Michelle shares stories about the challenges of being socially outgoing while dealing with Schizophrenia, getting the cops called on her in college for cutting herself and subsequently getting beat down, feeling like she deserved to feel pain and started cutting herself (3:11), going to school to be a graphic designer, difficulties keeping a job, being an artist as a way to cope with her anxiety, summer camp counseling at a sleep away camp during the summer (32:04), living in NYC during COVID, smoking weed and how it helps her mental health, making money as a paid audience member (1:09:31), making her own brand b/c she was sick of having a secret and working for others, playing college lacrosse and hating being the low defender, being bored in school as a kid (1:39:52), dealing with mean and super intrusive thoughts as a teen and young adult b/c of her schizophrenia, not wanting to regularly take her meds until her college lacrosse coach intervened, and her “Best 1st for Last” 1st time racing up the Empire State Building stairs (2:13:58)
To Get 2 Know more about Michelle or get some of her clothing and merch, check out her website https://www.schizophrenic.nyc/
166-JD Sustar the Finance Cowboy (Name Speaks for Itself)
165-Dillan: Empowering Pacific Islanders, @runjanji Field Team, Ultra Marathon Runner, Cofounder @tribe.hawaii, First Chamoru to Climb Mt. Everest (soon)
164-Anne Rolfes: Director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade
163-Keegan Worley: 2022 Democratic Candidate for Delaware State Representative District 4
162-Josh McGough MD: EM Resident with 360k in Student Loan Debt, Father, Husband, Trying His Best, Tweeted for Himself
161-Aiden: Really into Sneakers, Banned from Twitter at 16, Has a Social Battery, Precision Polisher
160-Etta: The Dizzy Diva, Suffers from Chronic Vestibular Migraine Disorder, VeDA Ambassador, Not a Hypochondriac
159-Yace: Neo-Expressionist Painter (sorta), Former Competitive Call of Duty Player, A New Uncle, Really into Music, Was Nice Enough to Send me a Painting of His
158-Jackie: Holistic OT, Self Care Coach, Dream-builder, Adventurer
157-Jon: Success is Certain Lifestyle Brand Creator, Mortgage Underwriter, Nap King Cole, Originally from Ohio, Played Football his Whole Life
156-Mike Jones: Habitual Knife Maker, Joe Rogan Saved his Business, Really into Golf, Did a Year in Whistler (which turned into 10)
155-Knocko: Police Detective/Supervisor in Los Angeles, Featured in a Netflix True Crime Series, Followed by S.E. Hinton on Twitter
154-Stephanie: Jackie of All Trades, Dabbles w/ Circus Arts, High Functioning Pyromaniac, Raves Sober
153-NAC David: American Songwriter, Producer, Recording Artist, Grew up in a House with no Cursing, Explored Poetry in Middle School
152-Jake: Tokyo Olympian, 2x NCAA Champion, 2019 US National Champion, Columbia University Grad
151-Bryan: Managing Partner of Global Partnership for Sustainable Solutions, Co-Founder of Indigi, Believer in Creating Scaleable Indigenous Economies
150-Angelica: Mama, Artist, Homemaker, Fluffle Wrangler
149-Sandeep: Has Quite the Crypto Tale
148-Emanuel (Crypto Talk)
147-Benji: CEO, Entrepreneur, Wine Lover, Chef,Host of the Fiyah Session Podcast
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