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And today we are joined by Gabby Uyoa, who is a Cuban-American journalist and mental

health advocate.

She is also the co-host of the upcoming Thoughts May Very podcast, which is launching in June

2021.

And that podcast illuminates

stories and lessons about personal development and mental health. Previously, she was the

assistant to the editor-in-chief at Architectural Digest, where she spent two years assisting

Amy Astley and writing for the magazine. You can find her words in publications such as the New York

Times, Birdie, Architectural Digest, and more. Gabby, welcome to the podcast. We're so excited to have you. Hi. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so happy to be here. So I just read your, you know, a little boilerplate bio, which is so great to kind of catch everybody up from the basics. But tell us a little bit about who you are and your background. Yeah. So like it says in my bio,

I'm Cuban-American. So both of my parents are Cuban immigrants. I always really start with that because

I feel like it's such a large part of my identity. I grew up also in Miami, which there, I didn't

even think about the fact that I was Cuban or that I was Latin just because it was everywhere around

me. And it was really when I went off to school to college in GW, George Washington University in D.C. Where I was like, oh, wow, my Latin identity is so deeply ingrained to who I am. So yes, I always lead with that. I'm very proud to be Latina and to be part of that community. I'm also a journalist. So like you mentioned,

I started my career at Architectural Digest. And it's funny when I say I started my career,

that that's when I started my career post college. But working has always been something that I've

done since I was very young. My mom never let my sister and I have summers off. We were always

working at summer camp or volunteering or doing something. And throughout college, I was taking summer internships every summer. And I was

working in the fashion space and in the magazine space. I always knew I wanted to work in magazines.

And that was always the goal for me. So once I graduated from school in 2018, I moved directly to

New York and basically started freelancing and applying

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