In this episode host Xiomara A. Sosa and co-host Lisa A. Early discuss where they have been and life transitions for Xiomara that have kept them away as she focused on her own mental health.

Xiomara gets into her own personal experiences that led her to take a pause as she deals with serious life transitions and tends to her own mental health.

In this episode the co-hosts introduce themselves and share a little bit about their backgrounds. They then discuss why they decided to create this podcast and what their vision and mission are for it. They then dive into a discussion introducing the topic which is mental health and mental illness. The co-hosts explain how mental health and mental illness is experienced through different domains such as our personal lives, relationships, career, identity and other areas of our lives.