thriving in a world that wasn't designed for you, our special iguest host today is melady, melady is an active, attorney, professor and award-winning author. melady has written a series of titles, how an ancient poet changed my life. you should pick up. that's a good one. if you have questions during today's discussion, feel free to enter them into the chat and you can put them in the q&a button at the bottom of the screen to ensure they don't get lost in the fold. if you're watching us on the live stream on facebook today, just leave us a comment with your questions and we will try to get those answered as well. and without further due, melady, i will let you take it away. >> of course. i'm muted. thank you so much for having us. i'm so excited to be here to talk about this amazing book, divergent minds, a world that wasn't designed for you because i'm a person who is thriving in a world that wasn't designed for me. so when i saw this book, when i learned about this book it just screamed out to d me, i have bipolar disorder and irani american living in america during what is now tha