Due to social distancing and quarantine, we anticipate a rise in depression, PTSD, and other mental health issues. Healthy social connections and healthy mental wellbeing are directly proportional to each other.

Will Cady sits at the intersection between community and mental health. He is the current Head Of Brand Strategy at Reddit, one of the largest internet communities. He is also the creator of HEAL, a Heart-centric creative thinking complement to the Brain-centric logical thinking of STEM’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics focuses.

We talked about:

• 1 simple and actionable tactic to easily get in touch with someone you thought about.
• Blocking specific time for connecting with people
• Different kinds of virtual events
• 3 opportunities for business owners to lead their community: pandemic, resilience, and observation
• The opportunity from local brand to global brand
• How to find entry to other communities: value exchange (creation, curation, sharing)
• The transition between creator and curator
• How to maintain spiritual/mental hygiene with tarot cards
• His HEAL framework as a contrast to the STEM framework
• How to measure the subjective experience (phenomenology) (location, feel, color, shape, size, strength)
• 7 chakras and 4 bodies(physical, mental, emotional, spiritual) as the map of emotions
• 4Rs to energize a community (reward, recognize, release, rules)

LINK

• A mini-course about managing your mind in the middle of chaos cklin.com/certainty
• https://www.reddit.com/r/HealMovement/
• https://www.instagram.com/willcady/?hl=en
• https://medium.com/@willcady