Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Fixing America’s Mental Health Crisis
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Andrew Yang Podcast, Andrew speaks with Jono Wilde, the Executive Director of the Good Life Movement, about America’s growing mental health crisis and how policy can be part of the solution. Together, they discuss the impact of smartphones, social isolation, and economic stress on mental health, and introduce a bold new initiative: the Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness Act, a proposed civil rights bill for mental health reform. Jono shares his personal story of loss, his father’s struggle with bipolar disorder, and how that tragedy inspired him to take action. Discover how bipartisan support, community, and awareness can drive change toward a healthier, more connected nation.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on the Andrew Yang podcast. I think it's a compounding effect of neglect that we've never |
| 0:08.8 | approached mental health with the same kind of reverence that we have physical health in this |
| 0:12.0 | country. So you have this perfect storm of us never treating the problem with any kind of serious |
| 0:18.1 | intent. And then when you pile on top of that, this out of control technology |
| 0:22.7 | that makes it just far too easy for people to get into their own head, get stuck in a rabbit hole |
| 0:27.3 | and have no way and no care and no resources to get out of it, I mean, it's no wonder that it is what it is. |
| 0:46.5 | It is my pleasure to welcome to the podcast, the executive director of the Good Life Movement and Forward Party executive committee member for this great state of Colorado. |
| 0:53.4 | John O Wilde. welcome, Johno. |
| 0:55.0 | Nice to be here, Angie. |
| 0:56.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:57.0 | Sharp-eared consumers of this podcast will be like, Good Life Movement. |
| 1:00.0 | That sounds familiar. |
| 1:02.0 | I think I remember this. |
| 1:04.0 | So a little bit of a back story. |
| 1:08.0 | One of the folks who worked on my campaign who actually came up with the math hat, |
| 1:11.7 | which is now one of his claims to fame. I don't know if you know about him. Andrew Frawley |
| 1:15.8 | was on the podcast now, gosh, it might have been two years ago or so to talk about kicking |
| 1:21.6 | off the good life movement, which is a movement that is trying to center mental health |
| 1:26.8 | solutions for public policy. And I was like, |
| 1:31.2 | that doesn't exist? And he was like, no, it doesn't. And I looked into it. And I was like, |
| 1:34.4 | oh my gosh, he's right. Despite the fact that just about every American under the sun believes that |
| 1:40.4 | we should be doing more on mental health and we can go into like the the stats and the rest of it. |
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