Deepika Chopra

We've lived through right now, you have lived and gotten through all of your hardest days in X amount of decades of being here on this planet.

And that in itself is the fabric and makeup of what, you know, how we increase and cultivate more optimism to help us with our journey and navigating through the other struggles that might come our way or what we can expect for

the hope that things will get better or go well.

And optimism is so rooted in that idea of anticipation and expectation.

And again, rooted in your personal historical resiliency story.

I'm so happy to be here.

Thank you so much for having me.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's definitely no small feat.

I know you just also have a book out as well.

And I'm just so passionate to get this message and these tools amplified and out there for everyone that needs them.

Honestly, it felt like

cruel irony.

I was a couple months into writing the manuscript and we

Making a long story short, we went to the doctor, found something that seemed fishy, and everyone told us not to worry about it, including the doctors, of course.

But I persisted.

And within a couple of weeks, we were realizing that we were dealing with something very serious and actually not at all anywhere in the realm of anything we ever would have thought.

And after first surgery, got handed some really awful news and

my son who at the time was two and a half was diagnosed with something that was just shattering to our family we for me at least i can speak on my experience with it which was that i personally felt the most helpless and hopeless i had ever felt and we had a long journey ahead of us a year and a half of treatment that just seemed insurmountable it seemed like a huge mountain and