Shanta talks with Michelle Dickinson, Author, TED Speaker, and Passionate Mental Health Change Agent. Michelle E. Dickinson is a passionate mental health advocate, a TED speaker, and a published author of a memoir entitled Breaking Into My Life. After years of playing the role of child caregiver, Michelle embarked on her own healing journey of self-discovery. Her memoir offers a rare glimpse into a young girl’s experience living with—and loving—her bipolar mother. Michelle spent years working to eradicate the mental health stigma within her own workplace by elevating compassion, causing more open conversations, and leading real change in how mental illness is understood in the workplace.Michelle also knows first-hand what it feels like to struggle with a mental illness after experiencing her own depression due to challenging life events of her own just a few years ago. Michelle recently concluded her 19-year pharmaceutical career and became an entrepreneur. She has emerged from her own challenging life events with a strong desire to positively impact the mental health landscape within the first responder community, the workplace and within local communities. Websites: www.michelleedickinson.com & www.breakingintomylife.com First Responder Mental Health: https://www.michelleedickinson.com/first-responder/Also follow Michelle on: Instagram: @michelledickinson71Instagram -@firstrespondertactics (First Responder Mental Health)Twitter- @mdickinson13Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/michelle.dickinson.146?ref=bookmarks  Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-e-dickinson-7882013Free Chapter of my Book: http://breakingintomylife.com/excerpt/Follow Authentic Talks 2.0 on Social Mediawww.authentictalks2.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/authentictalks2.0_withshanta/Twitter: @authenticTalks2.0Clubhouse: @AuthenticTalksEmail: AuthenticShanta@gmail.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsC3wtpcdWRywryicns0gwQPinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/authenticshanta8638/authentictalks-with-shanta-podcast/