How is your mental health today? How do you tend to it and stay on track during turbulent times? How do you utilize your creativity to help you move through mental health challenges? Today’s guest is Erika Soto Lamb. She works with companies, organizations, and culture leaders to drive positive change on the toughest social issues, currently leading leading multi-platform campaigns for SHOWTIME/MTV Entertainment Studios at Paramount. She will bring you her knowledge of storytelling and how you can use it as a tool to help your mental health and the mental health of others!

From this conversation you’ll learn:

-How to find the courage to share your mental health story

-Effective ways to support friends and family members struggling with mental health issues

-The importance of storytelling and creativity to increase social change

-The role of cultural and community background in shaping one’s passion for change-making

On Erika: Erika Soto Lamb works with companies, organizations, and culture leaders to drive positive change on the toughest social issues. She was the founding head of social impact strategy at Comedy Central and now leads multi-platform campaigns for SHOWTIME/MTV Entertainment Studios at Paramount. That means that she leverages the power of the brands, shows and talent she works with to engage audiences towards activism. In this role she is a co-founder of Power the Polls, the first national campaign to recruit the new generation of poll workers that saved the 2020 election; a founder of Mental Health Action Day; a steering committee member for the inaugural Vote Early Day; and an advisory board member of the Civic Alliance and the Impact Guild.

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