All right. And now let's go to our first guest, Ava Max. How are you? Welcome to the show.

I'm good. How are you? Thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm doing well. Look. So about five people when I was

telling everyone that you were coming on tonight and everyone was like, tell her I said hi, tell her I said hi. And I was like, okay, she doesn't know you guys, but I will give the official hello. So many people in my life say hello. Thank you. Well, hello, everyone. So let's start off by just talking about

mental health. That's one of the purposes of the show is to try to destigmatize, hearing about,

sharing about, and talking about mental health. So let me ask, how is your mental health doing right now?

It's hard. You know, I go up and down, like my days are like that.. Like realistically, I have one good day and then another day of just like feeling anxious and stressed out and overwhelmed, you know?

Yeah, it's you got to just kind of go with the journey right now. That's what I'm telling everyone. You know what I mean? Just like put on your seatbelt and ride it out.

Honestly, you have to put on the seatbelt. Because I don't know

what tomorrow is going to bring. And how is that impacting music? Like what would you say the

impacts of the COVID on your mental health and on music? Are you writing and producing differently?

How's it showing up? Again, it depends on the day. Like some days I'm super inspired and some days

I just, I can only

lay on my bedroom floor like what am I doing with my life right now so I try so hard to connect

with my fans because I know you know I have this platform and I feel so grateful to have this

platform and it makes me excited to connect with them and hopefully, you know, check up on them

and see how they're doing around the world. I love that. I love that. And that's why I'm thankful

for social media. I think if we had gone through COVID prior to having all this technology,

we wouldn't be able to be thriving as much as we are. Are you using social media for your

own mental health? Oh my God. Yeah. I'm on social media. The moment I wake up as

horrible as that sounds, and when I go to sleep, and honestly, it's kind of met, like, I don't

know, it helps me calm my mind, just scrolling. Isn't that weird? But then some days I can't be

on social media at all. Again, it's a roller coaster. It's a freaking roller coaster. Well, you're,

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