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Speaker 1: Top of the Gang. Welcome to Unbreakable Mental Health Podcast

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Speaker 1: with Jay Glazier and today's Monday motivation is about rescue

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Speaker 1: dots before we get to that. If you're like many people,

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Speaker 1: you may be surprised to them that one at five

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Speaker 1: adults in this country experienced mental illness last year, Yet

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Speaker 1: are too many failed to receive the support they need.

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Speaker 1: Carolm Behavioral health is doing something about it. They understand

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Speaker 1: that behavioral health is a key part of whole health,

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Speaker 1: delivering compatulate care that treats physical, mental, emotional, and social

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Speaker 1: needs in tandem. Carolin behavioral health raising the quality of life,

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Speaker 1: empathy and action. I'd lost my beloved Alma and I

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Speaker 1: talk about building a team and she is such a

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Speaker 1: big part of my team. And let me give you

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Speaker 1: a little backstory on Alma. Alma was the unadoptable dog.

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Speaker 1: Alma passed her in Super Bowl week. Everyone knew Alma

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, everybody in the USC new Alma. She

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Speaker 1: took my NFL training cap tour with me. This dog's

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Speaker 1: life really changed and I still haven't processed losing her.

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Speaker 1: I went from Super Bowl when it happened Thursday morning

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Speaker 1: before a production meeting to Thailand to NFL combine. Bam.

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Speaker 1: Still haven't processed it. That dog changed my life as

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Speaker 1: much of that changed to hers. So Alma's story and this,

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Speaker 1: I guess is a way of me turning to my

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Speaker 1: teammates here doubt me grieve this. She was a bait

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Speaker 1: dog and a dog finding room. And if you don't

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Speaker 1: know what a bait dog is, they basically use nice

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Speaker 1: dogs and house dogs and a lot of them will

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Speaker 1: tie their mouths shut and they just use their bodies

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Speaker 1: as bait so the fighting dogs can strengthen their jaws.

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Speaker 1: It's terrible, tenous, it's awful, and when they're done, they

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Speaker 1: execute them. With Alma, they took her in an alley,

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Speaker 1: ran a rover car, broke her back and high legs,

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Speaker 1: and she didn't die. Someone called police. Police scooped her up,

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Speaker 1: the surgery on her, and the shelter fell in love

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Speaker 1: with her, and she lived in a shelter for three

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Speaker 1: and a half years. She was the unadoubtable dog because

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Speaker 1: she was a pit bull with scars all over. It's

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Speaker 1: not familiar. But the guy who's telling the story right now,

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Speaker 1: and nobody adopted her. In three and a half years

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Speaker 1: and she was the sweetest thing ever and to me,

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Speaker 1: her scars made her beautiful. Wow, I'm out. Went on

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Speaker 1: obedience walks for three and a half years with other families,

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Speaker 1: great with families. No one beat adopted her, no one

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Speaker 1: took her. Couldn't understand. Then I realized that she was

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Speaker 1: waiting for me and my son. I adopted my son

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Speaker 1: as well, the two of them. It was apart from

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Speaker 1: match and for me also, I said, well pitbull man

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Speaker 1: beat a pit Yeah, I can't really do that. I

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Speaker 1: didn't understand about pit bulls and how sweet they really are.

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Speaker 1: But they're the sweetest, most lovable disposition if they're training

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Speaker 1: the right way. And when I went to pick her

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Speaker 1: up morning off for this great foundation, all these families

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Speaker 1: were there and they said, oh is Alma coming on

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Speaker 1: a walk with us? And a woman got up sat No,

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Speaker 1: Alma has found her forever home. And thirty people start

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Speaker 1: crying and line up the stay good bye to Alma.

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Speaker 1: So she went from the worst situation ever and live

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Speaker 1: in a shelter for three and a half years. As

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Speaker 1: much as she saved me, as much as we saved her,

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Speaker 1: she saved me. So this is a plea to all

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Speaker 1: of you. If you are looking for a teammate, go

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Speaker 1: to shelter adopt. The gratitude of these dogs showing you

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Speaker 1: is incredible. I never knew you could love anything like

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Speaker 1: this until her. And like I said, she came over where.

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Speaker 1: She was so sweet and a dog like Alae should

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Speaker 1: hate human beings be resentful. Instead, she's so forgiving. If

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Speaker 1: she forgives, any of us could forgive. But this is

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Speaker 1: a plea today. If you're looking for a team, look

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Speaker 1: to a shelter. You'll save a dog's life, but there's

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Speaker 1: a really good chance he'll save yours as well. Thanks guy,

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Speaker 1: love Alma, appreciate you all. Let me get this off

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Speaker 1: my chest. Still processing, but she was from the greatest

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Speaker 1: teammates anybody can rap. Let's jip walkoms war together