Mental health is often framed as something personal. Separate from work. Something you deal with on your own time. But once you’re leading a business, that framing no longer works. In this first episode of a new 4-part series, I sit down with Ashley Williams, founder of Divinity Science and the app Qubit, to talk about awareness and mental health as a leadership and capacity issue. This conversation moves beyond self-help and into something more practical. How our internal state affects the way we think, lead, make decisions, and carry responsibility. And why managing stress is not the same as understanding it. Ashley shares her path into this work, from early career roles in crisis-driven environments and corporate systems to building technology that supports mental, physical, spiritual, financial, and social wellness as an integrated system. This episode is about awareness as infrastructure. Not something you address once you’re overwhelmed. Something that supports how you function every day. In this episode, we explore: Why mental health stops being personal when you’re carrying real responsibility. The difference between managing stress and understanding it. How your internal state directly impacts leadership, decision-making, and capacity. Why awareness is foundational before any real change can occur. How technology can support mental health in a measurable, integrated way. Ashley Williams is the founder of Divinity Science and Qubit, an 8-dimensional total wellness app designed to support individualized mental, physical, spiritual, financial, and social health. Her work focuses on using technology and algorithms to support awareness, capacity, and long-term wellbeing. This episode is for you if: You’re leading a business or carrying high levels of responsibility. You’ve felt the quiet cost of operating at capacity for too long. You want a more grounded, practical conversation about mental health. You’re curious about how awareness impacts how you lead and build. This episode sets the foundation for the entire series. Enjoy! Ep.165 | Awareness + Your Mental Health with Ashley Williams Connect with Ashley on Linkedin For more, visit socialjanemedia.com