Name:Drew Hammell Title: Director of Operations & Volunteers / Freelance Writer / Blogger Company: Redeemer Church / @nikestories Based in: New York City Age: 36 I have been a churchgoer all my life and that, in combination of being a New Yorker has given me the unique opportunity to meet people with particularly unique and […]
Name: Vanessa Monique SmithRole: Design Strategist and Urban PlannerBased in: New York Vanessa is a design strategist and urban planner that has directed programs across public and private sectors in New York City and abroad. Her work is driven by the idea that people’s interactions and reactions to places, spaces, and systems make our cities human. […]
Name: Ronald Kamdem Role: Vice President of Equity Research, Morgan Stanley Based in: New York Age: 31 Ronald Kamdem is a Vice President in Equity Research and has been at Morgan Stanley for 9 years and based out of New York City. Prior to this, he completed his studies at Harvard University with a degree […]
I was chatting with a friend who is a CEO in New York, she shared with me, “It’s one thing when you’re starting out, and you’re investing your own time and energy into creating something. But as things start rolling, it becomes another pressure all together once you have angel investors and start hiring a […]
Whether we’re entrepreneurs or we’re simply ambitious in our career, the mantra most of us have absorbed from western culture is “If I work harder, then I’ll be successful. And if I become more successful, then I’ll be happier.” Consciously or subconsciously we believe that somewhere in the future after x, y, and z happens […]
What is GABA? GABA, shorthand for Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid or γ-aminobutyric acid is a neurotransmitter (something that helps enable communication in the brain– important). It’s classified as an inhibitory neurotransmitter, which alludes to its calming effects on an overstimulated brain. At lower, insufficient levels, you can experience migraines and insomnia, and in the presence of a serious GABA deficiency: schizophrenia, bipolar […]
Once upon a time, there were advertisement billboards, enlarged reflections of assumed masculine stereotypes. These advertisements usually revolved around women, sports, and drinking excess amounts of alcohol. To broadcast male actions as anything else was likely subject to questioning one’s sexual orientation. Not much has changed. However, there has been an gradual shift over the […]
Depression is, in a word, complicated––especially when considered medically. While you may already be familiar with clinical depression, the condition is far from singular and not so easily diagnosed. No one depressive disorder is the same as the next, and this is seen in the diagnostic models, with specifications in the medical community made for […]
When broaching the concept of mental health, one topic inevitably comes up: medication. It often comes up fearfully or, worse, disparagingly, with talk of happy pills, catatonic states, and other such psychiatriphobia. But despite this, medication proves time and again to be one of the most effective forms of emotional therapy. It is a phenomenon […]
