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Brian Goebel, Mercedes Rivera and Jennifer Andersen Smith with Start:ME and Anne Rice with Blue House Wellness

November 19, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Brian Goebel, Mercedes Rivera and Jennifer Andersen Smith with Start:ME and Anne Rice with Blue House Wellness

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Start:ME is a free intensive 14-session business training program for promising small businesses that provides entrepreneurs the tools and connections necessary to build and grow successful businesses. We operate in three metro Atlanta communities – Clarkston, East Lake, and Southside Atlanta. When successful, these businesses generate income for entrepreneurs and their families, while at the same time, build neighborhood vitality. Start:ME has helped 208 businesses around the ATL start and grow since 2013!

Brian Goebel serves as the Managing Director for Social Enterprise at Goizueta (SE@G), a research center within Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, which generates meaningful societal impacts by making markets work for more people, in more places, in more ways. As part of his role at Emory, Brian’s serves as the Program Director for Start:ME.

Mercedes Rivera is a maker, artist, entrepreneur, and Start:ME East Lake coordinator.Mercedes graduated from Start:ME’s East Lake program in 2019 to accelerate her business, Heart Mercedes. Heart Mercedes is a handmade artisan goods and creative management services promoting the “Random Acts of Kindness” movement. Mercedes has shown up to nursing homes with dozens of balloons, taught beading lessons to special needs children, and funded a trip to Southeast Asia to host a feeding program for the less fortunate. As a fellow entrepreneur, Mercedes understands the highs and lows of one’s entrepreneurial journey, and she is passionate about working with entrepreneurs to make positive impacts through their local communities!

Jennifer Andersen Smith provides leadership, support and assistance for all of Atlantic Capital Bank’s community development initiatives and projects as the bank’s Community Development Officer. In her role she oversees community empowerment programs, such as financial and credit education, one-on-one counseling, and other specific outreach efforts. Atlantic Capital is proud to sponsor Start:ME 2019 Holiday Gift Guide which highlights amazing local businesses for your holiday shopping needs!

Follow Start:ME on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Anne Rice is a licensed therapist in both Georgia and New York. Anne received her bachelors in psychology from Princeton University and her masters in counseling from Boston College. Anne lived and worked in Brooklyn providing in home therapy and then supervision for a team of therapists in Staten Island before returning to her home state of Georgia.

In Georgia she provided in home therapy before starting her own private therapy practice, Firefly Wellness Counseling. In the summer of 2018, after looking for space to expand her practice, Anne created Blue House Wellness, a coworking space for mental health professionals. Anne is passionate about helping other therapists launch their practices and reducing the stigma around seeking mental health services.

In her spare time, Anne can be found baking and exploring Atlanta with her husband and infant daughter.

Follow Blue House on Facebook.

Questions and Topics in this Interview

What Start:ME is doing for small businesses
The importance of supporting small businesses
How to shop online and in person this holiday season
Start:Me 2019 Holiday Gift Guide
The value of partnerships
Volunteering as a skilled based mentor
What inspired Anne Rice to start a coworking space for therapists
What are the challenges of starting a private practice for a therapist?
How Blue House Wellness helps the community
What does Blue House Wellness offer?
What are the benefits and difficulties of being a business owner and a new mom?

Daniel Folk with Hundred Life Design and Darleen Santore with Performance Meets Purpose

November 8, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Daniel Folk with Hundred Life Design and Darleen Santore with Performance Meets Purpose

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Daniel Folk with Hundred Life Design and Darleen Santore with Performance Meets Purpose

Hundred Life Design is an online, video based coaching platform. They connect people with life, career, and wellness coaches. They also make finding, selecting, and working with a coach extremely easy, accessible, and affordable by putting you in control.

That means as a client, you can view the profiles of each coach, see what you’ll get and how much it will cost, book an appointment on the spot, and then connect with them via video through your smart phone, tablet, or computer.

Their coaches love working with Hundred for the huge degree of flexibility and autonomy they have in their work. And clients go to Hundred because of their cost effectiveness, ease of use, and most importantly, the results they get!

Daniel Folk is the founder and CEO of Hundred Life Design.

He holds an M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Oregon, has been a clinical researcher, behavioral interventionist, and an organizational development consultant for Mercedes-Benz Germany.

Based in the US, and Canadian by birth, Daniel has committed himself and his business to helping others achieve higher levels of personal control and satisfaction in life.

Connect with Daniel on LinkedIn and follow Hundred Life Design on Facebook and Instagram.

Performance Meets Purpose, LLC is a global consulting and coaching firm that helps leaders, professional athletes and entrepreneurs reach their highest level awakening their greatness and connecting them to purpose. Founder Coach Dar, leads leadership workshops and retreats, in addition to providing keynote speeches to companies around the world.

Darleen Santore, better known as “Coach Dar,” is a Licensed and Board-Certified Occupational Therapist, sought after motivational speaker, Mental Edge coach, and CEO & Founder of Performance Meets Purpose Consulting.

After suffering a stroke in her 20s, Coach Dar later on made a deal with God that she would begin again with a renewed spirit and faith, and that she would dedicate her life to helping people awaken their greatness and live out their purpose. And for the past 22 years, she has.

Known for her mental strength conditioning work with athletes in the NBA, MLB, NFL and NHL she most recently worked as the mental conditioning and life coach for the Phoenix Suns. Her reach to pro-athletes significantly helps players up their game, overcome obstacles, gain a mental edge, get out of “slumps” and become better leaders on and off the court. “Lead with purpose”

Her coaching reaches far beyond the sports world, working with Fortune 100 executives, world leaders, artists, plus high school and college students. Coach Dar works to create a personalized game plan for life and leadership, providing motivation as well as tools to set her clients up for success and with a purpose driven mindset

Coach Dar is also the United States Ambassador for the Global Pay It Forward Day Initiative and is an Ambassador for the international lifestyle brand lululemon. In 2017 she was honored by the WNBA as with the Most Inspiring Women Award. She is also a founding member of WISH (Women in Service and Hope) in Phoenix, which is part of St. Vincent de Paul. And in 2018 was named Trailblazer in Phoenix in the Voyager Phoenix Women’s series known as “Trailblazers:Rewriting The Narrative”.

She has been published in various articles on mindset in sports and life, wellness, and living a life of meaning.

Her powerful messages have not only made her a highly in-demand team and individual coach, but also a highly in-demand keynote speaker who has motivated thousands of people on the corporate speaking circuit.

Recent keynote speeches include Path North, San Diego Padres, Phoenix Suns, Origami Owl, Charter Spectrum/Meridian Enterprises, Mobil Mini, Indiana Fever, lululemon, Integrating Women Leaders, Georgetown University School of Business, The Daniel Summit, Big Machine Records, Taylor Morrison, The Jon Gordon Power of Positive Summit, Christian Life Radio Event, and many more.

Coach Dar is also a path elemental leader and workshop facilitator for Laurie Beth Jones programs and as a Jon Gordon Speaker and trainer, both to advance leaders and teams with their mindset and communication styles.

Coach Dar has had appearances on the Today Show, Good Morning America, interviews on CBS sports radio, Fox Sports TV, Sirius XM NBA Radio, and many podcasts.

Connect with Coach Dar on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

About Our Guest Host

Along with being a Spartan racer, past animal trainer and magician’s assistant, Kindra Maple has experience working with diverse crowds of all sizes, ages, and backgrounds to support them with engagement opportunities.

Kindra is a dynamic and engaging community engagement specialist with 10+ years of proven excellence across senior leadership roles leading partnership development and community outreach and engagement.

As an ambassador of Phoenix Business Radio X she is able to continue supporting community engagement through connecting business professionals to others in the community.

Episode 60: The One Thing You Need to Know About Mental Health & Entrepreneurship – Silke Glaab

August 28, 2019 by Garrett Ervin

Business Infrastructure

Episode 60: The One Thing You Need to Know About Mental Health & Entrepreneurship – Silke Glaab

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Leading and/or operating a business is a road less traveled. It can take you on an emotional roller coaster you might not be mentally prepared for. This is where Silke Glaab comes in. As a psychologist and executive coach, she helps entrepreneurs and executives reset self-limiting beliefs. In this episode, she describes her proprietary Elevate Intensive Therapy process as well as the people and tools needed to live free of burnout, stress and anxiety. Find out why she says we need to “SNEASE” more to elevate ourselves as we scale our businesses.

Special Guest: Silke Glaab, Founder & CEO – SilkCelia

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Show Notes:

FREE Discovery Call – learn more about Silke’s transformational therapy to reset your mind for health and success.
Online Master Class – experience Silke’s techniques via Rapid Transformation Therapy.
Brain Focus: a FREE app designed to help you time your work for maximum productivity and stress reduction based on the Pomodoro technique.
The Pomodoro Technique & FREE apps: this article explains the Pomodoro technique for increasing productivity and lists 10 apps you can use to practice this technique.
“Are Entrepreneurs Touched with Fire?” Dr. Michael Freeman’s groundbreaking work on the “…personality, mood, and human factors that are common among entrepreneurs.” Includes a free download of the study in pdf.
Mental Illness May Plague Entrepreneurs More Than Other People. Here’s Why (and How to Get Help).: Article from Entrepreneur.com.

CULTURE CRUSH RX Andy Maurer with The Phoenix Counseling Collective and Heidi Jannenga with WebPT

November 28, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

CULTURE CRUSH RX Andy Maurer with The Phoenix Counseling Collective and Heidi Jannenga with WebPT

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CULTURE CRUSH RX Andy Maurer with The Phoenix Counseling Collective and Heidi Jannenga with WebPT

In this episode of Culture Crush Rx, Deb is joined by Heidi Jannenga, co-founder and president of WebPT, and Andy Maurer, a licensed therapist with the Phoenix Counseling Collective. Andy introduces the concept of trauma-informed leadership and how our past experiences can influence how we work, while Heidi shares valuable insights about cultivating a culture where employees feel valued, nurtured and safe to be who they are. It’s a conversation every leader who wants to show up with more positive impact will definitely want to hear.

Andy Maurer is an associate level licensed therapist at The Phoenix Counseling Collective, which is a group of counselors and consultants who are rooted in the city of Phoenix and committed to walking alongside others to know their story, come face to face with their humanity, and grow as persons. Their hope is that as therapists and individuals work together that individuals will live life more deeply, experience greater freedom, and make choices that authentically connect with how they were made. To do this, this practice helps individuals uncover the connections between where they have been and today’s struggles, unpack the impact of the past and current relationships, and explore your engagement with the divine.

Andy speaks to and trains founders, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, equipping and educating them on the issue of trauma and its impact on their work and relationships.

Deeply integrated into the startup and entrepreneur community, Andy is seeking to create a movement where mental health issues, and especially trauma, is talked about and addressed so that founders and CEOs, as well as the individuals they lead, can receive the resources and support they need, in order to heal and transform their stories, relationships, and companies.

As a licensed trauma therapist Andy works primarily with founders, CEO’s, business leaders, adults, and couples who have experienced trauma or abuse. Having previously been a college professor, he taught courses on marriage, family, and sport psychology. He earned both a Master of Divinity in Professional Counseling from Phoenix Seminary and a Masters in Marital Family Therapy from Fuller Theological Seminary.

WebPT is the country’s leading rehab therapy software platform for enhancing patient care and fueling business growth. To fulfill its mission of empowering the rehab therapy community to achieve greatness in practice, WebPT provides cloud-based documentation, billing, scheduling, patient engagement, and practice management software.

Launched in 2008, the company is based in downtown Phoenix’s historic Warehouse District. It has ranked on the Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest- growing companies six years in a row.

Even as they’ve expanded tenfold over the last ten years, growing to a team of 500 employees, WebPT has stayed true to defining values like service, accountability, community, and work ethic. They live by team-developed commitments, hire based on cultural fit and praise those who exemplify WebPT’s core values in their work every day.

Dr. Heidi Jannenga, PT, DPT, ATC, is the co-founder and president of WebPT, the country’s leading rehab therapy EMR platform for enhancing patient care and fueling business growth. Since the company’s launch in 2008, Heidi has guided WebPT through exponential growth. Today, it’s the fastest-growing physical therapy software in the country, employing nearly 500 people and serving more than 83,000 therapy professionals at more than 12,000 clinics. WebPT has also ranked six consecutive times on the prestigious Inc. 5000 list and twice on the Inc. 500. Heidi has been recognized as one of Health Data Management’s Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT, a Most Admired Leader and Tech Titan by the Phoenix Business Journal, among other accolades.

Prior to co-founding WebPT, Heidi practiced as a physical therapist for more than 15 years. Today, she regularly speaks as a subject-matter expert at local and regional technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership events, as well as at national PT industry conferences.

Heidi serves on the boards of numerous organizations, including the Arizona Science Center, Support My Club, the Physical Therapy Political Action Committee (PT-PAC), the Institute for Private Practice Physical Therapy, Conscious Capitalism AZ Chapter, and the Arizona Community Foundation. She also dedicates time to mentorship within WebPT (through her women’s empowerment group PropelHer) and in the broader community (through her work with physical therapy students and local entrepreneurs).

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ABOUT CULTURE CRUSH Rx

Culture Crush Rx is an exploration of what makes a great company culture, how successful leaders create it, and how it affects the overall success of the company. We highlight the companies in our community who are crushing it with culture and get practical tips from local experts on how to do the same.

Each episode, we dive into real-life experiences, tips, and best practices for creating a healthy work environment in which everyone is functioning at their highest level and finding joy and satisfaction in their work. Whether you’re a top-level leader, a startup entrepreneur, or part of team, we aim to provide you with valuable insights to help make your work enjoyable and your life well-rounded.

If company culture isn’t consciously created, it will still be created.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Deb Caron is the owner and principal consultant of Anahata Marketing, a Phoenix-based marketing and brand communication consultancy that focuses on empathic listening and content creation to foster real connection between businesses and the customers they serve. She hosts Culture Crush Rx as part of her personal passion for helping people live healthier, more fulfilling, well-rounded lives. Deb is also a registered yoga teacher and she truly enjoys sharing her knowledge and love for the practice with her community. Deb can be reached at deb@anahatamarketing.com and on Linkedin.

Trauma Informed Businesses with Andy Maurer and Brandon Clarke and Kate Stephensen Rogers

October 29, 2018 by Karen

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Phoenix Business Radio

Trauma Informed Businesses with Andy Maurer and Brandon Clarke and Kate Stephensen Rogers

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Trauma Informed Businesses with Andy Maurer and Brandon Clarke and Kate Stephensen Rogers

Andy Maurer is an associate level licensed therapist at The Phoenix Counseling Collective, which is a group of counselors and consultants who are rooted in the city of Phoenix and committed to walking alongside others to know their story, come face to face with their humanity, and grow as persons. Their hope is that as therapists and clients work together that individuals will live life more deeply, experience greater freedom, and make choices that authentically connect with how they were made. To do this, this practice helps individuals uncover the connections between where they have been and today’s struggles, unpack the impact of the past and current relationships, and explore their engagement with the divine.

Andy speaks to and trains founders, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, equipping and educating them on the issue of trauma and its impact on their work and relationships.

Deeply integrated into the startup and entrepreneur community, Andy is working to create a movement where mental health issues, and especially trauma, is talked about and addressed so that founders and CEOs, as well as the individuals they lead, can receive the resources and support they need, in order to heal and transform their stories, relationships, and companies.

As a licensed trauma therapist he works primarily with founders, CEO’s, business leaders, adults, and couples who have experienced trauma or abuse. Having previously been a college professor, he taught courses on marriage, family, and sport psychology. He earned both a Master of Divinity in Professional Counseling from Phoenix Seminary and a Masters in Marital Family Therapy from Fuller Theological Seminary.

Connect with Andy on LinkedIn.

StartupAZ exists to inspire connectivity and generosity among Arizona’s most innovative young companies; helping them grow and give back.

Brandon Clarke is a founder, mentor and community builder, having spent nearly 15 years starting companies and advising entrepreneurs. In 2015, Brandon co-founded the StartupAZ Foundation; a nonprofit collaborative fund that exists to inspire connectivity and generosity among Arizona’s most innovative young companies; helping them grow and give back. In 2016 Brandon launched CRADL, a research and design lab that evaluates and develops products, media, and services that impact the lives and learning of children.

Brandon is a native Phoenician living in north-central Phoenix with his wife and three children.

Connect with Brandon on LinkedIn and Instagram, and follow StartupAZ on Twitter.

CoVibe partners with Founders, Co-Founders and CEO’s to build their companies with a people-first mindset. She prides herself in building and shaping businesses through culture, developing and enhancing programs that empower people, building authentic teams and coaching new managers/founders as their businesses scale and grow. We focus on building companies people love.

Kate Stephenson Rogers is passionate about people, building companies & communities and inspiring others to harness their unique strengths and potential, both in and out of the office. She has been working with startups since 2005 and has served as the Head of Talent and People for companies based in Silicon Valey, Boston, Austin, Denver, New York and Phoenix. Kate lends her time and talent to supporting many local nonprofit and community organizations or entrepreneurs. She is proud to be Co-Lead of PHX Startup Week for 2019.

Outside of her work, she is also the proud mother of a 5-year-old who is a constant reminder of the importance of inspiring the next generations of future leaders and innovators and celebrating the daily joys of life. She’s known for her approachability, authenticity, enthusiasm and natural ability to bring out “the fun” in groups she is leading.

Connect with Kate on LinkedIn and Twitter.

With our special guest Co-Host, Mike Jones

It’s Mike Jones‘ mission to see brands grow and succeed – to reach their full potential. He believes every brand, like every person, has DNA that’s remarkable, but not every brand knows how to act like it (and communicate it to the world). It’s not about what’s trendy, whatever consumers are demanding, or whatever will turn the fastest profit. It’s about the long game – building real relationships with your customers and your community.

Connect with Mike on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and follow Resound on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Kristel Nielsen with Your Art Your Story and Tess Mosko Scherer with Arizona Artists Guild E9

September 20, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Kristel Nielsen with Your Art Your Story and Tess Mosko Scherer with Arizona Artists Guild E9

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Kristel Nielsen with Your Art Your Story and Tess Mosko Scherer with Arizona Artists Guild E9

Your Art Your Story is a non profit organization based in Phoenix, Arizona that supports people affected by suicide, depression and anxiety through art and community.

Kristel Nielsen is Founder of Your Art Your Story and a suicide loss survivor. After her son’s death, she saw a lack of support in the community for people affected by suicide and mental illness, so she entered a pitch completion at ASU and won start up funding for the project. She recently graduated from ASU with a Master’s in Legal Studies and has been an intellectual property paralegal and certified Arizona legal document preparer for over 10 years. Kristel helps people draft their wills and powers of attorney documents.

If you would like to donate to Your Art Your Story, please visit their Go Fund Me page.

Follow Your Art Your Story on Facebook and Instagram.

Arizona Artists Guild is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization led by volunteers dedicated to providing and promoting opportunities in the visual arts including exhibitions, education, and outreach programs. Outreach has been a cornerstone of the AAG since the 1950’s, with a robust program today serving Veterans, Survivors of Suicide, Non-English speaking adult refugees, native American elders, and partnering with Hospice of the Valley.

Membership is made up of professional as well as aspiring artists working in a variety of media.

There is an intimate quality to Tess Mosko Scherer’s work which is revealed when experienced up close. Subtle detail, texture, and often words, are found in the compositions of simplified forms and color. She works with water color, pastels, colored pencils and graphite on paper, which is often incised and torn. The torn pieces are sewn together with waxed Irish linen thread to convey complex and universal themes. Mosko Scherer visually excavates human emotions and archetypal energies in her minimalistic compositions. She explores the imbalances between the complex machinations of our inner world and the outer world in which we are seen. “My life would be meaningless if I could not create and use my gifts to benefit others’ lives. Every day I am learning, waking, opening to what is – in nature and in my studio,” she said. “I am grateful for the unexpected turns in the path of this journey called life. I see life’s imbalances as an invitation to continually transform and grow as an artist, woman, mentor and friend.”

Mosko Scherer has a diverse background in the arts. She co-founded Scherer Gallery in 1983 representing international contemporary artists specializing in glass art until 2006. Since 2012, she has served on the board of the Arizona Artists Guild currently as President. In 2016 was named one of the ‘100 Creatives’ by the Phoenix New Times, was the Artistic Director of Shemer Art Center and Museum, is a member and co-president of eye lounge collective gallery. In addition to her studio practice, Mosko Scherer has a private practice coaching and mentoring artists. Mosko Scherer is the Director of Curriculum and Facilitation, a program facilitator, and serves on the advisory board of the World Academy for the Future of Woman. She is a member of several art organizations including the Sonoran Arts League, Art Link and Art Intersection. Exhibited nationally, her work is represented in Arizona by Van Gogh’s Ear Gallery, Prescott, and has won several awards in juried shows in Arizona.

Follow Arizona Artists Guild on Facebook and Instagram.

About 3C Amplified

3C Amplified is a space to highlight businesses, nonprofit organizations and individuals collaborating to amplify their impact in the community. We share real world examples for how partnerships allow for growth both within our businesses and our communities. Listen in as we share how others are connecting, creating and collaborating and how you can be part of something greater.

About Jacqueline Destremps

Jacqueline Destremps is a creative marketing strategist and founded Another Hand Advantage, LLC in 2014 to help community minded small business owners and nonprofit professionals move forward more confidently with their marketing strategy. After graduating from Arizona State University with a degree in Psychology, she has spent her professional career working in both the nonprofit and for-profit sector.

She now enjoys being self-employed and the flexibility it provides to allow more time to volunteer, serve on nonprofit boards, choose pro-bono projects, run 100+ Women Who Care Valley of the Sun (which she co-founded in 2014) and travel the world. Jacqueline believes in creating connections between businesses and nonprofits in the community to stimulate growth and collaboration.

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Terence Dowling with COUNTRY Financial, Rob Brant with Local CPAP, and David Smith with Summit Counseling Center

November 7, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

North Fulton Business Radio

Terence Dowling with COUNTRY Financial, Rob Brant with Local CPAP, and David Smith with Summit Counseling Center

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Terence Dowling/COUNTRY Financial

Terence Dowling has been in the insurance and financial services industry for over 14 years. He has been a financial representative with COUNTRY Financial for over four years. He prides himself on helping his clients establish financial security no matter where they are starting from. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia. He is the father of two beautiful girls and a husband of seven years. He loves giving back and would do anything for his family and community.

Rob Brant/Local CPAP

Local CPAP is a one-stop shop to diagnose and treat sleep apnea. They offer convenient and comfortable home sleep testing and can refer you to doctors in the area who are board certified in sleep medicine. Once diagnosed, Local CPAP will custom fit your therapy at prices at or below what you will find on the internet, and they’re available seven days a week to provide help after the sale. Local CPAP is “low internet pricing with local service and support”

David Smith/Summit Counseling Center

The Summit Counseling Center is a high impact 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that provides holistic professional licensed counseling services to people in need throughout North Fulton and beyond incorporating mind, body and spirit in the process. Originally launched in 1990 with one psychologist on the campus of Mount Pisgah UMC, over the years it has become a trusted and treasured community resource that has always answered the call when asked to serve during times of crisis. The Summit has 24 therapists in 12 locations that provided 14,000 clinical hours to 2,382 children, teens and adults in 2016. Their strategic partners include CURE Childhood Cancer, Fulton County, Fulton County Schools, North Point Community Church, United Way, Will To Live Foundation, and many more.

SkyTherapist

May 14, 2015 by angishields

Health Connect South

SkyTherapist

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SkyTherapist

This week we sat down with the co-founders of SkyTherapist. Sky Therapist, Inc is a virtual platform for mental health support addressing the major complaints of patients in their course of treatment. They offer integrative solutions for intelligent patient-therapist matching, quick initial assessment, and continuity of care.

CEO, Afshan Ali, and CFO, Keith Jones, shared their story about how they decided there must be a better way to provide patients in need with access to a mental health professional such as a psychologist or psychiatrist.

Keith talked about how as a teenager, he was present when his father died, causing him to experience great anxiety and emotional pain. He was hospitalized for a few weeks but felt he did not receive very effective mental health care while he was there.

Afshan discussed how she developed an interest in neurology and mental health during her years in medical school before changing career paths. The two of them looked at the landscape of how mental health is delivered and felt there was an opportunity to create a new platform that could help people in need find the therapist best suited for them.

As they got to work on building their virtual platform that incorporates telemedicine technology, they felt that a key element that would set them apart was going to be a matching algorithm, paired with carefully-chosen intake questions for the patient-to-be. The purpose of this design is intended to make the process of linking up with a professional that is experientially suited and a fit personality-wise.

We talked about the fact that for persons in crisis, the process of trying to find that personal fit that allows them to be able to be open and get the most of their therapy can be overwhelming. Having to go through talking about what the reason is for seeking help over and over to professional after professional, trying to find a fit can often cause patients in need to give up on finding help.

SkyTherapist is able to quickly provide several professionals for the patient to talk to who are much more likely to be a good fit for the patient. The platform also provides for some communication through correspondence with their provider between sessions. It also has a component that allows provider and patient to agree upon self-care activities such as exercise or others and actually track their compliance.

The company will be focusing much of its early launch (July 2015) on providing services to businesses with Employee Assistance Programs. This will give them ability to scale more quickly while providing their client companies with much more effective and cost-efficient care to employees who need access to a mental health pro.

When you have the chance to hear how/why these experts built this healthcare platform it’s clear they are dedicated to insuring patients in need of professional mental health care, SkyTherapist is clearly providing a promising solution.

Special Guests:

Afshan Ali, CEO/Co-founder of SkyTherapist

BBA, Management Information Services, Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business
Former Senior Consultant, Deloitt Consulting
Active Healthcare Consultant
Speaks English, Hindi, Urdu

Keith Jones, CFO/Co-founder of SkyTherapist

Managing Partner, HarCap Commercial Funding
Former Owner, Eclipse Investment Group
Multiple Successful Entrepreneurial Ventures

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ADHD

May 1, 2015 by angishields

Health Connect South

ADHD

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ADHD

This week I was pleased to sit down with ADHD expert, Elaine Taylor-Klaus of ImpactADHD.com. As a parent of three children who each have experienced some measure of ADHD in their lives, and as a patient who subsequently discovered that she, too, was an ADHD patient.

CDC.gov lists these statistics about ADHD:

Approximately 11% of children 4-17 years of age (6.4 million) have been diagnosed with ADHD as of 2011.
The percentage of children with an ADHD diagnosis continues to increase, from 7.8% in 2003 to 9.5% in 2007 and to 11.0% in 2011.
Rates of ADHD diagnosis increased an average of 3% per year from 1997 to 2006 [Read article] and an average of approximately 5% per year from 2003 to 2011.
Boys (13.2%) were more likely than girls (5.6%) to have ever been diagnosed with ADHD.
The average age of ADHD diagnosis was 7 years of age, but children reported by their parents as having more severe ADHD were diagnosed earlier.

With just over 1 in 10 children experiencing ADHD or one of its sub-types, it’s a significant disruptor of quality of life for many, many people. We talked about how frustrating it can be for parents of hyper-active ADHD children and how she, herself, learned first-hand how challenging it can be to keep calm and avoid yelling to reign in their high energy kid(s).

Given her experiences in her own home, Elaine and a business partner, Diane Dempster, decided to start ImpactADHD.com. The website serves as a resource for parents struggling to find answers for questions on how to better handle the stresses that comes with ADHD children.

The site provides recommendations for identifying suitable physicians and other professionals who can help with diagnosis and treatment. Additionally, the organization provides a coaching approach to help parents learn other ways to communicate and how to deal with stress, among others.

ImpactADHD.com describes what they do this way, “ImpactADHD.com helps parents help their kids with ADHD and ADD, anywhere, anytime. ImpactADHD uses a combination of training, coaching and support resources, online and on the phone, to provide the “how to” that parents really need, whether they are new to the world of complex kids, or worn-out from years of management. By helping parents put strategies into action, and teaching them to make those strategies work best for their families, we guide parents to radically improve family life and empower their kids for independence and success.”

Special Guest:

Elaine Taylor-Klaus, CEO/Certified Coach, ImpactADHD

Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, The Coaches Training Institute
Professional Certified Coach, International Coach Federation
BA, College of Social Studies & Sociology, Wesleyan College
Parent of 3 children who have experienced ADHD, along with herself, who was diagnosed as an adult
Member, National Board of Directors, Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. CHADD.org