Building a Mental Health Movement with Dan Murray-Serter
On The Mend
High Performance
4.9 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest is the entrepreneur and mental health advocate Dan Murray-Serter.
Dan has ten years’ experience of building up businesses but, also, of winding them down. He’s spoken publicly about his failures, as well as his personal experience with anxiety, insomnia, depression, burnout, body dysmorphia and bulimia. And the steps Dan took towards improving his own mental and physical health, led him to a new business in nutrition and supplements.
Dan and Matt get quite deep in this conversation, which covers spirituality, mental health, ayahuasca. and much more.
Related links:
The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Height
(01:28) The benefits and joy to be found in a regular walk
(04:43) A few of Dan’s favourite non-fiction books
(06:10) Finding fulfillment and embracing spirituality
(11:18) Dan on his upbringing and what he learned from his father
(18:44) Living in the present and getting the balance right as an entrepreneur
(20:26) Dan’s own mental health history (including insomnia)
(24:02) Dan’s life-changing visit to a dietician
(33:51) Dan’s experience with bulimia
(42:38) Assisted psychedelic therapy and ayahuasca
(56: 02) Finding your purpose (with a small p)
(01:02:28) Managing comparison and social media
(01:07:09) Matt’s outro
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| 0:09.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to On the Mend and if you are new to On the Mend, a very big hello and welcome to. |
| 0:14.0 | My name is Matt Willis and in this podcast we talk about addiction, recovery and resilience and all kinds of mental health issues, |
| 0:21.3 | with my guests sharing their expertise, experience and hard-earned wisdom. |
| 0:25.4 | This week's guest is Dan Murray Sertrter, a man who describes himself as a serial entrepreneur. |
| 0:31.3 | Dan has 10 years' experience of building up businesses, but also winding them down. |
| 0:35.6 | He's talked about his failures in public and on his secret |
| 0:38.3 | leaders podcast, which I'm a bit obsessed with. I advise you to check it out. Dan is also very |
| 0:43.0 | frank about his own experience of anxiety, insomnia and burnout and depression, which has inspired |
| 0:48.7 | his latest business venture in the supplements world. Dan is a new friend of mine. I love chatting to him. I kind of want him to be in my life more, |
| 0:59.0 | so I'm going to be pestering him a lot. So we get quite deep in this chat, which covers mental health, |
| 1:03.4 | spirituality, psychedelics, and much more. Enjoy it. |
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