When I bought my first phone as a young girl, I honestly didn’t understand its value. I used it to take photos of myself, post my face, and show people my life, almost like I was advertising myself without even knowing why. I thought that was what having a phone meant. I never imagined that one day this same phone would connect me to opportunities, knowledge, and women who would completely change how I see my future. One day, during an interview, I spoke with a very powerful

Growing up, I didn’t know I had anxiety. I just thought everyone worried the way I did, constantly overthinking, expecting the worst, and living in a state of quiet fear. It wasn’t until I got older, after my mother had passed, that I began to recognize the patterns in my life as signs of an anxiety disorder. Only then did I realize she, too, had struggled with anxiety, and that some of what I carried could have been inherited. Later in life, driven by curiosity and a desire