MindJournal
MindJournal is a British journals company. The company was founded in 2016 by Ollie Aplin and is based in Brighton, UK.
Achieve your biggest goals, live your wildest dreams and face your scariest fears with MindJournal – the groundbreaking journal for men.
Company History
Ollie Aplin details the beginnings of their company in their Starter Story interview: (source)
Q: How did you get started on MindJournal?
I’ve personally kept a journal for 10 years now, ever since I first went into therapy to recover from PTSD. My mum took her own life 2 years prior to my breakdown, and I never really got to grips with my emotions or how to process everything that had ever happened.
When I started therapy I was still stuck in the mindset that talking about how I felt was not something I should do. So talking therapy was the most unnatural experience for me. So to help, my therapist recommended I tried journaling – as a way of privately thinking about how I felt and what was on my mind. It was a game-changer of a moment for me.
Writing was like turning on a tap in my mind and body that helped me to release everything. The most powerful thing in all of this, was a list of emotions my therapist gave me – this list acted as a way to help me kick-off my journaling sessions, as I would ask myself ‘what am I feeling?’. And then I’d go from there.
Years later, after recommending journaling to a friend – I had the lightbulb moment. He complained that he tried journaling but that he didn’t really know what to write or how to really use it. So being a designer, I knew that this was a problem I knew I could solve. And from that point, MindJournal was born.
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Technology
MindJournal is built on Shopify.
They use MailChimp and Drip for their email. Dropbox, Slack, and Evernote for their productivity. Parcel2Go for their shipping.
They use Sketch and Motifmate for their design. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Pinterest for their social media.
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- Access to our founder directory
- Live events, courses and recordings
- 8,628 business ideas
- $1M in software savings
- 4,818 founder case studies
- Access to our founder directory
- Live events, courses and recordings
- 8,628 business ideas
- $1M in software savings
- 4,818 founder case studies
- Access to our founder directory
- Live events, courses and recordings
- 8,628 business ideas
- $1M in software savings
- 4,818 founder case studies
- Access to our founder directory
- Live events, courses and recordings
- 8,628 business ideas
- $1M in software savings