Introduction

Muhammad Lila is Founder and CEO of Goodable. He is also previously a Warzone Correspondent, leading global news coverage at CNN and ABC. He has been nominated for 2 Emmy awards. 

Today’s discussion is around Muhammad’s vision for fixing the news by changing it from one of the biggest drivers of anxiety and depression into a cure. 

This discussion includes topics like how and why more than 90% of news coverage is negative, what this does to our mental health, and how the current news environment would be the equivalent to our physical health of living in a town where McDonald’s was the only restaurant option.

Goodable’s mission is to change this by offering the first “Whole Foods” alternative to the current fast-food-dominated news ecosystem. It’s a news platform designed to make you calmer and healthier by avoiding bias, politics, and negativity. 

Muhammad has a fascinating, ambitious underlying vision for this that we dig into in our conversation. We also discuss some powerful ideas about the news media’s place in our society and mental health.

Hosted by Marshall Kosloff and produced by Jackson Steger