Episode notes
If you’ve ever found yourself pretending to be okay when you’re not — or wearing a brave face to hide your pain — this episode will hit home.
Ashanti Branch, founder of The Ever Forward Club and creator of the Million Mask Movement, joins Meghann to explore the emotional armor we build to survive — and how taking off the mask begins with understanding where it was first formed.
From growing up in Oakland and learning to “suck it up,” to walking away from a successful engineering career to teach, mentor, and build a movement around emotional honesty, Ashanti shares his remarkable journey of transformation. Together, he and Meghann unpack what it means to reconnect with your childhood self, find empathy through pain, and create space for others to be real — especially our youth.
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