4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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In this episode of the Align podcast, Zak Williams talks about the current mental health epidemic, and its impact on future generations. We dive deep into his childhood and his relationship with his late father, actor Robin Williams. We also explore the long-term impact of digital overcrowding and its effects on mental wellbeing, as well as coping mechanisms for trauma. A lot can be solved by celebrating loved ones, tapping into our self-awareness, and being kinder to ourselves and others.
Zak Williams is CEO and co-founder of neurotransmitter health company PYM, a mental health advocate and speaker, and an investor in technology and consumer packaged goods companies.
Zak is passionate about developing best-in-class products and experiences to provide effective, sustainable products for supporting optimal mental wellness and alleviating anxiety and depression through mental hygiene. As a mental health advocate, he focuses his time and effort on sharing his story and his experiences to support initiatives and campaigns seeking to remove the stigma and address the challenges associated with mental health topics.
Zak is a US trustee of the international advocacy organization United for Global Mental Health, a board member of mental health awareness non-profit Bring Change 2 Mind, and an advisor to national policy organization Inseparable and the mental health tech platform Project Healthy Minds. He received an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from New York university where he majored in Linguistics.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lion Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together |
0:06.6 | the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, |
0:10.3 | body, and movement. Today's guest is the fantastic Zach Williams. He is the son of the late |
0:18.6 | great Robin Williams, and he is the founder of a company called PIM, which is a mental hygiene company where they create |
0:28.0 | supplements specifically geared towards supporting one's mental health. |
0:33.0 | This conversation is very vulnerable. |
0:35.0 | It gets into his childhood with Robin, his father, |
0:39.0 | gets into things that he's learned from his father, |
0:41.4 | and gets into things that he's learned in his own mental health |
0:44.0 | journey and it's just a very raw real authentic vulnerable conversation with someone that I have a lot of admiration for. So I hope you |
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1:00.9 | the videos as well as instructful content and |
1:03.9 | thanks for doing you. Let's get to it with the great |
1:07.6 | Zach Williams. |
1:08.8 | How you feel it, man? |
1:12.4 | Good. |
1:13.0 | Feeling good. |
1:15.0 | You do any kind of breath work practices or mindfulness practices? |
1:19.0 | I know you're into having a gratitude practice from what I've heard in other podcasts? |
1:25.0 | Yeah, well, you know, I've recently started getting into transcendental meditation. |
1:31.0 | Oh, cool. |
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