October 31, 2023

Sandi Treliving: Current Mental Health Care NOT ENOUGH | Ep.70 -Gent's Talk

47 minutes

In this week's episode of Gent's Talk, presented by Bulova, the gents sit down with the Sandi Treliving, a director on the foundation board of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada’s leading mental health research hospital. Sandi joins Samir Mourani & Matthew Chapman to talk about the ongoing mental health care needs, the lack of available resources for those in need and how it is affecting thousands of young people. Sandi reveals that mental illness has affected her family when her brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Sandi shares actionable ways we can all support more mental health initiatives to improve care all around.

CAMH: https://www.camh.ca/

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About Gent's Talk:

The Gent's Talk series, powered by Gent's Post and presented by BULOVA Canada is an episodic podcast/video style conversation with the leading gents and rising stars of industry. Guests on the show thus far include Russell Peters, Jonathan Osorio, Director X, JP Saxe, Wes Hall, Karl Wolf, Shan Boodram, Dom Gabriel, Nick Bateman, Justin Wu and many more. The conversations range from career, mental health, family, relationships, business, and everything in between. Even more excitingly, Gent's Talk is the first ever podcast in video format to be featured on all Air Canada domestic/international flights. Our intention is to have a raw and unfiltered conversation with our guests about their lives, how they achieved their successes, lessons learned along the way, and the challenges of climbing that mountain.

About Sandi Treliving:

Sandi Treliving is a dedicated Canadian philanthropist, mental health

advocate, champion for women in science and a supporter of Canadian

arts and culture. Sandi has served as a director on the foundation board of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada’s leading mental health research hospital, since 2014. In 2020 Sandi and her husband, Jim Treliving, owner of Boston Pizza International, became founding members of CAMH’s womenmind TM, with a $5 million gift to address gender issues in mental health. In the spirit of inspiring intergenerational giving, all the women in the Treliving family, including two daughters, two daughters-in-law, six granddaughters and one great-granddaughter, are behind the womenmind initiative.

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CREDITS:

Host/Producer: Samir Mourani

Co-Host: Matthew Chapman

Creative Director: Steven Branco

Video & Sound Editor: Roman Lapshin

Video & Sound Technician: Poncho Navarro

Studio: Startwell Studios