Emily McDonald

And I actually have a resiliency plan for that.

I have my friend, actually, she's still in her PhD.

It's where we met.

And she has been just...

my biggest believer, biggest supporter since day one.

She was telling me that I would be where I am when I didn't believe that I would be where I am.

And she is just, she's incredible.

She's my sister to me.

And in those moments, you know, sometimes when I doubt, she's the one that I call because she's the one to smack me in the face and be like, what are you doing questioning yourself?

And so, you know, knowing what to do and having that plan for what are you going to do when you doubt yourself?

Maybe it's affirmations, maybe it's exercise and doing things that make you feel more confident.

I have a kind of a collection of things that I do now.

Yeah.

So I took it in the beginning, and then I went to my PhD and I studied drug addiction.

So I actually did have this dream of studying drug addiction, preventing relapse, and I actually went and did that.

So I was working in a research lab studying drug addiction, working on identifying new ways to treat and prevent relapse.

So I was doing exactly what I said I wanted to do.

Yeah, people were like, no, I went and did just that, like within, you know, anyway.

And so, but with that being said, when I was studying drug addiction, my minor was medical pharmacology because I had to study drugs and how they work in the brain and the nervous system.

And I just remember learning about, you know, how they actually work and-