Future Generali India Insurance creates talk show featuring sports personalities to promote mental well-being

With a commitment to make mental health conversations mainstream, Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited (FGII) has launched a talk show titled ‘Mind Matters’ on YouTube and Facebook. Through the show, the company has created a platform for top sports personalities to come forward and share their stories of mental health issues that they have experienced during their career.

Hosted by television presenter and actor Samir Kochhar, this series will see him in conversation with leading sports personalities such as Sania Mirza, Abhinav Bindra, Sunil Chhetri, Robin Uthappa and Cheteshwar Pujara. The conversations will be focused on their struggles related to their mental health and their journey to self-awareness while re-enforcing that mental issues can strike anyone and that it's okay to not be okay. The fundamental aim of this talk show is to create awareness about mental health, eliminate prevailing taboos, and lead people towards healthy conversations on mental wellbeing.

The first episode of the weekly series features Sunil Chhetri.

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Ruchika Varma, CMO, Future Generali India Insurance, said, “At Future Generali India Insurance, we are persistently working towards normalising the conversation around mental health and creating awareness that all of us are susceptible to mental health issues, and it is okay to come forward, discuss, and seek help. In that context, sports celebrities are perfect role models as they bring alive the importance of mental health issues in sports, a profession where one would think that physical health is the most important. Our ‘Mind Matters’ talk show brings to life a never-seen-before side of the sports personas – their challenges, struggles and triumphs with mental illness. We are sure that their inspiring stories will send a strong message to a larger audience to pay heed to their mental wellbeing and proactively discuss challenges when the need arises.”