Bela Bajaria

And.

You know, it.

It was a very.

emotional, difficult, rollercoaster, all the stages, all the grief, all of the things happen when you get fired.

A very hard thing to tell your three kids you've been fired.

It's just there's no... What did you tell them?

It was Memorial Weekend.

2016, so 14, 11, 12, and 19.

say what is that yeah yeah it's nine nine so like nine thank you elise nine nine fourteen nine thirteen fifteen so um early teens so i think you know look i just think it's you know these are things that people don't talk about where it's when you have to go home and sort of have that that conversation they're also i had to have lots of hard conversations with my girls too

Yeah, and you kind of want to give it to them straight, but also not burden them with a thing that's like, you don't have to worry about money or something.

Yes, yes.

Yeah, for sure.

You know, I don't know what I wanted them to take away from the conversation.

My husband was incredibly supportive, which was amazing, because I was just like, ooh, what am I going to say?

And then I figured I just had to give it to them straight, but be like, you don't need to worry, right?

It's all fine.

But I'm not fine.

But I'm not fine, but I'm going to pretend like I'm fine.

And then a couple things that were interesting for me was that I realized early on that

First, I had to realize, oh, I'm going to have to go through the roller coaster of emotions, which I'm not great at.