AboutFace Canada’s chairperson, Alim Somji, digs into some of the stigmas surrounding facial differences and what Alim’s biggest personal turning point was when it came to his own facial difference.

Alim Somji, the chairperson of AboutFace Canada, discusses what facial differences are, the impact having a facial difference can have on mental health, and how Deadpool represented Alim’s journey to accepting his own Facial Difference.

This episode covers the five types of imposter syndrome and some of the myths that persist around this universal experience in our conversation with Communication Skills Trainer, Ottillie Parfitt.

Communication Skills Trainer, Ottillie Parfitt, joins us to talk about all things imposter syndrome: what it is, what some of the triggers are, how it shows up in the workplace, and some techniques for overcoming Imposter Syndrome.

With the creators of CBC Gem’s Get Up, Aisha, we discuss other films and TV series about depression that inspired Rabiya and Marushka and how important it is to get it right when you are dealing with subjects surrounding mental health, depression, and suicide.

With the creators of CBC Gem’s Get Up, Aisha, we discuss what depression is, the signs (or lack of signs) that present, what you can do to get help, and how to reframe your experience to allow you to choose yourself.

Today we talk about the stigmas surrounding menopause, what board-certified ObGyn, Dr. Sophia would like to see represented on TV, film, and in the media, and how to prepare for menopause.

Our conversation with OBGYN Dr. Sophia covers what menopause really is, the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause, how to ask for treatment, and what the representation of menopause looks like in film and TV.

Dr. Jill L. Creighton, a higher education professional and the host of SA Voices from the Field Podcast, talks with us about her experience as a transracial adoptee and how she would like to see adoption represented on film and television.

Today we’re talking with Gretchen Sisson, a research sociologist ANSIRH at the University of California, San Francisco, and her new book Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood, a critical, ten-year examination of domestic adoption.

Today’s mini-episode is all about working with consultants and team members with lived experience on projects about mental health and disability.

In this episode, we discuss sight loss, the representation of vision loss and blindness on SIGHT UNSEEN, and what considerations had to be made when creating a television show for viewers across the entire vision spectrum. 

New York Times Best-Selling Nigerian-American author Bassey Ikpi discusses the depiction of mental illness (specifically Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD) in The CW's musical comedy-drama series My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015–2019) by Rachel Bloom.

New York Times Best-Selling Nigerian-American author Bassey Ikpi discusses Bipolar II disorder, how she got her diagnosis, and the representation of bipolar and depression on shows like Atlanta, Insecure, and Dave.

Today is our last episode of 2023 just in time for the holidays. We bring all of the Taylor/Deppisch siblings together – our little sister, Becky Taylor, and our little brother, Jonathan Deppisch – who is also our composer –  to discuss how to deal with stress and protect your mental health over the holidays!

In this episode, we're discussing the experiences and representation of Traumatic Brain Injuries, or TBIs, with our guest, Naomi Mellor. We look at the subtlety and variety of the effects of TBIs and what the long-term impact is on your brain, body, and mental health.

With the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's program director, Katherine Pieper, PhD, we discuss the results of one of their latest studies – Inequality in 1600 popular films examining portrayals of gender, race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, and disability in Films from 2007 - 2022, as well as dive into the Inclusion Index, and learn more about their new study on indigenous representation in film.

It’s ghost time with the spooktacular host of Geist, Danielle Matar. We discuss why we, as a society, have such a fascination with ghost stories, the paranormal, and what happens to us after we die.

In this episode, we deep dive into the representation of cults in film and TV with writer, director, and actor Guinevere Turner. We also discuss her book, When the World Didn't End, about her experiences growing up in a cult. We also learn more about what a cult is and how cults can impact your mental health.

Steph is a psychologist and host of the Psychocinematic podcast who currently works in Disability Inclusion in schools in Naarm (Melbourne) and has her own lived experience with mental illness. Steph joins us to discuss how you approach disclosure, concerns around discrimination about disclosure and how to address it, and why some people incorporate their mental illness or disability into their identity after disclosure.