Mental health has played a major role in your career and personal life. At what point did you make the connection between the two?

“It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact moment. I started experiencing mental health issues when I began to consider being an entrepreneur. At the time, the term ‘mental health issues’ hadn’t been invented yet. People didn’t really talk about anxiety; they talked about stress. I’d taken courses on how to manage stress in school since I was on a sports scholarship, which helped a bit. But to truly understand the physical symptoms of anxiety and depression, to understand that you might no longer be able to find the energy or be able to function, that you could have panic attacks along with severe heart palpitations, that you could pass out or lose your sight… Those were the symptoms I experienced. It took me a really long time to understand what was going on. I was constantly going to emergency rooms, around the world and in Montreal, for what I thought were physical issues but ended up being related to my anxiety and depression.”