Hi, nerds. I'm Michael Moore, hosting this podcast for dissecting popular IT nerds. I'm

Christian Scott, senior IT manager at New Direction's behavioral health. Hey, Christian, how's it going

today? It's going really well.

Thank you.

I heard that this is your first ever podcast, right?

That's true.

We're all being treated to the premiere of Christian's podcast career here.

Let's talk a little bit.

First, I want to, before,

I know usually do as random access memories.

I'm going to do that in a second,

but just I'm really interested in new directions,

behavioral health.

Real quick, what do they do?

So they provide what would typically be called the EAP benefit for most companies.

So if you had some need for your employees to have access to, you know, counselors or clinicians or things like that,

that's what that benefit is for.

So it's part of your health benefit that you typically get through HR.

Well, they negotiate these things with various insurance companies.

And we fill that little niche on the EAP side, the behavioral health portion.

I think this is a, I think, I think, I think it's fantastic.

I absolutely love that this company exists.

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