Lived Words with Yuvan Rasiah

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Muqaddisa Mehreen has spent her life understanding environments: the worlds we grow up in, the places that shape us before we understand what we’re feeling, and the systems that influence our perceptions of support and collaboration. She has worked across countries, cultures, and complex humanitarian settings, and found joy and purpose in listening to people whose stories are overlooked. More than...

Swayam Bagaria is a thinker. An anthropologist by education and professor of religion by trade, he is a deep thinker and someone who approaches every aspect of the world with his trademark curiosity and openness to complex thought. Dr. Bagaria's work, on the other hand, delves deep into the mental health space and bridges concepts of spirituality, belief, religion, and culture. Dr. Bagaria also ex...

Alicia Mckoy is a social scientist, an author, a speaker and an entrepreneur. More than that, she is someone who fully believes in the importance of self-care when facing chronic stress. But when searching for a path to her own self-care, she realized something crucial: few things influence our mental state as much as our environment. Whether it's a classroom, workplace, or home, our environments...

Dr. Juliet Sarmiento has spent her entire life learning how to listen. From growing up in Mexico City, where the topic of mental health was shunned, to educating those around her about neurodiversity at Harvard University, her story spans the globe. But this journey is also one of survival, of learning to live with the day-to-day reality of mental health conditions such as PTSD and ADHD. Her under...

Today we welcome social entrepreneur and movement builder Marc Kielburger, the co-founder of Legacy+ and ME.org and author of the New York Times-bestselling ME to WE: Finding Meaning in a Material World. Marc has spent over 30 years helping various organizations and individuals bring purpose to their lives, helping brands like Microsoft create positive social movements and developing inspirational...

On March 28th, 2025, then-5th grader Molikaa Rasiah published her book, Not What I Expected . The short children's book is a true story about the 10-year-old's life and experience growing up in today's modern world. Molikaa's story is one of finding individuality and her place in the world, a truth that every 10-year-old has confronted in one way or another. Her learnings, though built over a sing...

Jonathan Rosenberg will be remembered for this leadership and career success; from serving as a member of the Google leadership team since 2002 to co-authoring and publishing two bestselling books in How Google Works and Trillion Dollar Coach , he is a legend in the world of business. But behind the accolades is a man who has spent his life learning to think, to analyze, and to dissect human behav...

As a Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician, Dr. Aanchal Sharma has witnessed and confronted the highs and lows of youth mental health. She provides support and care for children, and finds absolute joy in working with and caring for her patients. But Aanchal isn't just a doctor; she's a mother, too. Her kids provide an outlet from the high demand of her work environment, a safe place full of joy w...

Dr. David Baum is a man of many roles. From conflict mediation in Northern Ireland to designing walking board meetings in the Middle East to working in a circus, he's done it all. But truly, it is his dedication to understanding the completeness of human nature that is his greatest strength. He works as a coach and conversation architect, alongside the likes of Jane Goodall, Life is Good, and the...

Yuvan Rasiah welcomes visionary entrepreneur and two-time CEO Will Furness for his first-ever podcast appearance—and his first-ever public dialogue on his own mental health journey. Will, who transformed the mental health organization ThriveWorks into a billion-dollar corporation, is now building a groundbreaking company that combines the worlds of metabolic health, AI, and mental health into one....