Successfully Unemployed Show with Entrepreneurs Investors and Side Hustle · Master Passive Income

It's Not IF You Get Laid Off Or Fired... It's When.

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Steve Jaffe is told, within minutes, "I no longer have a job" after the dot-com bubble bursts.

1. Successfully Unemployed Show with Entrepreneurs Investors and Side Hustle centers on layoffs, financial self-sufficiency, and rebuilding after job loss. 2. Roger Wesley hosts Steve Jaffe, a journalism and communication graduate from San Diego State University who spent 25 years in advertising and marketing. 3. The episode asks what a person would do if they were laid off today, and it uses Steve Jaffe's four layoffs to frame the answer. 4. Roger Wesley shares his own firing history, including a first job after college as a project manager in a radioactive laboratory and later side work in restaurants and security. 5. Steve Jaffe describes a spring 2001 layoff in San Francisco after the dot-com bubble burst and a client lost its budget. 6. He says he was called into a conference room, told he no longer had a job, and sent to clean out his desk within minutes. 7. Steve says that first layoff devastated him and left him dealing with the after effects for about a year and a half. 8. He and his new wife both lost jobs, moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and then faced another downturn after 9/11. 9. Steve says he was out of work for about 18 months across the dot-com collapse and the post-9/11 period. 10. He explains that his fourth layoff in summer 2023 felt different because he had already learned how to navigate the process. 11. Steve wrote The Layoff Journey from Dismissal to Discovery, Navigating the Stages of Grief After Job Loss after trying to communicate lessons to coworkers. 12. The book uses stages of grief, including denial and anger, to help readers recognize what they are experiencing after a layoff. 13. Steve says a layoff exposes how much people tie identity to work, because society often asks, “What do you do for a living?” 14. He argues that losing a job creates space to find other sources of joy, passion, resilience, grit, and tenacity. 15. Steve says sending out 100 resumes, then sending the 101th, becomes part of the courage and hope required in a job search. 16. He lists practical coping habits such as eight hours of sleep, healthy food, limited alcohol, mindfulness, prayer, exercise, and deep breathing. 17. Roger Wesley and Steve Jaffe keep the conversation reflective and personal, with several stories about marriage, fatherhood, and identity. 18. The interview is conversational and motivational, but it stays grounded in specific layoffs, dates, and career moves. 19. People facing layoffs or career pivots will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners looking for celebrity gossip or technical job-search tactics may skip it.

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