Contributors

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Host

Avik Chakraborty

I'm Avik Chakraborty, founder of Healthy Mind by Avik™ and host of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, a podcast built on one belief: mental health isn't a luxury, it's a necessity.

This show is where honest conversations live. No scripts pretending to have it all figured out. No quick fixes. Just real stories from therapists, founders, healers, and humans who've walked through something and come back with something worth sharing.

What started as one show has grown into the Podhub Network, 21 podcasts, 6,500+ episodes, and a community of listeners across 80+ countries who needed a space that felt human.

If you're navigating burnout, identity, healing, or simply trying to come home to yourself, you're in the right place.

This isn't self-help. It's self-honesty.

Pull up a chair. Let's talk.

https://www.podhub.club/hosts/aks
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Co-host

Rasmeet

I'm Rasmeet, co-host of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life alongside Avik Chakraborty, founder of Healthy Mind by Avik™.

This show is about the conversations we usually save for late nights and trusted friends. The ones about healing, identity, burnout, and what it takes to feel at home in your own life.

My role is to sit with our guests in the realness. To ask what's underneath the answer. To make space for the pause, the doubt, the breakthrough.

No quick fixes. No pretending. Just real people, including us, doing the slow work of becoming.

Part of the Podhub Network, reaching listeners across 40+ countries.

If you've ever needed permission to slow down or simply be where you are, you're here.

This isn't self-help. It's self-honesty.

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Sana

I'm Sana, co-host of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life alongside Avik, founder of Healthy Mind by Avik™.

Together, we hold space for the conversations most of us don't get to have out loud. The ones about healing, identity, burnout, purpose, and the quiet work of coming home to yourself.

My role on the show is to listen the way most of us wish we'd been listened to. To ask the gentle question. To sit with the pause. To make sure our guests, and you, feel safe enough to be real.

What I love about this show is that it doesn't pretend. No quick fixes. No performative positivity. Just honest humans, including us, figuring it out one conversation at a time.

Part of the Podhub Network, Healthy Mind, Healthy Life reaches listeners across 40+ countries who needed a space that felt human.

This isn't self-help. It's self-honesty.

https://www.podhub.club/hosts/sana
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Editor

PodHub Studios

Edited by Podhub Studio, the in-house production team behind the Podhub Network.

We're the quiet hands behind the show. The ones shaping every episode after the mics go off, so what you hear feels as honest as the conversation that created it.

Our work isn't about polish for the sake of polish. It's about protecting the realness. Holding the pauses that matter. Cutting what doesn't serve the listener. Letting the story breathe.

Healthy Mind, Healthy Life deserves editing that respects the emotional weight of every conversation, and that's the standard we hold ourselves to, episode after episode.

Part of the Podhub Network, home to 21 shows, 6,500+ episodes, and listeners across 40+ countries.

If it sounds human, grounded, and real, that's the work.

https://studio.podhub.club/podhubservices/services

Guests

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Ashley Ondrick

 Ashley Ondrick is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, private chef, and cooking instructor based in St. Petersburg, Florida, known online as "a (mostly) Healthy Chef." After decades navigating chronic pain and multiple spine surgeries, she found her way back through faith, food, and small daily acts of perseverance. She is the author of the upcoming memoir Speranza: How Pain Became the Path to Hope, which weaves her personal story together with a collection of family recipes passed down through the women in her family. 

https://www.mostlyhealthychef.com/

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Catherine Crestani

Catherine Crestani is an Australian author, intuitive mentor, and the founder of Willow Healing. She writes dark romance, romantic thrillers, psychological fiction, and spiritual non-fiction, with work that explores obsession, power, intimacy, consciousness, and the psychological impact of technology on modern relationships. She is the creator of Pillars for Life, a body of spiritual and personal development work focused on self-sovereignty, nervous system regulation, energetic boundaries, and embodied awareness, and the host of the Willow Healing Matters podcast. Her novel My Virtual Obsession is out now. 

https://willowhealing.org/my-virtual-obsession
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Dr. Shanta Kanukollu

 Dr. Shanta N. Kanukollu, known to many as "Dr. K," is a licensed clinical psychologist, TEDx speaker, author, and founder of SNK Therapy, a private practice in downtown Chicago. She holds a dual doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Women's Studies from the University of Michigan and has over a decade of clinical experience working across forensic and medical settings, with a particular focus on the South Asian community, veterans, and individuals navigating gendered violence and intergenerational trauma. She also teaches and lectures on diversity, gender, and mental health across the country. 

https://www.snktherapy.com/thriving-mindset-group

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Michael Ashford

Michael Ashford is a speaking and executive communication coach based in Denver, Colorado, and the author of Can I Ask A Question? Following your curiosity to shift the paradigm of communication, conflict, and change. He hosts the Rethinking Communication podcast, is a TEDx speaker and Head Speaker Coach at TEDxManitouSprings, and is the Director of Marketing at The Receptionist. A former award-winning newspaper journalist with a Master of Science in Mass Communication from Kansas State University, Michael's work centres on his ASK and SEE approach to conflict communication, helping people communicate in ways school never taught them. 

https://michaelashford.com/newsletter

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Steve Barton

Steve Barton is a Gestalt Certified Mindset Coach, entrepreneur, author, and the creator of The Game of Ten®, a registered coaching process he developed across more than forty years of business ownership and personal awareness work. Mentored by Marianne Williamson, Steve coaches individuals, executives, and teams, and his framework was presented to the case study team at Harvard University in 2025. He is the co-author of The Father, the Son, and the Aha Moment, written alongside his son Spencer, with a follow-up book titled The Game of Ten due in the next six months. 

https://www.stevebartoncoaching.com/

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