Mental Matters Hosted By Asekho Toto

Nisha Srivastava is a movement and manual therapist, Pilates and yoga specialist, and holistic health coach who works with clients navigating chronic pain, anxiety, and depression.

Most people think healing is about finding the right exercise, the right stretch, the right treatment plan. Nisha spent years teaching Pilates before realizing something uncomfortable: movement is only 20% of the puzzle. The other 80% is diet, lifestyle, ...

anice Goldmintz is a gerontologist, caregiver advocate, and founder of Talk About Aging, and author of Getting Older But Not Old.

Most families wait for a crisis before they start talking about aging. A fall, a diagnosis, an unopened stack of mail — and suddenly everyone's scrambling. But here's the problem: by the time you're reacting, you've already lost the chance to plan with dignity instead of panic. Janice has spent year...

Malumír Logan is a leadership strategist, people-centered leadership advocate, and expert in intersectionality, neurodivergence, and ethical leadership across multiple industries.

Most people think burnout is their fault. They download the wellness app, take the extra day off, try to "balance" better — and still crash. But here's what the research actually says: burnout is not an individual failure. It is an organizational one...

Rachel Friedman is a yoga practitioner, breathwork facilitator, and mental wellness coach with over two decades of experience helping people use movement and mindfulness to transform their emotional and psychological health.

Most people think yoga is about flexibility. They see the poses, assume it's not for them, and never discover what actually makes it powerful. But here's the thing: the postures are almost beside the point. What...

Paul is a father of eight children, autism advocate, and natural healing researcher who turned his family's neurodivergent diagnosis journey into a complete lifestyle transformation.

Most conversations about autism focus on the child. The parent — the one awake at 2am Googling survival strategies, questioning every doctor's recommendation, and silently asking "why my child?" — almost never gets a seat at the table. But h...

Alicia is a business and mindset coach, inner child healing practitioner, and expert in energy work, breathwork, and meditation — working with executives, managers, and business owners on the deep root causes behind their patterns.

Most people think their business problems are strategy problems. They hire a coach, build the marketing plan, set the goals — and still hit the same wall. But here's what Alicia discovered aft...

Dane Palarino is a fitness transformation coach, bodybuilder, and founder of Dad Bod Sculptors — a men's health platform dedicated to helping men over 35 reclaim their health, confidence, and identity through nutrition and training.

Most men trying to get fit believe the problem is that they're not training hard enough. They sign up for group classes, burn 800 calories a session, and come home feeling like they've earned the r...

Sarah Doyle is a hormone health practitioner, brain chemistry specialist, and author of The 7X Method — a nutritional system built on quantum medicine principles used to recalibrate the body's metabolic and hormonal systems.

Most women who struggle with weight gain, brain fog, anxiety, and exhaustion blame themselves. They eat better, exercise harder, and push through. But here's what almost nobody tells them: for women, weigh...

Nancy Cavey is a disability attorney with over 40 years of practice, a nationally recognised advocate for people living with invisible disabilities, and the author of the Survival Guide to Disability Insurance Claims.

Most people assume that if you can't work because of a mental illness, the system will protect you. But here's the problem: Social Security was built around a worldview that says everyone is a little depressed, everyon...

Dr Gloria Vanderhorst is a licensed psychologist, private practice therapist, and expert in men's emotional development who has spent over a decade working almost exclusively with men and boys.

Most people assume the male mental health crisis is a recent phenomenon — something social media or modern feminism created. But here's the thing: the damage starts before a boy can even climb a slide. We tell three-year-olds not to cry...

Julie is a life coach for single mothers, a cancer widow, a caregiver to a child with a genetic disorder, and a survivor of a decade-long narcissistic relationship who rebuilt her life by turning pain into purpose.

Most people who survive something devastating want to put it behind them as fast as possible. But there's a quieter, more complicated trap that nobody talks about: the belief that if you stop suffering, you're dishonoring...

Lauren is an EFT practitioner, founder of Mind Shift with Lauren, and a military spouse who specialises in helping people release suppressed emotions, break inherited belief patterns, and heal trauma through the science-backed practice of Emotional Freedom Technique — also known as tapping.

Most people dealing with chronic pain, anxiety, or self-doubt treat it as a willpower problem. They push harder, distract themselves, or w...

Sonia Couto is a tech entrepreneur, startup founder, and breast cancer survivor who spent 18 years navigating male-dominated industries before building and relaunching her own SaaS product from scratch.

Most people treat a cancer diagnosis as the worst thing that can happen to them. Sonia treated it as data. When she was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer, she didn't just fight for her health — she used the experience to i...

Micah Blake is a music educator, author of Talented or Not, Here I Come, and online course creator who has helped tens of thousands of people learn to play and sing.

Most people believe they're either musical or they're not. They watch a professional perform, compare it to their own fumbling first attempts, and decide the gap is about talent. So they never start. But here's the problem: that comparison was never fair. What you're wa...

Lynne Wadsworth is a holistic health coach, certified wellness practitioner, and specialist in women's nutrition, sugar addiction, and perimenopause.

Most women know sugar isn't good for them. They've tried cutting it out, they've done the programs, they've been through the cycles of restriction and relapse. But here's the thing nobody tells them: the sugar was never really the problem. It was always the emotion underneath it. Lynne...

In this episode of Mental Matters, Asekho Toto sits down with Tammy Young, a former engineer turned psychic medium and author of the new book, Afterlife Bonds. Tammy shares her deeply personal journey of navigating grief after the loss of a pregnancy and how seeking answers outside of conventional frameworks opened her up to a new spiritual reality.

We explore the often-misunderstood world of mediumship and psychic abilities, breaki...

My guest today is Leigh Shulman — writer, author of The Writer's Roadmap, and founder of the Inspired Writer Community. Lee left Brooklyn behind with her family to live a nomadic life across Panama, Argentina, and beyond, and in doing so, discovered what it really means to build a writing life on your own terms.

This conversation is for anyone who has ever felt the pull to write but didn't know where to start — and for t...

My guest today is the founder of Wisdom for Complex Kids — a community and coaching program built for parents navigating the world of invisible disabilities, rare genetic disorders, and complex developmental challenges.

After years of misdiagnoses, trial and error, and advocating alone for her son — who was eventually diagnosed with TBR1, a rare genetic mutation — she built the support system she never had, so othe...