What If Overthinking Is Your Superpower? Ruby Riethmuller on Anxiety & Strength

In this powerful episode Dr. Jodi Richardson sits down with Ruby Riethmuller — Deputy Commissioner of Lived Experience at the NSW Mental Health Commission and founder of Womn-Kind. Ruby opens up about her personal journey with anxiety, from being a teenager in regional Australia searching for answers, to becoming a national leader and advocate for youth mental health.

Together, Jodi and Ruby explore the challenges young people face today — from social pressures and climate anxiety to the burden of worrying about friends — and the practical ways families can support their wellbeing at home. Ruby also shares how Womn-Kind is reshaping mental health support through workshops, mentoring, and an innovative app designed to meet young people where they are.

This is a conversation about resilience, the power of lived experience, and reframing anxiety’s “weaknesses” as strengths that can fuel connection, empathy, and leadership.

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