I'm Fine. How are you?

Robert Fine

A podcast based on my own personal interests.

Episodes

  1. Episode 10 - An Interview with Sarah HIll, CEO and Chief Storyteller of Healium

    6D AGO ·  VIDEO

    Episode 10 - An Interview with Sarah HIll, CEO and Chief Storyteller of Healium

    Sarah Hill is the CEO and Chief Storyteller at Healium, a bio-interactive technology platform for relaxation training. Healium uses real-time biofeedback and neurofeedback stories to help people see what’s happening inside their bodies and gently learn how to shift it. Before this chapter, she spent 25 years as a TV journalist and news anchor, reporting from Congo, the Amazon, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Guatemala for NBC, ABC, and CBS news affiliates. She deployed with trauma teams in the aftermath of the tsunami and, after years of covering trauma, felt called to tell a different kind of story: one that helps people heal from it. Her work at Healium supports clinicians in pain, behavioral health, and VA settings, making stress management more visual, intuitive, and human. Ten peer-reviewed journals have published research about Healium, including Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Healium’s immersive VR kits are used in DOD and VA clinics to help people better self-manage stress, anxiety, PTSD, insomnia, pain, and burnout as part of a healthy lifestyle. After earning a dozen Mid-America Emmy Awards, she realized they were pretty great as toilet paper holders. These days, she builds biometrically powered stories enabled by a portfolio of system patents and connected to heart rate, EEG, fMRI, breath, skin conductance, and other sensor data. To her, any sensor that captures data can become a story with a very human metaphor. She also speaks frequently at conferences about media as medicine, AI content recommendations, and the future of digital health. Healium began in 2013 with a project called “Honor Everywhere,” which helped terminally ill and aging veterans visit memorials in VR when they couldn’t get there in person. That idea, making the invisible visible, still guides everything Healium does. She is also a heart attack survivor, which makes this work deeply personal. She lives in Missouri with her husband, two grown children, and a grandchild who keeps her grounded and on her toes.

    59 min
  2. Episode 7 – An Interview with Sean King O'Grady and Dr. Joel Gold, Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis

    10/17/2025 ·  VIDEO

    Episode 7 – An Interview with Sean King O'Grady and Dr. Joel Gold, Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis

    SUSPICIOUS MINDS is a docuseries, debuting today, October 17, 2025 ,that investigates the disturbing rise of artificial intelligence as a trigger for delusional thinking. You can watch the first and second episodes of the series now on: YouTube – Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis Apple – Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis Spotify – Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis iHeart – Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis Through powerful firsthand accounts and in-depth interviews with leading experts in psychiatry, neuroscience, and AI ethics, the series unpacks a growing psychological phenomenon: individuals developing complex, often life-altering delusions rooted in AI technologies. From chatbots to surveillance fears, we examine how emerging technologies are reshaping the landscape of paranoia and how these modern delusions echo, amplify, and challenge our historical understanding of the human mind. Led by psychiatrist Dr. Joel Gold and philosopher Ian Gold, PhD, who together first described the Truman Show Delusion (people believing they were on a reality TV show like Jim Carrey’s character in The Truman Show) and authored the groundbreaking book Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness (The Truman Show Delusion and Other Strange Beliefs), the series presents an urgent vision of just how dramatically culture can influence our minds. With a spirit of empathy, curiosity, and respect, we tell real patients’ riveting stories while plunging viewers deep into their mental states, as their reality becomes surreal, and then follow their journey toward managing their illness. We explore the future of treatment and prevention, and through these stories create larger conversations to help destigmatize this phenomenon. Interviews with the Golds and other top experts including psychologists, neuroscientists, ethicists, AI researchers, and cultural critics help viewers understand the science and culture behind the madness as we follow the trajectory from the Y2K-era near-future fiction of The Truman Show to tomorrow’s hyperreal, AI-dominated technological and cultural landscape — a world that would be almost unrecognizable to people living 100, 50, or even 10 years ago. The line between mental wellness and mental illness is incredibly thin, and we never know when something will trigger us, or someone we love. The goal of this series is to create awareness of these new and omnipresent digital triggers and explore the psychological minefield we find ourselves unexpectedly living in today. ABOUT SEAN KING O’GRADY Sean King O’Gradyis an award-winning filmmaker whose work spans narrative features, documentaries, and high-profile branded content. His films have screened at Sundance, Tribeca, Telluride, Berlin, Venice, TIFF, SXSW, Sitges, Fantastic Fest, and dozens of other major festivals worldwide. ABOUT DR. JOEL GOLD Joel Gold, MD is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine following a decade of being Clinical Associate Professor at the NYU School of Medicine. He is also on faculty at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York.Dr. Gold worked at Bellevue Hospital for 14 years where he became Director of Psychiatric Emergency Services and then Director of its outpatient department.

    53 min
  3. Episode 4 - An Interview with Dr. Michael Torrence, President of Motlow State Community College

    07/10/2025 ·  VIDEO

    Episode 4 - An Interview with Dr. Michael Torrence, President of Motlow State Community College

    Dr. Michael Torrence is the seventh seated President of Motlow State Community College. Since being named President in 2018, Motlow State has scaled its presence into international arenas connecting its rich history and location that directly ties the institution to the world-famous Jack Daniel Distillery, George Dickel Tennessee Whiskey, and more recently Nearest Green Distillery, leading to the development and coming addition of a Distilling Program in the College’s academic inventory. Under Dr. Torrence’s leadership, Motlow State has transformed itself into a cutting-edge, award-winning institution on multiple fronts. A passionate career educator, Dr. Torrence has worked in higher education for more than 25 years as faculty, mid-level and senior administrator, and ultimately CEO. His diverse areas of expertise include Research, Adult Education, Student Success, Academic Affairs, Staff Development, Distance Learning, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Additional interests are Applied Learning within Open Education Resources (OER), Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Automation, Robotics, Mechatronics, and Gamification as platforms for education, learning, and training business and industry to increase efficiency and scalability. Dr. Torrence is also an entrepreneurial business development professional, workforce practitioner, and technology strategist. To model lifelong learning, he recently earned a welding certificate through Motlow’s Automation and Robotics Training Center. Among the multiple leadership programs of which he is a graduate, Dr. Torrence is a Tennessee Board of Regents Maxine Smith Fellow and is only one of two Fellows who has been appointed as a community college president within the TBR System. His leadership and commitment to student success has garnered him many recognitions and awards to include American Association of Community Colleges, Phi Theta Kappa International Society, GlobalMindEd, Complete Tennessee Leadership Institute, among others. Dr. Torrence is a much sought-after lecturer, panelist, and contributor in areas of higher education, e-Sports, technology, and social equity. Dr. Torrence leads and serves on local, state, national, and international boards that influence and shape the future of higher education. He has a Ph.D. in Exceptional Learning (Literacy) from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-torrence-ph-d-63011b150/

    55 min
  4. Episode 2 - An Interview with Dr. Joe Morgan, CEO and Co-Founder, Waya Health

    05/01/2025 ·  VIDEO

    Episode 2 - An Interview with Dr. Joe Morgan, CEO and Co-Founder, Waya Health

    Dr. Joe Morgan Waya Health Convergent Health: How Personalized Data and XR will Transform Healthcare Dr. Morgan is a board-certified anesthesiologist, and the founder and President at Waya® Health. Dr. Morgan’s interest in extended reality started shortly after completing his residency in 2015. Seeing the vast potential for extended reality in healthcare, he and his team began building systems that pioneer extended reality technologies for patient-centered applications. Waya® is a healthcare technology company composed of practicing physicians and software developers focused on creating assessments, diagnostics and therapeutic solutions to help patients. Dr. Morgan conceived and contributed to the development of the Waya® Health platform – an immersive system designed for the safe and effective implementation of patient-centric virtual and augmented reality applications. Waya® Health has become a company with national reach, used by healthcare institutions across the United States. Dr. Morgan completed medical school at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY and completed his residency in anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. While at the Cleveland Clinic, he designed, developed, and patented a system for the collection and the environmentally friendly destruction of controlled substance waste. He is currently the perioperative medical director at Watauga Medical Center in Boone North Carolina. He has created educational programs to guide healthcare providers through the process of starting their own immersive care programs and has also advanced educational efforts for residents focused on the use of extended reality.

    1h 42m
  5. Episode 1 - An Interview with Kathleen Rogers, President of EarthDay.org

    04/16/2025 ·  VIDEO

    Episode 1 - An Interview with Kathleen Rogers, President of EarthDay.org

    Please visit: https://earthday.org About Kathleen Rogers Kathleen Rogers is the President of Earth Day Network. Under her leadership, EARTHDAY.ORG has grown into a global year-round policy and activist organization with an international professional staff. Kathleen  has been at the vanguard of developing campaigns and programs focused  on diversifying the environmental movement. In 2002, she spearheaded the  creation of Campaign for Communities (C4C). C4C is a coalition of  African American and Latino partner organizations focused on voter  registration and voter mobilization, which also works year-round on  environmental issues in low income communities. Kathleen also helped  create innovative financial mechanisms to “green” low income schools and  communities. She created the National Civic Education campaign, which  works with K-12 schools on projects that solve local environmental  issues while teaching civic skills. Kathleen  also founded Earth Day Network’s groundbreaking Billion Acts of Green  program, which has now recorded close to 3 billion individual actions to  improve the environment. She is a frequent commentator on environmental  issues in the media and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and NPR, as well  as in Time Magazine, The Washington Post, the New York Times, and The  Los Angeles Times and many other international and national newspapers  and journals. Prior  to her work at Earth Day Network, Kathleen held senior positions with  the National Audubon Society, the Environmental Law Institute, and two  U.S. Olympic Organizing Committees. As Chief Wildlife Counsel for the  National Audubon Society, she oversaw international trade, migratory  species, and biodiversity programs, and was responsible for bringing the  first citizen complaint before the Commission for Environmental  Cooperation, the tri-national agency created to oversee North American  environmental issues. She also worked for the BBC and other television  networks. She once owned a bakery with a friend who was on the U.S. luge  team. Kathleen  serves on various boards and as Regional Focal point for North America  Region of the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Network of the Global  Environment Facility (GEF), now known as the GEF-CSO Network to serve a  four-year term from June 30, 2018, to June 29, 2022. She is an advisor  and judge for a number of global prizes, including the annual Hult Prize  which awards $1 million to college teams who create companies that  solve pressing social issues. She  is a graduate of the University of California at Davis School of Law,  where she served as editor-in-chief of the law review and clerked in the  United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

    1h 10m

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A podcast based on my own personal interests.