Welcome to Episode 76 of The Madhappy Podcast. This week we are excited to welcome Anna Sitar onto the show to learn more about the evolution of her career as a content creator and ways she works to practice positivity to support her mental health.

We kick off the episode as Mason asks Anna to share more on the experiences that led her to TikTok and what motivated her to switch from engineering to content creation (4:57). Anna talks through her relationship with content and how it has ebbed and flowed since building a community online (9:28) before the two talk about their shared Midwestern roots and values (16:40).

Anna speaks on the dualities of social media (20:56), her efforts to stay positive both on and offline (23:30), and how she has worked to support her mental health since COVID and finishing her graduate program at Loyola Marymount University (37:36).

Mason asks Anna how she has come to approach and maintain her content strategy before the two wrap up with a discussion about vulnerability and authenticity (41:56).

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