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INTERVIEW: Dr. Alfiee Breland Noble On Discussing Mental Health In Safe Spaces, Therapy Benefits + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: in the building. She's back. She just reminded me that
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  Speaker 2: she had her HU bag outside that she didn't bring in,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I'm so glad you had. You brought
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  Speaker 2: your Hampton University bag with you. Today we have doctor
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  Speaker 2: Alfi Brelando. But welcome, good morning, really, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: having me.
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  Speaker 1: How are you feeling? I'm good?
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  Speaker 3: Fresh?
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  Speaker 1: What did y'all?
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  Speaker 3: Says Black and hollyday you go? We fresh off the
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  Speaker 3: third Annual Mental Wealth Expo.
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  Speaker 1: How did that go?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: My god? Like I wasn't there, but it was phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: One of the highlights for me was at the end
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  Speaker 1: when you took the video of all the people out
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  Speaker 1: in the audience. I just felt like the energy was
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  Speaker 1: really there for those thousands of people who showed up
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  Speaker 1: to get some healing and get some positive energy from
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  Speaker 1: you and all your celebrity friends and the influencers and
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  Speaker 1: just so many good words. Michelle Williams's words stand out
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  Speaker 1: to me. Alive. She was just phenomenal. So I think
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  Speaker 1: it was highly successful. Each year gets bigger and better,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a joy and an honor to be there.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's talk about the weather too, because the weather
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  Speaker 2: was disgusting and people still showed up in that weather.
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  Speaker 2: That shows how much people really needed it and wanted it.
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  Speaker 1: They needed, they wanted. I think everybody appreciates shar as
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  Speaker 1: a black man coming out and talking about his own
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  Speaker 1: mental health and his own journey and having people like
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  Speaker 1: Carson Daley. I don't want to name check everybody, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, to meek A Mallory, all these amazing people
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  Speaker 1: from all these different walks of life talking about their
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  Speaker 1: mental health and like just uplifting it and being open
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  Speaker 1: and transparent. You know. So the people really came out
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  Speaker 1: to get that learning and that love, and they got it.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all always say, you know, the thing I love about
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  Speaker 3: this event is I want people to come to this
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  Speaker 3: event and learn early what I learned late, and also
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  Speaker 3: say I want this to be the start of somebody's
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  Speaker 3: healing journey. So what would be the next steps for
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  Speaker 3: somebody that came out to the mental.
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  Speaker 1: Health I think, first of all, what I was telling
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people is you go to the workshops.
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  Speaker 1: If you went to the workshops, the breakout rooms, and
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  Speaker 1: if you went to any of the vendors, you already
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  Speaker 1: have some ideas about where your journey can go next. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So following up with some of those folks, like the
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  Speaker 1: Ecoma Project was there, the Mental Wealth Alliance had a
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  Speaker 1: booth there. Lululemon helped us out a little bit. So
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  Speaker 1: following up with those folks that you met who are
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  Speaker 1: providers who run organizations, I think that's the next steps.
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  Speaker 1: Just following up. And the other thing I will say
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  Speaker 1: is make a commitment, right, remind yourself that you have
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  Speaker 1: the passion, the energy, and you want to keep the
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  Speaker 1: momentum going. Because if you don't have the passion and
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  Speaker 1: energy and you don't have the investment and taking care of,
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  Speaker 1: as you say, your mental wealth, it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: go anywhere. You can have the interest, but you really
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  Speaker 1: need to be ready to take the next step. So
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  Speaker 1: that's what I would tell people to do. Go look
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  Speaker 1: these people up, find them on the web, take some
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  Speaker 1: of the advice things that you learned from some of
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  Speaker 1: the people who were on the main stage, and really
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  Speaker 1: make a concerted effort to act on what you learned
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  Speaker 1: every day.
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  Speaker 4: See, I'm disappointed that I wasn't invited to participate. I'm
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  Speaker 4: in therapy. I'm happier now. You walk in with a
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  Speaker 4: whole light, I mean mental health, going through your mental
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  Speaker 4: health journey and therapy, does it just make you a
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  Speaker 4: happier person, a lighter person. Because I feel like one
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  Speaker 4: of the things that made me a little nervous going
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  Speaker 4: down this path was my career is based on being abtle,
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  Speaker 4: snarky at times, that having high opinions and being critical.
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  Speaker 4: But sometimes now that I'm in my journey, I consider,
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  Speaker 4: I reconsider what I'm going to say and do because
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  Speaker 4: of the work I'm doing.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's beautiful, and I do think it helps you,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not necessarily be happier, because you know, it's not
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  Speaker 1: a happy pill. It's not like a happy trip. It
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  Speaker 1: really is about helping you find what's deep down inside
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  Speaker 1: of you and bring out the best parts of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And I think sometimes what happens is the best parts
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  Speaker 1: of who we are get covered up with so much muck,
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  Speaker 1: through trauma, right through negative experiences, through watching people in
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  Speaker 1: our lives who aren't happy themselves, or who aren't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they don't know who they are. And so I think
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  Speaker 1: what therapy does is it just brings out what's already
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  Speaker 1: down in there. And I think every single one of
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  Speaker 1: us has a light in us, but we can't see
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  Speaker 1: the light if our mental health is not good. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what do you think about that question.
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  Speaker 3: I do think it makes you happier if you do
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  Speaker 3: the actual work and you do get to a place
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  Speaker 3: of healing. I don't think you're ever completely healed, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean. And I don't don't want anybody
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  Speaker 3: to think that you're just always naturally happy either, Like
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  Speaker 3: I still deal with about the depression all the time.
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  Speaker 3: That's you know what I mean. So I don't even
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  Speaker 3: want nobody to think that any of this just is
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  Speaker 3: going to automatically correct you.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're talking to doctor Alfie Breelan Noble. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think about programs like The Breakfast Club or like
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  Speaker 2: Jason Lee's Hollywood Unlock. And the reason I asked is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes we take somebody's mental breakdown and we
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  Speaker 2: report it and we talk about it, which could be
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  Speaker 2: traumatizing to the people who it affects. And not only that,
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  Speaker 2: but their family and their friends as well. So when
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  Speaker 2: you see the Breakfast Club reporting something, or you see
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  Speaker 2: Jason Lee reporting something, what do you think about.
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  Speaker 4: Well, let's just say when we see Tyres and them
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  Speaker 4: go at it, let's use that.
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  Speaker 2: But it's already above.
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  Speaker 4: We've been promoted too because we talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: We discussed those things. Okay ya breaks, We're gonna be real.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna keep it real. I think that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's different. Everybody has a different journey, everybody has a
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  Speaker 1: different mechanism for coping. I personally am a person where
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  Speaker 1: I have to try to keep everything around me the
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  Speaker 1: energy positive. It can't always be light, but I'm always
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  Speaker 1: trying to seek the light, even in the difficulty, right,
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  Speaker 1: But that's my journey. For other people, they don't know
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  Speaker 1: how to find the light, do you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: They can get stuck, and they can get stuck and
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  Speaker 1: hearing things about themselves that don't portray them in the
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  Speaker 1: best light. It can be traumatizing for you know. I
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  Speaker 1: learned this from one of the young people I work with.
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  Speaker 1: Her name is Mayve. She has volunteered with the ECOMA projects.
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  Speaker 1: She's a transgender young woman and listening to her talk
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  Speaker 1: about people using what I've learned to call her dead name,
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  Speaker 1: her old name before she like really and fully embraced
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  Speaker 1: who she was. That's traumatized and that's painful. And so
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  Speaker 1: I think what I've learned to do is anytime I'm
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  Speaker 1: in the room, I'm gonna do my best to like
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  Speaker 1: I always say, spread love and light. That's my goal.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm put on this earth for, because maybe
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  Speaker 1: I can be a person who in that moment where
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  Speaker 1: somebody's feeling beat down or feeling like people are like
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  Speaker 1: piling on them. You know, you're never as bad as
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  Speaker 1: the worst thing that you've ever done, and we've all
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  Speaker 1: done awful stuff. So I think what I try to
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  Speaker 1: do is help people see Look, people can say those things.
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  Speaker 1: I heard of Yan Levine's ant say this a long
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  Speaker 1: time ago, and it really helped me. It's not what
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  Speaker 1: people say about your what they call you, it's what
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  Speaker 1: you choose to respond to. And I try to carry
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  Speaker 1: that with me. So to answer your question directly, I
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  Speaker 1: think depending on the person, it can be super traumatizing.
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  Speaker 1: But I also think that if we can find the
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  Speaker 1: strength to, I don't know, go seek out like we
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  Speaker 1: were talking about earlier therapy or seek out ways of
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  Speaker 1: taking care of ourselves and uplifting ourselves. Maybe it can
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  Speaker 1: make that pain a little less. So I hope I
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  Speaker 1: answered the question directly. I think it can be traumatizing
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  Speaker 1: for people, but everybody needs to find some way to
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  Speaker 1: recognize that what people say about you is not the
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  Speaker 1: most important thing. It's what you think about yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 4: And you look at Britney Spears dancing with them little
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  Speaker 4: draws and the knives and the dogs running for cover
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  Speaker 4: for us to not comment on it when you're a
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  Speaker 4: celebrity of putting out their domains of people, that's what
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  Speaker 4: it is. If you don't want us to criticize or
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  Speaker 4: have an opinion, don't do it. Doesn't mean that I'm
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  Speaker 4: not doing the work or we're not doing the work.
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  Speaker 4: It means like you put this out here for public consumption.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, I think sometimes when the celebrities feel like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's cap that we're working on ourselves, so
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  Speaker 4: we shouldn't have an opinion.
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  Speaker 3: But what is that opinion though, Because if you're doing
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  Speaker 3: the work on yourself and you see Britney Spears with
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  Speaker 3: the knives, you can look at that and say, man,
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  Speaker 3: something's wrong. Then yeah, you know what I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: can because you did get a well to check.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you can. But also remember sometimes when you see
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, the reason is out there is because the
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  Speaker 1: person isn't well. If they were well, they would never
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  Speaker 1: put that stuff out there, like you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Like and having this conversation, there's people that may not
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  Speaker 4: be well that watch and go, oh, I'm not well too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, so those conversations are helpful.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Now this weekend with the Mental Wealth Alliance, the
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  Speaker 2: expo that had so many people I seen on the video.
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  Speaker 2: I was actually in Alabama, and I was so impressed
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  Speaker 2: because when I looked on the cameras, I seen that
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  Speaker 2: it seemed like a monsoon in the new year, and
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  Speaker 2: the amount of people that showed up and showed out
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  Speaker 2: to show that they wanted it, they needed it, and
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  Speaker 2: they respected it. So I appreciate both of you guys
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  Speaker 2: for what you guys have done to help people on
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  Speaker 2: their mental journey.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I want to talk to you about,
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  Speaker 3: doctor Alfre Brilando. Will you run Mental Wealth Alliance, but
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  Speaker 3: you also run your coma projects because you tell them
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  Speaker 3: tell us the mission of the Mental Wealth Alliance as
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  Speaker 3: well as the OCMA Project.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, so I'm going to shout out my senior executive
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  Speaker 1: Liaison Lexifield, who's in here with me with from their
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  Speaker 1: COMA Project and the ECOMA Project is a mental health
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  Speaker 1: organization that's founded on three key principles, raising consciousness, empowering people,
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  Speaker 1: and changing the system of mental health for youth and
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  Speaker 1: young adults of color. What makes us unique is a
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  Speaker 1: couple of things. One is we are intentional and unapologetic
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  Speaker 1: about focusing on young people of diverse backgrounds because so
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  Speaker 1: much of what we know in the field is and
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  Speaker 1: it's nothing wrong with the white kids need support too,
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  Speaker 1: but that's who we know about in the mental health field.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know about Arab Mena kids, African American and
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  Speaker 1: black kids of all the diaspora, right because we come
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  Speaker 1: from lots of different places, you know, let the name
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  Speaker 1: Native American AAPI folks and so. At the ECOMA Project,
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  Speaker 1: our goal is to generate research and knowledge. This year
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  Speaker 1: we put out something called the State of Mental Health
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  Speaker 1: and Youth of Color, one of the first of this
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  Speaker 1: kind of reports, where our entire sample was kids of color,
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  Speaker 1: including kids who identify as multiracial and so being able
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  Speaker 1: to uplift and amplify and help these young people see,
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  Speaker 1: you need to be centered in these conversations too. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we're all about. And what about the Mental Wealth
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  Speaker 1: a line? Oh yes, So the Mental Wealth Alliance we're
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  Speaker 1: all about train, treat, and teach, uplifting the mental health
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  Speaker 1: and wellness of black folks specifically because we know, right
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  Speaker 1: there's so many things that impact us uniquely as Black people,
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  Speaker 1: and the whole goal with the Mental Wealth Alliance is
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  Speaker 1: to again center those needs, center those special ways, unique
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  Speaker 1: ways of healing and making sure that everybody out there knows,
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  Speaker 1: as shar always says, that you need to invest in
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  Speaker 1: your mental health and to provide a model and an
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  Speaker 1: image so people can see black men taking care of themselves,
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  Speaker 1: black women taking care of themselves, like we have representation
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  Speaker 1: from doctor Lasseter, who's all about the queer community and
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  Speaker 1: making sure that black queer people know that they are
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  Speaker 1: a part of the conversation too. So the Mental Wealth
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  Speaker 1: Alliance is really like a hub to bring all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of folks together to help people understand that black folks
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  Speaker 1: mental health needs to be amplified.
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  Speaker 4: If I can just go back to the COMA project. Recently,
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  Speaker 4: we did a youth summit in my hometown for about
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  Speaker 4: two hundred young people and write Ockdale Stockton, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 4: doctor Listen Stocktor. Somebody else called a Stockholm. We get it.
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  Speaker 4: It's a community with a lot of folks that look
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  Speaker 4: like us that you know. There was two hundred kids
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  Speaker 4: there and last minute the team put a young white
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  Speaker 4: boy up there.
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  Speaker 1: And there were.
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  Speaker 4: Three young boys and girls of color, and then the
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  Speaker 4: white boy. They gave their experiences with violence, death, drugs, despair.
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  Speaker 4: Then he was like this young savior and I don't
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  Speaker 4: even think he knew what he was doing, but he
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  Speaker 4: was saying, my colored colleagues like he was this young
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  Speaker 4: man was he said that colored And I'm sitting there
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  Speaker 4: facilitating it's trying to be respectful youth, but also being
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  Speaker 4: very president and saying that like, our lived experience is
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  Speaker 4: very different, our lack of resources or even knowing about
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  Speaker 4: the resources is different. And then the people in the
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  Speaker 4: audience was listening to the young black folks tell their story.
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  Speaker 4: Then when it got to clapping them on, and I said,
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  Speaker 4: there you go praising him and not really And I
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  Speaker 4: just think it came natural to folks that weren't really understanding. Well,
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  Speaker 4: what I walked away with besides knowing that, like, we're
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  Speaker 4: very clear and intention about who we're targeting, which is
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  Speaker 4: people that look like us. How important is it for parents, families, mentors,
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  Speaker 4: people like me or us that have audiences to promote
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  Speaker 4: mental health awareness and access to care for young people.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think a couple of things. One is important
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  Speaker 1: for our communities because there's so much trauma. And you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, there's historical trauma, there's like live
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  Speaker 1: trauma in the moment, you got inter generational trauma. And
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  Speaker 1: so I think regardless of what your socioeconomic status is,
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  Speaker 1: because I want people to be clear, right, we got
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  Speaker 1: Hampton grad right here, Like you have so much different
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  Speaker 1: Like you all are like in the public eye. That's
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  Speaker 1: all right though, with you're in the public eye and
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  Speaker 1: you're successful, and so we have so much variability in
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  Speaker 1: our communities. And that's part of what I want people
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  Speaker 1: to understand is that our experiences are it's not a monolith.
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  Speaker 1: We're super diverse. And so for parents and caregivers, right,
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  Speaker 1: because not everybody who takes care of a child is
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  Speaker 1: a biological parent, right, You've got aunties and uncles and
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff who grandparents. So for us,
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  Speaker 1: I think it is helping our young people understand by modeling.
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  Speaker 1: We got to take care of our own mental health
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  Speaker 1: to model for our young people that they need to
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  Speaker 1: And even in the absence of that, we have to
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  Speaker 1: really be willing to encourage our young people to understand
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  Speaker 1: that taking care of your mental health and acknowledging that
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  Speaker 1: mental health is a thing and that mental illness is
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  Speaker 1: a thing. It doesn't make you weak, it doesn't make
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  Speaker 1: you sorry. What it really does is it empowers you because,
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  Speaker 1: like I was saying earlier, when you can pull out
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  Speaker 1: the best of you, right, everybody gets to experience that.
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  Speaker 1: But you can't find that if you're not taking care
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  Speaker 1: of your mental health.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I want to go back to something Jason
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  Speaker 3: said about having a white person at an event centered
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  Speaker 3: around black people. I don't know if the mental health
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  Speaker 3: expot was that was centered around just black people, because
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  Speaker 3: mental health is not just a black or white issue.
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  Speaker 3: And I was happy that Carson Dally wanted to be
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  Speaker 3: a part of it because number one, it just shows
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  Speaker 3: that this is something that we're all dealing with. And
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  Speaker 3: I think anybody who has the issues of anxiety or
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  Speaker 3: depression or whatever you're going through, if you can help
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  Speaker 3: point us in the direction of more resources, I'm all
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  Speaker 3: for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. And I think the other thing about
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  Speaker 1: having somebody like Carsonaire is a big mental health advocate.
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  Speaker 1: It echoes what you said. It's like it demonstrates the
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  Speaker 1: people to me that everybody goes through this stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: it also demonstrates to young people that all different kinds
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  Speaker 1: of people care about you and are invested in you.
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  Speaker 1: Because for so many of our young people, their experience
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  Speaker 1: of people who come from outside their community is not
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  Speaker 1: one of love and support. Right. Like you think about
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  Speaker 1: what they call the school to prison pipeline for our
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  Speaker 1: young black boys and girls, right. And so what we
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  Speaker 1: need is to see more of people like Carson at
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  Speaker 1: these kinds of events, supporting all different kinds of people
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  Speaker 1: are young people can know if it's a safe adult,
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  Speaker 1: if it's a trustworthy adult, I can go to that
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  Speaker 1: person and get some help.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have to look like me. I always say,
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  Speaker 1: it's not necessarily about a racial match, although that's important
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  Speaker 1: in therapy. It's about an empathy match. Can you empathize
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  Speaker 1: with my experience, right, can you uplift me without falling
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  Speaker 1: into stereotypes or treating me in stereotypical ways. And so
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  Speaker 1: having Carson there, I think was just phenomenal.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't want people to think that the Mental
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: Wealth Export is celebrity driven. To the biggest thing that
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: I like having at the Export is the experts, like
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: the doctor Alfi Brilando was because we're not experts. I'm
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: not an expert. Carson Daily not an expert. Michelle William's
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: not an expert. We're just people who have experiences and
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: we share our experiences. I loved having doctor Rita Walker
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: and Elliott Cokanye's like Elliot Kani, doctor.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: J Barnet, Rashaan Rashwan.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: You know. So that Black Men's panel was phenomenal.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Oh I'm so glad, and my buddy turn out loud
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: from Canada. I wasting the Canadians and so you know,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: doctor I'm sorry, not doctor Jason Williams, Jason Phillips, I'm sorry.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: Who was in one of the the breakout rooms. I
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: saw finds of therapists and they had a picture of
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: the brothers and he was saying yes, no, crabs in
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: a barrel here. I saw it on this Instagram this morning.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: He was just saying, all these brothers out here uplifting
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: and supporting each other, and people don't get to see that,
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: right because there's some fewer men in the mental health
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: spaces mental health professional and I just want to echo
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  Speaker 1: you and give you your flowers because you were clear,
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  Speaker 1: don't just stick the influences and celebrities up there. I
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: want to see the mental health professionals highlighted too, and
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: so I'm proud to say that together we were able
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: to put a mental health expert on pretty much every
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: single one of those panels, right, because that's important to you,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: and so we made it happen.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's the only thing I want. That's the reason
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: I have the expos so people can come there, hear
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  Speaker 3: from the experts, and walk away with real resources to
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: get started on their healing.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Joine, Yes, Yes, it.
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  Speaker 2: Was awesome and we appreciate you for joining us this morning.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Donate to the COMA Project and Mental wealth Lines now
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: yes stuff.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: So you go to mental Health Lines dot org all
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: one word, make sure you say dot org and you
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: go to a COMA project AA k O m a
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: project all one word dot org and follow us on
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Instagram both of the organizations, and please people go donate
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: because these organizations can't do the work if they don't
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: have any resources. And thank y'all so much for having one.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: More question tomorrow's World Mental Health? They Yeah, what should
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: people be doing on World Mental Health?
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  Speaker 1: I think people should do three things. First thing is
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: you got to make a decision that you're ready to
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: take care of your mental health. The second thing is
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: you got to decide what is your level of motivation
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: to take care of your mental health. The third thing
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: is you got to come up with a plan. So
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: notice I did and say start with a plan. I said,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: you've got to start with where your head and heart
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: are in terms of taking care of yourself. You got
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: to be motivated and then you go get ready to
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: do the work.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: All right, So when we come back, Jaconly, you got
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: the room report and we talk about all that, and
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: now we're about to jump in the rumors.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry about this Kelevin Gates spinning somebody's mouth and
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: it has the whole internet.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: And shallows well that could be a No.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: There was mental health involved with that.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: It wasn't a treatment. It wasn't It didn't make him happy.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: She probably needed him happy to make her happy. We
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Well, we'll get into it all right.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Well we'll talk about it next. Thank you so much,
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: doctor Alfie Breling, Noble List. His club good Morning Room
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  Speaker 2: was on the way.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club
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