Was the mentors at U of T a reason why you maybe wanted to go back and teach there?

Yeah, totally.

It really changed my whole life.

I remember, like, I was lucky enough to have a professor who's also open about living with mental illness, Daniel Scott Tisdale.

And when I was deciding whether to, like, drop out of school for a year, he was like, "What is," like, "What is the race?" He's like, "It took me nine years to finish my undergrad, and I'm still here and I'm still changing things, and so will you." And so it gave me that permission.

I think when you're a young person, you're always, like, worried about meeting these thresholds of success that have been set up for you, like move out on your own by here, graduate by here, get your first job here, make your, m- this amount of money here.

And the world is changing.

Run us through, like, a day in your life.