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Dr. Rick Hanson has taught thousands of people how to Be Well over the last 30 years, and now he's sharing some of his best tips and practices in the Being Well podcast. The NY Times bestselling author will teach you how to increase your everyday happiness, build inner strengths, and get the most out of life.

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Dr. Rick Hanson has taught thousands of people how to Be Well over the last 30 years, and now he's sharing some of his best tips and practices in the Being Well podcast. The NY Times bestselling author will teach you how to increase your everyday happiness, build inner strengths, and get the most out of life.

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Join researcher and #1 New York Times best-selling author Brené Brown as she unpacks and explores the ideas, stories, experiences, books, films, and music that reflect the universal experiences of being human, from the bravest moments to the most brokenhearted.

Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work. She also holds the position of visiting professor in management at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business.

Brené has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She is the author of six #1 New York Times best sellers and is the host of two award-winning podcasts, Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead.

Brené's books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and her titles include Atlas of the Heart, Dare to Lead, Braving the Wilderness, Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. With Tarana Burke, she co-edited the best-selling anthology You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience.

Brené's TED talk on the Power of Vulnerability is one of the top five most-viewed TED talks in the world, with over 50 million views. Brené is the first researcher to have a filmed lecture on Netflix, and in March 2022, she launched a new show on HBO Max that focuses on her latest book, Atlas of the Heart.

Brené spends most of her time working in organizations around the world, helping develop braver leaders and more-courageous cultures.

She lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. They have two children, Ellen and Charlie, and a weird Bichon named Lucy.

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Brené Brown: Hi everyone. I'm Brené Brown. Welcome to the Unlocking Us podcast.

BB: Twelve years ago I bought a used microphone, I hooked it up to my laptop, and recorded a podcast on empathy and shame. It was very DIY from my kitchen table, but I fell in love with podcasting. It was intimate, raw, and most importantly it gave me a way to connect directly with you. Well, here it is a dozen years later, and I'm coming back, with Unlocking Us.

BB: I've given a lot of thought to how I want to spend this next decade, and one thing I know for sure is that I want to have more meaningful conversations. Conversations that help us unlock the deeply human part of who we are.

BB: Together we can explore ideas, stories, experiences, research, books, films, music. Anything that reflects the universal experiences of being human. From the bravest moments to the most brokenhearted.

BB: Some episodes of the new podcast will be conversations with the people who are teaching me, challenging me, confusing me, and maybe even ticking me off a little bit. Some days I'll just talk directly to you about what I'm learning and how it's changing the way I think and show up. We'll also have a way for you to send me questions for Ask Me Anything episodes. And, at some point, I'm going to hit the road and do some live shows too.

BB: Episodes of Unlocking Us will drop every Wednesday. You can find me wherever you normally listen to your podcasts.

BB: Here's the thing. I want to live, love, parent and lead with more courage and more heart. And that requires conversations that help us learn, grow, and challenge what we think we know about ourselves, about each other, and about this world. You can subscribe now, invite your friends, and I really cannot wait to have these conversations with you.

© 2020 Brené Brown Education and Research Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Join researcher and #1 New York Times best-selling author Brené Brown as she unpacks and explores the ideas, stories, experiences, books, films, and music that reflect the universal experiences of being human, from the bravest moments to the most brokenhearted.

Brené Brown: Hi everyone. I'm Brené Brown. Welcome to the Unlocking Us podcast.

BB: Twelve years ago I bought a used microphone, I hooked it up to my laptop, and recorded a podcast on empathy and shame. It was very DIY from my kitchen table, but I fell in love with podcasting. It was intimate, raw, and most importantly it gave me a way to connect directly with you. Well, here it is a dozen years later, and I'm coming back, with Unlocking Us.

BB: I've given a lot of thought to how I want to spend this next decade, and one thing I know for sure is that I want to have more meaningful conversations. Conversations that help us unlock the deeply human part of who we are.

BB: Together we can explore ideas, stories, experiences, research, books, films, music. Anything that reflects the universal experiences of being human. From the bravest moments to the most brokenhearted.

BB: Some episodes of the new podcast will be conversations with the people who are teaching me, challenging me, confusing me, and maybe even ticking me off a little bit. Some days I'll just talk directly to you about what I'm learning and how it's changing the way I think and show up. We'll also have a way for you to send me questions for Ask Me Anything episodes. And, at some point, I'm going to hit the road and do some live shows too.

BB: Episodes of Unlocking Us will drop every Wednesday. You can find me wherever you normally listen to your podcasts.

BB: Here's the thing. I want to live, love, parent and lead with more courage and more heart. And that requires conversations that help us learn, grow, and challenge what we think we know about ourselves, about each other, and about this world. You can subscribe now, invite your friends, and I really cannot wait to have these conversations with you.

© 2020 Brené Brown Education and Research Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

Brown, B. (Host). (2020, January 13). Introducing: Unlocking Us. [Audio podcast episode]. In Unlocking Us with Brené Brown. Cadence13. https://brenebrown.com/podcast/introducing-unlocking-us/

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The TPH Podcast with Dan Harris - Ten Percent Happier

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How to Make Stress Your Friend

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Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.

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There's Not Shame in Taking Care of Your Mental Health

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There’s no shame in taking care of your mental health

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When stress got to be too much for TED Fellow Sangu Delle, he had to confront his own deep prejudice: that men shouldn’t take care of their mental health. In a personal talk, Delle shares how he learned to handle anxiety in a society that’s uncomfortable with emotions. As he says: “Being honest about how we feel doesn’t make us weak -- it makes us human.”

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All it Takes is 10 Mindful Minutes

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When is the last time you did absolutely nothing for 10 whole minutes? Not texting, talking or even thinking? Mindfulness expert Andy Puddicombe describes the transformative power of doing just that: Refreshing your mind for 10 minutes a day, simply by being mindful and experiencing the present moment. (No need for incense or sitting in uncomfortable positions.)

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How to Stay Calm When You Know You'll Be Stressed

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Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed | TED Talk

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You’re not at your best when you’re stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin thinks there’s a way to av…

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The place that travel writer Pico Iyer would most like to go? Nowhere. In a counterintuitive and lyrical meditation, Iyer takes a look at the incredible insight that comes with taking time for stillness.

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Breaking Isolation: Self & Community Care

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Breaking Isolation: Self & Community Care

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--Audre Lorde
In moments of grief, crisis, or trauma, and in the time before and after, we need each other to survive and thrive. We are obliged to lift up, honor, and hold space for our self-determination, to fight for our lives, and to remind each other of our worth and that none of us are disposable. In a time and place where we LGBTSTGNC POC are hurt, isolated, silenced, murdered, imprisoned, disappeared, and deported, it is a radical act of self and community love to name our trauma and needs, and to love each other fiercely to meet those needs. We have been taught and conditioned to turn to the state in moments of crisis and trauma, to turn out and away from the communities and relationships that hold us. In this moment of community grief, let us find each other, and radically turn in to each other with love, consensually present each other with our hurts and needs, and strategize as community to get those needs and desires met. We must remember, share, and practice strategies for grounding, support, resilience, transformation, and accountability.

We must support each other's wellness. One way to do this is to create a wellness plan for yourself, and encourage folks in your community to create a wellness plan for themselves. Strategize with your community about your wellness plan and meeting your needs.

Here's a template for wellness planning:

Your wellness plan can look however you want it to, but the point is to name your current or anticipated needs, and who can support you in getting your needs met. Be sure to communicate your needs to the people who will support you. If your community is a web-based one, maybe create a private online shareable spreadsheet that folks can contribute to and edit. If your community isn't online, maybe set up an in-person group meeting, a conference call, or make individual calls or meetings.

When folks ask you for support, remember to listen and follow their lead in lifting up their own self-determination. This is about the person requesting support, so don't make it about you. If you feel you aren't able to meet a need, be clear and honest about that, and help strategize another way to meet that need. Folks experiencing or dealing with their own triggers, crisis, or trauma may or may not be able to support. Ask. Don't assume anyone is or isn't able to provide support. If you do commit to supporting the needs of community, you may also need support in meeting those needs, so consider creating a wellness plan for yourself.

We are enough, and we are all we need to survive. We always have been. We're all we've got. Be good to each other. Take care of each other.

No comrade left behind!

Rest in power, Taueret Davis.
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Breaking Isolation: Self Care and Community Care Tools for our People

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Audre Lorde In moments of grief, crisis, or trauma, and in the time before and after, we need each other to survive and thrive. We are obliged to lift up, honor, and hold space for our self-determination, to fight for our lives, and to remind each other of our worth and that none of us are disposable.

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Kristen Neff

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How do you think things might change if you responded to yourself in the same way you typically respond to a close friend when he or she is suffering? This exercise walks you through it.

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Jack Kornfield

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My online course "Mindfulness Meditation: The Fundamentals" is now available for purchase on my website. This comprehensive training is accessible to everyone, from beginners to those with prior meditative experience. Move through the guided segments at your own pace-they can be replayed as many times as you wish.

As 2020 draws to a close, Mind & Life Podcast host Wendy Hasenkamp and Jack discuss a wide range of topics, including: inks between Buddhism and psychology in terms of healing and self; the problem of spiritual bypassing; how to work with difficulties through allowing and gratitude; and more.

We are spiritual beings incarnated into human form. We need to remember our zip code as well as our Buddha nature. We are creatures of this paradox. By neither grasping nor resisting life, we can find wakefulness and freedom in the midst of our joys and sorrows.

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Jack Kornfield - Author, Buddhist Practitioner - Jack Kornfield

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My online course "Mindfulness Meditation: The Fundamentals" is now available for purchase on my website. This comprehensive training is accessible to everyone, from beginners to those with prior meditative experience. Move through the guided segments at your own pace-they can be replayed as many times as you wish.

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Dr. David Treleaven

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My name is David Treleaven. I'm a writer, educator, and trauma professional who teaches people to offer mindfulness in a trauma-sensitive way.

Unbeknownst to many, mindfulness meditation can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. Instructed to pay close, sustained attention to their inner-world, people struggling with trauma can experience flashbacks, dysregulation, or dissociation.

On this site, you'll find resources designed to prevent this while leveraging the power of mindfulness towards trauma recovery.

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David Treleaven | Learn Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness

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My name is David Treleaven. I'm a writer, educator, and trauma professional who teaches people to offer mindfulness in a trauma-sensitive way. Unbeknownst to many, mindfulness meditation can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. Instructed to pay close, sustained attention to their inner-world, people struggling with trauma can experience flashbacks, dysregulation, or dissociation.

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Krista Tippett

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In this season of On Being and those to come, we are going to train the core human questions on the emerging "generative AI." Beyond the hype and the doom, what is this new technology calling us to as human beings? What is our agency to shape it to human purpose, and how might it bring us - literally - to our senses? This inaugural conversation with Reid Hoffman is a wide and deep beginning foundation. He and Krista venture into unexpectedly relevant places, like the nature of friendship in human life, and what it would mean to create "contained, boundaried AI" - and Reid's use of words like "delightful" and "elevating" as qualities we can impart to this technology which, as we're hearing again and again, is going to change everything.

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5 Ways to Calm Down Quickly When Feeling Overwhelmed

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5 Ways to Calm Down Quickly When Feeling Overwhelmed

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If you find yourself completely overwhelmed and in need of fast-acting ways to calm down from stress, don't worry. There are some quick and easy things you can do to cope.

Stress comes in many forms. It can build gradually over time or occur in a moment and then be gone. There is even a beneficial type called eustress, which is actually good for you unless it becomes too intense or chronic. If you're dealing with chronic stress, it's important to implement some practices to manage stress over the long term.

Too much of any type of stress can feel overwhelming, and it can often sneak up on us. When you need to relax your mind and body immediately, below are nine easy strategies for how to calm yourself down in the moment so you can deal with whatever situation is at hand.

Take a Short Walk

Exercise can be a great stress reliever because it helps you blow off steam and releases endorphins. Even if you have just 5 or 10 minutes, moving your body for a bit will help. If you have more time or can take your walk outside, even better.

Walking with a good friend can be a nice way to find social support, and walking alone can provide you with some time to think, reframe, and come back to the situation with renewed optimism. You could also listen to music that soothes or energizes you (unless the noise wouldn't help).

Taking a walk can bring you the benefits of exercise-both short-term and long-term-and as a bonus, it gets you out of the stressful situation temporarily. This can provide you with some perspective so you can return in a new frame of mind.

Breathe Deeply

If you're not in a position to leave where you are, you can feel better right away by practicing breathing exercises. Getting more oxygen into your body and releasing physical tension are two ways that breathing exercises can benefit you. And you can do them anytime or anywhere, even if your demanding situation isn't letting up.

Visualize Relief

If you can steal away a few minutes of peace, visualizations and guided imagery are a wonderful way to restore peace of mind. They're easy to do and can relax you mentally and physically. With practice, you can easily access your "happy place" and quickly feel calmer when stressed.

Reframe Your Situation

Sometimes we intensify our experience of stressful situations by the way we look at them. If you can look at your situation differently, you may be able to put it into a different perspective -one that causes you less stress.

Mental and emotional stress can be caused by pessimism, type A traits, and other self-sabotaging thought patterns. Learn how you can change the way you look at things. It will come in handy when you're stressed.

Relax Your Muscles

Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) is a technique where you tense and release all of your muscle groups, leaving your body to feel more relaxed afterward. Just about anyone can do PMR, and with practice, you can fully release virtually all the tension you're feeling in your body in a matter of seconds. This can help you feel calmer and better able to handle the situations in front of you.

Sniff Something Soothing

Aromatherapy is another easy tool that you can use quickly. A 2020 review in the International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences that looked at five different studies found that aromatherapy use, specifically lavender, was associated with decreased anxiety, depression, stress, and fatigue in patients with cardiovascular disease. You can simply light a candle or diffuser, enjoy the aroma, and see if your stress levels go down.

Write It Down

If you have just a few minutes, you could also benefit from journaling. A 2020 review published in Critical Care Nurse found that journal writing seems to help reduce psychological distress in families with critically ill loved ones. You can write about what's causing you stress and get your emotions out on the page.

Drink Some Water

In addition to thirsty, dehydration can also make you feel tired and dizzy. So if you're feeling overwhelmed, try drinking a glass of water. Even better: Brewing a stress-relieving cup of tea can provide a much-needed break to step away from what's making you stressed-if you have the time.

Have some gum nearby? Research shows that chewing gum may help reduce stress. If you haven't tried chewing gum in stressful situations, keep a stash of your favorite flavor on hand to try next time and see if it helps.

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Once you've been able to calm down, you should be in a better position to address whatever stressful situations you're experiencing. It's also a good idea to adopt a few regular stress relievers and healthy lifestyle habits so that you can reduce your overall stress level. Then you will be less affected by the stressful situations you do encounter in the future.

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9 Easy Ways to Calm Down When You're Feeling Overwhelmed

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Healthy Lifestyles Habits for Stress Relief

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We all experience stress. It comes in all aspects of life, and in itself, it isn't always a bad thing. Stress can be a motivator to hard work, it can accompany exciting events, and life wouldn't be the same without it. Stress can even be good for us, particularly if it isn't experienced at overwhelming levels. And, just as stress comes from many areas of life, effective stress management comes from combating stress on many different fronts.

Why Maintaining a Balanced Lifestyle Is Important

Part of a comprehensive stress relief plan involves finding ways to calm down quickly so you can more effectively manage stress as it comes while avoiding the negative effects of chronic stress. Another important way to relieve stress is to maintain healthy lifestyle habits.

Learning to live a healthy lifestyle often brings additional benefits too, such as an endorphin rush, a release of frustration, or added longevity. Many of the healthy lifestyle habits discussed here can also help you to become less reactive to stress, in the long run, providing protection against stress you haven't even experienced yet

While maintaining healthy habits is a bit more challenging than trying a stress relief method only once, the benefits you receive from maintaining a healthy lifestyle are more than worth the effort it takes to maintain it. The increases in health and wellness that you experience, as well as the reduction in stress, will make you wish you'd made these changes sooner, and can be wonderful sources of continued motivation.

Healthy lifestyle habits can help you better manage your stress response, enabling you to avoid or even reverse the negative effects of chronic stress.

Making Changes Can Be Intimidating

Many people feel intimidated or frustrated with making healthy lifestyle changes for a few reasons, including:

Not knowing where to start: There are so many changes that can benefit health and wellness that it can be difficult to know how to begin.

Doing too much at once: People often try to make too many changes at once, then find it too difficult (or let perfectionism sabotage their efforts) and give up the effort.

Stress: Let's face it-change is difficult, especially when you're stressed. Sometimes lifestyle stress takes over and diminishes your momentum.

Given that living a healthy lifestyle can help with stress relief, and that making healthy lifestyle changes can be challenging, the following resources can help you with both choosing new goals for healthy living and with making these new goals a reality by adopting new healthy habits into your lifestyle.

Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Here are some changes you can make to lead a healthier, less stressed lifestyle:

Healthy eating: One of the most popular changes people like to make to live a healthy lifestyle is to eat differently. Because of the negative health consequences of obesity, the influence fitness has on our self-esteem, and the effects of nutrition on our stress levels and longevity, switching to a healthier diet brings some of the greatest benefits for wellness.

Regular exercise: Getting regular exercise is another wonderful way to keep your weight in check, manage overall stress levels, and stay connected with others. Exercise can also help keep many health conditions at bay and is well worth the effort. The trick is to start gradually and work your way up.

Quality sleep: People often underestimate the importance of getting enough sleep, and getting the right type. However, lack of adequate sleep has many negative consequences-they're subtle but significant. Getting enough sleep isn't one of the most popular changes that people resolve to make, but it should be. Because stress can rob you of sleep, and because many of the techniques that promote sleep can also reduce stress (and vice versa), it's a very good idea to learn more about how stress affects sleep and how to get quality sleep when you're stressed.

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How to Add Healthy Lifestyle Habits to Minimize Stress in Your Life

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Originally I went to school for make up at Make up Designory and graduated in 2011. I acquired my then dream job at Sephora in 2015 and have been there for five years. Three years ago I lost someone who meant the world to suicide and I decided to go back to school, originally it was for mortuary science because I want to take away the bad stigma about death. Recently I have found a love for forensic science and have decided to get my BA in Mortuary science and my MD in Forensic science because I want to help people.

I have been a musician my whole life, starting with violin in the third grade because my dad is a music teacher. I dabbled with piano, trumpet, guitar and baritone in elementary school and then in middle school (where my dad was my teacher) I picked up cello and bass drum. In high school I played bass drum in the Drumline and graduated the first female bodied person to be the drumline captain ( my teacher originally wasn't going to let me join because I was a girl). I played percussion in orchestra and the Jazz band as well. After High School I did a season of professional Marching.

Now I am a make up artist and I love to create characters and monsters. I love learning new languages and honestly learning anything in general! I believe knowledge is the best thing anyone can have (aside from cats).

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Originally I went to school for make up at Make up Designory and graduated in 2011. I acquired my then dream job at Sephora in 2015 and have been there for five years.

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My name is mayli I grew up in a low income household in sun valley. Currently I am studying to get a associates degree and work in mental health. I am working as an assistant counselor in Pacoima that specializes in single mothers. I love my work and enjoy school when its on topics that interest me. I love going Disneyland on my days off, cosplaying as my favorite animations characters is something I'm really passionate about. I love cooking new things, sewing, and swimming.

Thanks for viewing my page!

Take care of yourself because you deserve it you really really do.

-Dr. kirk Honda

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My name is mayli I grew up in a low income household in sun valley. Currently I am studying to get a associates degree and work in mental health. I am working as an assistant counselor in Pacoima that specializes in single mothers. I love my work and enjoy school when its on topics that interest me.

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My name is Joudi Kouzma, and I am 20 years old. My major is a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A) after transferring to CSUN. Originally I am from Damascus, Syria and I came to the United States when I was 14.

I used to volunteer in the Red Cross and have a CPR certification.

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My name is Joudi Kouzma, and I am 20 years old. My major is a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A) after transferring to CSUN. Originally I am from Damascus, Syria and I came to the United States when I was 14. I used to volunteer in the Red Cross and have a CPR certification.