It’s World Mental Health Day and the end of Mental Health Week as I release this episode and I couldn’t pass up this chance to talk about a topic I’ve felt more bold opening up about during the last few months.
This podcast was definitely part of that. Chasing a new endeavor, cobbling together a dream and laughing with my best friends along the way has been life-altering, I crap you not, especially during the pandemic.
Before we get really going here I bet you were wondering where episode #33 was! Probably not, but I like to think some of the type A’s out there may have been curious. But why 33? Let me tell ya about it and tell you a story close to my heart.
So I gritted my teeth, fought through the self-created tension and did E14 Mental Health with ole buddies Mitch & Paul. It centered around me seeking grief counseling after the deaths of my two brothers, Collin and Alex. Collin left us in March of 2015 after a quick trip to the hospital and I didn't get a chance to see him before he passed away. Alex passed away in May of 2019. I'm fortunate to have talked to him one last time before he passed away. Both were 33. Now you see where I’m going here.
I listened back to that E14 a couple times and to me it was awkward and cringe-worthy. How’s that different from a regular episode or J.P.-moment you ask (Ba-DOOM Boom CHING)?!?
But the cringe-worthy nature of it is what made it good. Did I just unearth a paradox? Embrace the awkward as the mental health saying goes or to you fans of the pod, “It’s only tense if you make it tense,” as Paul and I broke down in his Get to Know episode 20 referring to an epiphany in college at the Paisano’s in Commerce, America.
Context is important. During my senior year in college as I was mapping out my future dominance in the internet sports broadcasting world, I took a capstone class in sociology that looked interesting called Drugs & Society. It was probably the easiest class I ever took. It just came naturally. It turns out my curiosity in what I thought would be a blow-off class on t
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