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Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Danny Gray - Is Talking about Mental Health Enough?

Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat

Business, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Relationships, Society & Culture, Change, Google, Slo Mo, Anxiety, Meditation, Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy, Happiness, Education, Scary Smart, Self-improvement, Depression, Self Improvement

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Around 2 months ago a friend of mine in London wanted to introduce me to a start-up, that he said was making big changes in the well-being space. I reluctantly agreed to meet the team and to my surprise, the idea they pitched blew me away. In fact, as cheesy as it sounds, they got me at 'Hello!'For full disclosure, I ended up investing in the organisation because they have one free component. I'm on the board of directors and also offering tech advice. JAAQ, an online mental well-being platfo...

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0:00.0

I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

0:16.3

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

0:20.3

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

0:25.0

Welcome to slow more. Welcome to slow more. Welcome back. Today's conversation is one that is really, really important to me.

0:39.7

Around two months ago, one of my dear friends in the UK, Kevin, who is a banker but also a very nice human being.

0:48.0

Kevin basically came to me and said, you have to meet this startup.

0:52.0

This is really, really trying to change things in

0:56.0

the mental well-being in the in the well-being space in general and I was like yeah

1:00.8

Kevin you know maybe, and so on.

1:03.4

And he said, just do it for me.

1:05.1

I need you to meet them.

1:06.2

And we went for a coffee, and I sit with the team,

1:12.2

and they are pitching me an idea where I found myself sitting down

1:17.8

silently watching the demo of a ready for production, app and interface and website and so on, that basically blew me away.

1:28.0

I sat down, I didn't say a word, and later the founder of the business sort of told me I got really worried like why are you not saying anything?

1:37.0

Because cheesy as it sounds they got me at hello the minute I saw the original interface I basically

1:44.8

decided in my mind that that actually might be the answer. I'll tell you why in a minute

1:49.3

but just for full disclosure I ended up investing in the organization because they have

1:55.9

one free component to it that is actually free for everyone basically and could

2:01.9

make a massive difference to mental well-being and well-being in general.

2:05.6

I started to be on their board of directors and to be an advisor for the technology side of what they're trying to do

2:12.3

in an attempt to also help them

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