Hala Taha

I love skill stacking and hearing people stacking their skills and how they translated skills from one field to another.

It's my favorite thing to talk about, but I want to move on.

So let's take everybody to 2017.

This was a dark time in your life.

You were around 31 years old.

To the external world, you had everything going on.

You were an expert on human performance, already training elite athletes and coaching entrepreneurs.

You were a bestselling author on Peak Performance.

But inside you were suffering and you developed OCD and you actually started getting suicidal thoughts and self-harm thoughts and anxiety.

And it kind of came up out of nowhere from my understanding.

So talk to us about that time in your life, because I think that was really the trigger for you to start thinking about success differently.

Yeah, totally.

And it's funny because when I think of OCD, like you just mentioned, you have no idea what it's like.

I don't have it.

I don't have depression.

So when I think of OCD, I think of like compulsive hand washing and things like that.

But it's way more than that.

So can you give us more detail in terms of what OCD really is?

Yeah.

Thank you for explaining that because I really think that a lot of people have OCD wrong.