Johnny Hanna is CEO and Co-founder of Homie. Homie’s mission is to simplify home buying and selling with a one stop shop experience with Homie real estate, Homie loans, and Homie tile, and Homie insurance. Prior to Homie, Johnny was President and Co-founder of Entrata, a real estate software company where he helped the company grow to over $100 million in annual revenue. Today we discuss the big challenge that many face with mental health and how this affects people in the workplace, including employees and business leaders. There has been a stigma for a long time that it’s not OK to talk about mental health issues, or people would often feel embarrassed to talk about the struggles they’re having, but Johnny explains how his company culture is changing that and the mental benefits his employees are experiencing from these changes.

Why talk about mental health? 1:33
Developing mental health issues 7:40
Entrepreneurship and mental wellness 12:34
Tools that have helped deal with these struggles 18:58
Areas to do better at addressing this 26:20
The good and bad of current company cultures 34:05

“There was a quote I came across that was like, ‘Whoever takes offense to someone that wasn’t intending to be offensive is a fool.’ But then it was like, ‘You’re even a bigger fool if you take offense to somebody who meant to be offensive because you’ve succumbed to your enemy.’” 28:35