Gabriel Mizrahi

Impossible for us to say, of course.

Corbin said that it might be worth it to you to throw down with your ex-partner, or it might not be.

That's something you might want to sit with and decide.

But from a legal perspective, Corbin said that it would be completely two-faced for your ex-partner to argue that you are entitled to nothing in the company, that you have no status there, and that you owe some degree of loyalty to the company such that you shouldn't be allowed to go out and compete against him.

So in a crazy way, this guy might be doing you a favor here, giving you one potential advantage in a really bad situation, especially for a very driven self-starter like you.

Yes, but this approach is going to be an uphill battle.

It absolutely will be a fight, no doubt about it.

I mean, at the very least, he's probably going to go out and tell every defecting client that you're, you know, a child raping scumbag whom, you know, they should absolutely not do business with.

So you'll need to have a plan in place for dealing with that.

You probably need to at least consider getting ahead of those rumors by disclosing them in advance.

This might, in fact, be a story about what it means to fully own a story.

I also get why it's a terrifying one for him.

It's a very good question.

So that was Corbin's idea, maybe being more forthcoming with your story and also making it clear to people that your ex-partner didn't have a problem with your past until he decided he wanted all the money.

But it sounds like you might need to get a job in the meantime.

So let's quickly talk about how to talk about your background with new companies.

We ran that question by Joanna Tate, friend of the show, HR professional for over 20 years.

And Joanna was very clear, she would not advise you to come right out and tell employers about your past.

And the reason is, when you get an offer, a company should explain their pre-employment process, you know, drug screen, background check, whatever they require.

The Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, the FCRA, protects job candidates from discrimination when an employer uses one of these third-party background reporting services.