Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice.

Hello, this is James and welcome to the podcast.

And our sponsor this week is the J-A-E-C Foundation, which is hosting an international conference on open dialogue this August.

And you can visit the website, jaecFoundation.org, for more information.

And now on to our interview.

Hello and welcome to the podcast.

And this week we are really pleased to be announcing the launch of a new global affiliated site, which is Madden Island.

Madden Island launches on August 22nd and joins our other global sites, which include Madden the UK,

Madden Canada, Mad in Finland and Madin Brazil,

amongst others. Joining me to discuss the launch and the important role that Madden Island will play

are Liam McGowan, Martha Griffin, Elaine Brown and Harry Gibles, who are part of a team that

has been working hard to get Madden Island up and running.

Before we hear from them, you can also help us to get Madden Island up and running.

So please do go and visit the sites, which can be found online at madden Island.com.

And when you visit, please share the site also on social media and with friends and colleagues

and please support madden island as it grows and develops okay um welcome all thank you so much

for joining me today for the madden america podcast and um we're it's very exciting we're here

today to talk about the launch of madden Island, which is not too far away now.

And this is going to be a new of our global sites affiliated with Madden America.

We'll come on to talk a little bit about the site.

But I wondered first if you could each briefly introduce yourselves and maybe say a few words about how you came

to be involved in the project to launch Madden Island. My name is Harry Gibles and thanks James

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