The Mental Health Evolution

The Mental Health Evolution A Mental Health Podcast
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08/21/2026

A pandemic. The murder of George Floyd. A school shooting. The assassination of a state legislator. Operation Metro Surge. Minnesota has experienced wave after wave of collective trauma — and NAMI Minnesota saw it in real time: a 4,000 percent increase in social media engagement and helpline calls through the roof.

In this clip from The Mental Health Evolution Podcast, Rachel speaks with Marcus Schmit, Executive Director of , about what that moment revealed about the need for mental health information and support — and how it is reshaping the organization's work.

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08/20/2026

Everybody has been exposed to this. And everybody is gravitating toward something positive and productive and actionable — because we are all tired of feeling this way.

In this clip from The Mental Health Evolution Podcast, Rachel speaks with Marcus Schmit, Executive Director of , about the community momentum building around mental health in his state. Employers stepping up. Sports teams stepping up. Neighbors checking in on neighbors. A silver lining emerging from a very difficult stretch.

The Medicaid funding cuts making headlines are not an abstract policy debate. For NAMI Minnesota and the providers they ...
08/20/2026

The Medicaid funding cuts making headlines are not an abstract policy debate. For NAMI Minnesota and the providers they support, they are a direct and immediate threat to the services that millions of people depend on every day.

In this episode, Rachel speaks with Marcus Schmit, Executive Director of , about what is actually happening on the ground — and why pessimism is not a strategy. Marcus talks about the federal funding freeze, what happens when providers lose Medicaid reimbursement overnight, and what Minnesota is doing to build a community-wide response to collective trauma that is bringing employers, funders, and neighbors together around mental health in ways that feel genuinely new.

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10 years. One mission: help people heal from trauma.For our 10-year anniversary, Rachel Harrison stepped out from behind...
08/13/2026

10 years. One mission: help people heal from trauma.

For our 10-year anniversary, Rachel Harrison stepped out from behind the microphone and was interviewed live by Tom Lynch and Karlys Kline about the story behind Trauma Specialists, why she chose to focus on EMDR, the risks she took along the way, and her vision for the next 10 years.

It’s a personal conversation about building a mental health organization around a mission — and the impact that work can have on individuals, families, and communities.

Listen to the special 10-year anniversary episode of Mental Health Evolution.

08/08/2026

Nobody warned us that overnight kids don't sleep at the facility. They sleep at home during the day with their parents. Sara Bradley of on the things nobody tells you when you launch a 24-hour child care program.

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08/07/2026

When every family needs an exception, you are providing the wrong program. Sara Bradley of on the moment York Day scrapped their nonstandard child care model and rebuilt it from scratch.

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08/06/2026

600 children on a waiting list. 30 more added every single day. People call in tears. Sara Bradley of on why the child care crisis is a mental health crisis — and why clinicians are already seeing it in their waiting rooms.

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Sara Bradley, Executive Director of York Day Early Learning , joined Rachel on The Mental Health Evolution Podcast to ta...
08/06/2026

Sara Bradley, Executive Director of York Day Early Learning , joined Rachel on The Mental Health Evolution Podcast to talk about what it actually looks like to build child care for families who work outside the traditional nine to five. York Day has been serving York County for over 90 years and is just six months into something genuinely new. Link in bio!

Shana Palmieri, Chief Clinical Officer and co-founder of XFERALL, joined Rachel on The Mental Health Evolution Podcast t...
08/03/2026

Shana Palmieri, Chief Clinical Officer and co-founder of XFERALL, joined Rachel on The Mental Health Evolution Podcast to talk about what happens when you replace the fax machine with real-time technology — and how a 15-second median response time is changing the psychiatric placement experience for patients and clinicians across the country. Link in bio!

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