January 2, 2023 • 65 mins
Episode 50 Mental Health Mondays Giving Tuesday special. Join BCC Evolution’s weekly live YouTube show for Mental Health Mondays hosted by the Founder Kelli Melissa where we talk to special guests who are professional mental health experts or guests who experience a mental health challenge or mental health advocates. You can find more about our fundraisers and to donate now: Facebook fundraiser: https://www.facebook.com/donate/1586222381819887/ Instagram fundraiser: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/bcc-evolution/climb-for-the-mind Text "Climb4Mind" to 44-321
Want to be a guest? Reach out to support@bccevolution.org and tell us your story. Need more resources? Want to get educated more about mental health and suicide prevention? Check out our programs and website for more info: https://www.bccevolution.org/programs Support our cause today to help us bridge the gap by educating people to support those who are faced with a mental health challenge. Become a “Warrior for Mental Health” today for only $20 or more per month! www.bccevolution.org/Warrior-for-mental-health
Want to be a guest? Reach out to support@bccevolution.org and tell us your story. Need more resources? Want to get educated more about mental health and suicide prevention? Check out our programs and website for more info: https://www.bccevolution.org/programs Support our cause today to help us bridge the gap by educating people to support those who are faced with a mental health challenge. Become a “Warrior for Mental Health” today for only $20 or more per month! www.bccevolution.org/Warrior-for-mental-health
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Alright, alright. It is another episode of Mental Health Mondays,
where I talk to guests who are either mental health professionals,
guests who live with or experience a mental health challenge,
or mental health advocates. And I got a new microphone,
(01:06):
so hopefully y'all can hear me. Okay, I can always
turn it up. If not, I don't know, send me
a message. I can hear myself in my ear, so
hopefully you can't. Anyways, So as a reminder, if you're
watching this excuse me on YouTube, make sure you mash
down that button that says subscribe so that you don't
(01:27):
miss another episode. We are officially on episode fifty. Holy
Jemali's I am only what two episodes away from a
whole year of episodes, which is really really cool. And
my guest, unfortunately today had to cancel last minute, so
(01:48):
we'll get him rescheduled for probably later in January or February.
But no worries. You get to hang out with me,
and that's kind of cool because I have quite a
bit to I wouldn't say quite a bit, but I
have some things that I wanted to go over and
specifically because tomorrow is Giving Tuesday it is one of
(02:13):
the biggest days for donating to nonprofits across the world,
and so I wanted to share a little bit about
specifically Giving Tuesday and what BCC Evolution is doing and
why you should donate to our fundraiser that we're currently doing.
(02:33):
So again, you're gonna hang out with me today, which
I think is just fine. I'll also give you some
other ideas, tips and tricks as we go into the
holiday season. I wasn't I didn't really have anything planned,
so I just figured I would, you know, do what
I do. I improvise. I don't know if you like
(02:53):
to improvise yourself. Sometimes it can be challenging, but I
kind of like it. So first and foremost, wherever you're
watching this, just make sure you subscribe, share it with
your friends. As a reminder, this podcast is now streaming
across seven Yeah that's seven seven different platforms, holy moly,
(03:16):
well streaming, so you can listen to it, but you
can watch it on three different platforms, so I guess
technically ten ten platforms that we have it going across.
So anyways, that's not why I'm here to talk to
you about. But I do know as we go into
(03:39):
the holiday seasons, it can be really challenging for people. Potentially,
a lot of people are really really, honestly like struggling
right now the last few years with COVID, with a pandemic,
with everything that has happened, we're really just now starting
to see all the effects from the pandemic and being
(04:01):
isolated and people now coming out into the world. And
I totally feel like I called it, but I feel
like every single year we're going to end up having
to get a boostster, which is just like the flu.
And I was like, oh, watch, the COVID is going
to have a booster And I just saw a not
(04:22):
I didn't come here to talk about the pandemic, but
I don't know why. I saw a commercial and I
was like, Oh, they're saying that you can get the
booster and we have now a pillow that you can
take if you get it that will help, kind of
like Tama flu and all those other things that we have.
So anyways, not not really important at all, But what
(04:43):
I do want to share is that people really truly
are struggling. Even though we have been in this transition
phase for quite some time, a lot of people still
haven't transitioned out of it. A lot of people still
stay at home. There's people that still wear masks. There's
people that are scared and fearful to go about their
(05:03):
normal everyday life because they just don't know or maybe
they've lost somebody. And it's like, it's really really real.
I get it. It's really really real, and some of
us have had it and we've gone through it just fine.
But now there's a lot of research and study coming
out about the effects that it has on the brain,
(05:25):
specifically around mental health and also just on memory and
so many other things, which is really interesting, at least
to me. Like I'm a total, a total geek when
it comes to the brain. And I want to say
thanks to my friend Sarah. She actually the brain gal.
She was the very first, one of the very first
(05:45):
people that I started talking to that she knows everything
about the brain, and her and I collaborated most recently
on the breaking the Cycle of Trauma education class that
BCC Evolution offers, and there's a whole section and I
guess the reason why this is coming up is because
this last weekend I trained another instructor, so yay, we
(06:08):
officially have three instructors for breaking the cycle four including
myself for breaking the cycle of trauma and going through
the curriculum every single time, I'm like, wow, this is
really cool. Like even though I wrote it with the
help of lots of other amazing, talented, brilliant people, I
still go through it and I'm like, oh, this is
(06:29):
really cool. Like understanding the maturation periods and why when
we add in trauma or things of that nature when
we're younger, why it affects us into adulthood. Like that's
really interesting for me. I totally geek out on things
like that, and it's fun. Like just understanding a little
(06:50):
bit more of why we do what we do, I
think is important. And every day I gain new skills,
new knowledge all the time. I like to share it
with all of you because you take time out of
your busy schedules to be here with me. And I
notice that I'm having challenges with the streamings, so hopefully
(07:13):
you guys can still hear me. All right, So what
I want to talk about is as we go into
the holidays, Yes, it can be really challenging. Yes people
are still struggling. Yes people are not at the top
notch that they maybe were because maybe they had COVID.
Now they have this memory fog and all these things
(07:33):
that are happening with in their body, and they're just
not feeling like they want to go into the holidays.
And I want you to know that that's okay. First
and foremost, give yourself some grace. We don't have to
always be so wound up and have to be able.
I mean, the word that comes to my head is control.
(07:53):
We don't have to control everything. We can also just
be really fluid. And something that I really love with
NP or neuro linguistic programming, which is modality or therapy
that I am a master practitioner in the person with
the most flexibility has the most control. That's not exactly
(08:16):
how it's said, but that's ultimately what it means is like,
the more that we can be flexible, the more that
we actually have control. So oftentimes people try to control
situations and it leads to depression, it leads to anxiety,
it leads to this feeling of fear really, and so
(08:40):
the more that we can really be flexible, flexible in
the way that we say things, flexible in the way
that we react to things, flexible in the way of
how we attempt to like as parents, right, how we
try to attempt to control our children, although they need
(09:02):
us to control things for them because they're the rational
part of their brain is not fully developed until twenty
five and now they're saying even up to twenty nine,
and so they think with the feeling part of their brain.
They don't think with this rational part like up here,
which is what we how we think as adults. So
(09:23):
they need to be guided, but they don't necessarily need
to be controlled. Routines are really good also implementing the
routines around like what kind of control can you do? Right?
So you give at least for me with my son,
I give them the oars, so I do the or
(09:44):
do you want this shirt or this shirt? Do you
want these pants or these pants? So two options is
really good. Although you're really controlling what they're wearing, it's
still a form of giving them some control over what
or some say over what they want. So the same
thing goes around holidays, right, like do you want to
(10:07):
spend it with your family or do you want to
maybe go on a vacation whatever that looks like? Right,
Being a little bit more flexible, like today I didn't
know what I was going to come on here and
talk about. And yes, my guests had to cancel at
the last minute, but that's okay, right, Like I can
(10:29):
be flexible, I can pick up and move it forward
however it needs to be. So that's what I'm saying
as far as like being flexible. Oftentimes, Also what happens is,
especially with depression or anxiety, we're either living in the
future or we're living in the past. And so if
(10:51):
that happens, then we get stuck in these cycles and
ultimately we're not in the now. So I always say, like,
this is our now, this is me present. I am
here with you, You are watching this with me right now.
We are having I'm having a conversation with the camera,
(11:11):
and you're watching and listening, and maybe you have thoughts
that are popping up, and maybe you're gonna throw a
comment in the chat, and because you have questions that
come up, just allow streamyard to have permission and then
I can see it pop up over here. If I
don't see a pop up over here, I'll go back
to Facebook or LinkedIn or wherever you're watching and answer
(11:33):
your question. So, but if we are able to really
live in the now, which is our present moment currently
and not excuse me, and not in the future or
in the past. Then that's when we can really start
to change the depression or the anxiety or those things.
(11:57):
And one really great process that I like to do
is it's clearing the now. So it's basically just allowing
your brain and your unconscious mind to start organizing the
things that are whether it's in your now, so your currents.
And I think I've done this process actually i'm one
of my other random mental Health Monday's podcasts. But ultimately,
(12:21):
like you can close your eye, you ask your unconscious mind,
like what is your what is in your now? And
allow your unconscious mind to organize the things that are
in your now, putting the like with like the family
with family, the work with work, and so on. Then
(12:42):
you take a look and see what is in your
now that doesn't belong in your now, and allow your
unconscious mind to move those things that like that belong
in the future, like what you're gonna do once you
leave here or in the far future so it can
be distant future or far future, and allow your unconscious
(13:04):
mind to move those into your future or those things
that maybe what you did right before you came here
that belongs in your past, or the things that are
or were in your past, those also belong in your past.
They don't belong in your now, and you allow your
(13:24):
unconscious mind to move those things out of your now,
and then you flow into your future and you organize that.
So you put the like with like, the family with family,
the work with work, and so on until it's organized.
Then you flow into where you store your past, and
you put your like with like, your family with family,
(13:47):
and your work with work, and you allow your unconscious
mind to really start organizing these things. Then you float
back to your now, and now you can be present,
present with me, present with your family, present with whatever
you're doing, because what belongs in your now is what's
happening now. What you're doing in the future doesn't belong
(14:09):
in your now, and what you're doing what you did
in the past, it belongs in your past. And so
being able to organize those things and allowing your unconscious
mind to really do that for you can be a
really powerful tool. And it's something I use all the time,
and I just love it because especially when I have clients,
(14:31):
because normally when they show up it's like, oh my gosh,
I'm so sorry whatever was going on, blah blah blah. Okay,
that's cool, totally flye. Remember that flexibility. I'm okay, you're okay,
I'm safe, you're safe. We're here now, so let's clear
it all out of the way so that we can
be present on what we're doing right now. And I'm
(14:54):
I'm not perfect at this by any means, but and
I have to remind my self to do that because
I'm like, oh I need to do this, or oh
I need to do that. Oh right, stop, focus, redirect center.
What belongs here now and for me, you watching this
(15:17):
and me being here present with you is what belongs
right now. All the things that I have to do,
after we get off of this, it'll be done. And
that's okay. So that's just a tool or a technique.
And I know that I've had so many really amazing
guests on this podcast that have given you some really awesome, quick, fast,
(15:43):
simple tools that you can use on a daily basis,
Like I still love the one that Tanya gave me,
which was and I think I talked about this a
couple of ones ago, too, was the I just forgot
the name of it, but it's a breath, so it's
a and it resets your system, so it calms you
(16:11):
down and it helps, and it's pretty quick. So I
use that one pretty often. And that's when I remembered
there's a lot of other tools that people have given,
like even my voice. It calms down when I do that,
and so breathing can be really powerful too. I bring
this one up to breathing specifically because if you're going
(16:34):
through pain, if you are focusing on things again in
the future or in the past, breathe through it right.
Take those deep breasts, like make sure you're taking deep breast,
not just like the chesty breasts or the gut breast,
like the whole gut and chest breast, Like if you
(16:59):
are feeling really anxious, those work there too. So there's
lots of little, tiny tools that you can utilize as
we go into the holidays, and maybe maybe it's when
you get around a family or friends or a certain
situation that like these emotions start bubbling up. Take a breath,
(17:22):
take a quick breath, and make sure you fill out
your chest and your belly and all of that. And
I know it's easier said than done, but just something
to keep in mind. So shifting a little to what
I want to share about Giving Tuesday, because tomorrow, again,
(17:46):
like I said, it's Giving Tuesday, and it is the
largest day of giving or donations across the world. And
the thing about tomorrow is that if on the Giving
Tuesday fundraisers that pop up meta, they double up to
(18:07):
its seven million this year. I think that's every year,
but oftentimes the smaller nonprofits don't get very much. I
did get some that were that were matched last year,
not very many, but that's okay. So we just started early,
(18:28):
so I already launched. We have non we have fundraisers
across almost all of our platforms. So we have a
fundraiser launched on Instagram, we have a fundraiser launched on Facebook,
and then we have our fundraiser on give lively. But
the easiest way to donate, and you can do it now,
(18:52):
you don't have to wait till tomorrow. You can do
it now. And now actually is a better time if
you're gonna text us anyways, but you can text climb
for Mind to four four three two one, And what
that goes to is our it's our climb for the mind.
Fundraiser that we launched a couple of months ago. Our
(19:15):
goal I was trying to pull it up here so
that you can see it. Our goal is to raise
a total of sixty thousand dollars. I know that sounds
like a lot, but I want to put it into
perspective for you. So sixty thousand dollars for BCC Evolution,
that means that we can cover twelve mental health for
(19:38):
staid classes fully sponsored with thirty individuals. That doesn't sound
like a lot, to be honest, because I have already
this year, I've already done fourteen classes myself. I have
educated fourteen classes through BCC Evolution and through other organizations
(20:02):
this year. A good chunk of the people that came
through those were sponsored spots. Although we do charge for
our classes, it's not a huge fee. That's actually one
of our lowest price points, one of them that we
offer across the board. And so when I get requests
(20:23):
for people that really want to take the classes, sometimes
I have to reject them, or I just don't pay
myself to do the educating portion. And that's not really
fair either. None of those scenarios are fair. So while
I were trying to raise that amount is because then
(20:46):
we can sponsor spots in our classes. And I had
the pleasure of educating a well multiple rule communities within Colorado.
They're counselors. Last was it last week? Didn't know? It
was like two weekends ago. I got and then I
(21:07):
have another one this weekend. So I'm doing some classes
through UNC. They were able to get a grant, they
didn't quite factor in the educator or the trainer pay.
It's fine, but that's what I'm talking about, is there
so many rural communities, even within Colorado within other states,
that really need access to this training, but they don't
(21:30):
get access to it because they're not able to afford it.
And I know that's why there's grants in places. We
unfortunately within BCC Evolution have not gotten any of those grants.
We've tried, but we were not successful in getting the grants.
But now we have a lot more data this year
again because I've taught fourteen classes and still have one
(21:53):
more that I'm going to be teaching this year, and
so all those people, I mean, if you take so
we can have thirty people in each class, and if
we're doing twelve classes, what is it YEP? I got
to use my calculator. So that's three hundred and sixty
(22:16):
people that we could potentially sponsor with those funds, right,
And that's why I just want to put it in
relation for you. Is that sixty thousand dollars at least
for BCC evolution that only covers twelve total classes. I
would absolutely love to cover more classes, more education, more
(22:39):
people that are out there that know how to assist, recognize,
and identify mental health challenges so that somebody doesn't choose
the route of suicide. I mean, really truly, and this
is going to sound probably pretty straightforward, but I want
you to understand. It's like somebody comes to me and
they say, I really need help, Kelly, and I say,
(23:02):
I would love to show you how I can help
you and train you and give you the tools and
the resources that you need, but I'm sorry, we don't
have funding, so you're gonna have to go talk to
somebody else. Well, who should I talk to? I don't know.
I have a couple people that you can reach out to,
(23:23):
hopefully they can fit you in. I don't know, though.
They have a waiting list, and their waiting list right
now is about three months. Oh but wait, if you
go to this other place, it's about three years. I'm
not exaggerating. Most companies within or organizations mental health facilities,
(23:45):
their average weight waitless right now is anywhere from three
months up to three years. Could you imagine being in
a crisis and having to wait three years to talk
to somebody? But what if I I had my best friend,
My best friend is trained in mental health first aid,
or my best friend isn't trained in breaking the cycle
(24:07):
of trauma, and they know how to ask me the
hard questions. They also know how to connect me to
professional help or self help strategies, or just get me
through this small space, this time limited space that I'm
having suicidal thoughts? How powerful is that? Because I know
(24:31):
how to ask the questions and I know how to
help somebody when they're in need. I also am trained
in multiple different therapies that I can help people, but
unfortunately not all of them can afford my services. And
I don't know if you saw if you're on Facebook
(24:53):
or you're one of my friends, maybe you saw my
live the other day. I had a lot of imposter
syndrome coming up, and then I was reminded that I'm
actually trained in a lot of things, like beyond most
counselors or therapists because I'm human training and I know
(25:13):
how to ask those hard questions, and that's really cool.
They get that reminder is that I have the training,
I have the skills. I can help people humans get
through whatever they're going through. And I don't have a
weight list, not right now, at least I probably will.
(25:36):
I mean, my schedule is getting pretty g impact, but
I don't have a weight list. You don't have to
wait three months to talk to me. You might have
to wait a week, but a week is better than
three months. And even in between that space and that time,
if somebody gets on my calendar and they're like, I
need to talk to you today, I will move move
(26:00):
something around. That's powerful. But the thing about it is
I can't continue to give my services away for free.
That's not fair to me, that's not fair to my family,
that's not fair to my bills. Debt collectors like you
when you're not paying your bills. So I can't continue
(26:20):
to give things free. But I want to be able
to educate people. And that's why this is so important
for BCC evolution. It's to be able to pay me
for the things that I do on a daily basis,
like this Mental Health Monday podcast show. I bring on
guests that are resources to you. I also give you
tips and tricks of how you can help yourself or
(26:43):
help others. I'm also able to educate people around mental
health and suicide so that we can prevent it or
at least give you awareness of what you should say
or do, or be or have or how you can help.
That's pretty powerful, and it also affords us the luxury
(27:08):
of collaborating with others. Not that we have to pay,
but it still takes time of networking for me to
set up those handholding relationships with people. Time is money, right,
Everybody says that time is money. You should be paying
(27:29):
yourself what you're worth, and I continually have people tell
me that I don't. But I know that I'm worth it,
and I know that what I do is really valuable,
and I know that my board backs me up one
hundred percent and would absolutely love to do more things
with BCC evolution. We just don't have the funding right now,
(27:52):
and that's sad. That sucks. It's like telling your kid,
I'm sorry you can't go to the movie with your
friend because I don't have any money to let you go.
And I'm sure if you're a parent, that's hard. It's
(28:16):
hard to go into the holidays, right, I'm sorry. I
can't buy you any presents. Nothing's going to be under
the tree. Or maybe we can't get a tree because
we don't have money to do that. But maybe if
I knew some really cool people that did have money
(28:38):
that would be able to support so that we can
support others. That's how that's how it all, this cycle,
how it all plays together because you being able to
help us, which is BCC evolution, means that we can
help others and we can actually truly make an impact
(29:01):
and a dent in the mental health and suicide prevention space.
It sucks having to turn people away, and I know
that's a challenge across the board with all mental health facilities.
They either don't have the staff or they don't have
the funds. There's so many things, right, but how do
(29:23):
we fill in that gap? And that gap is filled
in by you. You can be the change. You can
be the person that understands. You can be the one
person that somebody needs that knows how to listen and
(29:46):
listen non judgmentally, because that's a skill. It's not innate
in us to listen non judgmentally. It's a skill that
we have to build and we have to learn learn
how to do that, and that's where all of our
(30:07):
classes come in. And again I was reminded this weekend
after training our new instructor, how valuable and incredible the
curriculum that I wrote is. I'm telling you, I have
imposter syndrome pop up all the time. It's pretty, it's
(30:30):
absolutely human. I get anxious, I get worried, I have overwhelmed.
I live in this world every single day, in the
mental health world, and sometimes it gets to me. We're
all human, we all experience things, we all experience them different,
(30:56):
but we all have experiences. And how cool would that
be to just have a little place, place space of
where BCC Evolution is able to offer mental health classes
(31:18):
and services to those that can't potentially afford it. But
that has to come from donations. We try, we will
continue to try for grants. We will continue to ask
the large corporations for money. That won't stop. But there's
still a lot of day to day fees that nonprofits have,
(31:45):
and so going into giving Tuesday tomorrow. I want you
to keep that in mind. Yes, I want to break
a myth. Nonprofits can make money. Just because you're a
nonprofit does not mean you're not a business. Just because
as you're a charity does not mean that you can't
make money. Also, nonprofits should be paying the people that
(32:08):
work for them. You shouldn't have to have multiple jobs
just to survive to be working for a nonprofit. You
should be able to do the impactful work every single
day because what you do freaking matters, and you should
also be worthy enough to be able to be paid
(32:32):
for the work that you do. It's just like if
you went into I had actually I heard this the
other day because they were talking about I think speakers
or coaches. It was something like that, right, So if
you go into McDonald's and you say I want a
number two. I don't know what a number two is.
(32:53):
I haven't been to McDonald's forever. But anyways, if you
would go into McDonald's and you say I want a
number two and they're like it'll blah blah blah blah money,
and you're like, oh, well, can I make a payment plan?
Can I put a payment plan on that? Or well,
I get paid in like two weeks. Would it be
okay if I pay you, then what do you think
(33:17):
they're gonna say, get out of here? Or if you
went into I mean, think about it, any you could
go into any place. Right if you went into a
chiropractor and you said, you know, I think I want
you to do ten adjustments and I'm not going to
pay you, or the same with a doctor. If you
(33:40):
walked into a doctor and you said, you know, just
because you're a private practice and you don't take insurance,
that just means that I'm not going to pay you.
Or a therapist or a counselor or any of those people.
You pay them because they're valuable and they help you, right,
They're not going to give away their services for free.
(34:03):
So why that just actually my head literally was like ding,
why would I give mine away for free? Too? Weird?
See learning something new every day. But the same goes right,
same goes for service based people, coaches, speakers, all of
(34:25):
those things, right, like why do we have to take
less of educators, trainers, all of those things? Take less
for services that we provide? We shouldn't write But with
the caveat of understanding that those that need it the
most need to be supported. You could be one of
(34:51):
those persons. I could be one of those person. We
can all be that one person that somebody needs at
one point in time. So that's what I'm asking. Here's
what you can do. That was the longest wind like whirlwind.
All right, So here it is. This is how you
(35:14):
donate right now. All you have to do is text
climb for mind to four four three two one. One
of the coolest parts about donating this way is you
actually get extra perks because this goes towards our next year.
What myself and Philip are doing is we are climbing
for our minds, like literally, so you go up, up
(35:39):
and down thirteen I don't even have enough fingers for
that thirteen different times. So you're ultimately climbing twenty nine
twenty nine. And with that it is you get thirty
six hours. Here, I'm just gonna so you get thirty
six hours to reach twenty nine twenty nine feet. It's
(36:02):
the equivalent height of Mount Everest. So you hike up
the mountain, you take the gondola down and repeat it
and it ends up being about thirteen times up and
down day and night for thirty six hours to complete,
and some have finished finished and some have not. And
I will tell you it is really it's a whole mental, physical,
(36:28):
spiritual event or challenge that is hard to categorize. And
I know they say in here a new category of
challenge that's equal parts physical, mental, and spiritual. Do you
have the heart and will to climb the mountain again
and again to earn the right to say you ever rested?
(36:51):
This is not a race, this is you verse you
And so ultimately the reason why I know Philip wants
to do it is because he has lost and probably
lost even more at this point. But he's lost one
hundred and ten pounds since June of twenty twenty one,
and he continues to lose more and more, which is amazing.
(37:11):
And he's just done that by walking and change and diet,
so incredible. But he has never done anything that has
pushed him to the limit. He has also struggled with
his mental health for years and years and years, and
this is a huge mental challenge for me. I want
(37:32):
to be able to go because one the whole thing
about BCC evolution is that we make sure that nobody
ever feels alone like I don't want him doing this
by himself, Like why would I be like, oh, yeah,
go raise a bunch of money for BCC evolution. As
I work, as I started researching more and more, I
(37:52):
was like, I can't let you do this alone. Like
how how I was going to say crazy and that's
not the word. How cuckoo, bonkers, cuckoo bananas would that
be for me to allow him to do it alone? Like, here,
go do this off by yourself, Like that's not what
BCC evolution is about. And I have never in my
(38:15):
lifetime pushed myself this much ever, ever, ever, ever, and
so for me, like it is going to be mental, physical, spiritual,
I mean, holy moly. But the cool part what I
was getting back to is that when you donate here
(38:37):
or you just go to the link, I'll throw the
link in here too. That is the link. If you
go to this, there are extra perks that you get.
So if you donate one hundred dollars or more and
you have lost somebody to suicide, substance abuse, another mental
health challenge, you have the opportunity to put their name
on the shirts that we are creating for this event.
(38:59):
I'm going live every single Monday. Right we're on our
fiftieth episode. Right now, I am going to continue to
go live forever and ever until I don't know, forever,
until nobody else watches. And so pause for a drink,
(39:19):
so you can put a name on there, and I
will give you shout outs. We're also going to go
live during the event, so literally, like the world can
watch what we're doing. They can also see the name
of whomever you put on the shirt showcase. I think
that's pretty cool. And then any donations above that, the
(39:43):
perks just keep going. As a corporation. If you're a
business or a corporation, if you sponsor one thousand dollars
or more, your business logo will go on the backs
of our T shirts. So that's where all of our
sponsored companies, organizeations, independent businesses, all of those will go
on the back of the T shirt. And depending on
(40:05):
your level, the bigger the logo gets on the shirts.
So that's where this that one. If you donate there,
it will ultimately you'll get extra perks or just text
climb for your mind. And I want to show you
(40:25):
if I can get Let's see if I can show
you this screen. All right, I'm gonna give you all right.
I want you to see this because it's pretty incredible
the the YouTube. So one second, let me make sure
(40:51):
all right and to make sure you can hear all right,
So hopefully you'll be able to hear this. I don't know.
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Actually, let me
try something here really quickly. One second mmmm r Okay,
(41:23):
let's watch this. It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Let's do that. But now it's not time for me
to be proud of you. It's time for you to
show what you're made up so that you can be
proud of yourself. It's a complete an event like twenty
(42:32):
twenty nine. You have to go into yourself. Every single
person that towes this line has their own individual Why
why do you want to put yourself through this much challenge,
this much pain? Why do you want to get to
the mountaintop so much? Oh?
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Why is to push my limits? Love a challenge, unlocking levels,
open my soul? Just see if I can do it.
I don't eat easy. I just need im possible. I
am capable features Audrey f That is intense, but it
(45:42):
makes me really really emotional because my why, my why
is so strong and it's so innate. Innate, that's probably
(46:08):
not the right word, but it's so strong. At this
point in my life, I'm so sick of people dying
around me, and I know that it's important that we
(46:28):
have these open conversations, and I think it's important that
we actually get trained and we get educated, and it's
important to keep my sisters journey alive. And this is
(46:56):
why I do what I do on a daily basis.
This is why I share all of this information with
you because it's really freaking important and we need your help.
I can't do it alone. BCC Evolution Board can't do
(47:21):
it alone. Philip can't do it alone. You don't need
to do it alone. What we need to do in
this world, in this life, is to support each other
and stop being so naive is the word that's coming
(47:46):
to my mind. It is really important for me to
be able to do this climb. And I want to
showcase your company. I want to showcase the name of
(48:07):
the people that you have lost, and I want this
world to start acknowledging that it's freaking important to talk
about our mental health. It is just as important as
your physical health. When are we going to just stop
(48:29):
and start listening. When are we going to start learning
the skills it's going to take to save somebody's life.
How can you be the one person for somebody else
(48:51):
that's going through it and having a really hard time.
Nobody's perfect. I don't have all the answers, but what
I know is the more and more that things happen
(49:11):
like the shooting that just happened in Colorado Springs at
Club Q, it's got to stop, and we've got to
make a change. And we can't do that alone. We've
got to show the world that mental health is important.
(49:32):
And I'm not saying by any means that the shooting
was mental health related, because only four percent of violence
is mental health related. So that's another myth that I'm
breaking for you. Not everybody suffers from a mental health challenge.
(49:55):
Not everybody struggles, Not everybody suffers. But change has to happen,
and it can start small and grow even bigger. But
how else what is a better platform to share this
(50:16):
with the world, showcasing names on shirts and telling the
story about somebody that you lost because their life mattered,
your life matters. Maybe you're that person that struggles. Maybe
you're that person that suffers and you matter. Maybe your
(50:43):
name should go on that shirt and we should tell
your story. But my why is very very strong at
this point because I'm sick of hearing of other friends
(51:04):
or other relatives that are dying due to substance abuse
or liver failure or kidney failure or suicide or all
those things. We have to make a change, and it
can be as simple. It's getting educated. I didn't know.
(51:25):
I didn't understand what my sister was going through. It
isn't until now and after I started gaining all these
certificates and all these knowledge, all this knowledge and things,
this awareness of myself that I really started truly understanding.
(51:47):
And that's why I'm saying that it matters. We should
be able to help and support other people. So I'm
challenging you, whether it's today or whether it's tomorrow, please
support BCC evolution. You can text this number, you'll get
(52:09):
to this page. You'll be able to donate on here,
and you can watch the video that Philip and I did.
If you haven't watched that Mental Health Monday yet, it
also shows you our journey. It tells you what it's
all about. On this page, you can read why and
(52:33):
what you're helping us accomplish. You can also go on
here and create your own fundraiser. I want to fundraise
for this page right here. I want a fundraise for
(52:55):
this page. Make it a game, bring in your friends,
challenge your company who can actually raise the most money.
Maybe you don't have money right now, that's okay, Go
raise some money for us. Launch a Giving Tuesday fundraiser
(53:18):
on Facebook for BCC evolution, And I want to say
thank you to Mary. She's already launched one, So thank
you so much. Mary. I appreciate you. I appreciate you
choosing BCC evolution. Go launch a fundraiser on Facebook, Go
launch a fundraiser on Instagram, Go launch your own fundraiser
(53:41):
on this There's lots of ways that you can help
without having to even have any money. But it takes
a village, like they say with kids, it really truly
takes a village to fund a nonprofit and fund the
(54:01):
work and the impact that we are doing. There's lots
of ways that you can help. There's lots of ways
that you can support. But what I can say is
(54:22):
that Giving Tuesday comes up every single year, and so
this year I challenge you to make a difference in
somebody's life. Help us make a difference in somebody's life,
whether you come to one of our classes and you
(54:43):
learn how to recognize and identify signs and symptoms, or
you learn how to actually help somebody, or start to
listen non judgmentally. I'm telling you it's a skill. It
is not something that you're just going to figure out
on your own. It's a skill that you need to learn.
Or maybe you want to understand how the brain works
(55:06):
and why trauma affects us, or maybe you want to
make a safety or self care plan, something that we
offer in our Breaking the Cycle of Trauma. It's also
actually offered on two other products that we have, our
Shift Your Mindset boot Camp and your and re Engage
(55:28):
Resilience Masterclass. The Shift Your Mindset boot Camp is already
on the BCC evolution page, and I will get the
re Engage Resilience loaded up on the page or up
on our website today. So there's lots of ways for
you to get educated. And those two classes are at
(55:51):
a really low price point, so there's no excuse. Maybe
you don't have the money right now, but when is
a good time to save somebody's life. If not now,
how long are you gonna wait until they're not here
with you anymore? Because that's what happened to me, That's
(56:19):
what happened with a lot of people that were really
close to me. I waited, I was too busy, I
didn't care. I didn't know any better. But you know what,
when you know better, you can do better. So that's
(56:40):
what I'm saying to you right now is when you
know better, you can do better. And you know better
now how you can help somebody. So take a moment
today or tomorrow, or whenever it might be and donate,
or come to a and get educated, or just reach
(57:04):
out to me. Let me know you need help, because,
like I said, I don't have a waiting list, and
maybe you need support today and maybe I'm not available,
but maybe I could refer you to somebody that is
(57:25):
because I have a whole network of people that are
incredible and willing to help. It's not easy asking for help.
I get it, definitely not easy. I don't like asking
for help. Hence the reason maybe we've gotten to this
(57:46):
place at this point, but I want to be able
to continue the work that we're doing. We're going into
our fifth year, which is pretty incredible. Five years five
years with BCC evolution, that is pretty amazing. And now
we have it locked down. The business plan is in
place again. Nonprofits can make money because they are a
(58:08):
business and what we do really matters. So this has
gone a lot longer than most of my mental health mondays,
but I kind of purposely did that, to be honest.
And the reason why I want wanted to go a
(58:31):
little bit longer is because I want you to know
the importance and I want you to know what we
can help, what we can provide, what we can do,
how we can be there for you or for those
that you love, How you can be there for those
that you love, those friends, family, all those people. There's
(58:54):
a way, and I can teach you, I can train you.
We have lots and lots and lots of resources on
our website and I'm about to add even more. But
if you need somebody, also go look at all of
our past mental health mondays, because every single guest that
(59:16):
I've had on has been incredible and an amazing resource.
And most of them also don't have waiting lists. They
might cost a lot more then your insurance will pay,
but I promise you they're probably actually going to help you,
(59:37):
not probably they will help you, because I highly vet
the people that I put in my circle because I
want to make sure that it's helpful and not hurtful,
and I will never ever recommend somebody that is going
to hurt you. With that said, I just want to
(59:59):
say thank you so much for hanging out with me,
sticking it in, sticking with me, sticking with me for
this whole episode. And there you go. That's how that's
how you know, random days go that we have to
change it up a little bit. But there's one more place,
(01:00:20):
one more space that you can continue this conversation. If
you need support, now, there is an app and it's
called Circles. It's a really cool website, but every single
Monday we do a free support group for grief and loss.
And keep in mind, grief is not necessarily, excuse me,
(01:00:42):
just the loss of a person. It could be a
loss of identity, it could be the loss of a pet,
it could be a divorce, it could be a trauma
of some sort. We grieve and go through loss very
very different. We all experience things differently, and so if
you need extra support that you actually want to get
(01:01:03):
into and talk to me, and talk to others and
find your tribe. All you have to do is download
the Circles app and I will drop it in the
comments of this so that you can link into it
right away. But again, it's a free support group. We
run it from twelve thirty to one thirty Mountain standard
(01:01:25):
time every single Monday. I have been in conversations to
add another room, which may end up being potentially on Wednesdays,
like doing a wellness Wednesday type thing. I don't know,
we haven't figured it out yet. But again, it is
a free resource and support group that you can jump in.
(01:01:47):
And even more reason why we need to get funds
built up so that we can start offering more and
more of these, because people really truly are in need
and need help, especially going into the holidays. So if
you happen to be joining now and you're just watching
(01:02:08):
this recording, make sure you go back and watch the
beginning of this. I shared some tips and tools also
just let you know a little bit more about why
we really truly need your help either today or tomorrow,
specifically for giving Tuesday. What we're actually funding, how that
looks as far as what we need. The funding for
(01:02:30):
all of this funding that we will be raising will
go towards classes, it'll go towards our events, because we
currently offer two events per year. That's our annual Gala,
which is coming up on February eighteenth. It's going to
be eighties theme. It's going to be awesome. It is
in Parker, Colorado, So if you're in Colorado, go grab
(01:02:53):
your tickets now. I think early bird prices are still up.
It was so much fun last year, the year before
and then the year before, so grab your ticket. This
year you can actually pick your spot where you want
to sit, which is pretty cool. So go grab your
tickets to that. And our second event of the year
(01:03:13):
is our Mental Health and Suicide Awareness Film Festival, where
we showcase films from across the world that are centered
around mental health and suicide so that we can continue
to have the conversation because again, this is a world,
world issue, a world challenge. It's not just the United States.
And the stats just keep going up and up and up,
(01:03:36):
and there are so many I mean, so much, just
so much. And I know if you're watching this on Facebook,
I made a post yesterday, so go check that out.
I mean just the celebrities that have died by suicide
or substance abuse. I could have gone on forever and ever,
but unfortunately on Instagram at least you can't have that
(01:03:58):
much text. And so go check that out. There's also
a lot of stats, recent stats that I added on there.
Go check those out because it's just getting worse and worse.
And again, mental health should be as important as physical health.
We need to start treating it that way. So either
(01:04:20):
come join us here in about fifteen ish minutes on
the Circles app, I'll drop the link and or come
back next Monday. And I do have a guest for
next Monday, hopefully they don't reschedule, but also feel free
to share this. Make sure you mash down the subscribe
button or follow us, depending on where you're watching. Most likely,
(01:04:44):
if you're watching this on Facebook or LinkedIn, you're already
following us, or if you don't want to sit here
and watch me, go and listen on any of the
other seven platforms. All right, y'all, I appreciate you. I'm grateful,
I am thankful. I love the work that I do,
and I am so honored to be able to share
(01:05:06):
this space with you, and I really appreciate and hope
that this was helpful, useful knowledge, and that you take
the time to actually go, whether you're donating or you're
going to create your own fundraiser to help BCC evolution,
all of it. I appreciate you, so thank you so much,
(01:05:26):
have a wonderful day, and I will see you next Monday.
By y'all,
Alright, alright. It is another episode of Mental Health Mondays,
where I talk to guests who are either mental health professionals,
guests who live with or experience a mental health challenge,
or mental health advocates. And I got a new microphone,
(01:06):
so hopefully y'all can hear me. Okay, I can always
turn it up. If not, I don't know, send me
a message. I can hear myself in my ear, so
hopefully you can't. Anyways, So as a reminder, if you're
watching this excuse me on YouTube, make sure you mash
down that button that says subscribe so that you don't
(01:27):
miss another episode. We are officially on episode fifty. Holy
Jemali's I am only what two episodes away from a
whole year of episodes, which is really really cool. And
my guest, unfortunately today had to cancel last minute, so
(01:48):
we'll get him rescheduled for probably later in January or February.
But no worries. You get to hang out with me,
and that's kind of cool because I have quite a
bit to I wouldn't say quite a bit, but I
have some things that I wanted to go over and
specifically because tomorrow is Giving Tuesday it is one of
(02:13):
the biggest days for donating to nonprofits across the world,
and so I wanted to share a little bit about
specifically Giving Tuesday and what BCC Evolution is doing and
why you should donate to our fundraiser that we're currently doing.
(02:33):
So again, you're gonna hang out with me today, which
I think is just fine. I'll also give you some
other ideas, tips and tricks as we go into the
holiday season. I wasn't I didn't really have anything planned,
so I just figured I would, you know, do what
I do. I improvise. I don't know if you like
(02:53):
to improvise yourself. Sometimes it can be challenging, but I
kind of like it. So first and foremost, wherever you're
watching this, just make sure you subscribe, share it with
your friends. As a reminder, this podcast is now streaming
across seven Yeah that's seven seven different platforms, holy moly,
(03:16):
well streaming, so you can listen to it, but you
can watch it on three different platforms, so I guess
technically ten ten platforms that we have it going across.
So anyways, that's not why I'm here to talk to
you about. But I do know as we go into
(03:39):
the holiday seasons, it can be really challenging for people. Potentially,
a lot of people are really really, honestly like struggling
right now the last few years with COVID, with a pandemic,
with everything that has happened, we're really just now starting
to see all the effects from the pandemic and being
(04:01):
isolated and people now coming out into the world. And
I totally feel like I called it, but I feel
like every single year we're going to end up having
to get a boostster, which is just like the flu.
And I was like, oh, watch, the COVID is going
to have a booster And I just saw a not
(04:22):
I didn't come here to talk about the pandemic, but
I don't know why. I saw a commercial and I
was like, Oh, they're saying that you can get the
booster and we have now a pillow that you can
take if you get it that will help, kind of
like Tama flu and all those other things that we have.
So anyways, not not really important at all, But what
(04:43):
I do want to share is that people really truly
are struggling. Even though we have been in this transition
phase for quite some time, a lot of people still
haven't transitioned out of it. A lot of people still
stay at home. There's people that still wear masks. There's
people that are scared and fearful to go about their
(05:03):
normal everyday life because they just don't know or maybe
they've lost somebody. And it's like, it's really really real.
I get it. It's really really real, and some of
us have had it and we've gone through it just fine.
But now there's a lot of research and study coming
out about the effects that it has on the brain,
(05:25):
specifically around mental health and also just on memory and
so many other things, which is really interesting, at least
to me. Like I'm a total, a total geek when
it comes to the brain. And I want to say
thanks to my friend Sarah. She actually the brain gal.
She was the very first, one of the very first
(05:45):
people that I started talking to that she knows everything
about the brain, and her and I collaborated most recently
on the breaking the Cycle of Trauma education class that
BCC Evolution offers, and there's a whole section and I
guess the reason why this is coming up is because
this last weekend I trained another instructor, so yay, we
(06:08):
officially have three instructors for breaking the cycle four including
myself for breaking the cycle of trauma and going through
the curriculum every single time, I'm like, wow, this is
really cool. Like even though I wrote it with the
help of lots of other amazing, talented, brilliant people, I
still go through it and I'm like, oh, this is
(06:29):
really cool. Like understanding the maturation periods and why when
we add in trauma or things of that nature when
we're younger, why it affects us into adulthood. Like that's
really interesting for me. I totally geek out on things
like that, and it's fun. Like just understanding a little
(06:50):
bit more of why we do what we do, I
think is important. And every day I gain new skills,
new knowledge all the time. I like to share it
with all of you because you take time out of
your busy schedules to be here with me. And I
notice that I'm having challenges with the streamings, so hopefully
(07:13):
you guys can still hear me. All right, So what
I want to talk about is as we go into
the holidays, Yes, it can be really challenging. Yes people
are still struggling. Yes people are not at the top
notch that they maybe were because maybe they had COVID.
Now they have this memory fog and all these things
(07:33):
that are happening with in their body, and they're just
not feeling like they want to go into the holidays.
And I want you to know that that's okay. First
and foremost, give yourself some grace. We don't have to
always be so wound up and have to be able.
I mean, the word that comes to my head is control.
(07:53):
We don't have to control everything. We can also just
be really fluid. And something that I really love with
NP or neuro linguistic programming, which is modality or therapy
that I am a master practitioner in the person with
the most flexibility has the most control. That's not exactly
(08:16):
how it's said, but that's ultimately what it means is like,
the more that we can be flexible, the more that
we actually have control. So oftentimes people try to control
situations and it leads to depression, it leads to anxiety,
it leads to this feeling of fear really, and so
(08:40):
the more that we can really be flexible, flexible in
the way that we say things, flexible in the way
that we react to things, flexible in the way of
how we attempt to like as parents, right, how we
try to attempt to control our children, although they need
(09:02):
us to control things for them because they're the rational
part of their brain is not fully developed until twenty
five and now they're saying even up to twenty nine,
and so they think with the feeling part of their brain.
They don't think with this rational part like up here,
which is what we how we think as adults. So
(09:23):
they need to be guided, but they don't necessarily need
to be controlled. Routines are really good also implementing the
routines around like what kind of control can you do? Right?
So you give at least for me with my son,
I give them the oars, so I do the or
(09:44):
do you want this shirt or this shirt? Do you
want these pants or these pants? So two options is
really good. Although you're really controlling what they're wearing, it's
still a form of giving them some control over what
or some say over what they want. So the same
thing goes around holidays, right, like do you want to
(10:07):
spend it with your family or do you want to
maybe go on a vacation whatever that looks like? Right,
Being a little bit more flexible, like today I didn't
know what I was going to come on here and
talk about. And yes, my guests had to cancel at
the last minute, but that's okay, right, Like I can
(10:29):
be flexible, I can pick up and move it forward
however it needs to be. So that's what I'm saying
as far as like being flexible. Oftentimes, Also what happens is,
especially with depression or anxiety, we're either living in the
future or we're living in the past. And so if
(10:51):
that happens, then we get stuck in these cycles and
ultimately we're not in the now. So I always say, like,
this is our now, this is me present. I am
here with you, You are watching this with me right now.
We are having I'm having a conversation with the camera,
(11:11):
and you're watching and listening, and maybe you have thoughts
that are popping up, and maybe you're gonna throw a
comment in the chat, and because you have questions that
come up, just allow streamyard to have permission and then
I can see it pop up over here. If I
don't see a pop up over here, I'll go back
to Facebook or LinkedIn or wherever you're watching and answer
(11:33):
your question. So, but if we are able to really
live in the now, which is our present moment currently
and not excuse me, and not in the future or
in the past. Then that's when we can really start
to change the depression or the anxiety or those things.
(11:57):
And one really great process that I like to do
is it's clearing the now. So it's basically just allowing
your brain and your unconscious mind to start organizing the
things that are whether it's in your now, so your currents.
And I think I've done this process actually i'm one
of my other random mental Health Monday's podcasts. But ultimately,
(12:21):
like you can close your eye, you ask your unconscious mind,
like what is your what is in your now? And
allow your unconscious mind to organize the things that are
in your now, putting the like with like the family
with family, the work with work, and so on. Then
(12:42):
you take a look and see what is in your
now that doesn't belong in your now, and allow your
unconscious mind to move those things that like that belong
in the future, like what you're gonna do once you
leave here or in the far future so it can
be distant future or far future, and allow your unconscious
(13:04):
mind to move those into your future or those things
that maybe what you did right before you came here
that belongs in your past, or the things that are
or were in your past, those also belong in your past.
They don't belong in your now, and you allow your
(13:24):
unconscious mind to move those things out of your now,
and then you flow into your future and you organize that.
So you put the like with like, the family with family,
the work with work, and so on until it's organized.
Then you flow into where you store your past, and
you put your like with like, your family with family,
(13:47):
and your work with work, and you allow your unconscious
mind to really start organizing these things. Then you float
back to your now, and now you can be present,
present with me, present with your family, present with whatever
you're doing, because what belongs in your now is what's
happening now. What you're doing in the future doesn't belong
(14:09):
in your now, and what you're doing what you did
in the past, it belongs in your past. And so
being able to organize those things and allowing your unconscious
mind to really do that for you can be a
really powerful tool. And it's something I use all the time,
and I just love it because especially when I have clients,
(14:31):
because normally when they show up it's like, oh my gosh,
I'm so sorry whatever was going on, blah blah blah. Okay,
that's cool, totally flye. Remember that flexibility. I'm okay, you're okay,
I'm safe, you're safe. We're here now, so let's clear
it all out of the way so that we can
be present on what we're doing right now. And I'm
(14:54):
I'm not perfect at this by any means, but and
I have to remind my self to do that because
I'm like, oh I need to do this, or oh
I need to do that. Oh right, stop, focus, redirect center.
What belongs here now and for me, you watching this
(15:17):
and me being here present with you is what belongs
right now. All the things that I have to do,
after we get off of this, it'll be done. And
that's okay. So that's just a tool or a technique.
And I know that I've had so many really amazing
guests on this podcast that have given you some really awesome, quick, fast,
(15:43):
simple tools that you can use on a daily basis,
Like I still love the one that Tanya gave me,
which was and I think I talked about this a
couple of ones ago, too, was the I just forgot
the name of it, but it's a breath, so it's
a and it resets your system, so it calms you
(16:11):
down and it helps, and it's pretty quick. So I
use that one pretty often. And that's when I remembered
there's a lot of other tools that people have given,
like even my voice. It calms down when I do that,
and so breathing can be really powerful too. I bring
this one up to breathing specifically because if you're going
(16:34):
through pain, if you are focusing on things again in
the future or in the past, breathe through it right.
Take those deep breasts, like make sure you're taking deep breast,
not just like the chesty breasts or the gut breast,
like the whole gut and chest breast, Like if you
(16:59):
are feeling really anxious, those work there too. So there's
lots of little, tiny tools that you can utilize as
we go into the holidays, and maybe maybe it's when
you get around a family or friends or a certain
situation that like these emotions start bubbling up. Take a breath,
(17:22):
take a quick breath, and make sure you fill out
your chest and your belly and all of that. And
I know it's easier said than done, but just something
to keep in mind. So shifting a little to what
I want to share about Giving Tuesday, because tomorrow, again,
(17:46):
like I said, it's Giving Tuesday, and it is the
largest day of giving or donations across the world. And
the thing about tomorrow is that if on the Giving
Tuesday fundraisers that pop up meta, they double up to
(18:07):
its seven million this year. I think that's every year,
but oftentimes the smaller nonprofits don't get very much. I
did get some that were that were matched last year,
not very many, but that's okay. So we just started early,
(18:28):
so I already launched. We have non we have fundraisers
across almost all of our platforms. So we have a
fundraiser launched on Instagram, we have a fundraiser launched on Facebook,
and then we have our fundraiser on give lively. But
the easiest way to donate, and you can do it now,
(18:52):
you don't have to wait till tomorrow. You can do
it now. And now actually is a better time if
you're gonna text us anyways, but you can text climb
for Mind to four four three two one, And what
that goes to is our it's our climb for the mind.
Fundraiser that we launched a couple of months ago. Our
(19:15):
goal I was trying to pull it up here so
that you can see it. Our goal is to raise
a total of sixty thousand dollars. I know that sounds
like a lot, but I want to put it into
perspective for you. So sixty thousand dollars for BCC Evolution,
that means that we can cover twelve mental health for
(19:38):
staid classes fully sponsored with thirty individuals. That doesn't sound
like a lot, to be honest, because I have already
this year, I've already done fourteen classes myself. I have
educated fourteen classes through BCC Evolution and through other organizations
(20:02):
this year. A good chunk of the people that came
through those were sponsored spots. Although we do charge for
our classes, it's not a huge fee. That's actually one
of our lowest price points, one of them that we
offer across the board. And so when I get requests
(20:23):
for people that really want to take the classes, sometimes
I have to reject them, or I just don't pay
myself to do the educating portion. And that's not really
fair either. None of those scenarios are fair. So while
I were trying to raise that amount is because then
(20:46):
we can sponsor spots in our classes. And I had
the pleasure of educating a well multiple rule communities within Colorado.
They're counselors. Last was it last week? Didn't know? It
was like two weekends ago. I got and then I
(21:07):
have another one this weekend. So I'm doing some classes
through UNC. They were able to get a grant, they
didn't quite factor in the educator or the trainer pay.
It's fine, but that's what I'm talking about, is there
so many rural communities, even within Colorado within other states,
that really need access to this training, but they don't
(21:30):
get access to it because they're not able to afford it.
And I know that's why there's grants in places. We
unfortunately within BCC Evolution have not gotten any of those grants.
We've tried, but we were not successful in getting the grants.
But now we have a lot more data this year
again because I've taught fourteen classes and still have one
(21:53):
more that I'm going to be teaching this year, and
so all those people, I mean, if you take so
we can have thirty people in each class, and if
we're doing twelve classes, what is it YEP? I got
to use my calculator. So that's three hundred and sixty
(22:16):
people that we could potentially sponsor with those funds, right,
And that's why I just want to put it in
relation for you. Is that sixty thousand dollars at least
for BCC evolution that only covers twelve total classes. I
would absolutely love to cover more classes, more education, more
(22:39):
people that are out there that know how to assist, recognize,
and identify mental health challenges so that somebody doesn't choose
the route of suicide. I mean, really truly, and this
is going to sound probably pretty straightforward, but I want
you to understand. It's like somebody comes to me and
they say, I really need help, Kelly, and I say,
(23:02):
I would love to show you how I can help
you and train you and give you the tools and
the resources that you need, but I'm sorry, we don't
have funding, so you're gonna have to go talk to
somebody else. Well, who should I talk to? I don't know.
I have a couple people that you can reach out to,
(23:23):
hopefully they can fit you in. I don't know, though.
They have a waiting list, and their waiting list right
now is about three months. Oh but wait, if you
go to this other place, it's about three years. I'm
not exaggerating. Most companies within or organizations mental health facilities,
(23:45):
their average weight waitless right now is anywhere from three
months up to three years. Could you imagine being in
a crisis and having to wait three years to talk
to somebody? But what if I I had my best friend,
My best friend is trained in mental health first aid,
or my best friend isn't trained in breaking the cycle
(24:07):
of trauma, and they know how to ask me the
hard questions. They also know how to connect me to
professional help or self help strategies, or just get me
through this small space, this time limited space that I'm
having suicidal thoughts? How powerful is that? Because I know
(24:31):
how to ask the questions and I know how to
help somebody when they're in need. I also am trained
in multiple different therapies that I can help people, but
unfortunately not all of them can afford my services. And
I don't know if you saw if you're on Facebook
(24:53):
or you're one of my friends, maybe you saw my
live the other day. I had a lot of imposter
syndrome coming up, and then I was reminded that I'm
actually trained in a lot of things, like beyond most
counselors or therapists because I'm human training and I know
(25:13):
how to ask those hard questions, and that's really cool.
They get that reminder is that I have the training,
I have the skills. I can help people humans get
through whatever they're going through. And I don't have a
weight list, not right now, at least I probably will.
(25:36):
I mean, my schedule is getting pretty g impact, but
I don't have a weight list. You don't have to
wait three months to talk to me. You might have
to wait a week, but a week is better than
three months. And even in between that space and that time,
if somebody gets on my calendar and they're like, I
need to talk to you today, I will move move
(26:00):
something around. That's powerful. But the thing about it is
I can't continue to give my services away for free.
That's not fair to me, that's not fair to my family,
that's not fair to my bills. Debt collectors like you
when you're not paying your bills. So I can't continue
(26:20):
to give things free. But I want to be able
to educate people. And that's why this is so important
for BCC evolution. It's to be able to pay me
for the things that I do on a daily basis,
like this Mental Health Monday podcast show. I bring on
guests that are resources to you. I also give you
tips and tricks of how you can help yourself or
(26:43):
help others. I'm also able to educate people around mental
health and suicide so that we can prevent it or
at least give you awareness of what you should say
or do, or be or have or how you can help.
That's pretty powerful, and it also affords us the luxury
(27:08):
of collaborating with others. Not that we have to pay,
but it still takes time of networking for me to
set up those handholding relationships with people. Time is money, right,
Everybody says that time is money. You should be paying
(27:29):
yourself what you're worth, and I continually have people tell
me that I don't. But I know that I'm worth it,
and I know that what I do is really valuable,
and I know that my board backs me up one
hundred percent and would absolutely love to do more things
with BCC evolution. We just don't have the funding right now,
(27:52):
and that's sad. That sucks. It's like telling your kid,
I'm sorry you can't go to the movie with your
friend because I don't have any money to let you go.
And I'm sure if you're a parent, that's hard. It's
(28:16):
hard to go into the holidays, right, I'm sorry. I
can't buy you any presents. Nothing's going to be under
the tree. Or maybe we can't get a tree because
we don't have money to do that. But maybe if
I knew some really cool people that did have money
(28:38):
that would be able to support so that we can
support others. That's how that's how it all, this cycle,
how it all plays together because you being able to
help us, which is BCC evolution, means that we can
help others and we can actually truly make an impact
(29:01):
and a dent in the mental health and suicide prevention space.
It sucks having to turn people away, and I know
that's a challenge across the board with all mental health facilities.
They either don't have the staff or they don't have
the funds. There's so many things, right, but how do
(29:23):
we fill in that gap? And that gap is filled
in by you. You can be the change. You can
be the person that understands. You can be the one
person that somebody needs that knows how to listen and
(29:46):
listen non judgmentally, because that's a skill. It's not innate
in us to listen non judgmentally. It's a skill that
we have to build and we have to learn learn
how to do that, and that's where all of our
(30:07):
classes come in. And again I was reminded this weekend
after training our new instructor, how valuable and incredible the
curriculum that I wrote is. I'm telling you, I have
imposter syndrome pop up all the time. It's pretty, it's
(30:30):
absolutely human. I get anxious, I get worried, I have overwhelmed.
I live in this world every single day, in the
mental health world, and sometimes it gets to me. We're
all human, we all experience things, we all experience them different,
(30:56):
but we all have experiences. And how cool would that
be to just have a little place, place space of
where BCC Evolution is able to offer mental health classes
(31:18):
and services to those that can't potentially afford it. But
that has to come from donations. We try, we will
continue to try for grants. We will continue to ask
the large corporations for money. That won't stop. But there's
still a lot of day to day fees that nonprofits have,
(31:45):
and so going into giving Tuesday tomorrow. I want you
to keep that in mind. Yes, I want to break
a myth. Nonprofits can make money. Just because you're a
nonprofit does not mean you're not a business. Just because
as you're a charity does not mean that you can't
make money. Also, nonprofits should be paying the people that
(32:08):
work for them. You shouldn't have to have multiple jobs
just to survive to be working for a nonprofit. You
should be able to do the impactful work every single
day because what you do freaking matters, and you should
also be worthy enough to be able to be paid
(32:32):
for the work that you do. It's just like if
you went into I had actually I heard this the
other day because they were talking about I think speakers
or coaches. It was something like that, right, So if
you go into McDonald's and you say I want a
number two. I don't know what a number two is.
(32:53):
I haven't been to McDonald's forever. But anyways, if you
would go into McDonald's and you say I want a
number two and they're like it'll blah blah blah blah money,
and you're like, oh, well, can I make a payment plan?
Can I put a payment plan on that? Or well,
I get paid in like two weeks. Would it be
okay if I pay you, then what do you think
(33:17):
they're gonna say, get out of here? Or if you
went into I mean, think about it, any you could
go into any place. Right if you went into a
chiropractor and you said, you know, I think I want
you to do ten adjustments and I'm not going to
pay you, or the same with a doctor. If you
(33:40):
walked into a doctor and you said, you know, just
because you're a private practice and you don't take insurance,
that just means that I'm not going to pay you.
Or a therapist or a counselor or any of those people.
You pay them because they're valuable and they help you, right,
They're not going to give away their services for free.
(34:03):
So why that just actually my head literally was like ding,
why would I give mine away for free? Too? Weird?
See learning something new every day. But the same goes right,
same goes for service based people, coaches, speakers, all of
(34:25):
those things, right, like why do we have to take
less of educators, trainers, all of those things? Take less
for services that we provide? We shouldn't write But with
the caveat of understanding that those that need it the
most need to be supported. You could be one of
(34:51):
those persons. I could be one of those person. We
can all be that one person that somebody needs at
one point in time. So that's what I'm asking. Here's
what you can do. That was the longest wind like whirlwind.
All right, So here it is. This is how you
(35:14):
donate right now. All you have to do is text
climb for mind to four four three two one. One
of the coolest parts about donating this way is you
actually get extra perks because this goes towards our next year.
What myself and Philip are doing is we are climbing
for our minds, like literally, so you go up, up
(35:39):
and down thirteen I don't even have enough fingers for
that thirteen different times. So you're ultimately climbing twenty nine
twenty nine. And with that it is you get thirty
six hours. Here, I'm just gonna so you get thirty
six hours to reach twenty nine twenty nine feet. It's
(36:02):
the equivalent height of Mount Everest. So you hike up
the mountain, you take the gondola down and repeat it
and it ends up being about thirteen times up and
down day and night for thirty six hours to complete,
and some have finished finished and some have not. And
I will tell you it is really it's a whole mental, physical,
(36:28):
spiritual event or challenge that is hard to categorize. And
I know they say in here a new category of
challenge that's equal parts physical, mental, and spiritual. Do you
have the heart and will to climb the mountain again
and again to earn the right to say you ever rested?
(36:51):
This is not a race, this is you verse you
And so ultimately the reason why I know Philip wants
to do it is because he has lost and probably
lost even more at this point. But he's lost one
hundred and ten pounds since June of twenty twenty one,
and he continues to lose more and more, which is amazing.
(37:11):
And he's just done that by walking and change and diet,
so incredible. But he has never done anything that has
pushed him to the limit. He has also struggled with
his mental health for years and years and years, and
this is a huge mental challenge for me. I want
(37:32):
to be able to go because one the whole thing
about BCC evolution is that we make sure that nobody
ever feels alone like I don't want him doing this
by himself, Like why would I be like, oh, yeah,
go raise a bunch of money for BCC evolution. As
I work, as I started researching more and more, I
(37:52):
was like, I can't let you do this alone. Like
how how I was going to say crazy and that's
not the word. How cuckoo, bonkers, cuckoo bananas would that
be for me to allow him to do it alone? Like, here,
go do this off by yourself, Like that's not what
BCC evolution is about. And I have never in my
(38:15):
lifetime pushed myself this much ever, ever, ever, ever, and
so for me, like it is going to be mental, physical, spiritual,
I mean, holy moly. But the cool part what I
was getting back to is that when you donate here
(38:37):
or you just go to the link, I'll throw the
link in here too. That is the link. If you
go to this, there are extra perks that you get.
So if you donate one hundred dollars or more and
you have lost somebody to suicide, substance abuse, another mental
health challenge, you have the opportunity to put their name
on the shirts that we are creating for this event.
(38:59):
I'm going live every single Monday. Right we're on our
fiftieth episode. Right now, I am going to continue to
go live forever and ever until I don't know, forever,
until nobody else watches. And so pause for a drink,
(39:19):
so you can put a name on there, and I
will give you shout outs. We're also going to go
live during the event, so literally, like the world can
watch what we're doing. They can also see the name
of whomever you put on the shirt showcase. I think
that's pretty cool. And then any donations above that, the
(39:43):
perks just keep going. As a corporation. If you're a
business or a corporation, if you sponsor one thousand dollars
or more, your business logo will go on the backs
of our T shirts. So that's where all of our
sponsored companies, organizeations, independent businesses, all of those will go
on the back of the T shirt. And depending on
(40:05):
your level, the bigger the logo gets on the shirts.
So that's where this that one. If you donate there,
it will ultimately you'll get extra perks or just text
climb for your mind. And I want to show you
(40:25):
if I can get Let's see if I can show
you this screen. All right, I'm gonna give you all right.
I want you to see this because it's pretty incredible
the the YouTube. So one second, let me make sure
(40:51):
all right and to make sure you can hear all right,
So hopefully you'll be able to hear this. I don't know.
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Actually, let me
try something here really quickly. One second mmmm r Okay,
(41:23):
let's watch this. It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Let's do that. But now it's not time for me
to be proud of you. It's time for you to
show what you're made up so that you can be
proud of yourself. It's a complete an event like twenty
(42:32):
twenty nine. You have to go into yourself. Every single
person that towes this line has their own individual Why
why do you want to put yourself through this much challenge,
this much pain? Why do you want to get to
the mountaintop so much? Oh?
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Why is to push my limits? Love a challenge, unlocking levels,
open my soul? Just see if I can do it.
I don't eat easy. I just need im possible. I
am capable features Audrey f That is intense, but it
(45:42):
makes me really really emotional because my why, my why
is so strong and it's so innate. Innate, that's probably
(46:08):
not the right word, but it's so strong. At this
point in my life, I'm so sick of people dying
around me, and I know that it's important that we
(46:28):
have these open conversations, and I think it's important that
we actually get trained and we get educated, and it's
important to keep my sisters journey alive. And this is
(46:56):
why I do what I do on a daily basis.
This is why I share all of this information with
you because it's really freaking important and we need your help.
I can't do it alone. BCC Evolution Board can't do
(47:21):
it alone. Philip can't do it alone. You don't need
to do it alone. What we need to do in
this world, in this life, is to support each other
and stop being so naive is the word that's coming
(47:46):
to my mind. It is really important for me to
be able to do this climb. And I want to
showcase your company. I want to showcase the name of
(48:07):
the people that you have lost, and I want this
world to start acknowledging that it's freaking important to talk
about our mental health. It is just as important as
your physical health. When are we going to just stop
(48:29):
and start listening. When are we going to start learning
the skills it's going to take to save somebody's life.
How can you be the one person for somebody else
(48:51):
that's going through it and having a really hard time.
Nobody's perfect. I don't have all the answers, but what
I know is the more and more that things happen
(49:11):
like the shooting that just happened in Colorado Springs at
Club Q, it's got to stop, and we've got to
make a change. And we can't do that alone. We've
got to show the world that mental health is important.
(49:32):
And I'm not saying by any means that the shooting
was mental health related, because only four percent of violence
is mental health related. So that's another myth that I'm
breaking for you. Not everybody suffers from a mental health challenge.
(49:55):
Not everybody struggles, Not everybody suffers. But change has to happen,
and it can start small and grow even bigger. But
how else what is a better platform to share this
(50:16):
with the world, showcasing names on shirts and telling the
story about somebody that you lost because their life mattered,
your life matters. Maybe you're that person that struggles. Maybe
you're that person that suffers and you matter. Maybe your
(50:43):
name should go on that shirt and we should tell
your story. But my why is very very strong at
this point because I'm sick of hearing of other friends
(51:04):
or other relatives that are dying due to substance abuse
or liver failure or kidney failure or suicide or all
those things. We have to make a change, and it
can be as simple. It's getting educated. I didn't know.
(51:25):
I didn't understand what my sister was going through. It
isn't until now and after I started gaining all these
certificates and all these knowledge, all this knowledge and things,
this awareness of myself that I really started truly understanding.
(51:47):
And that's why I'm saying that it matters. We should
be able to help and support other people. So I'm
challenging you, whether it's today or whether it's tomorrow, please
support BCC evolution. You can text this number, you'll get
(52:09):
to this page. You'll be able to donate on here,
and you can watch the video that Philip and I did.
If you haven't watched that Mental Health Monday yet, it
also shows you our journey. It tells you what it's
all about. On this page, you can read why and
(52:33):
what you're helping us accomplish. You can also go on
here and create your own fundraiser. I want to fundraise
for this page right here. I want a fundraise for
(52:55):
this page. Make it a game, bring in your friends,
challenge your company who can actually raise the most money.
Maybe you don't have money right now, that's okay, Go
raise some money for us. Launch a Giving Tuesday fundraiser
(53:18):
on Facebook for BCC evolution, And I want to say
thank you to Mary. She's already launched one, So thank
you so much. Mary. I appreciate you. I appreciate you
choosing BCC evolution. Go launch a fundraiser on Facebook, Go
launch a fundraiser on Instagram, Go launch your own fundraiser
(53:41):
on this There's lots of ways that you can help
without having to even have any money. But it takes
a village, like they say with kids, it really truly
takes a village to fund a nonprofit and fund the
(54:01):
work and the impact that we are doing. There's lots
of ways that you can help. There's lots of ways
that you can support. But what I can say is
(54:22):
that Giving Tuesday comes up every single year, and so
this year I challenge you to make a difference in
somebody's life. Help us make a difference in somebody's life,
whether you come to one of our classes and you
(54:43):
learn how to recognize and identify signs and symptoms, or
you learn how to actually help somebody, or start to
listen non judgmentally. I'm telling you it's a skill. It
is not something that you're just going to figure out
on your own. It's a skill that you need to learn.
Or maybe you want to understand how the brain works
(55:06):
and why trauma affects us, or maybe you want to
make a safety or self care plan, something that we
offer in our Breaking the Cycle of Trauma. It's also
actually offered on two other products that we have, our
Shift Your Mindset boot Camp and your and re Engage
(55:28):
Resilience Masterclass. The Shift Your Mindset boot Camp is already
on the BCC evolution page, and I will get the
re Engage Resilience loaded up on the page or up
on our website today. So there's lots of ways for
you to get educated. And those two classes are at
(55:51):
a really low price point, so there's no excuse. Maybe
you don't have the money right now, but when is
a good time to save somebody's life. If not now,
how long are you gonna wait until they're not here
with you anymore? Because that's what happened to me, That's
(56:19):
what happened with a lot of people that were really
close to me. I waited, I was too busy, I
didn't care. I didn't know any better. But you know what,
when you know better, you can do better. So that's
(56:40):
what I'm saying to you right now is when you
know better, you can do better. And you know better
now how you can help somebody. So take a moment
today or tomorrow, or whenever it might be and donate,
or come to a and get educated, or just reach
(57:04):
out to me. Let me know you need help, because,
like I said, I don't have a waiting list, and
maybe you need support today and maybe I'm not available,
but maybe I could refer you to somebody that is
(57:25):
because I have a whole network of people that are
incredible and willing to help. It's not easy asking for help.
I get it, definitely not easy. I don't like asking
for help. Hence the reason maybe we've gotten to this
(57:46):
place at this point, but I want to be able
to continue the work that we're doing. We're going into
our fifth year, which is pretty incredible. Five years five
years with BCC evolution, that is pretty amazing. And now
we have it locked down. The business plan is in
place again. Nonprofits can make money because they are a
(58:08):
business and what we do really matters. So this has
gone a lot longer than most of my mental health mondays,
but I kind of purposely did that, to be honest.
And the reason why I want wanted to go a
(58:31):
little bit longer is because I want you to know
the importance and I want you to know what we
can help, what we can provide, what we can do,
how we can be there for you or for those
that you love, How you can be there for those
that you love, those friends, family, all those people. There's
(58:54):
a way, and I can teach you, I can train you.
We have lots and lots and lots of resources on
our website and I'm about to add even more. But
if you need somebody, also go look at all of
our past mental health mondays, because every single guest that
(59:16):
I've had on has been incredible and an amazing resource.
And most of them also don't have waiting lists. They
might cost a lot more then your insurance will pay,
but I promise you they're probably actually going to help you,
(59:37):
not probably they will help you, because I highly vet
the people that I put in my circle because I
want to make sure that it's helpful and not hurtful,
and I will never ever recommend somebody that is going
to hurt you. With that said, I just want to
(59:59):
say thank you so much for hanging out with me,
sticking it in, sticking with me, sticking with me for
this whole episode. And there you go. That's how that's
how you know, random days go that we have to
change it up a little bit. But there's one more place,
(01:00:20):
one more space that you can continue this conversation. If
you need support, now, there is an app and it's
called Circles. It's a really cool website, but every single
Monday we do a free support group for grief and loss.
And keep in mind, grief is not necessarily, excuse me,
(01:00:42):
just the loss of a person. It could be a
loss of identity, it could be the loss of a pet,
it could be a divorce, it could be a trauma
of some sort. We grieve and go through loss very
very different. We all experience things differently, and so if
you need extra support that you actually want to get
(01:01:03):
into and talk to me, and talk to others and
find your tribe. All you have to do is download
the Circles app and I will drop it in the
comments of this so that you can link into it
right away. But again, it's a free support group. We
run it from twelve thirty to one thirty Mountain standard
(01:01:25):
time every single Monday. I have been in conversations to
add another room, which may end up being potentially on Wednesdays,
like doing a wellness Wednesday type thing. I don't know,
we haven't figured it out yet. But again, it is
a free resource and support group that you can jump in.
(01:01:47):
And even more reason why we need to get funds
built up so that we can start offering more and
more of these, because people really truly are in need
and need help, especially going into the holidays. So if
you happen to be joining now and you're just watching
(01:02:08):
this recording, make sure you go back and watch the
beginning of this. I shared some tips and tools also
just let you know a little bit more about why
we really truly need your help either today or tomorrow,
specifically for giving Tuesday. What we're actually funding, how that
looks as far as what we need. The funding for
(01:02:30):
all of this funding that we will be raising will
go towards classes, it'll go towards our events, because we
currently offer two events per year. That's our annual Gala,
which is coming up on February eighteenth. It's going to
be eighties theme. It's going to be awesome. It is
in Parker, Colorado, So if you're in Colorado, go grab
(01:02:53):
your tickets now. I think early bird prices are still up.
It was so much fun last year, the year before
and then the year before, so grab your ticket. This
year you can actually pick your spot where you want
to sit, which is pretty cool. So go grab your
tickets to that. And our second event of the year
(01:03:13):
is our Mental Health and Suicide Awareness Film Festival, where
we showcase films from across the world that are centered
around mental health and suicide so that we can continue
to have the conversation because again, this is a world,
world issue, a world challenge. It's not just the United States.
And the stats just keep going up and up and up,
(01:03:36):
and there are so many I mean, so much, just
so much. And I know if you're watching this on Facebook,
I made a post yesterday, so go check that out.
I mean just the celebrities that have died by suicide
or substance abuse. I could have gone on forever and ever,
but unfortunately on Instagram at least you can't have that
(01:03:58):
much text. And so go check that out. There's also
a lot of stats, recent stats that I added on there.
Go check those out because it's just getting worse and worse.
And again, mental health should be as important as physical health.
We need to start treating it that way. So either
(01:04:20):
come join us here in about fifteen ish minutes on
the Circles app, I'll drop the link and or come
back next Monday. And I do have a guest for
next Monday, hopefully they don't reschedule, but also feel free
to share this. Make sure you mash down the subscribe
button or follow us, depending on where you're watching. Most likely,
(01:04:44):
if you're watching this on Facebook or LinkedIn, you're already
following us, or if you don't want to sit here
and watch me, go and listen on any of the
other seven platforms. All right, y'all, I appreciate you. I'm grateful,
I am thankful. I love the work that I do,
and I am so honored to be able to share
(01:05:06):
this space with you, and I really appreciate and hope
that this was helpful, useful knowledge, and that you take
the time to actually go, whether you're donating or you're
going to create your own fundraiser to help BCC evolution,
all of it. I appreciate you, so thank you so much,
(01:05:26):
have a wonderful day, and I will see you next Monday.
By y'all,
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.