Burnout doesn’t always look like collapse. Sometimes it looks like showing up every day with a smile you don’t feel and calling that survival. In this powerful conversation, host Patrick Custer sits down with psychiatrist, educator, and mental health advocate Dr. Jessi Gold to unpack the hidden cost of caring for everyone else. From perfectionism and stigma to the impossible standards of modern medicine, this episode pulls back the curtain on what it really means to be “fine.”

Ashley Hampton and host Patrick Custer unpack the painful gaps in our current mental health system and what it actually takes to build something more inclusive, more human, and more effective. From system-level failures to clinician identity suppression, Ashley brings lived experience, bold truth, and practical strategies to the table.

Ashley Hampton and host Patrick Custer unpack the painful gaps in our current mental health system and what it actually takes to build something more inclusive, more human, and more effective. From system-level failures to clinician identity suppression, Ashley brings lived experience, bold truth, and practical strategies to the table.

Ashley dives deep into the difference between being seen and being tokenized, between performative inclusion and real belonging and how decolonizing mental health care starts with shifting who’s centered in the room. We explore how trauma lives in the body, why holistic care matters, and what it takes to build a therapeutic space where every part of you is allowed to exist. Whether you’re a clinician, a client, or an advocate for change, this episode is a call to reimagine healing not as a privilege, but as a human right.

Before she was a therapist, Ashley Hampton was a Black, queer, Southern girl trying to survive in a world that wasn’t built for her. In this powerful kickoff to Mind Amendment’s Pride Month series, Healing in the Margins, Ashley shares what it really means to seek emotional safety and how traditional models of therapy often fail the very people who need them most.

From setting boundaries to redefining joy, Blair Imani returns with a final chapter on emotional safety, public healing, and why hope is the boldest form of resistance. Blair shares how learning to walk away, say no, and feel fully has become essential to her healing journey. From reshaping relationships to rethinking the idea of “healing in public,” this episode is about resisting burnout, reclaiming rest, and rewriting the rules of recovery.