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Thank you for watching this powerful interview with the founder of Project UROK Jenny Jaffe!For more resources visit www.myteam.org-----Jenny Jaffe is a Los Angeles-based writer and performer. She is currently writing at Nickelodeon. In 2012 she received her BFA in Television Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Jenny was later a director of NYU's premiere sketch group, Hammerkatz. She is also the founder of Project UROK, acquired by the Child Mind Institute in 2016, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to combating the isolation of teen mental illness.----Follow us for more and click the link in our bios to share your story:Website: https://www.myteam.orgInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/myteam.social/Twitter: https://twitter.com/?logout=155414437...-----For more from Jenny visit her website: https://www.thejennyjaffe.com/ and give her a follow on instagram: @jennyjaffe-----Madison MacGregor was born with Cystic Fibrosis a life threatening disease. At a young age she started raising money for a cure by selling her artwork at events and speaking to Fortune 500 companies. Madison discovered she not only had a talent for speaking she also had a talent for performing as a contemporary dancer, she went on to work with Emmy award winner Travis Wall and Stacey Tookey from So You Think You Can Dance. At age 16 Madison was cast as Cassandra Miller a leading role in Disney and Netflix’s TV show Backstage, she has also written a novel that will be published later this year. Madison went through severe depression and anxiety in her teen years and was forced to dive deep and learn how to solve her own mental health problems by learning from experts like Tony Robbins, Marisa Peer and Deepak Chopra. Through years of study and practice Madison began to experience the euphoria of finally taking control of her own mind. She began sharing her journey on how to overcome mental illness by speaking to high school students across the Greater Toronto Area. As an advocate for health and wellness she now operates her own health and wellness business and will be launching more educational tools for young adults to use for their mental health recovery and wellbeing. She is the host of Mind Time with Madison, an advocate for all things TEAM and is on a mission to decrease stigma around mental health by educating people on how they can live mentally healthier lives and better support others.Jenny Jaffe On Being as Honest as You Can With the People Around You with Madison MacGregorSupport the show (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Msnu9RQoAZbeq7rTvWj_g/featured)