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Nov 2020
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Why Start-Up Culture Still Hides Mental ...

Morra Aarons-Mele
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Host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks with veteran tech journalist Catherine Shu, of TechCrunch, about improving mental health culture in Silicon Valley. And Shu shares her own journey with depression, including the time she spent in a psychiatric ward as a teenager, and how she found her way from there into tech journalism. 
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