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As a football player all eyes are on you: both onside and offside the pitch. Success in football depends on talent, training, experience and mental strength. How do you keep your nerves during penalties? How do you deal with constant pressure? At the end of his career, Cristiano Ronaldo left the football pitch in tears- he had imagined a different end to his career.

In this episode of the MindTales collective mental health and well-being counsellor Hashil talks mental health! He talks about how he became a counselor, mental health in the region, male mental health and last but not least his own mental health and how he deals with compassion fatigue. 

Jay Sadiq and his team are on a mission to cool cities and to make them more resilient. But not only cities, his entrepreneurial journey has made Jay and his team mentally resilient, too. On this episode he talks about, passion, purpose and how to build an ambitious, engaged and strong team.

In April 2020, Mohammad Absi-Halabi left his full-time job to become a founder. This journey was filled with countless up's and down's, rejections and uncertainties, but it has also helped him learn about his own mental health. In this episode, Mo elaborates on his experience and explains why being humble is an important quality for founders to have.

After having spent 10 years in the UAE, communications manager Saida Ghannem made the big decision of moving back to her home country Tunisia. In the MindTales Collective she shares her experience with the listeners and discusses how to overcome fear, how to deal with uncertainty and how to make decisions.

In this episode of the MindTales collective inclusion and early intervention specialist Maha Khorchid shares her personal and professional journey in the field of autism and explains what still prevents parents from receiving final diagnoses of autism for their children.