Our guest, Steve Peralta, is a TEDx speaker with years of experience helping leaders and teams think more honestly about mental health, human sustainability, and the pressure underneath modern work. He is also the co-founder of Unmind, one of the world's leading workplace mental health platforms, supporting over two million employees at organisations including Disney, Uber, and British Airways.

But Steve's path into this work has been anything but conventional. He began as a musician, jazz singer, and theatre actor before moving into personal training, coaching, and eventually workplace wellbeing. Over nearly a decade at Unmind, he helped build a platform dedicated to making mental health part of everyday working life.

Then, in 2024, Steve experienced his own health crisis and breakdown, one that changed everything. He's open about the fact that "burnout" doesn't quite cover what happened. What followed was a deeply honest reckoning with his body, his nervous system, and patterns he'd been carrying for years.

Today, Steve brings that lived experience into his work as a coach, speaker, and facilitator, offering a perspective on mental health and real healing that is hard-won, grounded, and genuinely human.

Steve reminds us “Don’t use wellbeing as another way to run away from yourself or your truth.”

To explore Steve's work in mental wellbeing and digital wellness, visit his website at steveperalta.co, or follow him on LinkedIn. You can also subscribe to read his Substack, Not a Machine, for reflections on what it means to be human in an increasingly automated world. To learn more about the workplace mental health platform he co-founded, visit unmind.com.