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I'm Maura Aronsmili, and this is The Anxious Achiever.

We look at stories from business leaders who've dealt with anxiety, depression, or other mental health challenges, how they fell down, how they pick themselves up,

and how they hope work will change in the future.

One thing I've long been an advocate for is treating mental illness like we would any other physical illness, something that sometimes people just have, whether they're born with it or develops.

What stands in the way of that? Well, whether or not people want to say it, there's still an idea that you can't see mental illness. You don't

know if someone's really telling the truth or what's causing their seemingly off behavior.

This happens a lot, for example, to women who have ADHD. We'll talk about this today.

And so that's another thing I'm hoping to do with this show, to help more people see

mental struggles, to see what it means for people and how they have to twist and turn themselves

to function and succeed in the world.

And I'm so excited today to talk to someone who in many ways depends on appearances, not just

physical, but in how she comes across to the world,

how she interacts with people at a small and mass level. She's someone who's a figurehead,

but that many people make assumptions about. She's Miss America. Emma Broils is 20 years old,

and she's the current reigning Miss America.

Emma is the first Korean-American woman and the first Alaskan to win the title.

The cause she's advocating for is the Special Olympics, inspired by her older brother who has Down syndrome.

She's a lot of firsts.

She's also been diagnosed with ADD and a type of obsessive compulsive disorder.

Here's our conversation.

Emma, hi, do I, what do I call you? Do I call you Miss America, Miss Emma?

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