Thank you, Jessica, so much for being here. I'm so excited to have you on the podcast and also

have to give a shout out to We Shine Well for introducing us. I always like to support other

female founders who are doing cool things. Amazing. Thank you so much for having me and I'm so glad

that Zoe connected us. Yes, yes, yes. Okay. So to jump right into it, the name of this podcast

is you are here. And a big mission for the podcast is to really meet people where they are in

their life's journey, specifically when it comes to transitions in life. It could look like

career pivots. It could look like career pivots.

It could look like even aging and going into menopause.

It could look so many different ways.

And I'd love to kind of just hear from your perspective of how that belief of meeting people

where they are really connects to the work that you do in helping women normalize a lot of difficult

transitions. Oh, interesting. I really love this question. Okay, well, for some context,

I'm a Los Angeles-based psychologist, and I specialize in women's reproductive and maternal

mental health, and I've done so for about over 15 years at this

point. And I come to the field with a background in public health. And so I worked internationally

in women's rights and women's reproductive health-related areas before pursuing my PhD. And it was

very important to me that my work be intimate, that my work be impactful.

And so working in public health was incredibly exciting and invigorating. And I felt like I was

making an impact. Ultimately, I realized that I wanted to be one-on-one. And why is that?

For exactly the reason, you know,

you're asking this question, which is to really be able to have that sort of privilege of being that person in somebody's life, helping them walk through these life transitions, whether it be a phase of life, like you're talking

about perimenopause, menopause, but obviously as a psychologist, people are coming to me

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