Innovation in Mental Health with Solome Tibebu and Kacie Kelly hosted by Michael Castanon

The power of human connection is present in Kacie and Solome’s working relationship.
They can be real with each other and grow from the experience - realizing that authenticity and transparency triumphs - the ability to call each other out and disagree without losing sight of the bigger mission.
It’s in this light that Michael points out that “If you can’t keep it real, you can’t keep it at all.”
Failure is not something to be feared, especially in the world of innovation.
Solome recounts her adventures in founding a CBT technology startup in college - raising seed funds and bringing an app to market, later to realize it didn’t land with her intended audience.
But it’s through this failure that Solome can draw on a deep well of experience. The same is true for Kacie in her life and for all of us.
Both Solome and Kacie envision a future where access to Behavioral Health Data is more accessible and seek to break down the barriers that have been created between the mental health world and the general medicine world because many conditions can be treated by generalists.
By making records more transparent and accessible, better solutions can be created through technology that make treatment available to a larger population.
Struggling with human connection as early as her teen years, Solome found herself suffering from anxiety…and also found herself on Friday nights at her local Barnes and Noble as a teenager researching and learning more about her condition.
Through her family, she was able to get access to care, and after going through 4 clinicians eventually received an accurate diagnosis that was ultimately treatable and manageable.
Even in a pre-social media world, she asked herself the question…how can we make this kind of treatment more scalable and accessible to those who didn’t have the resources she had access to?
She discovered that technology truly was the way that you accomplish this mission.
Kacie always knew she wanted to be a therapist.
Growing up in a small town in Louisiana, there were still many people around her who were struggling with anxiety.
That led her to the work the she does today, elevating the role of mental health in society, looking to provide better solutions - exponentially helping more people across the country find relief.
She believes that we are all more alike than we are different and seeks to bring more unity to the industry - despite the opposition to this in the media, trying to divide our country.
It’s in this space, where Kacie was connected to Solome, now the founder of Behavioral Health Tech, the largest community in the behavioral health technology space.
Being connected has been a force multiplier for the ability to drive change and progress in the behavioral health technology field.
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