Self Disclosed

Self Disclosed is a weekly podcast for Medicaid executives, clinical leaders, and anyone else tasked with the nearly impossible job of delivering better mental health outcomes for underserved youth — under budget, under pressure, and under public scrutiny.

Self Disclosed is a health podcast hosted by Patrick Gilligan, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Patrick Gilligan hosts Self Disclosed, a health show with 15 episodes published.

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  If Teens Won’t Engage, Nothing Else Matters. Marc Fagan on Youth Voice, Peer Support, and Systems That Actually Work

  Dec 10, 202550 minS0

  <p>What really moves the needle for transition-age youth (16–24)? It’s not another program list—it’s engagement. In this episode, Patrick sits down with Marc Fagan, President of YouthCare Illinois, to unpack a new playbook: put youth voice on the mic, design for discovery (not lectures), make peer support core infrastructure, and measure uptake instead of offerings.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who this is for: Medicaid leaders, child-welfare teams, providers, school partners, policymakers, and anyone building youth programs that need to work in the real world.</p><p><br /></p><p>You’ll learn:</p><p><br /></p>Why “liste...

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  Mental Health Isn’t “Cool.” Here’s How We Designed Around That

  Nov 18, 202544 minS0

  <p>What makes a teen mental health product worth opening every day? In this episode of Self Disclosed, Somethings’ design team walks through the choices behind our new brand and product: why we center connection before anything else, how we keep teens in the driver’s seat, and why our visual system embraces graffiti over clinical calm. We also share how we use AI as a quiet assist for mentors rather than a chatbot on the front line, and the naming story behind Somethings.</p><p><br></p><p>You will learn</p><p><br></p>The core problem we see...

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  Does Digital Peer Support Work for Teens? Inside North Carolina’s Real-World Results

  Nov 12, 202541 minS0

  <p>In this episode of Self Disclosed, we open up Somethings’ first clinical outcomes report from our statewide rollout in North Carolina and talk plainly about what changed for teens, how we measured it, and what it means for families, schools, payers, and states.</p><p><br /></p><p>What this episode covers</p><p><br /></p><p> - What Somethings is: a youth mental health app that pairs teens (13–26) with certified peer mentors for on-demand support and continuity of relationship- Why North Carolina partnered to offer the program free to ~1.2M teens across all 100 counties- How we evaluated impact (pre–...

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  The System Is Failing Our Kids: How to Rebuild Child Welfare from the Inside Out, with Nicole Six, VP of Product Development at Centene

  Oct 14, 202554 minS0

  <p>What if the system built to protect children is also the one traumatizing them?</p><p><br></p><p>Nicole Six — VP of Product Development at Sentara Health and a licensed clinical social worker — has spent her career inside the child welfare and behavioral health systems. From her early days as a social worker in New York City to leading large-scale Medicaid and child welfare initiatives in North Carolina, Nicole has seen how policy, poverty, and broken systems collide to shape the lives of vulnerable kids.</p><p><br></p><p>In this powerful conversation, she and Patrick Gilligan dive...

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  Building Community-Wide Systems of Care to Support At-Risk Youth, with Christine Beck, Executive Director of Behavioral Health at Optum

  Oct 7, 202550 minS0

  <p>Too many kids in crisis end up stuck in emergency rooms. Not because they need to be there, but because the system doesn’t know what else to do.</p><p><br></p><p>Christine Beck, Executive Director of Behavioral Health at Optum UHC (NC Medicaid), has spent her career changing that reality. From her early days listening to foster youth no one else would hear, to launching pilots that reshaped North Carolina’s crisis response, to leading statewide Medicaid behavioral health today, Christine brings both the heart of a clinician and the vision of a systems builder.</p><p><b...

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