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Elyse Fox Highlight
Your ‘why’ should make your soul tingle. It should give you goosebumps because it’s so powerful and impactful.
About Elyse
- Growing up, I dreamed of becoming a documentary filmmaker, passionate about telling real stories that connect people.
- During one of the hardest periods of my life, I struggled with severe depression even though everything looked perfect from the outside.
- To process what I was going through, I created a documentary sharing my mental health journey and the anxiety I faced behind the scenes.
- When the film was released, young women around the world reached out saying they saw themselves in my story and wanted a place to talk.
- Inspired by those messages, I started an Instagram page that eventually grew into Sad Girls Club, a community for honest mental health conversations.
- I hosted my first small Sad Girls Club event in 2017, gathering just a handful of women to openly talk about mental health.
- Soon after, the co-founder of Instagram discovered our work and invited me to participate in the platform’s first global mental health campaign.
- Today, I lead Sad Girls Club as a nonprofit dedicated to breaking mental health stigma and bringing culturally relevant support to marginalized communities.