S5 E74: This Life with, Justin Smith

Justin Smith grew up poor in the 1980s in a wealthy, status-driven East Coast suburb. Shortly before he was born, his father entered a manic-depressive cycle from which he would find no escape in this life.As early as he can remember, Justin has been interested in finding better ways to help people get less defeated by unhelpful negative emotion. After earning a law degree and working in law and finance, he has spent much of the last decade studying the challenge of emotional and spiritual progress and refining a tool that he believes can make such progress feel less impossible.