How Life-Saving Relationships Built a Wellness Revolution with Mike Dannheim

What if your greatest suffering became the foundation for healing thousands of others?

In this episode, Mike Dannheim, founder of Sensie, shares his extraordinary journey from a traumatic brain injury and suicide attempt at 19 to leading a groundbreaking wellness technology company. Through his experience with addiction recovery, meditation, and cutting-edge neuroscience, Mike has created a platform that predicts stress before it becomes a problem and generates measurable biopsychological resilience.

Mike reflects on the mentors and relationships that saved his life, shaped his path, and continue to fuel his mission to help people connect more deeply with their body's intelligence.

 

[00:03:54] What Is Sensie?

• Predicting stress before it's a problem and generating wellness

• Using smartphone sensors to assess micro movements in gestures

• Identifying sources of stress and providing precise techniques to alleviate them

• Breakthrough: measurable biopsychological resilience

[00:05:03] The Birth of Two Passions

• Leading consumer technology companies for 15 years

• Personal healing work and 21 years of sobriety

• Helping everyone from people with addiction to CEOs and professional athletes

• Wellness-based coaching rooted in recovery principles

[00:06:00] The Car Accident That Changed Everything

• Traumatic brain injury at age 19

• Out-of-body experience watching himself at the accident scene

• Retrograde amnesia: not knowing who he was or where he was

• Struggling with short-term memory recall and feeling like he was in hell

• Trying to take his own life at 19

[00:07:40] The Meditation Miracle

• Four to six months of meditation bringing his brain back

• Memory returning and life taking off

• Leading a $16 billion IPO and living around the world

• Life becoming "beyond my wildest dreams"

• Mainstream medicine in 2002 not understanding neuroplasticity

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