episode 004 | Alexandra Hoerr

Turning Pain into Empowerment: Melissa Moss Unveils Paths to Healing and Prevention

Discover how Melissa Moss transforms adversity into advocacy in our latest episode of #MindRebootPodcast.

Dive into Melissa's journey as the founder of Kids Have Hope and learn how she's reshaping the fight against child abuse through education and therapy.

From Darkness to Enlightenment: The Matt Simpson Journey

Dive into the profound transformation of Matt Simpson on our latest episode of #MindReboot.

From confronting his darkest moments to embracing meditation and healing, Matt's story is a beacon of hope for anyone facing their own battles.

Discover how letting go can lead to letting in the life you've always dreamed of.

Join us as Matt shares his path from self-abuse to self-love, and how he's using his voice to support those silenced by trauma.

It's more than a podcast; it's a journey to the heart of healing.

episode 005 | Sara Lemke

Sara Lemke sits down on this episode of the Mind Reboot podcast and shares her incredible story of "Revival."

As a behavioral health executive in her previous venture, Sara was running six different companies and living for work. Realizing that she wasn’t truly living life or enjoying what she was doing, she took a step back to reevaluate. 

“I was like, you know what, we're gonna open up a private practice, a group practice where we do therapy and really use our skills to help people on their healing journey. You know, that was what it was always about. And I felt like somewhere along the line, I lost that and I was like, it's time to get back to the basics. So hence Revival Therapy was born.”

Sara shares her own beautiful story of ruin when everything in life crashed down around her and she hopped in her car with her pug heading West and ended up in California. She describes how it was a time where she leaned completely into her faith and God and found in all of it that her true calling was to help people. And not just “fixing broken fingernails” as she puts it. 

“I really want to help people who are in a place of ruin, desperation, not sure where to turn. But through my own pain, through that struggle, I've really been able to help people and relate to people who are going through ruin and who want to get on the other side, but they just are not sure how to do it.”

episode 004 | Alexandra Hoerr

Alexandra Hoerr sits down on this episode of the Mind Reboot Podcast to tell us more about her journey in the mental health space and about her company Optimum Joy.

Growing up on a farm in Northeast, Missouri, Alex and her family were excommunicated from their religious community when she was around 16/17 years old. It was a significantly lonely time for her but she discusses how it lent itself to truly understanding who she was from a spiritual component. 

She goes on to tell us how a woman in her life played a huge role in helping her through a very difficult time. While the woman wasn’t a therapist, it planted the seed in Alex’s mind from an early stage that perhaps she, too, wanted to go into a profession to help others. 

“So it wasn't like I just had this dream and I went out for it. It was more like step-by-step, that it really was revealed to me.”

Alex got her start in community mental health working with under-resourced neighborhoods. After experiencing burn out, quitting her job, and living on her sister’s couch for a while, she dug deep into what it is she really wanted to do.

“I really just started to kind of think up who am I, what are my values? What do I want this to be? And to really kind of create what is a for-profit business, but one that does a lot of good and really supports people's growth.”

episode 003 | Marriage + Family Therapy

On this episode of the Mind Reboot Program we have an enlightened conversation with Josh Waters, a licensed marriage and family therapist as well as the Clinical Director of Envision U and an adjunct professor at Adler University. 

Josh admits early in the conversation that “therapist” was not a job title he ever thought would apply to him. He takes us all on his journey from growing up in a small town in Iowa to how his desire to be at least 1,000 miles away from home took him to a grad program in Georgia. 

He explains how he was able to leverage his own white privilege in Georgia post grad school helping bring down recidivism rates in the Georgia juvenile justice system. Understanding the true underlying reasons of why these kids were acting out was a key component in helping them heal and stay out of the justice system. 

“That's why marriage and family therapy is about whatever that family system is. It's really about systems. I really wish we were called licensed systems therapists because that's what we're working with; systems of communities. Of governments, of families, of couples, of people's relationships with themselves.”

Bringing the conversation to how Josh found himself in Chicago, Josh talks about his therapy origin story. It all started, he tells us, when his childhood best friend committed suicide their Senior year of high school. Seeing how that affected his friend’s family and their community triggered a spark in Josh to invest in helping families. 

He goes on to talk about the tangential trauma in his life that became integral parts of his journey and dive deep into what exactly therapy is, what it means to people, and how it can truly help transform people's lives. 

Join us on this beautiful and powerful journey as we hear Josh Waters touch on difficult topics and how there is always light at the end of the tunnel.