Helping Others Heal
Charlamagne tha God is committed to elevating conversations surrounding Black mental health.
Born Lenard McKelvey, Charlamagne tha God is a multimedia mogul, Radio Hall of Fame inductee, bestselling author, and one of the most influential thought leaders in modern culture.
He is the outspoken, well-informed, and charismatic co-host of the radio show. The Breakfast Club, heard by over 4.5 million listeners daily. Charlamagne also hosts Tha God’s Honest Truth, a late night show on Comedy Central co-created with Stephen Colbert, where he takes on social issues and topics permeating politics and culture.
Charlamagne is also the author of The New York Times bestseller Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It and Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me, which launched him to become one of the world’s leading voices in the mental health discussion.
With a deeply personal vision to help address the unmet and underserved emotional needs of Black people worldwide, Charlamagne founded the Mental Wealth Alliance (MWA), his forward-thinking foundation created to de-stigmatize, accelerate, and center state-of-the-art mental health outreach and care across the U.S. while building an unprecedented long-term system of generational support for Black communities.
Topics covered:
Why Black youth are especially prone to develop mental health issues but less likely to seek out care
Healing childhood and generational trauma
The most valuable lessons he learned from therapy
What it means to deliver culturally competent mental health services
His goal to provide free therapy for 10 million people
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