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Welcome to the Hope Illuminated Podcast, your source for the stories, science and strategy of suicide prevention, mental health promotion and resilience where we live, learn, and work. I’m your host, Dr.
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Depression as a Love Letter: Human Connection, Life Transitions & Scaling Peer Support with Nick Freud (opens the original)
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In this episode of Hope Illuminated, I'm joined by Nick Freud, entrepreneur, deep thinker, and founder of Fellow Humans, a platform being developed to match people navigating life transitions with peers who have already lived through the same experience. Nick arrives with an unusual combination of credentials: a last name that invites inevitable comparisons to Sigmund Freud, a background in education technology, a lived experience of burnout and depression, and a working theory that the mental h
Suffering Is Disconnection: Co-Regulation, Real Conversations & Going Toward the Pain with Mitch Wallis (opens the original)
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In this episode of Hope Illuminated, I'm joined by Mitch Wallis for one of the most intellectually rich and personally moving conversations I've had on this podcast. Mitch arrives with a rare combination: more than two decades of lived experience managing complex mental illnesses, a master's in clinical psychology from Columbia, and an extraordinary ability to translate neuroscience into language that any human being can act on immediately. His mantra, "go toward the pain," is both a personal pr
The Invisible Sacrifice: Mental Health and Well-Being in Construction with Aaron Witt (opens the original)
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In this episode of Hope Illuminated, I'm joined by Aaron Witt - founder and CEO of Buildwitt, the fastest-growing media and workforce development platform dedicated to the "dirt world" of critical infrastructure, natural resources, and heavy civil construction. Aaron is a rare voice in this space: someone who has worked the job sites himself, who carries genuine reverence for the people who build the world, and who has built a multi-platform company around the conviction that this industry's fut
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