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Why mental health is your super power?
In this episode of The First Rung Justus & Kiran catchup with Meg Zeenat Wamithi, a revolutionary young leader and powerful advocate for the importance of tackling mental health, especially among young people. At present, Meg is working on many projects as always, she is the Founder and CEO of My Mind Matters Too, innovation hub for mental wellbeing research for young adults (16 to 25-year-olds) across the UK. Meg has had a diverse and rich series of first rung journeys - from the Civil Service Fast Track Scheme to Think Tank Policy Research and Innovation Strategy Consultancy. Above all Meg is committed to ensuring that young people's voices are heard, but most importantly that they matter too.
Throughout our conversation we discussed the challenges of tackling mental health, working with and finding mentorship, and how to align your projects with your career experience. If you’re interested in learning more about mental health, mentorship, policy writing, or politics this will be a perfect episode for you.
TW: in this episode, we do discuss some honest and vulnerable moments of Meg’s journey, there is a reference to suicidal thoughts and self-harm, however, we want to acknowledge our guest whole experienced, not just their successes but hardships too - if you feel like this might affect you feel free to listen to another one of our episodes, and possibly reach out to organisations like https://www.mymindmatterstoo.com/ and https://www.mind.org.uk/
This was such an energetic episode, I think you should take some: get up, go for a walk and enjoy this episode!
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In this episode of The First Rung Justus & Kiran catchup with Meg Zeenat Wamithi, a revolutionary young leader and powerful advocate for the importance of tackling mental health, especially among young people. At present, Meg is working on many projects as always, she is the Founder and CEO of My Mind Matters Too, innovation hub for mental wellbeing research for young adults (16 to 25-year-olds) across the UK. Meg has had a diverse and rich series of first rung journeys - from the Civil Service Fast Track Scheme to Think Tank Policy Research and Innovation Strategy Consultancy. Above all Meg is committed to ensuring that young people's voices are heard, but most importantly that they matter too.
Throughout our conversation we discussed the challenges of tackling mental health, working with and finding mentorship, and how to align your projects with your career experience. If you’re interested in learning more about mental health, mentorship, policy writing, or politics this will be a perfect episode for you.
TW: in this episode, we do discuss some honest and vulnerable moments of Meg’s journey, there is a reference to suicidal thoughts and self-harm, however, we want to acknowledge our guest whole experienced, not just their successes but hardships too - if you feel like this might affect you feel free to listen to another one of our episodes, and possibly reach out to organisations like https://www.mymindmatterstoo.com/ and https://www.mind.org.uk/
This was such an energetic episode, I think you should take some: get up, go for a walk and enjoy this episode!