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Melissa, thanks for joining us today. I have been so excited for this conversation. Thank you for having me.

Yes, it is my pleasure. And I'm excited that we're actually going to do it. Listeners, last time we tried to do this, we just hung out for half an hour. We did. So we need to actually get this done today. It was kind of like stepbrothers. Do we just become best friends? Yup. You want to do karate in the garage. Yup. That was it. It was a blast. It was kind of like that. So for our listeners who don't know you, how would you start

off by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do? Yes, so I am Melissa Doman.

Everybody calls Remy Mel. I'm an organizational psychologist, former clinical mental health

therapist, an author of Get Ready for This Mouthful.

Yes, you can talk about mental health at work.

Here's why and how to do it really well.

So the core of what I do is that I teach companies, leaders, and individuals how to realistically

and constructively talk about mental health in the workplace.

And I also focus on navigating uncertainty

and team dynamics and communication. So my clients range from really large organizations like

Google, S.A. Lodder, Dow Jones, to mid-sized organizations like Orlando City Soccer Club,

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