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On Post-Traumatic Growth, Psychedelics, Overcoming Depression and Achieving a Healthy Money Mindset: An Interview with Benoit Kim

by Melanie
written by Melanie

Benoit Kim is a US army veteran, Penn-educated former policymaker turned psychotherapist, and host of the Discover More Podcast. In this episode, he shares how he got his depression, his coping mechanism to overcome it, and how it led him to shift into a different career.

We also talk about the phenomenon called post-traumatic growth (which is on the other side of PTSD), psychedelics, and what it looks like to have a healthy money mindset.

“A lot of people like to generalize saying that men don’t want to seek help. I think it’s not that they don’t want to, it’s that they can’t.” – Benoit Kim

“The famous mental health adage states that the opposite of depression is expression, what you don’t express gets depressed. And of course, it’s a general blanket statement, but it is the core ethos of a lot of mental health issues.” – Benoit Kim

“When you’re being intentionally mindful, day by day, you’d be surprised by how many things you can accomplish in the way you want to accomplish them.” – Benoit Kim

“I attribute a lot of my growth and this new lens that allows me to navigate life in such a hyper-intentional way to the phenomena of post-traumatic growth.”- Benoit Kim

“When you let yourself grow from such hard experiences, that’s the real beauty of healing and growth.” – Melanie Lockert

What You Will Learn From This Episode 

  • How acceptance of limitation leads to healing
  • Importance of breaking the stigma on masculinity
  • Advantages of having an intentional personality
  • What is post-traumatic growth and how to achieve it
  • Why physical health and mental health are not two separate entities
  • The mental health and emotional signs telling you that it is time for a career change
  • How journaling and looking back at your life’s data points can help you make changes and grow
  • What a healthy money mindset looks like
  • Psychedelics – its effectivity and risk factors
  • What does it look like to have psychedelic-assisted therapy
  • How healing can transform life and get people to optimal performance

About Benoit Kim:

Benoit Kim is a US army veteran, Penn-educated former policymaker turned therapist, and host of the Discover More Podcast. He worked in the policy sector for a few years then pivoted recently into the clinical field as an aspirational psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist. Lastly, he started the podcast 3 years ago by simply leaning into curiosity, and the show was featured on Top Apple Podcasts 200 chart two times in 2022.

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The Connection Between Gut Health and Mental Health: An Interview with Dr. Ali Kazemi

by Melanie
written by Melanie

Have you ever felt so anxious you feel sick to your stomach or need to go to the bathroom? How about when you feel depressed and your gut isn’t working properly?

Did you know that your gut is referred to as your second brain and has a big impact on your mental health?

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Ali Kazemi, a gastroenterologist, about mental health and gut health, celiac disease, IBS, and how to keep your gut healthy.

“A lot of individuals with just overall immune diseases have high levels of stress hormones and all of these can impact them psychologically and neurologically. That’s why a lot of people with chronic diseases including celiac will develop anxiety or be at risk of anxiety and depression.” – Dr. Kazemi

“People refer to the gut as a second brain, but it’s not because the gut has the ability to think for itself but because it has such a strong complex nervous system and its interaction with the central nervous system can actually lead to issues in terms of diseases or even symptoms.” – Dr. Kazemi

“Some of the signs and symptoms of depression and anxiety often can also be GI symptoms.” – Dr. Kazemi

“I already have anxiety and that can present as hypervigilance and so having to have a diet that requires me to maintain that hypervigilance, kind of makes me more anxious.” – Melanie Lockert

What You Will Learn From This Episode 

  • The connection between mental health and gut health
  • All about celiac disease esp. what causes the neurological symptoms like brain fog and anxiety
  • The relationship between antibiotics and gut health that you should know about
  • How mental health issues like anxiety and depression, if started in the mind, affect gut health
  • What is IBS or Irritable Bowel Syndrome and what we can do to deal with it especially if all the medical tests done are negative
  • What happens during the body’s ‘freeze’ response to threat where your digestive system turns off
  • All about the vagus nerve and its role in gut health, depression, and anxiety
  • How gut disorders can disrupt your everyday life and mental health
  • Signs that you need to see a GI doctor
  • Ways that we can support our gut health and mental health

About Dr. Kazemi:

Dr. Kazemi grew up in France until he was 11 years old and moved to Northern California. He then relocated to Northern Virginia at age 16. He graduated with honors from George Mason University with a B.S. in Biology. He received his M.D. from St. George’s University SOM Grenada and completed his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Louisville. Dr. Kazemi completed his Gastroenterology Fellowship at Allegheny General Hospital/ Temple University. He is board certified in gastroenterology. In addition to general GI procedures, Dr. Kazemi also performs specialized procedures including EUS.

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How the Power of Decisions Can Lead to Healing from Mental Health Struggles: An Interview with Nika Kabiri

by Melanie
written by Melanie

Every day we make thousands of decisions.

Have you ever considered how each of your decisions may impact your mental health and money?

In today’s episode, I chat with Nika Kabiri, a decision scientist who shares her story of overcoming mental health struggles and taking back her agency through the power of her decisions and choices.

“It’s really amazing how just deciding to decide can change everything for you.” – Nika Kabiri

“Sometimes we don’t think we have agency because we don’t see the options. And sometimes we don’t see the options because we’re not thinking about options, we’re just thinking about making it through day to day which a lot of people who suffer from depression do. But there are options.” – Nika Kabiri

“My first decision I made was, what I like to call the decision you make before you make your decision, which is the decision to be physically healthy. Because if you’re not physically healthy, you aren’t capable of making the right choices.” – Nika Kabiri

“My hope is that more people really understand what decision-making is about because I really believe that’s the key to, not only just a better mental health but a better world.” – Nika Kabiri

“I personally don’t think that there are necessarily good or bad things that happen, it’s just things that happen and we tend to project those feelings onto it.” – Melanie Lockert

What You Will Learn From This Episode 

  • How decision science relates to mental health 
  • Ways in which looking at our choices and decisions can help with our mental health
  • How our social connections can either be very destructive or very healing 
  • Tips on how to make decisions that can impact our mental health in a positive way  
  • How to react and move on when we make “bad” decisions
  • Tips on making purchasing decisions from a consumer standpoint
  • What is prospect theory and how it impact the way we manage our money and finances

About Nika Kabiri:

Nika Kabiri has spent over two decades studying how people make decisions in various contexts, from business to politics to relationships. She teaches decision science at the University of Washington and works as a consultant helping businesses understand consumer decision-making. She’s co-author of the bestselling book Money Off the Table: Decision Science and the Secret to Smarter Investing. She has also been featured in Business Insider, Yahoo News, Fast Company, and more, and has been a contributor to The Hill, Inside Sources, The Huffington Post, and others. Nika has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington, where her academic focus was on choice theory and decision-making within constraints. She also has a JD from the University of Texas.

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On Money Trauma, First Generation Finance, and Building Wealth: An Interview with Lea Landaverde

by Melanie
written by Melanie

In this powerful podcast episode, I chat with Lea Landaverde, a first-generation queer, Latina entrepreneur and finance professional about how money trauma shaped her life and career and what she’s doing to uplift others. Learn how to break generational money curses, build wealth and provide for your family while acknowledging your parent’s money trauma.

“We try to find resources (to build wealth) but none of them are made for us.” – Lea Landaverde

“As a first-gen Latina, all I can say is do the work for yourself; build trust for yourself and if your parents follow, great, but if not, just make sure they’re taken care of.” – Lea Landaverde

“Whatever my parent’s version of wealth is, I accept and I take and I just want them to be protected. So whatever beliefs they have, I’m like you can have them cause I understand the struggle.” – Lea Landaverde

“Forgive the past, accept the present, and take action for your future.” – Lea Landaverde

What You Will Learn From This Episode 

  • Money challenges unique to first-generation, queer, and LGBTQ+ communities
  • How to cultivate your own money beliefs being first-generation while at the same time acknowledging your parent’s money trauma and experience
  • How money trauma can keep you stuck in an unhealthy cycle and how you can get out 
  • Dealing with depression and anxiety and accumulating debt during the pandemic
  • How to maintain/manage mental health on a budget
  • Realizing your financial power and using it for good

About Lea Landaverde:

Lea Landaverde is a First-Generation, Queer, Latina – Entrepreneur, Master of Finance, Professor, Wealth Coach, and Podcast Host of Mi Riqueza Podcast. After working 6+ years in the Finance Industry, Lea decided to break away from corporate to follow her passions in helping underrepresented communities. She is on a mission to help Women, BIPOC & LGBTQ+  cultivate a beautiful relationship with money, through breaking generational money curses to align, build and grow their wealth.

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On Men and Mental Health, ADHD + How to Achieve Success in Real Estate: An Interview with Clint Robert Murphy

by Melanie
written by Melanie

Learn how Clint Robert Murphy achieved personal and financial success in life despite struggles with ADHD and depression. Clint is a Chief Financial Officer, real estate investor, writer, and host of the Pursuit of Learning Podcast.

In this episode, he shares his story dealing with depression and ADHD, how he became successful as a real estate investor, and how he helps men deal with their own mental health issues.

“With Covid, isolation equals amplification. So more and more people who may have had minor mental health challenges, it’s magnified.” – Clint Robert Murphy

“I’ve achieved a reasonable level of success in my career and in my life professionally and financially. You can achieve these things despite the diagnosis, despite ADHD, despite depression. Those don’t define you.” – Clint Robert Murphy

“In some ways, ADHD helped me. I think of it 80% as a superpower, 20% as a challenge.” – Clint Robert Murphy

What You Will Learn From This Episode 

  • What is an industrial psychologist and how it can help people  
  • Thought auditing, improving emotional intelligence, and Buddhism – 3 things that help Clint make better choices  
  • How we can fix our thinking and eventually fix what we feel
  • How ADHD helped Clint become successful in real estate and saved his family from perceived financial ruin
  • Tips on real estate investing
  • Helping men who are building a career and family with their mental health issues

About Clint Robert Murphy:

Clint is a husband and father to two young boys, now 10 and 13.

By day, he’s a chief financial officer and in the evenings, he reads, invests, is writing a fantasy novel series, and hosts the Pursuit of Learning Podcast.

Clint also supports other men on their journeys by facilitating a men’s workgroup in his community. 

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Sign up for the Mental Hump Newsletter and get our free Mental Health and Money inventory worksheet. You can sign up at MentalHealthandWealth.com. 

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How to Use Nutrition and Exercise as Tools To Boost Your Mental Health: An Interview with Zack Rutledge

by Melanie
written by Melanie

In this episode, I chat with Zack Rutledge about how food and exercise can impact your mental health. Zack is an ACE Certified Personal Trainer and Fitness Nutrition Specialist and a Certified Brain Health Trainer through the Functional Aging Institute. We also talk about his personal story dealing with depression, the gut-brain connection, how a synergistic approach can help with mental health issues, and so much more.

“You have to forgive yourself for eating junk food. You’re not going to feel great after you eat a pile of stuff so it’s not like you have to beat yourself up on top of it.” – Zack Rutledge

“There’s not one flavor of depression and there’s not one specific cause but the unifying factor in everyone’s depression is we can all climb out of it.” – Zack Rutledge

“If I can figure out any tool that can help boost my mental health even by just one point, I want to make sure I’m doing that.” – Melanie Lockert

What You Will Learn From This Episode 

  • The importance of understanding your feeling/emotions and doing the work
  • How exercise affects your mental health – the cognitive boost and the formation of cannabinoids 
  • The impact of nutrition on your mental health – the mind-gut connection
  • What to do to optimize nutrition and exercise as a tool for mental health issues 
  • How a synergistic approach can help in dealing with mental health issues 
  • How to be more compassionate with yourself in regards to your eating choices
  • What a Brain Health Trainer does to help people

About Zack Rutledge:

Zack S. Rutledge is an ACE Certified Personal Trainer, an ACE Certified Fitness Nutrition Specialist, and a Certified Brain Health Trainer through the Functional Aging Institute. He has a black belt in karate and has practiced yoga for almost a decade. He holds an MA from American University in Washington, D.C., and starts his Licensed Professional Counseling grad program in January of 2022.

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Want more content and support? 

Sign up for the Mental Hump Newsletter and get our free Mental Health and Money inventory worksheet. You can sign up at MentalHealthandWealth.com. 

Also, we host a Mental Health and Wealth Hangout every other Thursday over Zoom at 5 pm PT to chat about all things money and mental health. Join here!  

If you’d like to support the podcast, you can do so here: https://ko-fi.com/melanielockert

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