Hope for the Day is a nonprofit organization working to promote mental health education and proactive suicide prevention. Breweries worldwide are partnering with them to participate in their “Things We Don’t Say: Craft Beer for Mental Health” project. Together, they aim to help smash the stigma surrounding mental health and encourage people to have open discussions. 

Joel Frieders, Nicole Henzel, and Tom Halaska are all part of the “Things We Don’t Say” project, hailing from various backgrounds and breweries. Joel is the Director of Public Policy at Hope for the Day, Nicole is the Regional Craft Sales Manager at Malteurop Malting Company, and Tom is the Brand Alchemist at WellBeing Brewing Company.

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Is there a correlation between mental health and craft beer? How can for-profit companies partner with nonprofit organizations to make a difference? Why are breweries the perfect place to start talking about mental health? And why is the nonprofit organization Hope for the Day serving up an IPA recipe on their website? To find out, the Pitcher This! podcast has invited today’s three guests to give us the scoop.

Joel Frieders, Nicole Henzel, and Tom Halaska all come from different companies and backgrounds. They have banded together to create a beer, an ongoing conversation, and a collaboration with their project “Things We Don’t Say: Craft Beer for Mental Health.” You might be wondering how craft beer and mental health go together, and they’re here to tell you everything you need to know.

On this episode of the Pitcher This! podcast, host Darren Fox sits down with Joel Frieders, Nicole Henzel, and Tom Halaska from Hope for the Day, a nonprofit aiming to remove the stigma around mental illness and promote proactive suicide prevention. Joel, Nicole, and Tom discuss their project “Things We Don’t Say: Craft Beer for Mental Health,” how they came together and got the project on its feet, the breweries that are involved, and much more. Stay tuned!