The MindTales Collective

We wanted to start this New Year off on an empowering note. Our chat with Farah Foustok, CEO of Lazard Asset Management (Gulf Region), about women empowerment was perfect for this. Tune in to find out beginner tips for investing, early career advice and how the pandemic shaped Farah’s transition to remote work. Check out our full episode below - please leave us a like or rating, this boosts our aim of sharing these stories with the Mindtales community.

Farah's LinkedIn: Farah Foustok

REACH: www.reachmentoring.org

Tara: http://poweroftara.net 

Tara's Impact of Investing Event: https://taragain.bbgevent.com

In this week's episode, meet some of the faces behind Mindtales: Viktorija Aksionova (Co-Founder of MindTales), Dalia Karpauskaite and Raeesa Omar, as they reflect on their personal journeys through 2020. From overcoming personal challenges with Zoom fatigue and irregular sleep schedules, learn more about building tools to help you cope with mental health challenges. Stay tuned for more episodes with the Mindtales team soon! 

This week, we were honoured to chat with Dr Louise Lambert, a positive psychologist, researcher and educator with more than 20 years of experience. Louise shares her inspirational journey designing and implementing evidence-based interventions in educational settings and tells us more about the impact of the pandemic on student/teacher lives. She also shares her insights into the potential for positive psychology to shape the field of education following the pandemic. This was a meaningful conversation that serves as a  reminder for us to keep championing equality and student well-being beyond the end of the pandemic. 

Louise's Website: happinessmatters.org 

Louise's LinkedIn: Dr. Louise Lambert 

Mindtales Instagram: @mindtalesofficial

Mindtales TikTok: @mindtalesofficialuae

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02:00 Louise's personal journey 

07:20 The evolution of positive psychology 

09:30 Louise's interventions for schools and universities 

13:20 Culturally inclusive mental health models 

16:30 Impacts of the pandemic on students/teachers 

24:50 COVID, inequalities within students, and looking ahead 

For our first episode, Dr. Nahida Ahmed, consultant psychiatrist and adjunct assistant professor at UAE University, joined us for an insightful discussion about the stigmas around psychiatric disorders. We chatted about how they're perpetuated and how communities can play a key role in preventing the spread of stigmas. Nahida shares her admirable journey toward becoming a health advocate and offered  advice to those individuals who are seeking help for the very first time. We hope this episode is as thought-provoking and insightful for you as it was for us! 

Nahida's LinkedIn: Nahida Ahmed 

Mindtales Instagram: @mindtalesofficial 

Mindtales TikTok: @mindtalesofficialuae