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Toward the end of 2023, our producer Amanda saw a LinkedIn post from one of our former guests, Marti Bledsoe, that made her eyes go wide.

Marti had titled the post "A PRETTY BIG YEAR" in all caps and justifiably so.

In January, the older of her two children, a freshman in high school, was still coming through a major depressive episode.

At the time, Marti was the executive director of The Kids Mental Health Foundation, so she knew enough about the disorder to quickly coordinate professional support.

By March, happily, her teenager was in a better place mentally and emotionally.

But Marti wasn't.

She had resigned from her job because she was burnt out—just like so many parents straining to manage their kids' anxiety or depression or anger while also keeping up at work.