Thomas Drew | Source | Co-Founder and Co-CEO at 1AND1

“Minority groups are often underrepresented in the wellness industry,” said Thomas Drew, Co-founder and President at 1AND1. “We wanted to create an app to help pave a healthy path forward for BIPOC communities especially. We can create our own realities and we can do it together. We are not the statistics that we see."

“Our mentor in business and in life put it this way for us to think about, and I think about it every day during these times: ‘Be angry. But let your anger guide your planning. Use it to fuel your ambition and your desire to make real change, not a flash in the pan.’”

“This is the analogy I use: Think of yourself as a water balloon and your thoughts, feelings and struggles that you hold inside as water. We all add water to the water balloon each day, especially in these times. If you keep adding water to the water balloon, at some point, it's going to burst. Therapy is what allows you to release that water and that pressure so that you can think and act clearly.”