Jana Dowling: From being suicidal to successful tech entrepreneur

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This story with Jana Dowling is incredible. Jana is a female founder with bipolar disorder.

She’s one of the most unconventional founders I’ve literally ever met and we clicked as soon as we met.

Jana has done things the hard way. She didn’t go to Uni. She entered entrepreneurship late after a career in tv production, now approaching 40, building Arkeo, a mental health tracking app born out of her experience of being on 24 hour suicide watch after having a severe depressive episode. And this is the story of how she built it, from virtually nothing to now having thousands of users tracking their mental health habits.

I’ve done a lot of podcast episodes now and I know when I’m recording something in the moment that this is going to help so many people out there realise that whatever they’re going through, it can be done.

Through sheer will. Sheer Grit. Sheer determination.

So, welcome to Vulnerable, Jana Dowling.