Bringing ancient wellbeing to the AI age – Reeva Misra, founder, WONE

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Reeva Misra, founder and CEO of Walking on Earth, discusses how stress is often at the root of chronic health problems, the real science backing up ancient wellbeing practices, how attitudes to mental health benefits at businesses are changing for the better and how AI could improve personal happiness.

Misra founded Walking on Earth (WONE), which uses AI to assess the stress levels of users and provide personalised interventions, in 2020 after almost three years at BenevolentAI. Misra was inspired to develop tech-powered stress relief after examining medical research that found combatting stress is a powerful preventative measure when dealing with physical and mental health. Prior to founding WONE, Misra spent nearly three years at BenevolentAI, most recently as VP of strategy.

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0:00.0	People are our most important asset.
0:07.0	You know, businesses wouldn't exist without the people within them.
0:10.0	And so it just should be fundamental.
0:13.0	It should be just a necessity for every workplace to be investing in the well-being of their people.
0:26.0	What's really interesting is that the science is now coming out to back up these ancient presses and the impact that it has on our body.
0:31.6	So my belief on AI is that I think it's all about how you use it, right?
0:35.6	And my view on AI is that if we can use it to augment human expertise,
0:40.5	we will go a long way towards being able to make better discovery,
0:43.8	better predictions, have a huge impact on our lives.
0:51.0	From the first time founders to the funds that back them,
0:55.9	innovation needs different.
1:03.5	Our episode partner, HSBC Innovation Banking, is proud to accelerate growth for tech and life science businesses,
1:10.0	creating meaningful connections and opening up a world of opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike.
1:15.3	Discover more at www.h.hsbc innovationbanking.com slash EN-GB. Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK
1:29.5	tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related. I'm your host, Jane Wakefield,
1:35.8	and joining me this week is Reva Misra, the founder and CEO of Walking on Earth, a health
1:41.6	platform focused on helping alleviate stress. Welcome, Reva.
1:45.5	Thank you, Jane. It's a pleasure to be here. Now, let's first of all get a little kind of
1:51.3	explanation from you about how walking on earth works. Yes, we call ourselves one for short.
1:57.6	And in a nutshell, we have developed a technology that can measure and regulate stress levels.
2:03.6	And how that works is we've developed a three-step process that we call the one method to measure and regulate stress.
2:11.6	The first step is our one index, which is our proprietary stress score.
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