There are moments that don't give you any warning. You're living your life, things are working, and then something happens that makes you question every single thing you thought you knew. Including yourself.

That's where Chris Magleby found himself in 2017. A small piece of a pot brownie triggered a full psychotic episode, one that landed him zip-tied in his front yard, fighting cops he didn't recognize, hearing sounds that weren't there. It was terrifying. And it was, in a strange and quiet way, the beginning of something.

Chris spent the next two and a half years working through acute anxiety, a manic episode, and the slow, painful process of rebuilding a relationship with his own mind. What came out the other side was a man who understood the difference between controlling life and actually living it. Now he's channeling all of that into Mindless Labs, a mental health startup built for people who know what it feels like to be lost inside their own heads.

What You'll Hear:

1. How a childhood marked by his parents' divorce shaped his relationship with control and safety
2. The night a psychotic episode cracked everything open, and what those terrifying hours felt like from the inside
3. Why the two and a half years after were, in some ways, harder than the episode itself
4. How Chris found his way to mindfulness, meditation, and Eastern philosophy as tools for survival
5. The difference between pushing through and actually feeling your way through
6. What it means to turn your hardest experience into something that might help someone else find the light

Guest Bio:

Chris Magleby is the co-founder of Mindless Labs, a mental health startup with an apparel line that funds mental health resources and an app built around professional-led content for people navigating their own mental health journeys. He's been married for nearly 22 years, is a father, and brings to all of it a hard-earned understanding of what it means to fall apart and come back differently. You can find him and Mindless Labs at mindless.org or on Instagram at @mindlesslabs.

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