Hidden Gems: Meet Aaron and Maya Wazana of BeSababa

Today we’d like to introduce you to Aaron and Maya Wazana.

Hi Aaron and Maya, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
We got started in this because we are both college students studying in Los Angeles (LMU and Pitzer College) and we saw a lack of health and wellness support BY students FOR students. We see the value in traditional resources (counselors, doctors, therapists, etc.), but we saw a space for students to talk to each other on a curated and specified platform as crucial to creating empathy-driven change. It’s one thing to talk to a school counselor about your stress or anxiety, but talking to another student always allows for a perspective that can’t be recreated in any other environment. By creating BeSababa, we want to develop a community where students feel like they are talking to a friend about their issues and finding real solutions that help them find balance, relieve stress, and grow.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Well, like anything it hasn’t been 100% smooth. Almost everyone involved in the project is a college student and that presents obvious barriers to how we are able to schedule work. Everyone has their own class schedule with its own restrictions and so finding time to get work done can be hard. But, in the end, those people are what makes this whole idea work and it makes it all worth it.

As you know, we’re big fans of BeSababa. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
BeSababa is an online space that publishes content focused on helping college students find balance, relieve stress, and grow. It is FOR students BY students and anything published involves a college student who drives the message forward. We are unique because we work directly with college students to help tell their own stories while still providing value to a wider audience that can benefit from a fellow student sharing their own perspective. We are proud of the content we’ve created thus far and are excited to hopefully spread into a more diverse range of channels and platforms!

Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
What quality or characteristics do you feel is most important to your success? Balance is one of the most important characteristics. It’s something that we have a hard time with. Balancing personal life, school, work, etc. can be a lot of work and it’s really easy to get tunnel vision. So we have both had to find ways to strike a better balance with the many parts of our lives.

Contact Info:

• Email: info@besababa.com
• Website: https://besababa.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/be.sababa/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/besababa
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/BeSababa