Hello, everybody and welcome to another episode of For You from Eve.

We've been having a lot of guest recordings this week, and I'm so excited for this one because you guys love

when I talk all things burnout, working, being productive, separating work life and personal life.

So I'm so excited for today's guests to talk about all those topics, setting your goals,

being productive, and reaching your highest version of yourself in the most realistic and attainable

way for you. So I'm so excited for today's guest. We are in Spotify studios right now, guys, at World Trade Center. It's absolutely beautiful. I'm here with Isra, who's going to do a little introduction on herself and what she's going to talk to you guys about today. Hi. I'm so excited to be here and have this conversation. I'm Isra. I'm a therapist, a founder of Well Guide on Instagram, and I have been a therapist

for 10 years working in community mental health, private practice, hospital, just all of the touch

points, and then eventually kind of moving more into digital health and how do you build, like,

great mental health startups.

And in that journey, I became interested in, like, digital education for mental health.

And that's part of what I do by creating educational content on digital platforms like

Instagram, TikTok, and a newsletter.

And then that eventually led me into writing a book. And that's

why I'm here to chat with you. Yeah. And I want to talk a little bit about how you got into the

space, your upbringing. What was your childhood like? And then when you were kind of like growing up

in school, what were those years like? Was this a path you always wanted to go in? I mean, I moved a few significant times in life. I grew up in Saudi Arabia and then I moved to Toronto when I was 13.

And then I moved to New York to do my master's back to Toronto and then back to New York.

So there's been a lot of movement. But up until I was doing my undergrad,

I was actually pursuing environmental studies. I was very interested in conservation sciences.

And about halfway, maybe like second year, I became really interested in psychology. So we had to

take a course called Environmental Psych, and that was about human behavior

for conservation efforts for the environment. But the more I went into studying psychology, I was like,

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