Radio Recap: Destigmatizing Depression with Dave Kerpen

Two weeks ago we lost two well-known American founders to suicide. Both Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain took their own lives after years of struggle with mental health, sadly their experiences with depression are far from uncommon for entrepreneurs. In May 2015, 31 year old Austen Heinz, CEO of Cambrian Genomics took his own life. 26 year old Aaron Schwartz, a partner at Reddit, hung himself in 2013. 47 year old Jody Sherman, founder of Ecomom shot himself that year. And there are many, many more. According to a study at UC San Francisco, 1 in 3 entrepreneurs live with depression, and 45% of entrepreneurs report being stressed more compared to 42% of employees. In 2010, suicide was the highest cause of death for people aged 15-49, In 2016, nearly 45k lives were lost to suicide and the CDC reports there’s been a 30% rise in suicides in America since 1999. Discussing destigmatizing depression is the CEO of UMA Health and founder at Likeable Media, Dave Kerpen.