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Pushing Mental Health in the Mountains with Brent Seal
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Introduction
Pushing Mental Health in the Mountains with Brent Seal. Brent is the Founder and CEO of Mavrixx, a mental health training agency dedicated to redefining mental health. He also co-founded MINDvsMOUNTAIN, a web series exploring the parallels between climbing mountains and climbing out of mental health struggles, with filmmaker James Frystak. Since being diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2007, Brent graduated from Simon Fraser University as Valedictorian, ran a number of ultramarathons, and, in 2016, became the first person in history living with schizophrenia to summit South America’s highest mountain (Aconcagua) and then North America’s highest mountain (Denali).
Today we’re excited to have him on the show where he’ll be sharing the journey of his struggles and triumphs, and tell us more about how and why he’s dedicated to redefining mental health.
What You Will Learn
- What’s Brent most curious about right now? (2:17)
- What Brent thinks the key elements of a successful mindset are when you have a mental illness diagnosis like schizophrenia (5:01)
- Brent’s first step to pushing himself and being able to conquer all those huge peaks like Denali (7:12)
- Why Brent hates the word “should” – (8:50)
- How Brent get his spark and how others can find theirs (10:44)
- What Martin Luther King Jr. means to Brent and the role he played in changing Brent’s life (11:40)
- How the mountains helped Brent shift his perspective on mental health, struggle, and empowerment (13:27)
- Brent’s climb up Denali as the first to summit as a climber with schizophrenia (15:38)
- How does being on the mountain and being able to optimize flow states and control your nervous system there, translate back to everyday life? (18:37)
- How Brent is giving back and redefining mental health with Mavrixx and Mind vs Mountain( 21:41)
- How Mavrixx supports students, youth, and young professionals who are struggling with mental illness or stress (23:48)
- What is MINDvsMOUNTAIN, and the parallels of climbing mountains and mental health struggles (25:56)
- What’s the difference between when Brent first got diagnosed with schizophrenia, his recent struggles, and coming to terms with it now? (31:00)
- Most critical thing someone can do when they’re first diagnosed and don’t know what to do (34:10)
- Building your support network and communicating strategically (36:50)
- How to get in touch with Brent (37:23)
- The journey to climb Mt. Everest with MINDvsMOUNTAIN (38:33)
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