Podcast Episodes

Basketball Player Royce White live at ITTFest

The 25 year-old professional basketball player opens up to a live audience about mental health issues not only in his life (OCD, panic attacks and anxiety) but societally, especially in the NBA where he played, and in the relationships between POC and police officers. Royce shares about being raised by a single mom in a culturally diverse extended family.

Check out Royce’s mental health foundation www.anxiousminds.org

Follow him on Twitter @Highway_30

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The Wounded Healer – April Adams

Author/life-coach April Adams clarifies what an “energy healer” actually does despite it sounding like new-age b.s. She talks about techniques she has used to deal with her childhood trauma and heal others. She opens up about her experiences with swinging, sexual fluidity, embracing her attraction to women fairly late in life and possible love addiction/fear of intimacy in her same-sex marriage.

April’s book is Essence: Ending Emptiness, Finding Fulfillment

Her websites are www.AprilAdams.org and www.FillingYourCup.com

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This episode is sponsored by TalkSpace. For $30 off your first month of online therapy go to www.TalkSpace.com/mihh and use offer code MIHH

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Daddy Issues – Luisa Omielan

The 34 year-old British writer/comedian/performer shares about the pain of her parents’ nasty divorce when she was a kid, especially her father using her as a pawn and poisoning her mind about her mother. She also shares about her depression and only being turned on by men who treat her badly or are in some way unavailable. She talks about her struggle to not equate her self-worth with her career ups and downs and overcome her fear of not being enough.

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Follow Luisa on Twitter at www.twitter.com/luisaomielan

Check out her website www.Iloveluisa.com

My Suicide Attempt Wakeup Call – Paul Goebel

The actor/comedian (@Midnight) opens up about his recent suicide attempt, psych ward stay and how it is motivating him to seek help and try to be a better husband, father and friend. He shares about trying to break the cycle of bad parenting and untreated addiction/mental illness in his family and learn how to identify and express his emotions instead of coping with his anxiety and depression by getting high. He also expresses his regret in being a bad parent to his 2 daughters, a bad husband to his first wife and his treatment and attitude towards women.

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To support the podcast’s new donation option Patreon (with level-based rewards for donors!) go to www.patreon.com/mentalpod

To check out more about Paul Goebel:

his twitter is https://twitter.com/PaulGoebelShow

his website http://thekingoftv.com/

a roast that they threw for him on the blog section of his website

https://youtu.be/wzmZbA3fKeE

And be on the lookout for his new podcast Paul Goebel & Friends

Behind The Good Girl Mask

Only hugged once in her life by her mother, 25 year-old Yohana is the daughter of conservative East African war refugees from Ethiopia & Eritrea. All her life she has buried her rage by wearing the “good girl” mask to try to placate her narcissistic mother and having to be someone else to survive as a kid growing up in Oakland where there were some fixed ideas of what makes someone an “authentic African-American”. She shares about living with a learning disability, having physically disabled siblings(and a mother who is ashamed of them) and a passive father. She talks about her battles with body shame, emotional eating, anxiety and depression.

This episode is sponsored by MadisonReed. For 10% off your first hair color kit (and free shipping) go to www.Madison-Reed.com and use offer code HAPPY

Follow Yohana on Twitter @Yohnkid

For info and tickets to the upcoming live MIHH event at the In This Together Festival in Los Angeles go to www.ITTFest.com It’s Sunday Nov 13th and starts at 4pm. Paul will be interviewing former NBA player and mental health advocate Royce White.

 

Sex and Politics – Jamie Varon

The 31 year-old writer discusses feminism, sexual violence and misogyny in the context of partisan politics, and her personal life. She shares about the complexities of marrying a Muslim, growing up being told “you’re too sensitive”, avoiding her emotions by achieving, hating her body, fighting the drill sergeant in her head and learning the power of being vulnerable and letting go of shame.

Jamie’s links

Facebook: facebook.com/jamievaron

Twitter: twitter.com/jamievaron

Instagram: instagram.com/jamievaron

All my published writing: jamievaron.com/writing

Writing workshops: http://workshops.jamievaron.com

This episode is sponsored by Madison Reed. For 10% off your first color kit (and free shipping go to www.Madison-Reed.com and use the offer code HAPPY

This episode is sponsored by Young Health’s Probimune. To get your first bottle free (plus $6.75 shipping) go to www.probimune.com and use offer code MENTAL

This episode is sponsored by ZipRecruiter. Listeners can post jobs free by going to www.ZipRecruiter.com/first

For information about the In This Together Festival in LA on Nov 13th, go to www.ITTFest.com Paul will be interviewing former NBA player Royce White.

Books mentioned by Jamie are: A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson, Ask and It is Given by Esther Hicks, and When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron.

Jeff Rosenthal

Jeff is Paul’s friend of 28 years and the son of former guest and Holocaust survivor Kristine Keese. He shares about her recent passing, their deep but complicated relationship, how he made peace with her being “a terrible mom but a great friend” and the book she wrote Shadows of Survival: A Child’s Memoir of the Warsaw Ghetto.

 

Visit Jeff’s Facebook page here.

Buy Kristine’s book here.

Follow Jeff on Twitter @Jeff_Rosie

This episode is sponsored by Meundies. For 20% off your first order go to www.meundies.com/mental

This episode is sponsored by Young Health’s Probimune. For a free bottle go to www.probimune.com and use offer code MENTAL when you sign up for automated delivery.

This episode is sponsored by MVMT watches. For 15% off today with free shipping and free returns go to www.mvmtwatches.com/mental

For tix or info on the In This Together Festival Nov 13th in Los Angeles at the Avalon go to www.ITTFest.com

 

Freshman College Meltdown: Jen Curran’s Story

The writer/improviser shares about the mental/emotional breakdown her freshman year of college at NYU that left her living in her car and squatting in empty buildings in New York City. She looks back on her childhood and the familial love that was so often conditional, based on her weight and appearance. She opens up about the body shaming women in her family unconsciously modeled for her, her relationship with food, difficulty setting boundaries with toxic people and finding out what she really wants instead of living to meet other people’s expectations of her.

Follow Jen on Twitter @JenCurran

This episode is sponsored by Young Health’s Probimune. For your first bottle free (plus $6.75 shipping) go to www.probimune.com and use offer code MENTAL

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This episode is sponsored by ZipRecruiter.com Listeners can post jobs for free by going to www.ziprecruiter.com/first