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Net. Oh, I'm All right. Well, Ashley, good to see you again.

Hey Ryan, good to see you too.

All right, so Lucasfilm has just launched Star Wars Mindful Matters.

It's a brand new series of shorts on the Star Wars Kids YouTube channel

and Star Wars Kids.

This is awesome.

I watch both of them with my kids. This is so great and I want to talk to I guess the host,

the star of Star Wars Mindful Matters. Welcome back to the show Ashley Eckstein.

Ashley, it's so good to see you again.

How you doing?

It's so good to see you too, Ryan.

Thank you so much for having me on today

and for chatting about this new project.

Yeah, I want to talk about your journey for just a minute because I almost I was thinking about this I was watching your

mental health Monday yesterday on Instagram and I was thinking about you and your your journey because I feel like the last couple of years you've been very open and honest about mental health and sort of

This this not really a transition but more to talking about it more and putting it to the forefront.

And I kind of thought about it in Asoka's way in a sense of like when you first came into Star Wars,

you were kind of like the Padawan in a sense like you

were new to this whole thing you were doing that and then you kind of

launched her universe and you kind of went into a new tier kind of like

Asoka did in rebels right she was she was kind of sort helping that. And then the last time we see

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