“It always felt like I was fighting,” with Dr. Jeanne Retief founder of FIGGI and Human Rights and Criminal Law PhD

More Than Work

This week’s guest is Dr. Jeanne Retief, founder of FIGGI. FIGGI a community created out of career change and wanting to share with others and be a support system, and self-care products.

Dr. Retief earned a PhD in Human Rights and Criminal Law. And ran a Human Rights consultancy in South Africa for 13 years. After moving to her current location in Portugal, things changed for her, in more ways than one, including a diagnosis with panic disorder and founding a new company. Having already earned a PhD, she even went back to school to learn about cosmetic chemistry!

In this chat we talk about:

• Getting diagnosed with panic disorder
• Managing mental health
• Career change
• FIGGI the community and skincare line she founded
• The FIGGI blog and podcast
• Rooibos

TW: abuse

Note from Rabiah (Host):

I took a bit of a break. And it is almost too appropriate that my first episode back is this one given the openness around mental health that Dr. Retief brought to the conversation. Why did I take a break? Overwhelm. And other things. I would say it was a choice but it was a necessity. For those listening for the first time, thank you for being here. And to those who checked in because they didn’t hear a new episode in a while or those who are back after time passed, thank you too! There are over 100 more episodes in the backlog with fantastic guests and more to come!

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Find Dr. Retief

Website: https://www.figgilife.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeanne_figgilife/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100075876828370

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Mentioned in this episode:

Dr. Edith Eger: https://dreditheger.com/

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