Murphy Jensen
Appearances
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
And he told me Murphy's heart cells respond to stress. differently than a normal heart cell. How about that? It's really important that I take a pause and take a time out and take my company, Daniela, and my board allowed me the time to recover. You know, so, you know, from my heart to yours, I love you to pieces and I'm grateful to still be here.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
And so mental health and our physical health are interconnected and we must take care of both.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
Well, I am Murphy Jensen, someone in long-term recovery from substance use disorder and mental health challenges. And I lead that Prior to any tennis stuff, because overcoming those challenges have been the most important and impactful body of work of my life, because I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for great behavioral health solutions like We Connect.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
And in my first life, I played professional tennis. Some say I was raised by wolves on a Christmas tree farm in northern Michigan. And we headed down south to Grand Rapids, where I went to high school and played against all the tough Midwesterners out of Chicago at the Midtown Tennis Club. And by 13, I'm playing tennis around the world.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
And by 18, living in Los Angeles, and 24, winning the French Open with my brother, Luke. And that's where I, you know, it was the greatest moment of our family's life in representing Michigan in the Midwest to win a Grand Slam.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
But something happened in that locker room after the win I had my first panic attack and I had which would follow me for the next 10 years of rock and roll tennis and you know out isolate and the depression and the anxiety and what I learned. through my own recovery journey is that I'm only as sick as my secrets.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
And so what I thought was the worst thing that could have happened to me has been the greatest blessing of my life because 10 years ago, I met my co-founder, Daniella Tudor. And she was someone that I was connected to because I was helping my wife's family friend. And he said, Where did you get that great tan?
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
And I said, Well, I was at Richard Branson's Island for a tennis benefit with all these fancy superstars. And he goes, A girl in my outpatient program who builds out system engineering teams and fancy stuff I know nothing about was there as well.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
And and we got together and she shared with me her idea of how we could improve outcomes, save lives and change the world of behavioral health by leveraging
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
Yeah, well, you know, there's a drive. And there's a drive for all of us humans. If you've got a pulse, you're most likely... You know, if you're a human being, you're going to have drives, you're going to have instincts. And I grew up in an alcoholic house and dad got sober when I was about 10 or 11 and that changed the trajectory of our family's life.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
But that doesn't mean that the trauma of dad's alcoholism didn't have an effect on me or my brother. His bedroom was three feet from mine, and he's never had a drink and or a drug a day in his life. But nobody gets out of that house without their own scars. And we are both motivated. We are extremely motivated. Dad gets sober, changes everything. But where did that motivation come from?
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
You know, my fears, my doubts, my insecurities. Whether it's you're an athlete or someone that works in finance or in tech or you name it, you're driven. And we have these instincts for survival and they can be for our benefit. But we live in a wild world today. It's a different world than you and I grew up in.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
Where, you know, it's so difficult to get into the right university and so important to our kids to get into the right spot and do well and to be perfect. Being perfect is an impossibility. I can strive for that on the tennis court or off the tennis court, but I'll never quite get it. But in that moment winning the French, you know, I got to say my insides did not match my outsides.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
What I mean by that is I'm the best in the world on the outside, but my insides were scared to death of what was to come. You know, would I be found out, the fear of being found out. And my head had told me that I didn't measure up for some time. And I guess that's the dichotomy you're talking about.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
John and I've seen his work and we've crossed paths. You know what? Tell me what his work is about.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
You've got to realize tennis isn't like being drafted. And if I was being drafted in the top five in the world into the NBA, I'm making $25 million a year. Tennis is a sport. You don't win, you don't get paid. And that's why I'm very familiar with the entrepreneur mindset.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
or a startup world is a tennis player is their own individual startup and you get a little funding, you jump on a bus, you get yourself on an airplane and it's brutal. It's brutal and it's a lonely, lonely existence and there's not, you know, you're taking food off of each other's tables and then you're calling home and you're saying you won or lost.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
I went to college at USC out in Southern California and if I wasn't playing number one, I had an embarrassment and shame and guilt that I wasn't playing number one or two like my brother was playing there and you know, I was an 18 year old kid with a bunch of 24 year olds. I turned pro after two years.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
So I, I know Costa's work and we've crossed paths, but you know, what we're doing here, you know, is so much bigger than what drives me. You talked about over the course of this coming year, what drives me is to, uh, make support and services like we have with We Connect Health easier to access than an accidental overdose or a suicide attempt. I've got a coach down in Texas. I get a call.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
You know, I get the unfortunate data. You know, we're serving employers, but I'm also excited that we're serving universities and our kids. And I've been put on this earth for a reason, and that's to help people, help others, until the day I die and stop. And here we got this amazing, nutty, addictive phone. If I'm going to be obsessed with anything, it should be on my recovery.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
And so this is the most important work I will ever do. And I get an opportunity to share with the Midwest through the employer channel or through the health plan channel or through the colleges and universities. And now they've got me after dropping dead three years ago from a cardiac arrest. Now you're talking about physical health and mental health. I really look at it
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
How WEconnect Health is Transforming Recovery & Behavioral Health with Daniela Luzi Tudor, Murphy Jensen, and Cameron Chell 4-17-25
You know, my heart stopped three years ago. And Damar Hamlin from the Bills and I become friends. But what caused, everybody wants to know, what caused Murphy's cardiac arrest? You know, and guess what? Ladies and gentlemen, on the Becker's podcast, this is where it's at. We did the genome sequencing and mapping in my heart cells at Stanford University with Dr. Wu.