Aspects

How do we communicate across generations to turn the mental health crisis?

The gap between generations seems to increase further and further. Like Tanyette says during this unique podcast episode, “we are now dealing with the first generation that grew up with devices from day one”. Their parents is the generation that saw the birth of devices and their grandparents are the generation that lived in the world without them. How do we act as a parent when we see the massive rise in mental health challenges and illness among youth today? Not just that, but the same seems to have been accelerated by the social media influx in our lives. If we remove the option of closing down Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat or denying our children to use them, what are we left with, in terms of good options?

Tanyette has worked for Google with tech. surrounding her, and she is sharing how she managed to tackle her sons mental health challenges. Fatmir has also felt the challenge of communicating across generations and his wife is also a professional within the mental health field, but challenges still came. 

In this episode you can hear how they tackled their generational gap, and what they feel could be dealt with by the government through education, and what should be up to the parents. Jimmy actively engages from the perspective of his own teenage years and with his expertise in communication, generational gap and mental health. Check out this very engaging episode where we both tackle the rising challenge of mental health from a youth perspective, but also a parent and societal perspective. 

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How can the combination of pressure and passion lead to depression? and how can we moved beyond it as entrepreneurs?

Daniel, ever since childhood, has been the positive and extroverted guy. Since finding out about entrepreneurship and making your own company, he has not looked back. He calls himself an “ordinary hustler”, someone trying to build his own companies, that have been a ‘medium success’. Daniel shares how, in his pursuit of his dreams of creating his own company, he never took the time to look back, and “suddenly” found himself in a position where everything felt like quicksand. What do you do when you are the positive guy and you don’t find strength to leave your bed, nor smile in any way? He was depressed and even though he had gotten “signs”, he feels it came creeping up on him from nowhere. 

Hear how it was to find his way back from depression, whilst he also had to solve his financial and entrepreneurial problems. When you are an entrepreneur there is no sick leave or safety net. What does that do to your mind, both positively and negatively? He shares and discusses with Jimmy in this very engaging episode about entrepreneurship, passion, depression and burnout. Learn how both Jimmy and Daniel have created strategies to handle the pressure, deal with their own minds and nurture their relationships, all while pursuing their passion in life within two different fields. This is a unique episode where the two guys bounce back and forth in an energetic episode, full of knowledge and humor.

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What happens when you share your story with the world, and let people in behind the mask?

The artist Chris Medina got famous for his "story" through "American Idol" and the song that followed "what are words", about his fiance's terribly injured from a car accident. This changed his life, but at one point the "story" became the only reality the world wanted to accept, and Chris' reality did not match. For years he battled the pressure of what he felt everyone expected of him. He shared his story of the aftermath of fame, the following pressure, his loneliness in it all and the tough depression he got through where he did not see any way out. Today it is still the most viewed story in the library and here is the impact. 

Learn what impact and feedback Chris got in the interview he describes as his most open interview ever and hear how he found self-healing in the process. Also hear about the hundreds of messages he got from people thanking him for sharing his untold journey. 

Jimmy "The Founder of THA" and Chris discuss the process of an interview and what an interview can do both for the people watching them globally and the person who shares.  As always when the two friends Jimmy and Chris chat you get humor and energy.

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What is the mental state of the world after social media took over?

The episode will give a brief insight into the mental health development in the US, UK and globally, from the clinician behind the famous Instagram account “Psychlife” Juan, Maxie – Head of Marketing and Jimmy – The Founder of THA, in this engaging and insightful episode. 

They discuss further how social media affects us all and what role it has played in this rising mental health crises, especially among the young generation. More importantly, how social media can be used as a tool to move beyond the stigma and political hindrances they see. Learn how they see collaboration and focus on solutions as the best way forward, to tackle what WHO has characterized as human kinds largest challenge!

Also hear how Juan built Psychlife and how he sees a combination of THA interviews and digital knowledge about mental health as essential tools. They all share parts of their own story as always in this episode, in addition to plenty of insights and passion. 

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How to bring out the human aspect of a traumatic story?

Experience what makes the human aspect interviews unique through one of the most extraordinary stories. Emmanuel Jal was one of the child soldiers that was smuggled out of Sudan by the British humanitarian worker. In his interview he shares how he managed to overcome the trauma he suffered. Maxie – Head of Marketing and Jimmy – the founder shares how the THA interviews are built up in three parts. 1. The challenge, where the person shares deeply how the challenges looked through their eyes. 2. Overcome, where the person shares their turning point and journey out of their challenge, plus who and what helped them along the way. 3. The lesson, where the person shares what the challenge thought them that they wished they knew when in the middle of the challenge. Maxie and Jimmy share how the interview can and has impacted both the people who has been interviewed and how they can and have impacted all those thousands of people that have watched interviews in the life experience library in more than 170 countries. 

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What is the world’s first digital life experience library and how did it start?

Get an inside look into the mental health movement that is seen by many as the most promising low threshold services out there to solve the rising mental health crisis. Hear from one of the most viewed video interviews, Razan Zamzam, interview and THA head of marketing Maxie Earle, and the founder Jimmy Westerheim. Learn how Jimmy and his friend Kumi took to the streets of Oslo with a camera in 2016, to interview people they had never met, about their life’s toughest challenge... Hear how these first 30 interviews spiked The Human Aspect from idea to the global movement it is today, with more than 380 interviews from former Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, Tech guru Silvija Seres and Artists Chris Medina, to ordinary people with a story to share. In addition, how having your story viewed by hundred-thousands of people effect you as a person and how it can impact all those people out there watching it, that feel alone. Plus, how it is to be part of the THA family that has developed this over the first 2,5 years.

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