Charlie Hartwell and Maureen Pelton – Igniting Expanded States of Consciousness

Charlie Hartwell is the Managing Partner of Bridge Builders Collaborative, a group of highly successful investors who have been investing in start-up companies in the space of mental health, consciousness, and spirituality. Some of their investments include Pear Therapeutics, Insight Timer, Headspace, and Happify Health. A Harvard Business School graduate, Charlie has served and led organizations in 14 different industries, including starting a nonprofit in the slums of Kenya in 1986 that has now served health care to several million patients.Maureen Pelton, MSSW, is a social scientist and spiritual teacher with 36 years of professional experience as a Holistic Psychotherapist, Executive Coach, Organizational Consultant, Adjunct Faculty, and Group Facilitator. Maureen is a teacher on Insight Timer, and is a Certified Advanced Practitioner of Quantum Neuro Reset Therapy, QNRT™, and is a partner of Bridge Builders Collaborative Charlie Hartwell and Maureen Pelton Vroom Vroom Veer Stories Maureen grew up feeling like she really did not belong on the planet; her family treated her like there was something wrong with her; she felt deeply spiritual and struggled to fit it When she was 21 she went in for a surgery and was told she could die, or be paralyzed; she prayed and had a spiritual experience and had a teaching about the universe; she came back in ecstatic joyIn college she still didn't fit in and started reading all the spiritual books; Deepak, Wayne Dyer, A Course in Miracles; at some point the spirit voice told her enough with the books...you get itCharlie grew up doing everything in the "right" path, the right college, the right job, the right wife; in his 40's he discovered that those rights were all wrongStarted investing in businesses to promote mindfulness and meditation 10 years ago and married MaureenAddiction is usually found in people with 1) past trauma and 2) people who are isolated a from people; humans need connection and healing from past traumaMaureen says our mental health system works to help people deal with the unacceptable; not heal or process past trauma Connections Bridge Builders Collaborative Insight Timer Shiftit Charlie on Linkedin Maureen on Linkedin