Today Mariel and Melissa welcome to Out Comes The Sun Zak Williams and Olivia June! Zak Williams is CEO and co-founder of neurotransmitter health company PYM, a mental health advocate and speaker, and an investor in technology and consumer packaged goods companies. Zak is passionate about developing best-in-class products and experiences to provide effective, sustainable products for supporting optimal mental wellness and alleviating anxiety and depression through mental hygiene. As a mental health advocate, he focuses his time and effort on sharing his story and his experiences to support initiatives and campaigns seeking to remove the stigma and address the challenges associated with mental health topics. Zak is a US trustee of the international advocacy organization United for Global Mental Health, a board member of the mental health awareness non-profit Bring Change 2 Mind, and an advisor to national policy organization Inseparable and the mental health tech platform Project Healthy Minds. He received an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from New York University where he majored in Linguistics. Olivia June is the co-founder of PYM, the mental hygiene company devoted to making safe, natural, and effective support for your mental health accessible through the lens of nutrition, metabolic mental health, and the practice of mental hygiene as a long-term mental health support solution. She is an entrepreneur, a mother, and an integrative nutrition health coach. Prior to co-founding PYM, she founded and lead VINA, a tech startup focused on the loneliness epidemic, backed by Greylock, Tinder, and NEA. Known for its App Store award-winning app Hey! VINA, a social discovery app often referred to as the “Tinder for (girl) friends”, that’s connected millions of women in 158 countries. Olivia is passionate about sustainable, fun, and approachable solutions to some of our biggest challenges as human beings, and has worked in market-creating companies in cryptocurrency, education, collaborative work environments, and food innovation in Silicon Valley for 13 years. Olivia and her work have been featured in The New York Times, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, The Atlantic, Wired, Glamour, The Doctors, Fast Company, The Guardian, Vice, and many more. Find out more at: https://youcanpym.com IG: @heyoliviajune, @zakpym Twitter: @oliviajune, @zakwilliams
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