According to a study by the National Institute of Mental Health, 72% of entrepreneurs are directly or indirectly affected by mental health issues compared to just 48% of non entrepreneurs. 49% of entrepreneurs deal with mental health issues directly while only 32% of others experienced them.
Jeremy Evans owns and runs Thrice Agency, a marketing firm, as well as providing entrepreneurship coaching for hundreds of small business owners. Like any marketer worth his salt, he's generated millions for his clients and employs psychology daily. But psychology may not be enough to explain the global rise in mental illness. So Jeremy's founded the world's first marketplace for peer support. The goal is to incentivize people to talk about the heavy stuff and to prove that you're not alone.
” I was pre-med in college. Typical premed student, studying hard and playing hard, until I woke up at 22. I had applied to just one medical school after an elaborate scheme. My girlfriend, a ballerina, was locked in place with her job, so I infiltrated a ritzy gala where I was selling $50 glasses of champaign. I found my target, the president of the medical school, and after the music was over, I got a private interview with him. I got all the way to the dotted lines, looking at those APRs. 16.9%. I remembered the 100 doctors I had worked with: they didn't even like their work. Then my future wife got fired. She needed to move to keep dancing. I stopped dancing and shut myself up in an unfinished Florida attic for a week. She was jet-setting to audition after audition while I was sweating, fasting, and crying like a baby. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to help people. Lots of people. That's all I cared about. I was not some Randian psychopath. I was predominantly concerned about the poor and believed everyone would be rich if it weren't for greedy corporations. Until I had a vision”.
AtlasTalked
is a marketplace for heavy conversations. It's a network for those looking for
or to provide one-on-one peer support, the first of its kind.
Our providers ("Friends") are not professionals,
just people like you. We talk about anything we like: from addiction and
divorce to religion and spirituality.
The platform is free to use, with a simple 20% commission on
any transactions. We're growing a community of empathic, loving people to share
their talents in a way they never have before. He joined me this week to
tell me more.
For more information https://atlastalked.com/
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