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episode 25: Jaclyn Brown on The Light Beyond Abuse and Mental Illness
This week, I sit down with Jaclyn Brown of Mental Health and Us, a podcast offering practical self-care and wellness tips to help other mental health sufferers and their loved ones cope.
Her podcast takes inspiration from her 20+ year battle with depression and anxiety, and her survival of an abusive childhood, to shine a positive light on a dark subject matter.
Topics up for discussion this week include:
- how her podcast came from her journey with anxiety and depression
- why she wanted to encourage more people to talk about their mental health
- why she finds writing easier than podcasting if doing it herself
- why being a solo podcaster made it really hard for her to get started
- why she chooses anxiety as her niche, and how depression plays into that
- how mental illness changes as your life changes
- how her social anxiety has benefited from the pandemic lockdown
- what are some of the challenges she's found as a mother to a child with anxiety issues during a pandemic
- how she came to write Young Adult books
- how her abusive childhood helped shape the characters in her early books
- what she's doing different for her kids versus what she experienced as a kid
- why she feels it's so important to acknowledge displays of emotion
- why she wants her podcast to be a casual and lighter approach to mental health
- why her mother is her hero
Join me for a chat about finding light in the darker tunnels that life can take you down.
Connect with Jaclyn:
- Mental Health and Us podcast
- A Girl and a Book
Contact me: danny@podcasterstories.com
My equipment:
- RODE PodMic
- Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen Audio Interface
- TRITON AUDIO Fethead In-Line Microphone Preamp
- Denon DJ HP-1100 Over Ear Headphones
- RockJam MS050 Adjustable Mic Suspension Boom
- Dragonpad Pop Filter
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- Aweber email marketing
- SquadCast remote interviewing
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