Startups led by founders who have lived through the very experiences that they later come to solve hold a special place in all our hearts. Mind Data is a bright example of this.

Sean Ruane, the Founder and CEO, overcame suicidal depression after eventually having therapy. Now, Sean dedicates his life to helping others gain insight into their mind and access the support they need by leveraging the power of data analytics. 

Listen to learn:

- how Sean is building the service that he needed

- the advantages of his business model

- Mind Data’s plans to understand a user’s mental state without any input neededVisit the Mind Data website to learn more

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Instead of trying to build one almighty app to improve our wellbeing, Professor Calvo has chosen to focus his efforts on making wellbeing a priority in every technology.

As the Director of the Wellbeing Technologies Lab at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Co-lead for Imperial College London of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and the co-author of Positive Computing, Professor Calvo is as qualified as anyone to speak on the potential for technology to nurture wellbeing and unleash human potential.

Some of the most stimulating work I do is advising Professor Calvo's lab on how to ensure their mental health innovations are clinically-valid, need-led, and patient-centred. In this episode, you will get to peak under the hood of the Wellbeing Technologies Lab and learn how we can build digital environments that support our basic psychological needs.

Professor Calvo also shares why he has chosen to make his contribution to mental health technology as a professor rather than as an entrepreneur, and he outlines his views on problems in mental health that have not yet been solved - indicating where the opportunities for innovation lie.

Visit the Positive Computing website to find details about the lab, book, and resources on how to prioritise wellbeing in every technology.

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Games capture our attention like nothing else. Immersed within a world and on a mission, we are engaged and entertained - but can games also train us to develop a healthier mind?

AnimaSelf seeks to answer this question with a resounding YES with an app that makes mental health fun with games and activities that each deliver a specific form of therapy.

Dr Frank Thornton-Wood, the Co-founder and CEO, explains how mental healthcare in its current form is mostly reactive, meaning people only get help when they’ve deteriorated. AnimaSelf focuses on helping people think better, feel better, and grow better to prevent mental health deterioration. 

This episode is especially unique because Frank and I were in the same year at medical school, so it was great to catch-up and discover the gap in the market that he and his team are working to fill.

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Spirituality is often thought of as a mystical philosophy reserved for hippies and fortune-tellers.

The PATH exists to change this and make spiritual health relevant to us all by helping people work through the deeper questions in life and discover their own beliefs and values.

Danny Sanchez (formerly at Facebook/Meta) is building the world’s first spiritual health platform as the Founder and CEO of The PATH.

In this day and age, we find it harder and harder to understand our spiritual needs and nurture our spiritual health. When you learn what Danny and his team are up to, you may feel the same way I did, excited for an app that makes spirituality practical in the modern world. 

Listen to learn how spirituality can be made so clear through data.

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Min Lee is the Co-founder and CEO of Humin - an app that helps you better understand your mood using data collected from your smartphone and smartwatch.

These devices collect a wealth of data about us, and Humin organises all that to give you insight into your mind.

In her teenage years, Min suffered from an eating disorder, which now serves as fuel for her mission to improve mental health with Humin.

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Michel Birnbaum is the Co-founder and CEO of Mindsigns Health™: a cloud-based platform that assesses brain health with two AI-enabled products:

1) NeuroBrowser™ - automatically interprets EEGs for the brain

2) GenMind™ - monitors mental health from smartphone data

I have had the privilege of being an advisor to Mindsigns Health since 2022, and it has been an honour to contribute to such a technologically advanced product that improves access to and quality of care.

Michel has developed the ‘Lab to Market’ curriculum at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre. In this episode, he explains these principles, and how he has implemented them at Mindsigns Health.

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Neil Smith is the co-founder and CEO of Mettle - the first mental fitness toolkit made just for men.

Neil has co-founded Mettle with the legendary survivalist and adventurer Bear Grylls, with many more stars in their team. Their mission is to enable men to optimise their performance in all aspects of their life by creating a digital home for men’s mental fitness.

Mettle launched in November 2023, just a few weeks before our conversation, and the insights so far are fascinating. Neil explains why men need a mental fitness app made just for them, and how the masculine energy gives men permission to use the app without any stigma.

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