Straight Talk With Selom

SURPRISE!!! Happy Juneteenth brothers and sisters. This is our freedom day!! Go out and celebrate! Black Power! Black Pride! Black Excellence!

With everything going on right now, stress is rampant. We need to know how to take care of ourselves before we let another thing kill us. Today's episode we will talk about how to handle stress.

Trigger Warning: suicide
I will talk about statistics about mental health and if that makes you uncomfortable the time stamp is 8:30-9:10.

Please skip to 9:10 to avoid the mental health statistics please!

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We're all in this together right? Then why can't we act like it? In this episode I'm going to give it to you straight about how to use your voice to fight for the cause. 

What's Up Everyone! My name is Selom. I'm a 20 year old college student studying to become a doctor. I am also an activist, so I'm trying to help the world in more ways that one. I came upon this idea when I was in an Organic Chemistry Final Review Session and my professor's WiFi died. It was just me and 80 other students in a Zoom Meeting and we said, "Let's talk about what's going on right now in the world." It was powerful. I realized that this is what I can do to help the community. I'm going to use my voice for those who can't and we will all learn something along the way. Join me. I can't wait to see where this takes us.

Offset said, "They do anything for clout". The Black Lives Matter Movement is not exempt from this either. Today Imma give it to y'all straight about how some of your intentions behind the movement aren't what they seem to be.