Episode 26 - Season 1 - Featuring Brent Sopel

We?re all a little "Crazy" is brought to you by the #SameHere Global Mental Health Movement & The Hockey Podcast Network.? Episode 26 Featuring Brent Sopel NHL veteran Brent Sopel is speaking out about the sex assault scandal involving the Chicago Blackhawks and fiercely defending his former teammate, Kyle Beach. ?Brent Bernard Sopel is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played the majority of his career in the National Hockey League. Sopel was originally selected 144th overall at the 1995 NHL Entry Draft by the Vancouver Canucks, the organization he began his NHL career with Hosts: Darren Rovell: Sports business insider Theo Fleury: NHL great, mental health advocate & member of the #SameHere Alliance Eric Kussin: 20-year professional sports executive, mental health advocate, and founder of the #SameHere global mental health movement We?re all a little "Crazy" is available on ALL Podcast Apps! Do us a favor and download each episode before you listen, and if you are an Apple user, please rate & review the podcast as it helps us get these important conversations out to reach a larger audience. ?This topic isn?t for 1 in 5 of us with mental illness, it?s for 5 in 5 whose mental health has been impacted".- Theo Fleury We?re All A Little ?Crazy? is a 501c3 founded by 15-year professional sports executive, Eric Kussin, bringing together Athletes, Celebrities, and Expert Practitioners. A big fan of marketing, psychology, and sport, Eric combined all three and began reaching out to his contacts to discuss how they could attack the mental health epidemic strategically and differently than had ever been done before. He had to bring purpose to his own experience and believed he must have gone through that horrific period for a reason. With suicides at a 30-year high, and drug/opioid abuse out of control, he knows something major must change with the messaging if we?re to reverse these negative trends. He was overwhelmed by the positive responses he received from athletes, celebrities, and practitioners all over the globe, wanting to join in, all of whom bought into his vision of bringing a louder voice to this cause through a Global Alliance under a singular, bold but inclusive brand message: #SameHere (mental health lives on a continuum and we are ALL impacted?we ALL have a story). The charter?Celebrity Alliance?launched with a formal rally with over 300 supporters in attendance on November 14th, 2017, in New York City. There, The Alliance introduced their ?#SameHere? Movement, uniting the world through one ASL sign language hand gesture (you see depicted in their logos and profile pictures) that communicates ? no matter where we live, or what our background or our accolades, we all go through life?s inevitable challenges, and we should have a society where it is openly acceptable to talk about those challenges, thus: ?#SameHere!??Video. Find out more about the?origin story?that led to The Alliance?s usage of #SameHere.