The Safe Exchange: Recent Episodes
Maena
Welcome to 2022!
In this brand new episode of The Safe Exchange, Maena celebrates Black History Month by creating space for a friend to be heard and sharing her own experience growing up as a black individual.
She encourages her listeners to lean in, listen and learn.
Happy Men's Mental Health Awareness Month!
Today's episode features one of Maena's closest friends, Maurice, as they dig into how finally choosing to see a therapist has changed how he responds to himself, his relationships and his mental health.
Maurice shares his own experiences with therapy, destigmatizing mental health within the male community and shedding light on the need for support.
In this week's episode, Maena hosts her very first guest, Jessica Hartman!
In ten years of knowing each other, Maena and Jessica finally (virtually) sit down with each other and dig into the vulnerabilities evident in the war on self-image we all face today.
Jessica shares a recent life change and how it has affected her self-concept and her marriage, the battle she's been facing and conquering since high school and ways that she invests in herself and mental health.
Jessica hosts her own podcast called The Thought Project which can be found on any podcast radio platform.
Follow her for more inspiring content:
Instagram: @jesuhkuhh
In this episode, Maena destigmatizes the concept of emotions and redefines what it means to be human.
Welcome to the first episode of The Safe Exchange!
In this episode, Maena takes a dive into how parental relationships tend to drive the subtle tone in how we connect with other people.
She shares her own personal experience of how growing up without a father affected her relationships, the therapeutic work she did during the 2020 global shutdown and how we are all worthy of finding the answers we need to have better human connections.