How a finance leader turned a mental health crisis into his purpose
Listen and subscribe to Stocks In Translation on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. In this episode of Stocks In Translation, Yahoo Finance’s markets and data editor Jared Blikre and producer Sydnee Fried chat with Shawn Lesser, founder of The Real Mental Health Foundation, an organization focused on the mental health challenges within the finance industry.
Before starting his foundation, Lesser co-founded Big Path Capital, the first impact investing investment bank. Impact investing is a strategy to generate positive social or environmental outcomes alongside financial returns. “The whole idea behind ESG or impact investing when I was in it is you make as much money or more, but you also happen to have some social or environmental benefit,” says Lesser.
Lesser opens up about his struggle with depression and anxiety in 2022, recalling an investor call where he “had like a full mental breakdown where I was not functioning correctly. I couldn’t speak,” says Lesser. This breakdown led to a trip to the emergency room, followed by a three-day stay in a psychiatric ward, marking the beginning of his road to recovery.
It was during this recovery that he found his mental health sponsor and conceived the idea for The Real. “I went through something, and if I could help somebody else, terrific,” Lesser continues. “And hopefully they get better … and then pass it along to somebody else.”
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