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Scaling Trauma Care with Empathy with Sakeena Mihyar | BVZ Five Years Bold

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Sakeena Mihyar describes walking into rooms as a niqab-wearing health tech founder and confronting the bias of investors who 'were not expecting somebody who looks like you.'

Host Edwin Frondoso interviews Sakeena Mihyar, founder of Savin, a refugee-led venture providing digital, neuroscience-based trauma care. Sakeena shares her personal story of surviving war, immigrating to Canada, and experiencing untreated PTSD, which inspired her to build an accessible mental health platform. The conversation covers the clinical success of her EMDR-based therapy, the challenges of being a Muslim woman founder, and how incubator BVZ supported her journey of scaling impact with empathy.

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