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The Genius Life

181: Practical and Low Cost Solutions for Depression, Grief, Alcoholism, and Suicidality | Zak Williams

The Genius Life

Max Lugavere

Health & Fitness

4.74.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Zak Williams is a mental health advocate and co-founder and CEO of Prepare Your Mind, a company that creates all-natural amino acid mood chews. Zak shares how the death by suicide of his late father, Robin Williams, galvanized his campaign for mental health advocacy and helped him heal in the service of others. Full show notes: https://maxlugavere.com/podcast/181-zak-williams

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's going on family welcome to episode 181 of the Genius Life.

0:18.8

What's going on everybody welcome to another episode of the show I'm your host Max Lugovira

0:22.8

filmmaker, health and science journalist and author of The New York Times best selling book

0:26.0

Genius Foods and the Genius Life.

0:28.4

Guys today I'm thrilled to welcome Zach Williams to the show.

0:32.2

Zach is the son of the late Robin Williams actor and comedian love the world over who died

0:37.2

from suicide in 2014 at the age of 63.

0:40.4

Someone's after Robin Williams death it was revealed that he was suffering from a

0:44.4

Louis body dementia, the condition that my own mother suffered from for eight years

0:48.2

prior to her death.

0:49.4

In the aftermath of the tragedy Zach has become a passionate advocate for mental health.

0:54.0

Among his efforts he's the co-founder and CEO of Prepare Your Mind, a mission driven company

0:59.7

that creates all natural mood supporting products.

1:03.0

Over the next hour Zach shares how the death of his father galvanized his campaign for

1:07.0

mental health advocacy and helped him heal in the service of others.

1:11.4

We talk about dementia, we talk about alcoholism, we talk about suicide, we talk about depression,

1:16.4

we talk about therapy.

1:17.8

This episode runs deep and I really do hope that you listen all the way through to the end.

1:22.1

Before we get started I want to thank bi optimizers for helping me bring this episode

1:25.7

to you.

1:26.7

Bi optimizers has an incredible magnesium supplement called magnesium breakthrough that I'm a big

1:30.6

fan of.

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