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Speaker 1: Wine Down with Janet Kramer and iHeartRadio podcast. All Right,

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Speaker 1: so on this week's Wine About It Thursday Therapy, We've

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Speaker 1: got His name is Phil Yagoda. So he's a retired

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Speaker 1: Wall Street executive who has been happily married for twenty

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Speaker 1: five years. Has created a website he hopes will be

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Speaker 1: a top destination for people going through divorces and breakups.

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Speaker 1: Phil Yagoda spent more than two decades on Wall Street,

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Speaker 1: including a stint as a managing director at a bank.

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Speaker 1: He launched The Exit in December with content focus on

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Speaker 1: what couples can expect to encounter emotionally and financially during

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Speaker 1: and turns. Let's get him up, Okay. I am so

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Speaker 1: excited to have you on because I really can could

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Speaker 1: have used this website about two years ago when I

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Speaker 1: was going through my divorce. But I'm just when I

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Speaker 1: was reading the breakdown, I was like, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: married guy twenty five years he is doing you know

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Speaker 1: this this website called the Exit dot com. So I'm curious.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know you've experienced probably through friends and family,

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Speaker 1: but have you experienced a divorce personally, No, Um, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I'm one of the lucky ones. I found my best friend,

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Speaker 1: my soulmate, my rock, my everything, um, twenty five years

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Speaker 1: ago and we've been together ever since. Um, fact, we

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Speaker 1: just had our engagement anniversary. I'm the one who remembers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's really cute that a guy remember is an engagement anniversary,

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Speaker 1: because I don't know many guys that would remember that

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Speaker 1: at all. Yeah. My wife's like, all right, enough, it's

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Speaker 1: up to that point, you know, you're just young, you're

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Speaker 1: going out, you're doing whatever, and you know you want

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Speaker 1: hope she said yes. In fact, it was really cold

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Speaker 1: and she took a couple of minutes. I was like,

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Speaker 1: all right, either say yes or no. But how old

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Speaker 1: were you when you got engaged. I was twenty four, Okay,

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Speaker 1: so young, which is actually, you know, amazing that you

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Speaker 1: guys are still married to this day too, because I

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Speaker 1: feel like a lot of young marriages could potentially also

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Speaker 1: end in divorce. Yeah, I mean, I think when when

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Speaker 1: you're taking two people from two different backgrounds, from two

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Speaker 1: that's part of any relationship for sure. So how did

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Speaker 1: I mean, you seem to be in a very happy,

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Speaker 1: So how did this idea even like come to fruition?

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Speaker 1: So in my prior life, I was a Wall Street guy,

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Speaker 1: And I get a lot of phone calls from friends, family,

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Speaker 1: But this is something that will hopefully give people the

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Speaker 1: mediation can save you time, money, and emotional stress. There's

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