Bring Let's Pause to Your Campus

A proactive student wellbeing ecosystem — built for prevention, not crisis response.

Let’s Pause was born from lived experience. On April 12, 2010, at just 24 years old, our founder Steve nearly lost his life to an alcohol and drug overdose. After years of hiding behind a smile and pretending everything was fine, he hit a breaking point. That day, a doctor told Steve’s father, “We don’t think he’s going to make it.”

Three days on life support. Severe hearing loss. And yet, Steve still couldn’t admit he needed help. Vulnerability wasn’t something he knew how to embrace—it felt like weakness. But everything changed when his mom handed him a handwritten letter; his resume of consequences from alcohol and drug use and how it was affecting her. She was his #1, and that moment cracked the denial. Days later, Steve walked into a 30-day rehab program, followed by two years in a halfway house. Life’s problems didn’t go away when he got sober, he was just now having to learn how to deal with them.

Fifteen years sober, Steve built Let’s Pause to be the app he wished existed back then: a platform to find inspiration; a place to talk about addiction, stress, succes and everything in between. A tool used to inspire people to take action to realize their potential. A platform to make sure nobody feels alone in their situation, because so many have been there.

Most of all, Steve wanted to create an app where the stories that make us human are the stories that make us heroes.

52% of college students report high levels of loneliness. Only 36% are flourishing. And most of the tools universities rely on — counseling, therapy apps, awareness campaigns — reach students after the crisis, never before it.

Let’s Pause is the prevention layer. Built around daily habits, peer connection, and mentor guidance, it gives students a place to normalize struggle and learn to elevate through it — before they reach a breaking point.

The Pilot Program

We partner with universities for a 60-day closed campus pilot — accessible only to enrolled students, faculty, staff, and approved alumni mentors. The pilot is fully branded for your campus, and shaped entirely by your students’ feedback.

What you get: