I was always passionate about how psychology and performance played with each other. After completing my Masters in psychology I wanted to complete my Ph.D. with a dissertation focusing on understanding the psychology of entrepreneurship. What fuelled me was understanding what makes people successful and if we could predict entrepreneurial success or performance.
During COVID seeing how mental health was affecting my peers and my teammates I recognized a gap in the mental health tech space realising that many solutions were not focused on performance and productivity. And traditional tools were inaccessible to many people, especially those of us living in the Caribbean.What I love about tech is that it's a tool for scale, a tool for impact and I wanted to marry that impact with my background in psychology. I want to solve a social impact-driven problem in a scalable way. This became my new driving force - creating a mind tool that was based on deep real science that could reach people everywhere!
These tools are used by the elite in society that we look up to but why can't they be accessible to all of us? High-performing athletes like football players use some of this technology that we have built in Recess.
Much like Matt, COVID allowed me time for personal reflection. I went to see a psychiatrist after dealing with a bout of major depression and was diagnosed with ADHD which put a lot of my struggles into perspective. I learnt even more about myself while working on Recess like the root of my Imposter Syndrome and perfectionism.
I know there are others out there facing the same issues I do and if Recess can help them break through some of the emotional walls that hold them back, I would feel accomplished.
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