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I'm Maura Aaron's Mealy, and this is The Anxious Achiever, the show that looks at the intersection of mental health and work and how we can all do both better.

Silicon Valley Bank might not have been a household name until a few weeks ago,

but it quickly became one after its stability unraveled in early March.

On March 8th, Silicon Valley Bank announced that it quickly needed to raise $2.2 billion.

And by March 10th, the FDIC announced the bank's closure, marking the second largest U.S. bank failure in history.

And if the speed with which the failure happened gave you whiplash, you're not the only one.

It's a testament to the fast-paced digital age we live in.

And if you're like me, it was also a cause for great anxiety, even though I have no connection to Silicon Valley Bank. We had fears that the

economy as a whole was on a precipice. My guest today experienced the bank failure, both as an

entrepreneur who did her banking there, and as someone with a keen awareness of what social media

can do to all of us and the ways it can increase stress and loneliness.

Issa Watson is CEO and founder of Squad, an audio social app, and she wrote the book,

Life Beyond Likes, logging off your screen and into your life.

You tweeted, Washington Mutual failed with $17 billion of withdrawals over 10 days.

SVB with $42 billion over two days, mind-blowing impact of living in the social media and digital age.

What is the impact do you mean there? Yeah, you know, one of the things the social media and digital age. What is the impact you mean there?

Yeah, you know, one of the things about social media outside of it being a place where people are,

you know, always putting their perfective highlight rails. It is an echo chamber that is

easily amplified. And this has happened, not this specifically more, right? But like,

you know, things have blown up and gone viral in social media. This one just happened to

result in, you know, $40 billion, you know, being withdrawn. And so I think that there's an

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