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Starting Your Own Business While Feeling the Trauma of Job Loss Featuring Ken Gorfinkle
Going Solo Podcast, Jan. 29, 2021

Ken Gorfinkle is a clinical psychologist with over 40 years of experience caring for adults and children with chronic medical illness, mood and anxiety disorders. 

We discuss:

  • A huge financial step over the cliff [03:06]
  • Jumping into entrepreneurship in two stages [04:36]
  • How to turn the loss of colleague contacts into something good [05:52]
  • What to pay attention to when you’ve lost your job [08:45]
  • Basic steps to deal with emotions after a job loss [11:45]
  • Self-assessment as a strategy against ageism [15:17]
  • How to overcome the barriers to becoming a freelance consultant after being an employee for many years [16:28]
  • How to step back on your feet and start bringing in income as quickly as possible [18:47]
  • The real time to evaluate who we are and what matters [21:56]

How to Deal with the Trauma of Job Loss Featuring Ken Gorfinkle
Going Solo Podcast, Oct. 25, 2019

Ken Gorfinkle is a clinical psychologist with over 40 years of experience caring for adults and children with chronic medical illness, mood and anxiety disorders. 

We discuss:

  • A huge financial step over the cliff [3:17]
  • Jumping into entrepreneurship in two stages [4:46]
  • How to turn the loss of colleague contacts into something good [6:04]
  • What to pay attention to when you’ve lost your job [8:55]
  • Basic steps to deal with emotions after a job loss [11:55]
  • Self-assessment as a strategy against ageism [15:26]
  • How to overcome the barriers to becoming a freelance consultant after being an employee for many years [16:38]
  • How to step back on your feet and start bringing in income as quickly as possible [18:58]
  • The real time to evaluate who we are and what matters [22:06]

How to Tell If Your Baby Is in Pain – and What to Do About It
US News & World Report, Jan. 14, 2019

The first time parents hear their newborn cry, they often cry too – tears of happiness, of course, that their child has officially arrived in the world and is, by the sound of those lungs, healthy.

But after that, baby crying gets more complicated. Is she hungry? Tired? Uncomfortable? Wanting to be held? Or, most dreaded, in pain? “Until they can talk, it’s hard to know,” says Kenneth Gorfinkle, a psychologist at Common Sense Therapy in New York City and author of “Soothing Your Child’s Pain: From Teething to Tummy Aches to Acute Illnesses and Injuries.” “There’s a lot of guessing.”

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