Mind Meets Machine

Mind Meets Machine is a video podcast by Avik where mental health, AI, and business collide in the most human way. Real conversations with founders, therapists, doctors, and creators. Practical tools, clear insights, and zero fluff. Learn to think clearer, work smarter, and live better in a tech-driven world.

Podcasting since 2025 • 67 episodes

Mind Meets Machine

Latest Episodes

The Real Business Behind A Speaking Career with Marianne Hickman

You can feel it when a message is real, and you can also feel the moment someone talks themselves out of saying it. We start from that quiet tension: speaking changes lives, yet most of us keep waiting for permission, credentials, or confidence...

June 09, 2026 • Season 1 • Episode 67 • 30:14

Choosing To Laugh When Your Brain Misbehaves with Jane Rogers

The human brain might be the most sophisticated “machine” we know, but sometimes it does things we never asked it to do. That’s where today’s conversation goes: into the quiet, real-world truth of living with epilepsy, beyond the movie-version ...

June 08, 2026 • Season 1 • Episode 66 • 25:08

How Authors Build Authority When Anyone Can Publish with Sarah Bean

Words are cheap now, but trust is not. When anyone can publish a book in an afternoon and AI can mimic almost any style, the real question becomes: why should a reader choose you? We sit down with Sarah Bean, a marketing expert at ...

June 04, 2026 • Season 1 • Episode 65 • 29:48

How To Build A Real Writing Career Inside Publishing with Lana McAra

The “candlelit desk” myth is beautiful until rent is due. We talk about the part most writers never see clearly until they’re already stuck inside it: the publishing machine, with its contracts, royalties, rights, timelines, platforms, and the ...

June 03, 2026 • Season 1 • Episode 64 • 30:39

Talking To Your Characters At 3 A.M. with Nancy Jasin Ensley

Your life is already leaving clues behind, and most of them vanish unless someone decides to notice. We sit down with Nancy Jasin Ensley, a legal nurse, hospice volunteer, teacher, and author, to talk about writing as a radical act of attention...

June 02, 2026 • Season 1 • Episode 63 • 41:11