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Review: AJ Mendez is featured on MB ‘State of Mind’ podcast

On November 21, Emmy award-winning actor Maurice Benard (“General Hospital”) featured former professional wrestler AJ Mendez on his critically-acclaimed MB “State of Mind” podcast on mental health. Digital Journal has the recap.
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Maurice Benard. Photo Credit: ABC, Todd Wawrychuk
Maurice Benard. Photo Credit: ABC, Todd Wawrychuk

On November 21, Emmy award-winning actor Maurice Benard (“General Hospital”) featured former professional wrestler AJ Mendez on his critically-acclaimed MB “State of Mind” podcast on mental health. Digital Journal has the recap.

Mendez is a bestselling author, a mental health advocate, an ambassador for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and a retired pro-wrestler. Back in her days in the WWE, she went by the ring name AJ Lee.

Most recently, she has joined the WOW (Women of Wrestling) promotion as an executive producer.

In this moving informed conversation, they open up about such topics as suicide ideation and living with bipolar disorder. She opens up about being a suicide survivor and her wrestling career and latest projects.

For more information on “Maurice Benard State of Mind,” visit its official website, and follow the podcast on its Instagram page.

In this article:aj mendez, General hospital, Maurice Benard, mb state of mind, Mental health, Podcast, Wrestler
Markos Papadatos
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Markos Papadatos is Digital Journal's Editor-at-Large for Music News. Papadatos is a Greek-American journalist and educator that has authored over 24,000 original articles over the past 19 years. He has interviewed some of the biggest names in music, entertainment, lifestyle, magic, and sports. He is an 18-time "Best of Long Island" winner, where for three consecutive years (2020, 2021, and 2022), he was honored as the "Best Long Island Personality" in Arts & Entertainment, an honor that has gone to Billy Joel six times.

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