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Mara, thanks for joining us today. It's great to be here, Kwame. Thanks. Yes, it is our pleasure to

have you, my friend. So how would you get us started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what

you do? Yes. Well, we are both on the LinkedIn podcast network.

So that's part of what I do. It's always weird to say that I'm a professional podcaster, but I am.

I've had my second show, The Anxious Achiever. We're going into our 10th season. And I was a political

consultant for many, many years. I was an early practitioner of digital

fundraising, using online advertising, using blogging, all kinds of digital marketing tools for

politics. And did that for many, many years, both working on campaigns and for other people and then

started my own company called Women Online. And we created issue advocacy, public health,

and political marketing campaigns that mobilized women. And it was amazing. I sold that company

about three years ago because I really wanted to try my hand at going full time on workplace mental health and helping leaders who manage anxiety or depression or bipolar disorder or who are maybe neurodivergent. And so that offers them some challenges,

right, in our traditional ladder of success, you know, help people really find ways to live

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