Flourish by Advaita Health

Welcome to the inaugural episode of "Behind the Scenes at Advaita Collective," where we pull back the curtain on the inner workings of our behavioral health company. In this episode, our CEO takes you through the latest happenings in the field, gives updates on current projects and initiatives, and introduces you to our newest team members. Dive into our mental model on how to approach challenges and opportunities, and stay tuned for our discussions on current events affecting our sector. From celebrating milestones like Nick's 14-year anniversary with us to discussing the potential impacts of the NC Opioid Settlement and the exciting developments in AI and analytics at advta.ai, this episode is packed with insights. Join us as we explore how all these elements contribute to delivering greater value to our patients and team members.

Timestamps

0:01:52 - Transitioning to Microsoft cloud infrastructure and benefits
0:03:19 - Launching PHP and outpatient detox programs
0:04:43 - Importance of organizational values and their evolution
0:08:45 - Celebrating Nick's 14 years of recovery
0:09:15 - Adapting to changes in treatment field and leveraging technology
0:10:54 - Streamlining reporting and data use for accountability
0:11:22 - Building connections from EHR to Power BI for analytics
0:12:12 - Using Power BI to automate clinical utilization data
0:12:51 - Analyzing prescribing habits and medical data with Power BI
0:14:06 - AI's impact on healthcare and future integration plans
0:15:23 - Phases of innovation initiative: analytics, cloud architecture, AI
0:16:59 - Leveraging AI to streamline healthcare processes and improve patient experiences
0:18:21 - AI as a tool to increase time spent with patients
0:19:34 - Focusing on data analytics and patient-provider relationship in healthcare
0:20:31 - Launching a new website and building custom solutions
0:21:45 - Positioning oneself for success instead of predicting outcomes
0:23:51 - Tripp discusses company's expansion and motivations behind new spaces
0:25:24 - Importance of personalized care and training for therapist team
0:26:26 - Vision of offering primary care and specialized services in the long term
0:26:37 - Progress and impact of Change Healthcare situation
0:27:07 - Cyberattack on Change Healthcare and resulting halt in claim payments
0:28:13 - Optimism about payments picking up, chaos caused by the situation
0:28:55 - Concerns about cybersecurity and data protection
0:30:07 - Criticism of UnitedHealthcare's handling of cyberattack and compensation offer
0:30:35 - Impact of cyberattack on healthcare system and future of cybersecurity
0:31:03 - Company's preparedness and importance of awareness and security measures
0:31:28 - Focus on security in transition away from Google
0:31:56 - Company's presence in Chapel Hill and expansion plans in the area
0:37:14 - Excitement and pride in leading the team

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Check out Tripp's Feature on Will White's "Stories from the Field" Podcast

"Tripp Johnson's Journey to Behavioral Healthcare Innovation"

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1fKxVJ1k6pYPqiEct3ImFV?si=1012a04c98554909

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• www.aimwellbeing.com
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Music & Editing:

• Tyler Ford / By George (www.bandbygeorge.com)

About Flourish by Advaita Health

Flourish by Advaita Health explores how people, providers, and communities move from suffering to flourishing. Each episode weaves together perspectives from healthcare, wellness, and human experience — from the science of mental and physical health to the art of living well.

Advaita Health is a North Carolina–based behavioral health organization dedicated to supporting whole-person flourishing. Learn more about our work and clinical services below.

• 🌿 Advaita Health: advaitahealth.com
• 🩺 Advaita Integrated Medicine: aimwellbeing.com
• 🎙️ Podcast: Flourish by Advaita Health
• 📸 Instagram: @advaitahealth
• 💼 LinkedIn: Advaita Health
• 📩 Subscribe for new episodes and updates

From critical race theory to neurodivergence on college campuses, this conversation covers a lot of ground. Tripp sits down with Wesley Wade to discuss the neurodivergent college experience, resources available, and Wes’s experience in higher education. Topics covered include: 

• Cultivating a health social media diet
• The role of history in determining our future
• Health insurance + for-profit healthcare (and therapy) 
• Individualism vs. collectivism 
• Identity-first vs. person-first language
• The neurodivergent student experience 

Wesley Jackson Wade is a licensed clinical mental health counselor, a licensed clinical addictions specialist, a certified clinical mental health counselor, and a national certified counselor. He is the owner and operator of Forward Counseling & Consulting, a small consulting and private counseling practice in NC. Wesley holds a bachelor’s degree from NC State University, two master’s degrees from North Carolina Central University–one in clinical mental health counseling and another in career counseling– and he is currently working on a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership, Policy, & Human Development with a concentration in Counseling and Counselor. Wesley has 9+ years of industry experience, 7+ years of higher education experience, and enjoys teaching, writing, navigating difficult conversations, and leading large-scale complex projects. Wesley is an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion with a passion for matters of race, gender, neurodiversity, and disability.

About Flourish by Advaita Health

Flourish by Advaita Health explores how people, providers, and communities move from suffering to flourishing. Each episode weaves together perspectives from healthcare, wellness, and human experience — from the science of mental and physical health to the art of living well.

Advaita Health is a North Carolina–based behavioral health organization dedicated to supporting whole-person flourishing. Learn more about our work and clinical services below.

• 🌿 Advaita Health: advaitahealth.com
• 🩺 Advaita Integrated Medicine: aimwellbeing.com
• 🎙️ Podcast: Flourish by Advaita Health
• 📸 Instagram: @advaitahealth
• 💼 LinkedIn: Advaita Health
• 📩 Subscribe for new episodes and updates

In this week’s episode, Tripp sits down with Michael Gilpin of Alpha 180 to hear more about his journey from college dropout to a Chapel Hill graduate. Gilpin shares about how his personal collegiate recovery experience led him to work in the recovery field.

Here are some highlights that Tripp & Michael cover:

• Gilpin’s personal collegiate recovery journey
• The landscape of working in the substance abuse/recovery field
• How Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is relevant to collegiate mental health
• What role do insurance companies play in making mental health care prohibitive?
• What role do colleges play in the collegiate mental health crisis? Is it their responsibility?

About Flourish by Advaita Health

Flourish by Advaita Health explores how people, providers, and communities move from suffering to flourishing. Each episode weaves together perspectives from healthcare, wellness, and human experience — from the science of mental and physical health to the art of living well.

Advaita Health is a North Carolina–based behavioral health organization dedicated to supporting whole-person flourishing. Learn more about our work and clinical services below.

• 🌿 Advaita Health: advaitahealth.com
• 🩺 Advaita Integrated Medicine: aimwellbeing.com
• 🎙️ Podcast: Flourish by Advaita Health
• 📸 Instagram: @advaitahealth
• 💼 LinkedIn: Advaita Health
• 📩 Subscribe for new episodes and updates

In this week’s episode, Tripp talks with Dr. Hendree Jones. Dr. Jones is a research and clinical psychologist, an internationally recognized leader in behavioral health, and a mother to a college freshman. This wide-ranging conversation 

Here’s a glimpse at what Tripp and Hendree cover: 

• The importance of integrated care: treating both mental and physical health in one system
• COVID’s role in creating “two freshman classes” and how that’s increasing mental health issues on campuses throughout the country
• Increased social isolation due to COVID and how 
• The spike in mental health diagnoses and campus emergencies
• Social media’s impact on college students
• The importance of connection between parents and students
• Behavioral signs a student is struggling with mental health
• The importance of keeping open lines of communication and avoiding blaming and shaming
• The urgency colleges and universities should feel towards addressing student mental health
• The role of connection in retaining clinicians in collegiate environments 

Dr. Hendree Jones is a research and clinical psychologist. She serves as the Executive Director of UNC-Horizons, and she’s an internationally recognized expert in behavioral and pharmacologic treatments for pregnant women and their children. Dr. Jones has received continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health since 1994, has over 200 peer-reviewed publications, and has authored two books. Dr. Jones is an advisor to the UN, WHO, SAMHSA, ASAM, and ACOG through which she consults throughout the United States and abroad.

About Flourish by Advaita Health

Flourish by Advaita Health explores how people, providers, and communities move from suffering to flourishing. Each episode weaves together perspectives from healthcare, wellness, and human experience — from the science of mental and physical health to the art of living well.

Advaita Health is a North Carolina–based behavioral health organization dedicated to supporting whole-person flourishing. Learn more about our work and clinical services below.

• 🌿 Advaita Health: advaitahealth.com
• 🩺 Advaita Integrated Medicine: aimwellbeing.com
• 🎙️ Podcast: Flourish by Advaita Health
• 📸 Instagram: @advaitahealth
• 💼 LinkedIn: Advaita Health
• 📩 Subscribe for new episodes and updates

In this week’s episode, Tripp sits down and talks with Joanna Lilley. Joanna is a Therapeutic Consultant and works with individuals and families who are often leaving higher education to receive treatment for mental health and substance use. Joanna started her career in higher education counseling and ended up leaving, partially due to the inability to serve students in the most meaningful and impactful ways.

Here’s a glimpse and what Tripp and Joanna cover:

• Joanna’s journey from higher ed counseling to therapeutic consulting
• The dark side of “student retention”
• The role of a therapeutic consultant in a young adults journey to wellness
• How college campuses are ill-equipped to respond to the de-stigmatization of mental health concerns
• How “helicopter parenting” leaves young adults unprepared to navigate struggles in college
• College isn’t going anywhere - you don’t have to have a linear path to be “successful”

Since 2016, Joanna Lilley of Lilley Consulting has been helping families and young adults find treatment options during a time of transition or crisis.  Joanna dedicates herself to working solely with emerging adults who unravel before going to college, when they land on a college campus, or after college graduation.  She is also the host of the Success is Subjective podcast, co-founder of the College Parent Survival Network, and a squeaky wheel about the mental health epidemic in higher education.  To learn more about Joanna and her work, follow the links below. 

Website 
Podcast
Facebook
LinkedIn
Instagram

About Flourish by Advaita Health

Flourish by Advaita Health explores how people, providers, and communities move from suffering to flourishing. Each episode weaves together perspectives from healthcare, wellness, and human experience — from the science of mental and physical health to the art of living well.

Advaita Health is a North Carolina–based behavioral health organization dedicated to supporting whole-person flourishing. Learn more about our work and clinical services below.

• 🌿 Advaita Health: advaitahealth.com
• 🩺 Advaita Integrated Medicine: aimwellbeing.com
• 🎙️ Podcast: Flourish by Advaita Health
• 📸 Instagram: @advaitahealth
• 💼 LinkedIn: Advaita Health
• 📩 Subscribe for new episodes and updates

In this week’s episode, Tripp interviews UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student Gabi Herter. Gabi is currently completing her Master of Public Health with a concentration in health policy. She is particularly interested in improving the accessibility of mental health services, such as peer support centers, on campuses across the nation. After Gabi faced mental health concerns of her own and struggled in finding accessible resources, she realized the gravity of the crisis that she was not alone in facing. Having grown up and completed her undergraduate degree in Canada, Gabi also offers some unique perspectives on how the collegiate mental health resources differ, all while leading listeners to a much bigger conversation- what is the solution?

Gabriella Herter is a Graduate student at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, currently completing her Master of Public Health with a concentration in Health Policy in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. Before attending UNC-CH, Gabriella attended Queen’s University located in Kingston, Ontario, where she graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Studies and Sociology and completed a Certificate of Law. Gabriella hopes to apply the knowledge and skills she has gained from her professional and personal experiences with the U.S. and Canadian Health Care Systems to improve how we address Mental Health and Wellbeing in the United States. Gabriella enjoys baking, hiking with her dog, traveling, and exploring new coffee shops in her free time.

To learn more about Advaita Integrated Medicine, visit www.aimwellbeing.com

About Flourish by Advaita Health

Flourish by Advaita Health explores how people, providers, and communities move from suffering to flourishing. Each episode weaves together perspectives from healthcare, wellness, and human experience — from the science of mental and physical health to the art of living well.

Advaita Health is a North Carolina–based behavioral health organization dedicated to supporting whole-person flourishing. Learn more about our work and clinical services below.

• 🌿 Advaita Health: advaitahealth.com
• 🩺 Advaita Integrated Medicine: aimwellbeing.com
• 🎙️ Podcast: Flourish by Advaita Health
• 📸 Instagram: @advaitahealth
• 💼 LinkedIn: Advaita Health
• 📩 Subscribe for new episodes and updates

Welcome to Season 2 of the Business of Human Flourishing Podcast, a series that addresses the growing mental health crisis on college campuses nationwide. In this episode, Tripp and Jake discuss the unmet need for mental health services and support and the challenges campus communities face with the current model of care.

About Flourish by Advaita Health

Flourish by Advaita Health explores how people, providers, and communities move from suffering to flourishing. Each episode weaves together perspectives from healthcare, wellness, and human experience — from the science of mental and physical health to the art of living well.

Advaita Health is a North Carolina–based behavioral health organization dedicated to supporting whole-person flourishing. Learn more about our work and clinical services below.

• 🌿 Advaita Health: advaitahealth.com
• 🩺 Advaita Integrated Medicine: aimwellbeing.com
• 🎙️ Podcast: Flourish by Advaita Health
• 📸 Instagram: @advaitahealth
• 💼 LinkedIn: Advaita Health
• 📩 Subscribe for new episodes and updates

How did Tripp trick Jake into starting two companies at once (while running a third?) The partners discuss why they’re choosing to bet on themselves and how increased credibility gives them the confidence to do so. 

In the final episode of season one, Tripp sits down with Jake to discuss the growth rollercoaster they’ve been riding. This is one of those glimpses into the “sausage-making” process that is social entrepreneurship. This episode is a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges entrepreneurs face when they decide to bootstrap growth and shows how they’ve gotten comfortable knowing there isn’t one “right way” to do things. 

How do you go from a startup where its “all hands on deck” to a mature organization? In the early days of a company, there is always too much work and not enough time–everyone pitches in to knock out the most pressing items. As a company matures, leaders must carve out specific roles and responsibilities to provide clarity to team members. This process repeats itself over and over as the organization grows. It’s an imperfect process that can feel chaotic and overwhelming. In this episode Jake and Tripp discuss how they are running a mature organization, Green Hill, and a startup organization, AIM: Advaita Integrated Medicine, while all the while trying to launch a much, much larger company.

Here’s a glimpse at what we covered in the Partner Corner Episodes of season one. 

• Fundraising versus bootstrapping
• Bootstrapping a new company from existing infrastructure (and the associated growing pains)
• Why can’t Jake seem credible to mentors because of how he’s running the finance department? 
• How credibility decreases the riskiness of financial decisions 
• The importance of building a network of partners -- bankers, advisors, accountants -- to help make better decisions
• Which business functions are being moved from Green Hill up to the parent company, Advaita Health Ventures?
• The importance of leaving ego at the door

Green Hill Recovery: www.greenhillrecovery.com 

AIM: Advaita Integrated Medicine: www.aimwellbeing.com 

Advaita Health Ventures: www.advaitaventures.com  

About Flourish by Advaita Health

Flourish by Advaita Health explores how people, providers, and communities move from suffering to flourishing. Each episode weaves together perspectives from healthcare, wellness, and human experience — from the science of mental and physical health to the art of living well.

Advaita Health is a North Carolina–based behavioral health organization dedicated to supporting whole-person flourishing. Learn more about our work and clinical services below.

• 🌿 Advaita Health: advaitahealth.com
• 🩺 Advaita Integrated Medicine: aimwellbeing.com
• 🎙️ Podcast: Flourish by Advaita Health
• 📸 Instagram: @advaitahealth
• 💼 LinkedIn: Advaita Health
• 📩 Subscribe for new episodes and updates

From working with refugees in Houston and El Salvador to working in community mental health and the “NATSAP World”, Daniel Fishburn has dedicated his life to serving others.  He’s been a mentor, colleague and friend of mine for years, so I was super excited to have him on the podcast! 

Here’s a bit of what we covered in this episode:

• Pros and cons of for-profit vs. not-for-profit healthcare and treatment
• Human-centered capitalism
• The journey from addiction to recovery
• Spirituality in life and leadership 
• The stories we tell ourselves
• Employee retention vs. team development and the role of a leader 
• The concept of ‘no-self’ and how it pertains to leadership
• The good, the bad, and the ugly of NATSAP 

This was a super wide ranging episode -- hope you enjoy listening! 

Daniel Fishburn is a licensed clinical social worker, leader in recovery, and former CEO with a longstanding background in wilderness therapy programs and hands-on service to marginalized populations in the United States and abroad. He recently opened his private practice, DBF Counseling, in Asheville, NC. To learn more about Daniel check out his website: https://dbfcounseling.com/. 

About Flourish by Advaita Health

Flourish by Advaita Health explores how people, providers, and communities move from suffering to flourishing. Each episode weaves together perspectives from healthcare, wellness, and human experience — from the science of mental and physical health to the art of living well.

Advaita Health is a North Carolina–based behavioral health organization dedicated to supporting whole-person flourishing. Learn more about our work and clinical services below.

• 🌿 Advaita Health: advaitahealth.com
• 🩺 Advaita Integrated Medicine: aimwellbeing.com
• 🎙️ Podcast: Flourish by Advaita Health
• 📸 Instagram: @advaitahealth
• 💼 LinkedIn: Advaita Health
• 📩 Subscribe for new episodes and updates

Tripp and Jake introduce their latest venture, Adviata Integrated Medicine (AIM), in this week's episode. Since they've been building out a substance use disorder treatment program for the past several years and want to provide the best possible treatment, AIM started as a way to offer psychiatry in-house. The practice will include psychiatric, therapeutic, and primary services.

The partners saw a need in the health care ecosystem for a practice model that provides deeper, more holistic treatment options than the standard "here's a pill, see you later" approach to mental health treatment, and were able to leverage their network to organically cultivate a talented team committed to creating the change they'd like to see in the healthcare system.

Adviata Integrated Medicine launches on November 15, 2021 in Raleigh, NC.

About Flourish by Advaita Health

Flourish by Advaita Health explores how people, providers, and communities move from suffering to flourishing. Each episode weaves together perspectives from healthcare, wellness, and human experience — from the science of mental and physical health to the art of living well.

Advaita Health is a North Carolina–based behavioral health organization dedicated to supporting whole-person flourishing. Learn more about our work and clinical services below.

• 🌿 Advaita Health: advaitahealth.com
• 🩺 Advaita Integrated Medicine: aimwellbeing.com
• 🎙️ Podcast: Flourish by Advaita Health
• 📸 Instagram: @advaitahealth
• 💼 LinkedIn: Advaita Health
• 📩 Subscribe for new episodes and updates