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In this episode of I'm Fine, Jean Campbell sits down with model and filmmaker Cherif Douamba to explore childhood loss, masculinity, self-worth and the healing power of creativity.

Born and raised in Ivory Coast, Cherif's life changed when he was scouted on Instagram and launched into the world of high fashion. But behind the success, he was struggling with loneliness, a need for validation and unresolved pain from losing his mother at just four years old.

Cherif opens up about how his childhood shaped his relationships, why professional success couldn't fill the emotional void he felt, and how the isolation of lockdown led him to discover filmmaking.

Through his films One Day and Scars, Cherif began exploring grief, family and the expectations placed on men, ultimately finding a new understanding of his father's experience and a path towards reconciliation.

Together, Jean and Cherif discuss emotional vulnerability, learning to love yourself, breaking free from societal expectations and finding hope through storytelling.

A moving conversation about turning pain into purpose, and how understanding our past can change our future.

In this episode:
- Growing up without his mother and the search for validation
- Finding success in fashion while struggling with loneliness
- Masculinity, vulnerability and emotional expression
- How filmmaking helped him process grief and reconnect with his father
- Learning self-love through relationships
- Finding hope, purpose and the courage to dream

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Legendary British photographer and filmmaker Mark Lebon joins Jean Campbell for an open and characteristically candid conversation about addiction, recovery, fatherhood, creativity and romantic love.

Mark reflects on the moment seeing his young son compelled him to get sober, after believing his drug use might kill him. He explores what more than 30 years of recovery have taught him about emotional pain, self-abandonment, discipline and taking responsibility for his own healing.

Drawing on Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths, Mark also considers the relationship between desire and suffering, the impermanence of our emotional states and how these teachings have shaped his approach to pain and recovery.

They also discuss Mark’s influential creative career, his collaborations with Judy Blame and Christopher Nemeth, the process of bringing order to a chaotic life through his work, and why he has come to see pain as a warning, a boundary and a guide.

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I'm Fine hosted by Jean Campbell meets Mo Gawdat, engineer, entrepreneur, and one of the world's most prominent voices on happiness and artificial intelligence, to explore grief, love, loss, and what it really means to be okay. Mo reflects on a life of extraordinary professional success that left him clinically miserable in his twenties, the Saturday morning his five-year-old daughter held up a mirror to the person he'd become, and the years of mathematical obsession that led him to reverse-engineer happiness itself.

Mo speaks with characteristic precision and unexpected tenderness about the loss of his son Ali in 2014, the teacher who spent 21 years showing his father how to accept life as it is, and whose death became the ultimate test of everything Mo had built. He draws a profound distinction between pain and suffering, reframes grief as displaced love searching for somewhere to go, and offers a vision of death, rooted not in scripture but in quantum physics and the theory of relativity.

Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer of Google X, bestselling author of Solve for Happy, Scary Smart and Unstressable, and founder of the One Billion Happy movement. This is an episode about the algorithm underneath all of it and the losses that proved it true.

About I’m Fine:

“I’m Fine is more than a Podcast — it’s a service. A space for the millions of people
navigating pain in silence, often without the resources or language we all deserve. The world isn’t set up to support people in pain and we want to help change that.” Jean
Campbell.

I’m Fine is a Podcast hosted by Model, Writer and Mental Health Advocate Jean Campbell is a safe space and platform where high-performance people talk honestly, often humorously, about their life experiences and healing as Jean explores the inner world behind their

outward success. Jean has navigated chronic pain since she was 12 years old, this
experience inspired her to create I’m Fine to help reshape the stigma around pain -
emotional, physical, and mental - to give a voice to the many who hide behind the words:

With Very Special Thanks to Mo Gawdat

Technical Production by Copperbeach
Social Media Ruby Fern
Creative Production Patrick Armstrong of Sidekick Productions
Series Producer Camilla Morton
Founder and Executive Producer Jean Campbell