S2|E6: Sports in Support of Mental Health

“Sports Addressing Mental Health” – We focus on the role that sports plays in helping us navigate the most challenging of moments as we manage our mental health and wellness - personally, professionally, and globally. Joined by Asante Cleveland: retired NFL Tight End; entrepreneur; soon-to-be-published author; co-host of The White Tiger Podcast; Star Wright: a football entrepreneur with 14 years’ experience in playing women’s tackle football and 10 years as an All-American and Team USA gold medalist linebacker, the owner of Phantomz Football, which consists of a men’s and women’s full tackle team along with an all-girls flag football league, & the founder of The Star Wright Foundation, currently focused on "Access To Play,” a program in Africa providing sustainable programs for education, housing, agriculture, sports and entrepreneurship in African communities; Rob Balucas: the founder and Chief Creative Catalyst at babaLucas Creative, he was thrust into extraordinary circumstances in 2015 when a cycling accident rendered him paraplegic, he vowed to return to triathlon within a year and raced in 3 sprint-distance triathlons the next year after his injury & has since competed in 6 half IRONMANs, including the 2019 half IRONMAN World Championships in Nice, France; Jared Muela: the Director of Corporate Philanthropy for Electronic Arts (EA). Prior to joining EA, Jared spent over 13 years with the San Francisco 49ers,, serving as the Senior Director, 49ers PREP, Fan Engagement & VarsitySenior Director, 49ers PREP, Fan Engagement & Varsity; where he spearheaded the 49ers PREP program that hosted more than 130,000 youth participants ranging from ages 5 to 18 since 2014, and coordinated free in-school health-and-fitness programs for more than 100,000 elementary and middle-school students in the Silicon Valley and Peninsula; & Dan Pasternack, a soon-to-be-published author, Dan worked over a decade as an analyst, paraplanner and operations manager before taking the leap and opening up his own advisory firm in 2015, Dan has been a founding member of two charter schools: as a founding board member with Old Town Academy (a K-8 charter in San Diego) and as a teacher with Democracy Prep at the Agassi Campus in Las Vegas.