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This episode is hosted by psychotherapist and bestselling author Amy Morin. Now let's get into the episode.

Okay. Today I'm talking to singer, songwriter, actress and author, Jewel.

She sold over 30 million records worldwide.

But her life wasn't always amazing. Jule experienced a variety of struggles growing up in rural Alaska, ranging from abuse and neglect to becoming homeless as a

teenager. As she rose to fame, though, she was very open about the mental health struggles she

experienced along the way. She's made it her goal to make mental health more accessible to

everyone, regardless of their income. That's why she's joined forces with Noah Robinson to create

something pretty cool. It's called Inner World, and it's a free platform where you can get support

from other people while remaining completely anonymous in a virtual world. In the first part of the episode, you'll hear from Jewel.

Some of the things she talks about are the tools she discovered that help her mental health,

the barriers that keep many people from getting treatment,

and what she hopes to accomplish as the co-founder of a new online platform called Innerworld.

Then you'll hear from the other co-founder, Noah Robinson.

He's a clinical psychology doctoral candidate

at Vanderbilt University.

He explains his personal reason for wanting

to start a virtual world,

and he describes a bit more about how inner world works.

As you'll hear,

Inner World isn't an online platform where you

video chat with a therapist or anything like that. Instead, you create an avatar and your avatar

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