1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Ever since, I've talked about it publicly, and I started 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: doing mental health checkups on my on my Instagram, social 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 1: media now here, on this podcast, and then writing the 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 1: book and doing these interviews. There's not a week that 5 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: goes past. I'm gonna try and keep it together here too, 6 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: where somebody doesn't say thank you, you saved my life 7 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: by talking about this. And then I have grandmothers now 8 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: saying you've given me the words for the first time 9 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: in eighty years to talk about this to my family. 10 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: I didn't know what to say. So here's the coolest one, though, 11 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: the coolest one. We had a guest on this podcast 12 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago named Keith Madden. Keith was 13 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 1: on the way to Holding the Head to South Carolina 14 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: to kill himself, and he took a wrong turn and 15 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: ended up at a target, and my book was sitting 16 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: right there, and he was planning doing on the third 17 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: day that he was in Hilton Head, so he picked 18 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: up some supplies and and and including my book, and 19 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: he read Unbreakable and he said he read almost all 20 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: of it in day two by the morning, and day three, 21 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: there's no longer any reason for me to kill myself. 22 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,639 Speaker 1: And I packed up went home. And he has since 23 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: about a bunch of books and I've sent a bunch 24 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: of free books too, and handing them out to people. 25 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: But he's now telling his story openly. And I got 26 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 1: a message from him yesterday, yesterday in tears that a 27 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: woman a stranger walked up to and said, excuse me you, 28 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 1: Keith Madden said, yes, I am. She said, oh my god, 29 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:30,199 Speaker 1: thank you. You see in my life. Wow, Oh my god, dude. 30 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 1: So that's someone And I tell people all the time, like, man, 31 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: we gotta stick around because you never know what lies 32 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: around next Tuesday where a man on next Tuesday, something 33 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: great will happen for you. And Tuesday for me was 34 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: I finally got my first job. But you never know. 35 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: And if he had completed that his his what he 36 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: set out to do, that woman wouldn't be alive right now. 37 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: And that's why we gotta stick around. That for me, 38 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: like Mark B. Marsh, I'm now getting these every week, 39 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: and that that is making this we want to talk 40 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: about even more and and connect with the world. That's 41 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: life's work, bro. And that's life's work right there. And 42 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: and the coolest thing about it is that that just 43 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: showed the power of telling your story. So you tell 44 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: your story, but you don't You don't even know how 45 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 1: many others you are touching. Right, So Keith he hears 46 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: your story, reads your story boom, and now he starts 47 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 1: to share a story. And now this, this lady is 48 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: here today, and now she's going to open up and 49 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: tell her story right, and she's going to impact people 50 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: in the same way.