Mind Meets Machine

Mind Meets Machine is a video podcast by Avik where mental health, AI, and business collide in the most human way. Real conversations with founders, therapists, doctors, and creators. Practical tools, clear insights, and zero fluff. Learn to think clearer, work smarter, and live better in a tech-driven world.

Podcasting since 2025 • 137 episodes

Mind Meets Machine

Latest Episodes

Congratulations, You’re On The Wrong Mountain with Tim Kelly

You can do everything “right” and still feel off. That quiet emptiness after the promotions, the deals, the applause, the perfect-looking life is what we call the wholeness gap, and it’s more common in high performers than most people admit.

September 16, 2026 • Season 1 • Episode 133 • 29:53

How To Become A Top Recommendation In AI Search with Shanzila Ahmed

ChatGPT can recommend three brands and quietly erase everyone else. If your company is not in that shortlist, it is not always because you are worse, it is often because the machine cannot clearly “see” you yet. We talk with Shanzila Ahmed, co-...

September 15, 2026 • Season 1 • Episode 132 • 21:24

AI Works When Your Data And Security Are Ready with Brian Beck

AI is everywhere right now, and a lot of it feels like selling you something before you even know what you’re buying. So we slow down and ask the question most leaders carry quietly: is this real, or is it just another wave we’re supposed to ri...

September 15, 2026 • Season 1 • Episode 131 • 20:59

How AI Can Strengthen Human Storytelling with Don Schechter

A single story can change how we see ourselves, and a single tool can change how we tell that story. We sit down with filmmaker, media producer, professor, and Charles River Media founder Don Schechter to challenge the most common fear people c...

September 14, 2026 • Season 1 • Episode 130 • 19:22

Stop Outbursting And Start Recovering with Mary Guerdoux

The moment you start “white knuckling” your way through change, you can feel it in your body: the Sunday-night dread, the emotional outbursts you cannot explain, the exhaustion that sleep does not fix, the strange sense that the colour has drai...

September 13, 2026 • Season 1 • Episode 129 • 15:29