Shot of Digital Health Therapy

A Shot of Digital Health Therapy is a meticulously unproduced podcast hosted by health tech founders Eugene Borukhovich and Jim Joyce. Born in the pandemic, therapeutic by designβ€”oh, and comedy is still included. We dive into unscripted conversations with the people shaping employer benefits, digital health moonshots, and the broader healthcare system. From real talk to ridiculous tangents, we spotlight the builders, thinkers, and occasional troublemakers moving the industry forward. We'd love to have you join us.

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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Glen Stettin, MD
Wednesday is #funday - aka #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. and today Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of reconnecting with Glen Stettin, MD, Chief Innovation Officer at Evernorth where we discussed: πŸ’Š Teachable moments πŸ’Š Role of an innovation officer πŸ’Š Disparities in care πŸ’Š "You are not your disease" πŸ’Š Digital Formulary πŸ’Š oh and.... advice: "Be in the flow" Fun mentions as always: Tim Wentworth Pear Therapeutics Voluntis Pierre Leurent Corey McCann Frank Neumann Dawn Sherman Kenny Klepper David Snow Mark Bini Jeff Berkowitz
38 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Keeshia Muhammad
#TGIW (its Wednesday) which means its #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy Day! Jim Joyce and I hosted Keeshia Muhammad, finance exec turned marketing exec and never looked back (and now a board member at HealthBeacon!!!) : βœ… Is #digitalhealth real for pharma marketing budgets? βœ… Long term vs. short term investment into digital health βœ… Longevity of innovation teams πŸ˜‚ βœ… Board diversity & thinking for startups βœ… oh and.... shout out to Pittsburgh
40 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Lina Wenner
On today's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I are are on the same timezone and even the same coast in US - woo hoo! ..but our guest zooms in from my old stomping grounds in Berlin - Jim and I had the pleasure of hosting Lina Wenner, an investor with firstminute capital and chatted about: πŸ’Έ Their new $160M fund with 100 unicorn founders as LP's πŸ’Έ Is there a "Tiger Global Squeeze" at seed stage? πŸ’Έ firstminute capital health investments & things to watch πŸ’Έ Coined here first - 4Ts of investment - Team, TAM, Tech, Traction πŸ’Έ ooh and the pros/cons of health consumerism Fun mentions as always: Brent Hoberman Spencer Crawley Founders Forum
45 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Keith Grimes
This week, #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy returns to where it all started ... the NJ Garage (to be clear Jim Joyce is still in Dublin!). After some commercial breaks, Jim and I had a blast geeking out with the self-described 4G man (GP, Gamer, Geek, Giant) Keith Grimes: πŸ₯½ #QuantifiedSelf in Primary Care πŸ₯½ CGM & Metabolic Health πŸ₯½ Chatbots vs. or with. Humans πŸ₯½ VR / AR/ XR and the future πŸ₯½ oh and chatbots for sexual health .... Fun Mentions as always: Brian Dolan David Albert AliveCor Inc. Josh Clemente Levels AppliedVR Psious Xavier Palomer Ripoll Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS β˜€οΈManeesh Juneja Maarten den Braber Babylon Health
46 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Chris Hogg
On today's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I pulled Chris Hogg away from his "break" and his dissection of the never ending S-1's and got deep into: 🧩 Evolution of #digitalhealth : tech - problem - value 🧩 Behavior hooks and early days of #quantifiedself 🧩 Everyone wants to be the "front door" of healthcare 🧩 Lego-Healthcare 🧩 The Tiger Global Squeeze and valuations 🧩 Virtual Care is Everywhere Fun mentions as always: Matthew Holt Indu Subaiya MD, MBA David Van Sickle Maarten den Braber Gary Wolf BJ Fogg ResMed Truepill
49 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Fredrik Debong
In our first ever pre-announced #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I thoroughly enjoyed speaking with a dear friend Fredrik Debong, co-founder of mySugr and now hi.health - we unpacked so much wisdom there: πŸ₯ƒ Dumbest & Smartest move made at mySugr πŸ₯ƒ 7 Deadly sins for big impact in health πŸ₯ƒ Tattoos and love for products πŸ₯ƒ Black Mirror of Diabetes πŸ₯ƒ Combining insuretech, fintech and healtech - aka hi.health πŸ₯ƒ Health Expense Accounts πŸ₯ƒ oh.. and pondering about scaling #digitalhealth in Europe Fun mentions as always: Lisa Suennen and her new definition of SPAC, Zayna Khayat, Martin Kelly, Robert Garber 7wireVentures , Min-Sung Sean Kim Sebastian Gruber
48 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Jonah Comstock
In this birthday edition of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce offered me to postpone the show to Thursday, but our millions of listeners would be disappointed and this would have broken our tradition - the show must always go on! So today we got to hang with Jonah Comstock, Editor-in-Chief for HIMSS Media : πŸ—ž Unpopular opinion: Funding rounds are NOT everything.. πŸ—ž The phases of #digitalhealth πŸ—ž Next generation of virtual care πŸ—ž "1M point solutions for 1M conditions" πŸ—ž Tip to entrepreneurs for pitching journalists HINT: journalists are people too πŸ—ž oh and... i busted on Dan Vahdat and Huma's $130M round Fun mentions as always: Christina Farr Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa Paul Sonnier Michelle Longmire Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH Ritesh Patel Brian Dolan Daniel Couchman Kendall
44 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Sridhar Iyengar
Jim Joyce and I decided to skip our usual season wrap-up episode and jump right into Season 6!! Thanks to all of the amazing guests of season 5 and getting Jim and I through another 10 weeks :) We thoroughly enjoyed #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Season 6 kick off with Sridhar Iyengar who has been building #digitalhealth businesses before it was #digitalhealth from AgaMatrix, Misfit Wearables and now Elemental Machines | Your connected platform for Accelerating Science!: πŸ§ͺ One of the first #digitalhealth devices πŸ§ͺ Building products: Passive or Passion πŸ§ͺ Using Amazon reviews for product feedback πŸ§ͺ From CTO to CEO journey πŸ§ͺ Synthetic Biology πŸ§ͺ and... some data is always better than no data Fun mentions as always: Season 5 crew first: Ritesh Patel AndrΓ© Blackman Michael Dillhyon Zayna Khayat Lilly Stairs Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Susan Bratton Meghan FitzGerald Vonda Wright MD, MS Alexandra Drane Sonny Vu Brooke Cote John Sculley
54 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Alexandra Drane
SEASON 5 FINALE: Today's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy was all about "Love ❀️ & Scars". Jim Joyce and I got the mid-week energy boost from the super amazing Alexandra Drane and what a season 5 ending: ❀️ Public speaking tips. Hint: Humility is key ❀️ Unmentionables and talking about death ❀️ Having a mid-life crisis at least once a year ❀️ Life goes, health goes ❀️ Retail is the front door of health (and life) ❀️ Everybody has a story ☎️ and..... ARCHANGELS and the red phone Fun mentions as always: Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa Lisa Suennen Susannah Fox Esther Dyson Wellville Marcus Osborne
51 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Dr. Vonda Wright
#TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy is here, which means its Wednesday! Today, Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of getting to know Vonda Wright MD, MS, who is a surgeon, speaker, author and a fellow podcaster so we had lots to talk about: πŸ₯‡ Sports Medicine and Human Performance πŸ₯‡ 80% of healthcare decisions made by women πŸ₯‡ Ideas are cheap! πŸ₯‡ Fitness over 40 πŸ₯‡ oh and.... "50% of women have no orgasms"... Fun mentions as always: Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa WTF Health Brian Dolan Scott Shreeve, MD Stefano Bini Daniel Kraft, MD DOCSF: Digital Orthopaedics Conference San Francisco (DOCSF) GoodRx HealthiNationa Daniel Couchman Kendall
39 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Meghan FitzGe...
On today's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure to host the ever-energetic public health capitalist and a dealmaker Meghan FitzGerald. From emergency room to the boardroom, her book "Ascending Davos" and many other topics such as: πŸ—» Capital, Content, Connections πŸ—» Law of abundance πŸ—» Asymmetric Information πŸ—»Human to tech ratios πŸ—» SPAC carnage or not? πŸ—»oh ...and Coachella & jumping out of planes... Fun mentions as always: Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa Better Therapeutics Mindbloom Missy Krasner Martin Kelly Steve Seuntjens Francesca Wuttke Corey McCann Ritesh Patel
52 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Susan Bratton
Wednesday couldn't come fast enough this week.. and in this #HappyBirthday Jim Joyce episode of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy we had the pleasure to chat with a 'recovering healthcare banker turned healthcare transformer' Susan Bratton, CEO and Founder of Savor Health. The discussion went deep: πŸ₯¦ Food-as-medicine πŸ₯¦ Nutrition as a key lever in health πŸ₯¦ Nutrition in Oncology πŸ₯¦ Behavioral Psychology & Belief Systems πŸ₯¦ oh and... "no sacred cows" Fun mentions as always: StartUp Health Dean Ornish, M.D. Mark Hyman, MD James Clear #foodasmedicine #nutrition #nutritionmonth #oncology #digitalhealth
49 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Jane Sarasohn...
Jim Joyce and I had to abandon the #covid19-free zone as we focused on health consumer on today's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. There is no-one better to talk about health consuming than the amazing Jane Sarasohn-Kahn. There was sooooo much to unpack so I really struggled to pick just a few topics here: βœ… All Health is now retail βœ… The edges of trust during pandemic βœ… #MentalHealth baked into primary health βœ… Patients and data altruism βœ… Designing Empathy βœ… oh and.. wise words from Jane.... #healthequitynow Fun mentions as always: Martin Kelly Lisa Suennen Susannah Fox Alexandra Drane Matthew Holt Scott Shreeve, MD Crossover Health Brian Dolan Exits & Outcomes Kevin Darcy, PhD, CFA
48 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Lilly Stairs ...
Jim Joyce and I just had our celebratory 50th episode of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - wow! πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ We were honored to have Lilly Stairs join us today. Lilly is simply full of energy and made her journey from a self-described "Autoimmune Barbie" to #ChronicBoss (heard it here 1st) but we also talked: πŸ‘‚ Hearing vs. Listening to Patients πŸ‘‚ Tech + Human Touch πŸ‘‚ Combining Western and Eastern methods πŸ‘‚ Autoimmune Awareness Month πŸ‘‚ oh and.. words of wisdom to #startups (hint: authenticity) Fun mentions as always: Russell Glass Jessica DaMassa Robert Garber Lee Shapiro Mette Dyhrberg Mymee Melinda Decker Deborah Kilpatrick Christine Lemke PatientPing Jay Desai
44 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Zayna Khayat
On this #StPatricksDay special of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I hung out with the amazing Zayna Khayat who I think is also our first guest who will be on a television show!! This episode we talked all about future of aging: ☘️ The age of ageism is upon us ☘️ The 5 chapters of Future of Aging ☘️ 70% of people die in hospitals, 80% want to die at home ☘️ What is a "shift disturber" ☘️ oh and.. the television show Zayna will be on! Special Shout outs to: Ofer Leidner Happify Health team on the $73M raise but the rest we leave upto Jessica DaMassa & Matthew Holt Fun Mentions as always: Lucien Engelen Erik Gerritsen Alexandra Drane Grand Rounds Doctor On Demand Robert Garber
46 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Andre Blackman
Today, Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of finally catching up with AndrΓ© Blackman on #TheShot of #DigitalHealth. Andre grew up a nerd and studied to be an airspace engineer before discovering a passion for public health. Aside from reminiscing about the past of Health 2.0 and some of the OG crew we also talked: βœ… Digital Divide is real βœ… The future of health & care workforce βœ… Diversity & Inclusion in health βœ… Andre's deep thoughts on "The Reversal" of public health βœ… oh and.. his recommendation for a documentary "Interruptors" Fun mentions as always: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Susannah Fox John Brownstein Chris Hogg Alexandra Drane HealthXL Rock Health Melissa Hanna Mahmee
45 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Michael Dillhyon
#TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy is here and once again, Jim Joyce and I reach new highs with our guest, Michael Dillhyon who decided to take this session from the slopes! Was a fun filled chat with some fun topics: β›· What does a mother-in-law have to do with heart ❀️ rate? β›· "Everything will be awesome!!" and SPACs β›· #Entrepreneurship is an addiction β›· Michael's #digitalhealth outlook β›· Top 5 tips for #healthtech entrepreneurs β›· and... a big reveal??? Fun mentions as always: Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Jamey Edwards Sridhar Iyengar VitalConnect Conor Hanley
50 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Ritesh Patel
Season 5!!! Jim Joyce and I had such an amazing time on #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy this week with someone who brings people together as a DJ, as a restauranteur but also in his primary gig as a CDO at Ogilvy Consulting - Ritesh Patel. In our longest episode ever we talked: 🎡 Decision making in pharma 🎡 The role of the consumer in health 🎡 Innovation at the edges 🎡 Brining human back at the center of the digital health experience 🎡 ..and hence.. Is #digitalhealth dead? Fun mentions as always: Shwen Gwee John Pugh Jeff Berkowitz Kyle Shannon Jacob LaPorte, Ph.D. Robin Roberts Melinda Richter Vishal Gulati Gautam Gulati, MD,MBA,MPH David Albert AliveCor Inc.
60 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Season 4 Finale
Four Seasons Jim Joyce! (and not the landscaping kind..) This is our wrap up episode of Season 4, but don't sweat it - we have renewed all of our deals with YouTube, Spotify, Apple, Amazon and many more and will be back with Season 5 next Wednesday. This is your chance to preview all of our episodes in a rapid fire way and choose which one you would like to dive into deeper - πŸ“Ί Watch it now - https://youtu.be/iaKfOCHD4YU or 🎧 listen to it on your favorite podcast player - https://megaphone.link/DHT9105197541 πŸ“Ί Jamey Edwards - https://youtu.be/L5Ys4k58Uu8 πŸ“Ί AMIR KALALI, MD - https://youtu.be/WBCxAjA9bgY πŸ“Ί Michelle Longmire - https://youtu.be/ysFT5na9-0c πŸ“Ί Jim & I 2020 Wrap-up - https://youtu.be/o8e6sLq8fsU πŸ“Ί Joshua Haynes - https://youtu.be/GFXa20xTJ_s πŸ“Ί Scott Shreeve, MD - https://youtu.be/dl0w9hheKN4 πŸ“Ί Francesca Wuttke, Robert Garber, Martin Kelly - https://youtu.be/CgTeSH2EVfQ πŸ“Ί Carlos Rodarte - https://youtu.be/LAIYzdwWWO0 πŸ“Ί Rebecca Love RN, MSN, FIEL - https://youtu.be/_u7ZOkRWAyY πŸ“Ί Jeff Berkowitz - https://youtu.be/ia9LtU4CSx8 Fun Mentions as always: Craig Lipset Jill Pierse Steve Seuntjens
44 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Jeff Berkowitz
Jim Joyce and I could have riffed for hours with today's guest on #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Jeff Berkowitz, CEO of Real Endpoints. Thanks to Jim, Jeff and I reconnected last summer and today was the day of walking down the memory lane for all three of us: πŸ’Š Schering-Plough diaspora πŸ’Š Pharma companies and global vs. local πŸ’Š Digital Theraputics and market access πŸ’Š Can #DTx be the new Patient Support Programs πŸ’Š oh and a free SPAC idea for targets... ☝️ Special shout outs to Jason Calacanis & besties on The All-In Podcast, Kevin O'Leary and his Oscar S-1 break down, Andy Mychkovsky πŸ• and his tweet on too many SPACs with no targets.. Fun mentions as always: Chris Bergstrom Amalgam Rx Dawn Sherman, Martin Kelly aka #MartyParty, Brian Dolan, Fred Hassan, Joseph LaRosa, Roch Doliveux , Paul Hudson
53 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Rebecca Love
Today's guest brought so much energy to #TheShot of #DigitalHealth that it boosted Jim Joyce and I easily till next Wednesday. Today, we had the pleasure to talk "everything nurses" with the amazing Rebecca Love: πŸ‘©β€βš•οΈ Some shocking stats on nurses (4M in US, 18M 🌎) but more importantly the shortage and 50% leave bedside after 1-2 years πŸ‘©β€βš•οΈ Nurse hackathons and 18 months form idea to business πŸ‘©β€βš•οΈ Why every nurse should look into becoming a #healthcoach (YourCoach.Health contribution) πŸ‘©β€βš•οΈ Why nurses do great startup pitches (hint: they get about 20 seconds of doctors time to say the most important thing about the most important patient) πŸ‘©β€βš•οΈ The Fauci Effect!!! πŸ‘©β€βš•οΈ oh and Rebecca's advice to nursepreneurs" You are either killing it ,or it is killing you" Fun mentions as always: Jill Pierse (special shout out!), Robin Wauters, Ana Maiques (Clubhouse), Shawna Butler, RN MBA, OptimizeRx, William Febbo, Michael Dillhyon (#HBD), SONSIEL- Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs & Leaders
47 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Carlos Rodarte
Things are just getting even more intense on #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. Jim and I had our first dog on our show making an appearance along with our awesome guest Carlos Rodarte and we chatted about: 🐢 Patient Communities and the early days of PatientsLikeMe, LLC. 🐢 Carlos's time in a suit at #JPM while he was at Health Catalyst 🐢 Are #DigitalHealth companies doing enough tackling SDOH, diversity & inclusion? 🐢 Carlos hinted at his new stealth-mode company hint: #DTx space 🐢 oh and you have to watch all 3 of us doing pushups during the show and then trying to catch our breath #mentalhealth Fun mentions as always: Marco Mohwinckel Jamie Heywood André Blackman (shamed him), Nikhil Krishnan and his awesome piece on communities, Chandana Fitzgerald, Ritesh Patel, Daniel Couchman Kendall, Pierre Leurent, Voluntis, Gilles Frydman
47 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Inauguration E...
In this #inauguration edition πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ of #TheShot of #digitalhealth therapy, Jim Joyce and I had our SHORTEST episode with the MOST people and BRAINPOWER all in one including Martin Kelly, Francesca Wuttke and Robert Garber. It was a hot mess, we were all over the map, I exposed my #Clubhouse addiction, but we made it through the 5 predictions that HealthXL team put together... sort of..: πŸŽ‰ Health @ Home is the future πŸŽ‰ New end-to-end care models, bridging virtual/physical care πŸŽ‰ Precision health - Digital Biomarkers as part of Clinical Trials πŸŽ‰ Pharmacies will position as community hubs for digital πŸŽ‰ Prescription DTx will expand formularies and reimbursement Fun mentions as always: Lisa Suennen, Scott Shreeve, MD, Crossover Health, One Medical, Matthew Holt, Vishal Gulati,
34 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Scott Shreeve...
In our #JPM edition of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth, Jim Joyce and I got introduced at a virtual bar to the ever-energetic Scott Shreeve, MD, CEO of Crossover Health. This was a first for Jim and I, where neither one of us knew Scott before but we hit it of and had some fun talking about: πŸ„β€β™‚οΈ Scott's journey from studying economics and zoology to emergency room doc to being a CEO πŸ„β€β™‚οΈ Early days of moving from Health 1.0 to 2.0 πŸ„β€β™‚οΈ What it means to be a trained hypertasker πŸ„β€β™‚οΈ Employers are really innovative payers πŸ„β€β™‚οΈ Primary Health = health monitoring πŸ„β€β™‚οΈ Being an entrepreneur is like walking through desert.. πŸ„β€β™‚οΈ oh.. and.. will Crossover Health do an IPO?? Fun mentions as always: Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa Alex Fair Katie Higgins Daniel J. Oftedahl Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH
49 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Joshua Haynes
Happy New Year! This is our first 2021 episode of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy and Jim Joyce & I decided to start it off with a focus on #mentalhealth. Joshua Haynes at Masawa was kind enough to join us and chat all things brain: 🧠 Biology, technology, humans and impact of each to #mentalhealth 🧠 Some crazy stats on #startup founders and #mentalhealth 🧠 Funding into #mentalhealth space 🧠 Is the silver lining of #COVID = reduced stigma around #mentalhealth ? 🧠 Importance of gratitude 🧠 oh and Jim Joyce's conclusion that #entrepreneurship = #psychotherapy .... Fun mentions as always: Brian Dolan and Exits & Outcomes new UnitedHealth Group report, Martin Kelly & HealthXL upcoming #DTx report (together with Brian), Megan Jones Bell (Headspace Inc.), Sanvello Health (Monika Roots, MD, FAPA, Dale Beermann), Meru Health (Kristian Ranta), Mapmygenome - Know Yourself (Anu Acharya), Steve Agular Conor Hanley Tim Ferriss Peter Attia
48 min