Sarah Hill is the CEO and Chief Storyteller at Healium, a bio-interactive technology platform for relaxation training. Healium uses real-time biofeedback and neurofeedback stories to help people see what’s happening inside their bodies and gently learn how to shift it.

Before this chapter, she spent 25 years as a TV journalist and news anchor, reporting from Congo, the Amazon, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Guatemala for NBC, ABC, and CBS news affiliates. She deployed with trauma teams in the aftermath of the tsunami and, after years of covering trauma, felt called to tell a different kind of story: one that helps people heal from it.

Her work at Healium supports clinicians in pain, behavioral health, and VA settings, making stress management more visual, intuitive, and human. Ten peer-reviewed journals have published research about Healium, including Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Healium’s immersive VR kits are used in DOD and VA clinics to help people better self-manage stress, anxiety, PTSD, insomnia, pain, and burnout as part of a healthy lifestyle.

After earning a dozen Mid-America Emmy Awards, she realized they were pretty great as toilet paper holders.

These days, she builds biometrically powered stories enabled by a portfolio of system patents and connected to heart rate, EEG, fMRI, breath, skin conductance, and other sensor data. To her, any sensor that captures data can become a story with a very human metaphor. She also speaks frequently at conferences about media as medicine, AI content recommendations, and the future of digital health.

Healium began in 2013 with a project called “Honor Everywhere,” which helped terminally ill and aging veterans visit memorials in VR when they couldn’t get there in person. That idea, making the invisible visible, still guides everything Healium does.

She is also a heart attack survivor, which makes this work deeply personal. She lives in Missouri with her husband, two grown children, and a grandchild who keeps her grounded and on her toes.

Nanea Reeves brings over 15 years experience in digital distribution, video game technologies and mobile application development. Nanea Reeves is the CEO & Co-Founder of TRIPP, a new start-up focused on creating mood altering experiences in VR.

Prior to founding TRIPP, Nanea was President & COO of TextPlus, one of the top mobile communications applications on iOS and Android platforms.

Before joining TextPlus, Nanea was the COO of Machinima, an online video network focused on video games. Nanea has also served as Chief Strategy and Product Officer at Gaikai, a cloud gaming company acquired by Sony Playstation. Previous to Gaikai, Nanea was SVP/COO, Global Online for Electronic Arts, and SVP of Enabling Technologies of JAMDAT Mobile, a mobile games company that EA acquired in 2006.

Nanea is very committed to supporting the evolution of the technology sector in Los Angeles and has worked as an Advisor and Angel Investor with many exciting So-Cal start-ups including Oculus, All Day, Haku, and Saucey.

Ron Richard is a seasoned healthcare innovator with over 35 years of experience in respiratory, pulmonary, and sleep medicine. He has held senior leadership roles across leading medical technology companies and has launched more than 40 major products, generating over $1B in global sales. His background spans hospital care, home care operations, sleep labs, medical device manufacturing, and global commercialization.

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SUSPICIOUS MINDS is a docuseries, debuting today, October 17, 2025 ,that investigates the disturbing rise of artificial intelligence as a trigger for delusional thinking.

You can watch the first and second episodes of the series now on:

YouTube – Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis

Apple – Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis

Spotify – Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis

iHeart – Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis

Through powerful firsthand accounts and in-depth interviews with leading experts in psychiatry, neuroscience, and AI ethics, the series unpacks a growing psychological phenomenon: individuals developing complex, often life-altering delusions rooted in AI technologies. From chatbots to surveillance fears, we examine how emerging technologies are reshaping the landscape of paranoia and how these modern delusions echo, amplify, and challenge our historical understanding of the human mind.

Led by psychiatrist Dr. Joel Gold and philosopher Ian Gold, PhD, who together first described the Truman Show Delusion (people believing they were on a reality TV show like Jim Carrey’s character in The Truman Show) and authored the groundbreaking book Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness (The Truman Show Delusion and Other Strange Beliefs), the series presents an urgent vision of just how dramatically culture can influence our minds.

With a spirit of empathy, curiosity, and respect, we tell real patients’ riveting stories while plunging viewers deep into their mental states, as their reality becomes surreal, and then follow their journey toward managing their illness. We explore the future of treatment and prevention, and through these stories create larger conversations to help destigmatize this phenomenon.

Interviews with the Golds and other top experts including psychologists, neuroscientists, ethicists, AI researchers, and cultural critics help viewers understand the science and culture behind the madness as we follow the trajectory from the Y2K-era near-future fiction of The Truman Show to tomorrow’s hyperreal, AI-dominated technological and cultural landscape — a world that would be almost unrecognizable to people living 100, 50, or even 10 years ago.

The line between mental wellness and mental illness is incredibly thin, and we never know when something will trigger us, or someone we love. The goal of this series is to create awareness of these new and omnipresent digital triggers and explore the psychological minefield we find ourselves unexpectedly living in today.

ABOUT SEAN KING O’GRADY

Sean King O’Gradyis an award-winning filmmaker whose work spans narrative features, documentaries, and high-profile branded content. His films have screened at Sundance, Tribeca, Telluride, Berlin, Venice, TIFF, SXSW, Sitges, Fantastic Fest, and dozens of other major festivals worldwide.

ABOUT DR. JOEL GOLD

Joel Gold, MD is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine following a decade of being Clinical Associate Professor at the NYU School of Medicine. He is also on faculty at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York.Dr. Gold worked at Bellevue Hospital for 14 years where he became Director of Psychiatric Emergency Services and then Director of its outpatient department.

Dr. Pamela Boyers is Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Simulation and Assistant Professor, Surgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Dr. Boyers’ professional interest is to ensure that healthcare professionals (at all levels of training) are highly prepared to provide the safest possible patient care. This interest includes paying close attention to the well-being of healthcare professionals – and how they learn to work efficiently and effectively in healthcare teams.

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Peruvian Bull (Roberto Rios) is a Peruvian-American scholar, researcher, and educator hailing from the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in Seattle, he attended a local university where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with degrees in Finance, Economics, and Entrepreneurship. He has studied also in South America and plans to complete a Master's degree in Economics. He currently works full-time creating macro content on Twitter and Youtube.

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Dr. Michael Torrence is the seventh seated President of Motlow State Community College. Since being named President in 2018, Motlow State has scaled its presence into international arenas connecting its rich history and location that directly ties the institution to the world-famous Jack Daniel Distillery, George Dickel Tennessee Whiskey, and more recently Nearest Green Distillery, leading to the development and coming addition of a Distilling Program in the College’s academic inventory. Under Dr. Torrence’s leadership, Motlow State has transformed itself into a cutting-edge, award-winning institution on multiple fronts. A passionate career educator, Dr. Torrence has worked in higher education for more than 25 years as faculty, mid-level and senior administrator, and ultimately CEO. His diverse areas of expertise include Research, Adult Education, Student Success, Academic Affairs, Staff Development, Distance Learning, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Additional interests are Applied Learning within Open Education Resources (OER), Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Automation, Robotics, Mechatronics, and Gamification as platforms for education, learning, and training business and industry to increase efficiency and scalability. Dr. Torrence is also an entrepreneurial business development professional, workforce practitioner, and technology strategist. To model lifelong learning, he recently earned a welding certificate through Motlow’s Automation and Robotics Training Center.

Among the multiple leadership programs of which he is a graduate, Dr. Torrence is a Tennessee Board of Regents Maxine Smith Fellow and is only one of two Fellows who has been appointed as a community college president within the TBR System. His leadership and commitment to student success has garnered him many recognitions and awards to include American Association of Community Colleges, Phi Theta Kappa International Society, GlobalMindEd, Complete Tennessee Leadership Institute, among others. Dr. Torrence is a much sought-after lecturer, panelist, and contributor in areas of higher education, e-Sports, technology, and social equity. Dr. Torrence leads and serves on local, state, national, and international boards that influence and shape the future of higher education. He has a Ph.D. in Exceptional Learning (Literacy) from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-torrence-ph-d-63011b150/

Laura Kusumoto is a proven executive leader, skilled in the disciplines of technology innovation. Her expertise is seeing beyond hype and harnessing the business value that emerging and disruptive technologies can bring to work. Applying experiences from working for Meta, Deloitte, Disney, Kaiser Permanente, LEGO and more, her passion is helping organizations identify the best problems to target with innovative solutions, and driving towards their successful piloting and implementation. Her work has paved the way for first-mover products such as AI chatbots in health care, immersive avatar-based training, VR for employee well-being, and beyond.

In 2023, Laura formed IterationZero LLC as a boutique consultancy offering innovation services that enable emerging technologies for the benefit of business and everyday work within the enterprise. Laura serves on the Board Executive Committee for the Virtual Worlds Society, and on the Advisory Board for XR Women.

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