Marie Lesaicherre is the founder and CEO of Akesa Health, a startup offering a self-guided therapy app helping people transform anxiety and distress into resilience. She is a global entrepreneurial executive with 18 years of experience launching tech businesses for General Electric and startups in the US, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Marie holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from the National University of Singapore and an executive MBA from Columbia Business School and the London Business School. She devoted twenty years to getting degrees, climbing the corporate ladder worldwide, and running away from long-forgotten childhood trauma. The traumas resurfaced and derailed her career. She experimented and trained in numerous therapies (talk therapy, psychedelics, energy, and holistic healing) and eventually found therapies that saved her life. Through her life experiences, she got very interested in neuroscience, mind-body connections, holistic health, and spirituality. This experience caused her to get frustrated with the lack of affordable and scientifically-validated mental health solutions. While researching therapies that had helped her, she realized the brain has innate self-healing potential. This self-healing potential will transform anxiety and stress into resilience - the ability to face life's setbacks without needing a therapist.