Chris Bullard - The Sound Mind Festival

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Chris Bullard is the executive-director of the Sound Mind Live Festival, scheduled for May 20 in Brooklyn, New York.

A former touring musician. Bullard performed with acts such as Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. Subsequent to receiving his MBA, he oversaw portfolio management at Acumen, a global non-profit impact investing fund focused on poverty alleviation.

Bullard created the festival based on his personal experience of overcoming mental health stigma after he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in his mid-20s. Prior to founding Sound Mind, Chris also founded a music support group program for those affected by mental illness with the National Alliance on Mental Illness in New York City.

He holds a BA from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Fordham University.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice.
0:13.8	Hello, everybody. I'm here today with Amy B. Ncoli for what I think is going to be a really
0:20.0	wonderful and interesting conversation
0:22.0	about music, musicians, the music industry, and mental health.
0:27.0	We're starting off talking with Chris Bullard, the executive director of Sound Mind Festival,
0:32.6	coming up on May 20th in Brooklyn, New York.
0:35.9	Amy and I will be there, and I will be on a panel on lived experience
0:39.8	with Chris and the musician Langhorn Slim.
0:43.4	The festival will address important issues
0:46.0	within the music industry,
0:47.7	like youth, lived experience,
0:49.5	marginalized communities, stigma, and social justice.
0:53.6	Hi, I'm Amy Biancoly, family editor for Madin America, and I also report and write for
1:00.6	MIA.
1:01.5	I'm really excited to be a part of this discussion, particularly because I'm a musician,
1:07.4	myself, I play some amateur fiddle, and I've also written articles specifically on
1:12.9	music and mental health. So happy to be here with you, Amy. And I'm Karin-Jurbert and I'm the
1:19.0	arts editor here at Mad in America. So Chris, Amy and I are so excited to have you here today
1:24.9	for this conversation. And I'm going to introduce you a little bit.
1:30.2	Chris Bullard is a former touring musician.
1:33.3	Chris performed with acts such as Willie Nelson and Chris Christofferson.
1:38.2	Subsequent to receiving his MBA, Chris oversaw portfolio management at Acumen,
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