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BUSINESS: Rethinking Mental Health Through Data — Sean Ruane, Mind Data | Ep. 12
Ep. 12
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Have you ever found yourself in a negative spiral, but wondered how you got there?
Mind Data is a tech startup that helps people track their mental health trends and provide real-time insights, helping individuals, corporations and universities to take data-driven and proactive steps to improve mental wellbeing. In this week’s episode, I’m joined by Sean Ruane, Mind Data's Founder and CEO.
Sean’s mission is amazing, with an objective to improve the mental health of 1 million people across the globe. But his motivation comes from a place of personal tragedy and dealing with his own mental health challenges. Sean opens up about his experience, and explains how this has formed his life purpose. In addition to this, Sean is a natural entrepreneur and has experimented with multiple business in his life, as well as as joining a startup as employee number 1 and remaining with the company until it was acquired, and then turned his focus onto building his own startup.
Expect to learn how Sean overcame own his mental health challenges, what it was like working for a startup in the founder’s spare bedroom, the journey to creating his own startup, how Mind Data uses AI, his advice to fellow entrepreneurs on living without regrets, and being aggressive with business ideas.
I think its fair to say that everyone has struggled in one way or another with their own mental health challenges, no matter how small they are, and its very inspiring to hear about the ways that Sean and his team are trying to address this.
If you'd like to learn more about Sean and Mind Data's journey, please follow the links below:
Website - https://www.minddata.io/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mind_data/
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