Tag: skill-building

Lucinda Koza is the Founder and CEO of I Ally, an app created for and by family caregivers. Lucinda created I Ally after a personal experience which she talks about on the podcast. The app is focused mainly on community and peer support, and also provides the caregiver with experts and resources.
Lucinda is a member of the current TechCrunch Include Cohort, SheWorx + AWS Startups Mentorship Program 2020, All Raise Org’s Visionary Voices Speakers Bureau, and the Lyfebulb Patient Entrepreneur Circle. She just received Honorable Mention in the Lyfebulb + Orexo Innovation Challenge and received Honorable Mention for Intermitten’s 2020 Changemaker Award. Her writing has been published in Thought Catalog and Medium Women. Passionate about storytelling and giving voice to the voiceless, Lucinda also premiered a short film at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016.

Listen in as Rich speaks with Tim Ryan and Jennifer Gimenez, an amazing couple who live out their recovery openly in order to help others.
Tim Ryan and Jennifer Gimenez-Ryan
Tim Ryan, famously known as A&E’s Dope Man and a substance abuse interventionist and Jennifer Gimenez-Ryan, world renowned model, actress, substance abuse counselor, and reality TV star aren’t your typical celebrity couple in Hollywood. Not only are they famous and in active recovery, they are both proactive in changing lives.

Sometimes, even helping to save them.
Tim and Jenn speak to audiences all over the world. Whenever possible, they travel and work together during public speaking engagements. They inspire their audiences to live a more fulfilling, passionate and purposeful life.
https://timandjennifer.org/

Rich had the opportunity to talk to Kavi Misri, the founder and CEO of Rose, a mental health company that is levering technology to improve how mental health care is delivered. Listen to his story of how working 80-100 workweeks led to burnout and depression. Frustrated with trying to navigate the healthcare system, Kavi would ultimately create Rose- smarter mental health!

Michael Gallagher’s childhood was the antithesis of the All American Family. With a mother completely ensconced in being a Jehovah’s Witness and his addicted father in and out of prison, Michael quickly learned to escape using alcohol and cocaine. In his book, Waking Up: A Guide for Transformation, Michael tells his story of how he finally woke up and began using tools that transformed his life. Join Rich as he chats with Michael and hear first hand how he came back from addiction to live a life full of love and gratitude.

Michael has spent a lifetime studying what causes
some people to adapt and transform to match
their circumstances while others struggle to find
their way. In his research on transformation,
Michael realized there were only a few big blocks
that everyone needed to build upon to create
lasting change. He is the author of Waking Up: A
Guide for Transformation, and has a passion for
sharing these life-changing tools with others.
Michael Gallagher has successfully built several
businesses, overcoming challenges that should
have left him a statistic.
When Michael is not speaking at conferences, coaching or writing you ‘ll
most likely find him traveling with his family, learning about something new or telling one of his four daughters a dad joke.

Email- michael@michaelgallagherspeaks.com
www.wakingupthebook.com
https://michaelgallagherspeaks.com/

Sean McCann and his wife Andrea Aragon have co-written a deeply personal memoir called One Good Reason: A Memoir of Addiction and Recovery, Music and Love.
The book is an honest story about Sean’s sexual abuse that leads to years of drug and alcohol addiction. We get Sean’s perspective, but also Andrea’s side of the story as the wife who loved him but ultimately had him choose his family or his addiction.
Sean is now in recovery and is known as mental health, addiction, and recovery advocate.
Listen to this wonderful conversation as we hear them both in their own voices. If you are a sexual abuse survivor we hope you find comfort that there is light on the other side.

MORE about Sean:

After exiting the internationally renowned Newfoundland folk group and publicly admitting a secret past where he used alcohol to mask the pain of sexual abuse by a priest; Séan stopped lying to himself. With his boys and his wife Andrea as his motivation, Séan found the courage to face his truth and overcome his demons. Today he continues his journey as a singer, songwriter, husband, father, and now a sought after keynote speaker and mental health advocate, always with Old Brown by his side.

With an overwhelming desire to stop the needless overdose deaths of young adults, Mike Todd offered what they needed most- a place to call home. Through a miraculous series of events, Mike Todd took an old house and made it a safe place for those in early recovery. Recovery Housing is a key player in getting people off the streets and on a recovery journey… so why aren’t there more? Hear from Mike Todd, Executive Director and Founder of Freedom Recovery Center of Greenville, on how he got his start in recovery housing. Rich and Todd discuss the barriers that keep this successful model from being implemented throughout the state and beyond.

Mental Healthcare for college students is needed now more than ever.
Co-founder and CEO of Mantra Health, Edouard Gaussen, shares how Mantra Health plans to partner with Higher Ed to create quality mental healthcare to college campuses everywhere.
Ed Gaussen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mantra Health – a NY-based, digital mental health company on a mission to improve access to evidence-based psychiatry and therapy for all university students in the country. Using its proprietary Collaboration Portal, Mantra develops custom, integrated telemental health programs that improve clinical outcomes and reduce time to access care for universities of all sizes. Ed spent several years as a technology investor and operator prior to founding Mantra, and holds a BA from McGill University.

https://mantrahealth.com/higher-education
https://mantrahealth.com/

The laws and systems dealing with addiction and mental health are in need of a radical overhaul. Our guest this week has dedicated her life to the cause. Listen and learn what she doing to help change the landscape and get inspired to fight for changes in your community.

Shelly Weizman is the Associate Director of the Addiction and Public Policy Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She works on a project portfolio focused on the opioid epidemic, addiction policies, barriers to treatment for substance use disorders, public health approaches to drug policies and how law can promote access to treatment and support recovery.

Before joining the Institute, Ms. Weizman worked as the Assistant Secretary for Mental Hygiene in the Office of Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York. In that role, she oversaw New York State’s efforts to address the opioid epidemic as well as policy and operations related to addiction, mental health and developmental disabilities. Prior to joining the Governor’s office, Ms. Weizman served as Policy Director for Managed Care at the New York State Office of Mental Health, where she focused on developing and implementing systemic reforms within New York’s public mental health system.

Previously, Ms. Weizman served as a Senior Staff Attorney at MFY Legal Services, a not-for-profit legal services organization in New York City. At MFY, she led efforts to expand and enforce the rights of people with psychiatric and physical disabilities, promote deinstitutionalization, and improve government oversight and accountability through legislative and regulatory reform, community organizing, and federal and state civil rights litigation. Ms. Weizman also provided advice and representation to hundreds of individual clients on civil legal matters including eviction prevention, access to health care and transportation, and individual civil rights matters.

Ms. Weizman received her JD with a concentration in Health Law and Policy from Seton Hall University School of Law and her BA from the University of Houston.

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Anne Philippe is back to talk more about the therapeutic qualities in psychedelics and their success in treating anxiety, depression, and PTSD. She and others are leading the charge to show the world the healing properties of psychedelics. Open your mind and learn something new.

Our conversation with Anne Philippi is so fascinating that we had to make it 2 episodes. Anne is the Founder and CEO of The New Health Club. We will let her bio speak for itself.

As a writer for VOGUE and GQ, I interviewed rock stars and actors for many years. I was fascinated by the world of show business, Hollywood, and celebrity. In 2007, I joined the German Vanity Fair and gained creds as the expert of record on the glamour world.
Naturally, I moved to the heart of glamour and glory in 2009 to work as the Hollywood reporter for GQ Germany, also as a regular contributor for “Süddeutsche Zeitung,” spoke to all the big Hollywood names.

In 2015 my first novel called “Giraffen” was published (Kein&Aber), and I started to turn to a different kind of storytelling: more personal, more digital-friendly, faster, constructed like a new TV Show.
I also started to develop a massive crush on technology, Silicon Valley, and the digital world, which began to affect my writing, aka storytelling plus my preferred subjects more and more.
So I got into that world, moderated panels at the DLD conference in New York City.
At the TEDx conference at Berliner Philharmonie, I had my first talk about why we need to disrupt the old idea of life after 40.
I am now the California expert for “Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly” regularly reporting on California culture, tech, digital trends and new developments like the new luxury cannabis market and the return of psychedelic tools and therapies, which I am very passionate about.
I am the founder of THE NEW HEALTH CLUB: a lifestyle platform for the new mental wellness and the new use of psychedelics I am pro Caffeine.