Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Charlie Hartwell (@ShiftIt_Inst) is an Operating Partner at the Bridge Builders Collaborative, a consumer health tech investment group that invested early in Pear Therapeutics, Insight Timer and Headspace, in addition to being a "Change Agent" focused on igniting consciousness, mindfulness, and creating a more connected human world.

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In today's episode we discuss:

- Where are headed with consumer health tech and consciousness
- Why Charlie's afraid our collective ability to live together
- How mindfulness and meditation can help us get through this COVID crisis
- The role of psychedelics in shifting mental health
- Why meditation may just be the next best medic
- Which alternative health practices hold the most promise for the future of healthcare
- What Charlie thinks we should do for a more mentally-sound world
- Why we're treating patients and health all wrong
- How investment dollars drive innovation
- Why the psychedelic movement of today is much more than a fad
- What's the future of wearable tech

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