UnVALEd
Minds.
Real Faces. Raw Conversation.
About the Campaign
Through UnVALEd Minds, we've partnered with inspiring individuals to spark conversations that challenge and connect people across generations and communities. These dialogues are designed to reach people across all generations, professions, and life experiences, from students and seniors to athletes, artists, caregivers, and working professionals. By sharing personal stories, lived experiences, and practical tools for mental wellness, UnVALEd Minds creates safe spaces where individuals feel seen, heard, and supported.
Tools in Your Toolkit
There is no
single tool
for healing.
"You can't build a house with only a hammer. The same is true for mental wellness; it takes the right combination of tools."
Mental wellness is deeply personal. That’s why we create spaces where youth and adults can explore different paths to healing, from sports and arts to nutrition, nature, faith, and clinical care. Because no two journeys look the same, every toolkit is uniquely their own.
Resource Fairs
Where the toolkit
comes to life.
Alongside our speaker events, we host community resource fairs, hands-on experiences where attendees meet local experts, try modalities live, and walk away with real tools and real connections. Because healing doesn't end when the event does.
The numbers behind
UnVALEd Minds.
1,000+
individuals reached across 6 states through UnVALEd Minds
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Increased Awareness of Mental Well-Being Concepts
Participants reported a stronger understanding of mental wellness principles after attending UnVALEd Minds events.
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Improved Ability to Recognize & Manage Stress
Attendees showed measurable improvement in identifying stress signals and applying practical coping strategies.
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Increased Comfort Discussing Mental Health Topics
The highest-rated outcome, participants felt significantly more at ease having open mental health conversations.
State-by-State Impact
From Florida to California,
healing has no borders.
UnVALEd Minds has taken the conversation across the country, meeting communities where they are, in six states and counting.
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Florida
UnVALEd Minds: Florida took to the University of Florida campus and brought together students from all different backgrounds to talk all things mental well-being. This powerful event created community, support and resources for these students within each other. → Florida Information Packet
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Massachusetts
UnVALEd Minds: More Than Words brought together panelists and foster youth for a transformative event, talking all things mental health, community, support and resources.
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Pennsylvania
UnVALEd Minds: Inside the Helmet and Women of the NFL combined athletes, women, community advocates and experts for a two-part panel on how our mental health fits performance on and off the field. The panels also covered finding community and handling change in times of stress.
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California
UnVALEd Minds: Super Bowl Radio Row brought together athletes, mental health advocates, and coaches for numerous discussions around mental health and sports. These discussions helped normalize mental wellbeing struggles among athletes and the general population alike to create a stronger support system throughout the athletic community.
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New York
UnVALEd Minds: Cracked Open was an off broadway show and talk back after the show that brought together those in the show and the audience for deep conversations about mental health, well being and the themes in the show.
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Ohio
UnVALEd Minds: Nourish the whole body in Ohio brought together our panelists for an engaging discussion about how fueling your body can affect your mental health and wellbeing both short-term and long-term.
“Artem Vale’s UnVALEd Minds hits home as we work to end the stigma around mental illness by showing our strength through vulnerability, having meaningful conversations, and showing love and empathy to those around us.”
— Hayden Grove, Mental Health Advocate and NBC's The Voice Contestant
Speaker Series
Watch the
conversations.
Baker Mayfield
Faith, Pressure & the NFL
Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB talks vulnerability, identity, and growing beyond the spotlight with Senior NFL writer Rob Maaddi.
Suzanne McKenzie
Grief, Healing & Mental Wellness
Founder of Able Made opens up about the intersection of grief and medication, sharing why education, honest conversations, and reducing stigma around treatment options are critical to supporting mental wellness during life’s hardest moments.
Jack Crawford
Purpose, Identity & Life After the NFL
Former NFL veteran opens up about rediscovering purpose, embracing authenticity, and navigating life beyond the spotlight.
Jon Brace
Purpose & Redefining Strength
As quarterback of the New England Patriots Wheelchair Football Team, Jon shares his journey of overcoming disability, challenging misconceptions around mental and physical health, and proving that resilience and perseverance can turn adversity into impact.
Sports Philanthropy Network
Sports, Purpose & Community Impact
Artem Vale joins the conversation on how athletes, nonprofits, and communities can work together to expand access to care and create lasting impact through the power of sports and philanthropy.
University of Florida
Mental Wellness, Music & Finding Hope
As part of UnVALEd Minds, we sat down with a UF student to explore mental wellness, suicide prevention, and therapeutic outlets beyond traditional talk therapy, highlighting how music and singing have become powerful tools for healing, resilience, and hope.
What’s in Your Mental Wellness Toolkit?
From journaling and meditation to music, movement, and community, panelists at the NFL Draft share the tools that help them build resilience and protect their mental wellness. We believe conversations like these remind people they are never alone in building their toolkit.
Cracked Open & Puglsey Prep Academy
Mychal-Bella Bowman on Creating Change & Showing Up
An unforgettable conversation on resilience, empathy, and leading with heart.
Hayden Grove
Music, Healing & Finding Strength
Mental health advocate and former contestant on The Voice shares his personal journey and how music became both a refuge and a source of strength,.
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UnVALEd Minds to
more communities.
At its core, this program reminds us that mental wellness is a universal human experience. Check out our upcoming events, or help us reach the next community.