Hey It Gets Better Katie Watson

In this episode, I chatted with Sean Ruane, the founder of Mind Data. 

After suffering from suicidal depression in 2015, Sean made it his mission to pay it forward and became an advocate for person-to-person therapy.

Sean graduated First Class from Buckingham Business School and joined the founding team of an HR tech start-up in London, which grew rapidly to the point of exit in 2019. This experience taught him that technology solutions could improve processes people did not question before.

With Mind Data Sean wants to bring his life experiences together by addressing some of the challenges he experienced with the traditional therapy process and offering a disruptive solution to the mental health space. He is on a personal mission to improve the mental health of one million people.

In this episode, I chatted to Alex Manzi who is the host of the UK's number 1 Life Coaching podcast 'In The Moment'.  

After going through his own battles with Depression and Anxiety, Alex decided to start a platform to help inspire people to live with more clarity and happiness, by challenging the way they think, opening up their minds and inviting them to live in the moment. And, from that, the podcast was born. He also released his self-published book ‘The Search For Clarity’, sharing his learnings and experiences of living from a negative headspace to now living from a place of happiness and clarity.

Alex has so much wisdom and I felt like I had so much more clarity with my own journey after interviewing him. I hope that you too will gain some clarity from this episode. 

If you'd like to find out more from Alex, follow him on Instagram @iamalexmanzi 

In this episode, I chatted with Zak Marks, co-founder & CEO at Kitt Medical. Zak has been deathly allergic to nuts all his life. He tries to always keep two adrenaline auto-injectors on himself, but they’re bulky, easy to forget and expire often. He originally designed Kitt (called ana. at the time) during his final year of university as he wanted to create something that could work like a defibrillator, but for allergies. Little did he know at the time that it would be the start of an incredible journey. 

Since then the idea has developed into a business and he has grown an incredible, passionate team around him. Together they're creating a new standard for allergy care. What is it like building a business in your twenties? How do you look after yourself? What are the challenges? These are the questions Zak discusses in our episode. 

In this episode, I chatted with Amy Louise Jackson. Amy is a Self Discovery and Empowerment Coach, NLP Trainer and Business Mentor dedicated to helping ambitious humans get unstuck, beat the overwhelm and take action to live a life that lights them up! Having spent the first 30 years of her life doing what she calls 'tick-box living', Amy understands first-hand that getting super clear on who you are and what's important to you is the foundation to building a life that you love, and she's on a mission to help others do just that!

In this episode, I am joined by Sina Sadrzadeh. We talk about Sina's experience of entrepreneurship and the closing of his first business Peppercorn. We also speak about finding your identity. 

Sina is the co-founder of Wing, the digital in-person networking tool aiming to completely eradicate paper business cards and innovating in-person events. Sina is also the Head of Growth at Series A funded NFT marketplace, myNFT aiming to make NFTs more accessible. Sina is a serial podcast host, hosting The Millennial Entrepreneur, London Tech Week's Elevating Founders podcast, and Inside the TeqDen.

This week I am joined by Caitlin Rozario, an incredibly impressive human. 

Caitlin is the co-founder of interlude, a new way for businesses and workers to supercharge their productivity through the power of high-quality work breaks. 

Caitlin is determined to drive positive change in workplace culture and ultimately make work days better. A content marketer by trade, Caitlin graduated from Cambridge and UCL and recently completed her MBA.

In this episode, Caitlin talks about her experience of losing her sight whilst she was at university, how taking breaks was important for her and inspired Interlude. Caitlin also shares her experience of anxiety and why we don't need to fix ourselves. 

Not only is Cailtin an example of how life gets better but she is making the lives of others better too. 

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