Health After 50
Job Loss After 50: 1.2 Million Laid Off, 40% Face Depression: The Real Cost of Identity Death
I was reading the news this morning, and it struck me just how much of the conversation around layoffs is about numbers. Big, loud numbers. Layoff percentages, stock […]
Job Loss After 50
The Lie We Tell Ourselves: 'I'll Have Something By Then'
There's a particular form of magical thinking that kicks in the moment we lose our jobs. We do the math on our severance or savings, divide by monthly […]
Job Loss After 50
The Perfect Storm: What 46,000 Job Cuts Tell Us About Working After 50
I've been watching the news this week, and honestly, it's been a bit unnerving. When you see headlines about layoffs, you might think it's just the usual January […]