Healthy Mind, Healthy Life

In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik Chakraborty sits down with transformational coach Karen R. F. Mitchell to unpack what it really means to choose healing in a world that keeps asking women to shrink. This is not about cute quotes or bypassing trauma. It is about facing the moment you realize you no longer recognize yourself and deciding to come home to the woman you were bef...

On this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik sits down with Dr. James Perdue, known globally as the Professor of Perseverance. At 19, one football hit dislocated three vertebrae in his neck, leaving him a quadriplegic and facing doctors who told his family he would be a burden and should be placed in a nursing home. Instead of collapsing, James built a new playbook for life. He breaks...

On this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik Chakraborty sits down with Ali Yilmaz, co founder and CEO of AITherapy.care, to unpack how an AI powered CBT coach is closing the access gap in mental health care. From long waitlists and high session fees to the confusion around what therapy actually is, Ali breaks down why the current system leaves so many people behind. He shares how his...

In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik has a straight talking conversation with transformational leadership coach and extreme adventurer Martin Palethorpe. This is not another hype session about grinding harder. Martin breaks down why so many high achievers quietly burn out even while they look successful on LinkedIn. He explains how real peak performance starts with the mind. No...

On this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life host Sana sits down with Australian author and happiness researcher Adam Brownlie to strip forgiveness of the clichés and look at it as a real mental health skill. Instead of treating forgiveness like a moral slogan, Adam frames it as the act of releasing resentment so your nervous system is not running on stress all the time. Together they unpack why...

In this powerful episode, host Avik welcomes certified grief educator and former respiratory therapist Lisa Rites. Lisa shares her personal journey through divorce, co-parenting, and recent losses while breaking down society’s biggest myths about grief. She explains why grief has no timeline, how to support someone who’s grieving (and what NOT to say), and how it’s possible to carry grief in one h...

In this powerful episode, Carter Doyle – a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, survivor of conversion practices, and founder of Leaf Psychiatry – joins host Avik Chakraborty to explore how shame-based religious teachings and non-affirming environments create full-body trauma, especially for LGBTQ+ individuals. Carter explains why chronic self-doubt, shutdown responses, and spiritual woun...

In this powerful episode (guest-hosted by Sana), dream interpreter and spiritual mentor Caleb Matthews reveals how anyone can intentionally train their subconscious mind for lasting success. Blending cutting-edge science (Dr. Masaru Emoto’s water experiments), ancient wisdom (“As a man thinks in his heart, so is he”), and practical spirituality, Caleb explains why your words and thoughts literally...

In this powerful episode, licensed clinical social worker and certified sex addiction therapist Mordy Gottlieb pulls no punches as he exposes how shame, perfectionism, and emotional disconnection are silently eroding men’s lives. From hiding true selves behind masks to living a “living death” at 10% capacity, Mordy shares why most men only seek help after crisis hits (and usually because their par...

In this powerful episode, Melissa Deally (co-creator of Amplify Impact Academy) joins host Avik Chakraborty to reveal how Timeline Therapy allows deep emotional healing without ever talking through traumatic stories. Melissa explains the unconscious mind, the 4 bodies & 3 minds model, why talk therapy can accidentally re-traumatize, and how to dissolve lifelong anger, sadness, fear, guilt, and...

In this powerful episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Sayan sits down with Laura Nicholls — writer, strategist, former therapist, and survivor-turned-thought leader — to explore how regulating your nervous system isn’t a “nice-to-have” for entrepreneurs… it’s the foundation for creative risk-taking, decisive leadership, and turning lived experience into impactful messaging and books. Laura...

In this transformative episode, integrative health practitioner and co-founder of Amplify Impact Academy, Melissa Deally, joins host Avik Chakraborty to reveal why most people are only using 10–25% of who they really are. Melissa breaks down the 4 interconnected bodies (spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical), the 3 minds (conscious, unconscious, and higher self/superconscious), and how Timeli...

In this powerful episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik sits down with Dylan Bost, founder of SunnyHQ and a former creative agency owner who hit rock bottom after years of burnout and addiction. Dylan openly shares how an existential crisis (“What is this all for?”) led to the collapse of his multimillion-dollar agency, years of deep healing, and the birth of a radically aligned, human-f...

In this heartfelt episode of Healthy Waves, gerontologist and caregiver expert Janice Goldmintz joins host Avik to unpack the unspoken emotional weight of caring for aging parents—especially when dementia or serious illness flips the parent-child dynamic. Drawing from her master’s in gerontology and her own decade-long journey caring for both parents with Alzheimer’s, Janice offers raw, practical...

This episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life goes straight for the operational core. Can you actually scale a company if you can’t scale your health. Spoiler. No. Matthew Peck breaks down the performance equation with a level of clarity most founders avoid. We get into discipline that compounds over decades, decision making shaped by biology, the hidden cost of mental fog, and how identity wrecks yo...

Entrepreneurship looks slick on LinkedIn. Real life is messy. In this Healthy Mind, Healthy Life episode we go into the trenches With Barry Luijbregts. The CTO who built a global SaaS from scratch while wrestling with burnout, emotional overload, and the hidden pressure of being a solo creator. This conversation cuts through the noise. We talk about sleep deterioration as the first red flag, why i...

In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik Chakraborty sits down with Cynthia Lee, founder of Tree, to unpack what it really means to build a business from alignment instead of pressure. In a world obsessed with hustle culture, constant output and algorithm chasing, Cynthia gets real about how much of that “productivity” is actually anxiety in motion. She breaks down the difference b...

In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Yusuf sits down with international best selling author and publishing mentor L.S. Kirkpatrick to get real about the invisible cost of entrepreneurship. Not the funnels or the hustle. The self doubt. They unpack what happens when your vision board comes down, the money is slow, and you start questioning your worth as a founder, creator or writer....

In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Charu sits down with spiritual guide and medium Gloria Battini to strip the fluff out of intuition. They unpack the real difference between intuition and anxiety, how to read your somatic cues, and why your nervous system is the gatekeeper for any psychic or inner knowing work. Gloria shares a simple 60 to 90 second protocol you can use in the mi...

  In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Sana sits down with trauma support specialist, writer, and reclamation coach Ashana Kaiulani to unpack what real healing looks like when you stop treating it like a checklist. No more chasing the next journal prompt, cold plunge, or affirmation. Instead, Ashana shares her Peaceful Accountability Method, a nervous system centered framework that...

In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Pragya sits down with Rafael Pinho, CFA, co-founder and CFO of TD Pine Advisors, to unpack a brutal but necessary question for every founder. Is your company actually valuable, or just busy. Rafael breaks down the real drivers of business value in today’s volatile market. Predictable cash flow, capital efficiency, conservative forecasting, and sm...

In this episode of Healthy Mind Healthy Life, host Avik Chakraborty sits down with Graham Kuhn, founder of Focus Films and strategic video storytelling expert, to unpack what actually makes business videos convert on platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Graham breaks down why most polished videos flop, how authenticity builds trust at scale, and why your story will always outp...

In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik sits down with Christian author and podcast host Wanda Thibodeaux to unpack what grace in the grind really looks like inside modern workplaces driven by hustle culture, quotas and quiet burnout. Wanda breaks down how productivity has become a subtle idol in many careers, why so many leaders feel spiritually and emotionally empty, and how fai...

In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Sayan sits down with Michelle Bader Ebersole, author of Widow Goals, certified grief recovery specialist, and founder of the nonprofit Widow Goals. Together they unpack what it really looks like to rebuild your life after loss, whether that loss is a spouse, a relationship, a home, or even a former version of yourself. Michelle shares how she wen...

In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Sayan sits down with psychotherapist, spiritual teacher and mystic Catia Batalha to unpack what real healing looks like when you stop separating mind, body and soul. Instead of choosing between therapy or spirituality, Catia explains how yoga, Tantra, mindfulness and Western psychology can work as one integrated system for mental health, trauma r...