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Supporter Connect and Learn: "Take Control of Your Training"
If you're constantly enrolling in trainings that bore you to tears, are racking up CE credits that don't feel useful, or if you feel panicked when you get close to license renewal because you procrastinated on CEs...again... this live event is going to be for you!
Our Quarterly gathering will be on October 6th. We're getting together to talk about how to take control of and make time for:
✅Meeting your license requirements and
💵Turning those requirements into marketable and hirable skills.
You won't want to miss it, save the date now! This workshop will be exclusively for paid Working Phase Supporters!
And if you're not yet a Working Phase Supporter, you can JOIN NOW to get the exclusive invite!
When you support Working Phase, you support accessible, useful information for yourself and your colleagues, and you ALSO get a welcome resource, surprise drops in your library every month, and free live workshops just like this one.
Essential Downloads
I'm going to do whatever I can to make your job easier. And that includes making resources you can use today, to feel better about tomorrow!
This month, the newest resource for you is a quick Private Practice Primer. This will help you think strategically about launching your side hustle and turning it into your main hustle.
Take a look at it, and all the other resources available for you for free or very very low cost, on the Resources Page.
Presenting Issues: Student Loans are Getting EVEN MESSIER
If trying to get an answer about your student loan is driving you nuts, you are not alone. Some news outlets are tracking this story but there are still thousands of unaddressed complaints piling up.
Here's some context:
Education Department has a backlog of 27,000 complaints about student loans
46-year-old woman is weeks away from student loan forgiveness but stuck in Trump-era backlog
If you reside in the U.S., and you have already submitted a complaint to the feds, your next step is to escalate this issue to your congresspeople.
Don't forget to make a stink with your state representatives as well. They need to know that this will impact your local spending, your ability to pay state taxes, local fees, etc. They need to know that this is keeping social services understaffed, ineffective, and sometimes harmful, because new graduates are not incentivized to take county and state mental health positions.
Joy Intervention: Billy Joel: And So It Goes
This doc completely changed my mind about the music and persona of Billy Joel.
It's a heart-filled treasure trove of interviews and performance footage that has music, money drama, recovery from suicidality, recovery from addiction (maybe?), epigenetics, love stories, heartbreak, and joy.
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I'll just be over here toe-tapping to "Big Shot" while I gather resources for us for next week! Make it a good one!
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