My Steady Mind, a Melbourne-based startup who offers online-based mindfulness and resiliency training, took home the top prize at the Veterans Florida Battle of the Pitches Competition. This was the fourth pitch competition put on by Veterans Florida and each company in the competition was nominated by one of their entrepreneurship partners. In January of 2021, Veterans Florida and Groundswell Startups, a high-tech incubator and coworking space in Melbourne where My Steady Mind is based out of, entered into a partnership to provide scholarships to veterans in the local community pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors.
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I still remember the sound of skateboards gliding across railings as young teens laughed and burned all the energy that had been lying dormant inside them during the long school day. The smell of sweat mixed with the river air carried throughout the building but never deterred the swarms of people from inhabiting the grounds for hours on end.
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Meet Tara Endress - Having relocated to Florida's Space Coast earlier this year from San Francisco with her husband Scott, Endress saw the move as an opportunity to pursue one of her passions, breathing new life into vintage furniture pieces through the creation of handcrafted, hand-machined solid metal furniture legs. With support of the Groundswell Startups community, and an English built Clausing-Colchester lathe, Mint Fresco was launched.
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Seth Hickerson, Founder of My Steady Mind, is no stranger to high-pressure situations. A two-branch Military Veteran, Hickerson served five years in the US Navy, stationed in Tokyo, Japan, Rota, and Spain, and four years in the Air Force Reserve at Langley AFB in Virginia. Hickerson's passion is to use his military training and experiences to help individuals incorporate mindfulness and resiliency training into their everyday lives. His timing could not be better as there is a renewed sense of importance and awareness on mental wellness and the feelings of burnout, stress, and mental fatigue exacerbated by the impacts of COVID-19.
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Groundswell Startups, in partnership with the University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, has launched a pilot program to connect top engineering and business students to Space Coast-based startups for summer Virtual Internships. The partnership is part of a broader initiative to showcase the Space Coast as a destination for students upon graduation. The two organizations recently announced a collaborative partnership that enables startups in the Groundswell ecosystem to access UF’s supercomputer, a result of a 100-million-dollar public-private partnership with the university and Silicon Valley-based technology company NVIDIA.
