Stephen Hays is a recovering addict, living with type-1 bipolar disorder. He spent years living in addiction, and with untreated mental illness while he went from West Point graduate, to Wall Street Banker to nearly taking his own life when he hit bottom. On this show you will hear stories of addiction, mental illness, recovery, hope, and wellness. You will also hear from clinicians, experts, doctors, entrepreneurs and others who are trying to lead other people to wellness. We would love to ...
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#92 - Jane Technologies Founder Soc Rosenfeld on the Future of Cannabis Retail Tech
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What is the future of legal cannabis from a retail / e-commerce perspective? Today's guest, Socrates Rosenfeld, Co-Founder and CEO of Jane Technologies explains. Jane is an e-commerce solution for the Cannabis space that supports nearly 3,000 dispensaries and handles more than 20% of the legal Cannabis transactions in the U.S. each year. Prior to f…
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#91 - Modern Health Co-Founder and CEO Alyson Watson
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Alyson Watson is CEO and co-founder of Modern Health, a mental health unicorn! Modern Health is a global mental health benefits solution for employers that covers the spectrum of mental wellbeing needs from tech enabled solutions to professional support solutions on one platform. You can connect with Alyson here: LinkedIn What If Fellowship: https:…
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#90 - Spring Health CEO April Koh - On Building a Mental Health Unicorn
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April Koh is the youngest female founder to ever take a startup from just an idea to unicorn status. We are so excited that she’s accomplished this in the mental health space, and we are excited for you to meet her and learn more about her Company, Spring Health! For those who may not be familiar, Spring Health is a provider of mental health benefi…
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#89 - The Future of Precision Psychiatry with Dr. Amit Etkin of Alto Neuroscience
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Dr. Amit Etkin is pioneering a revolution in the way mental health medications are designed, developed, prescribed, and brought to market. Precision psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment and Dr. Etkin is leading the way with his drug development platform, Alto Neuroscience. In this episode, Dr. Etkin explains why psychiatric drugs hav…
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#88 - _able Partners Founding Partner Amanda Eilian - A Pioneer in Mental Health Investing
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Amanda Eilian, Founding Partner of _able Partners joins us to talk all things mental health startup investing. _able Partners is an early-stage VC firm supporting visionary founders in the positive living space. Their investments focus on companies that improve the daily lives of people, making them healthier, happier, and making their lives more m…
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#87 - Brain Computer Interfaces - A Primer with John Donoghue
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Today’s guest is John Donoghue. He is well known for his groundbreaking work developing Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) to restore movement for people with paralysis, known as ‘BrainGate’. BrainGate was the original BCI system created by a company called Cyberkinetics, of which John was a co-founder. In this episode, John gives us a primer on BCIs…
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#86 - Elyse Cohen - VP Social Impact at Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez
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Today’s guest is Elyse Cohen, VP of Social Impact and Inclusion at Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez and a mental health advocate. Elyse is an expert on purpose driven brands, social impact, and has been hand selected by Selena Gomez to lead the impact efforts at Rare Beauty and the Rare Impact Fund addressing mental health. Previously Elyse has worked a…
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#85 - Measuring Mental Health with Ksana Health Co-Founder Nick Allen
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You can’t fix what you don’t measure. Measurement and testing of our mental health lags the same capabilities in physical health care. Dr. Nick Allen, our guest today, is building a mental health measurement solution for clinical use. Today we talk to him about the challenges, and opportunity for his startup, Ksana Health. Nick is leveraging the to…
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#84 - Veterans Mental Health with Dr. Anthony Hassan, CEO of Cohen Veterans Network
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Dr. Anthony Hassan, President and CEO of the Cohen Veterans Network (CVN) joins us today. CVN is a network of 25 non-profit mental health clinics providing care to veterans and their families. The facilities are located in or around historically dense veteran and active duty military communities. Dr. Hassan is a veteran of the United States Army an…
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#83 - Psychedelic Treatment Cured My Alcohol Addiction - Jon Kostakopoulos
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Today’s guest is Jon Kostakopoulos who was the first study participant in the NYU Psilocybin clinical trial. After years of struggling with alcoholism and after trying other options including in-patient programs, out-patient programs, AA, and pharmaceutical treatments, nothing was working for him. Finally, at age 25, Jon joined the clinical trial a…
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#82 - Eating Disorders - Prevalence, and Lack of Solutions with Courage Therapeutics Founder Dan Housman
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Today’s guest is Dan Housman. He’s the co-founder and CTO of Courage Therapeutics. We met Dan when he came through our first cohort of the What If Fellowship Program. His startup is a biopharma drug development business focused on eating disorders (anorexia nervosa specifically). You can connect with Dan here: LinkedIn, Courage Therapeutics Website…
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#81 - Is Meditation Really Hard? - with Chorus Meditation Founder Ali Abramovitz
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Today’s guest is Ali Abramovitz. She is the co-founder of Chorus Meditation and she is here to talk about the work she is doing to make meditation a group activity. In this episode, we will talk about why group meditation is beneficial, how to do it, and what exactly the benefits are. You can connect with Ali here: Linked In, Chorus Website, Facebo…
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#80 - Lyra's VP of Partnerships (early employee) - Sean McBride
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Sean McBride, VP Partnerships at Lyra Health joins us in this episode to talk about Lyra, behavioral health care broadly, and he experience working to reform the healthcare system throughout his career. Sean was the first employee at Lyra Health and shares with us about how the Company has scaled into a unicorn over the last 6 years. Lyra Health is…
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#79 - Matthew Cooper on Stepping Down as CEO for His Mental Health
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In this episode, we are talking about entrepreneur mental health. Our guest, Matthew Cooper, stepped down from his role as CEO of EarnUp after growing the business successfully for 7 years after creating it. When he stepped down, he cited mental health as the primary driver and wrote an incredibly authentic, vulnerable and amazing blog post about h…
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#78 - Esther Dyson: Building a Healthier Society by Investing in Healthcare Startups
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In this episode we chat with long time healthcare startup investor, Esther Dyson. Esther has been very influential in the healthcare investing space for quite some time. It’s very hard to run into anyone doing anything meaningful in the broader healthcare space and not find a connection to Esther in some way. She’s the executive founder of Way to W…
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#77 - Central Nervous System Drug Development with Industry Expert Dr. Errol De Souza (Chairman @Bionomics)
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In this episode we speak with Dr. Errol De Souza, PhD, Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors at Bionomics. Bionomics just raised nearly $16mm to conduct clinical trials on their revolutionary drug to treat PTSD. Dr. De Souza is one of the premier entrepreneurs in the biotech space with a special focus on development of therapeutics for treat…
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#76 - Cybin CEO: Doug Drysdale on The Future of Psychedelic Treatments
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In this episode, we chat with Doug Drysdale, CEO of Cybin. Cybin, is a life sciences company advancing mushroom based psychedelic pharmaceuticals and non-psychedelic nutraceutical products as potential therapies for psychiatric and neurological conditions. Cybin is developing technologies and delivery systems aimed at improving bioavailability to a…
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#75 - Mental Health Startup Valuation Trends and Investor Sentiment in 2021
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In this mental health market update episode, we are covering valuation trends, investor sentiment, and our 9 key takeaways from the mental health startup market heading into 2021. We cover public and private market valuation trends impacting mental health startups, and we dig into results from a 150-investor survey we recently conducted on valuatio…
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#74 - Pray.com CEO Steve Gatena on the Digitization of Faith
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Steve Gatena is the founder of Pray.com, the word’s #1 app for daily prayer and faith-based audio content. Prior to becoming an American Entrepreneur, Steve was an NCAA Champion. He played football for the University of Southern California where he won a Rose Bowl Championship as well as UC Davis where he won a Great West Conference Championship. A…
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#73 - Tom Insel Addresses What If Fellowship Cohort #1 on The Future of Mental Health Care
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Tom Insel is the mental health “czar” of the State of California, he’s a co-founder of Mindstrong Health, and formerly Director of the NIMH. Tom is someone I look up to greatly as a trailblazer in the mental health space around what can be done, what is being done and what could be done to improve access to high quality care. Tom has a rare combina…
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#72 - Headspace's Chief Strategy and Science Officer - Megan Jones Bell
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Today’s guest is Megan Bell, Chief Strategy and Science Officer at Headspace where she directs a team focused on global corporate strategy, technology strategy, and new ventures including Headspace’s digital therapeutics subsidiary, Headspace Health. She also oversees medical and clinical affairs, behavioral science and clinical research, and desig…
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#71 - Calm Co-Founder, Michael Acton Smith a Pioneer in Mental Health and Wellness
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Michael Acton Smith, co-Founder of Calm joins us to talk about building the #1 app for sleep, meditation and relaxation, with over 75 million downloads and over 700,000 5-star reviews. Michael tells us about how the idea was born from his own personal discovery of the power of meditation. In our conversation he tells the Calm founding story, and ta…
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#70 - How Psychedelic Treatments Work with Ronan Levy, Founder of Field Trip Health
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Ronan Levy is co-founder and the Executive Chairman of Field Trip Health, a psychedelic assisted treatment business. Ronan joins us to talk about how psychedelic treatments work, what all the hype is about, where we are by way of regulation in the industry and the future use cases of psychedelic treatments. Prior to Field Trip, he was an early pion…
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#69 - "Suicide Girl" - How One Founder Was Labeled by an Investor Due to Her Past
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Aimee-Louisse Carton, founder of KeepAppy, shares her story with us which includes getting cornered in a bathroom by an investor at a startup event, where the investor called her “suicide girl.” This investor continued to tell Aimee she would never be able to raise money because of her past suicide attempt. In this episode, Aimee talks to us about …
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#68 - "Peloton of the mind" - Training for Mental Fitness with Sail Founder, Johnny Chen
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Today’s guest is Johnny Chen, founder, and CEO of Sail. Sail is a coaching community that empowers men to be more vulnerable. The focus of their platform is the “Peloton of the mind” specifically for men. Sail currently offers several 4-week coaching programs designed specifically for men. These programs are comprised of four, 90-minute sessions on…
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