Tune in on Wednesday, 9/14/22, at 6:30am EST, for a brand new episode of The Broken Road to Mental Health Show featuring Author & Executive, Nick Jonsson!

Learn more about Nick on his website: https://nickjonsson.com/

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A︎BOUT OUR GUEST:

Nick Jonsson is the co-founder and Managing Director of one of Asia’s premiere networking organizations, Executives’ Global Network (EGN) Singapore — a confidential peer group network providing more than 600 senior executives and business owners a safe haven to share their challenges, receive support, and learn from each other.

His passion for mental health awareness through his life experiences paved the way for Nick to author his first #1 international bestselling book, published in April 2021—”Executive Loneliness: The 5 Pathways to Overcoming Isolation, Stress, Anxiety and Depression in the Modern Business World”.

Nick has been featured in more than 30 newspapers and magazines including a 4-page feature in the Business Times and a full page in the Straits Times, as well as on TV including Channel News Asia (CNA), and is passionate about bringing the discussion to the forefront.

Nick has worked across Asia, Australia and Europe representing major international firms, and is active in charitable and fundraising organizations to give back and support his local community, along with volunteering and fundraising for the Samaritans (SOS) – a suicide prevention hotline in Singapore.

Nick won the Entrepreneurs 100 Award 2021: Singapore’s Emerging Entrepreneurs of the year and was also named one of Asia Pacific’s 50 Leading Lights on World Kindness Day 2021.

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Tune in on Wednesday, 9/7/22, at 6:30am EST, for a brand new episode of The Broken Road to Mental Health Show featuring Drug and Alcohol Attorney, Mark G. Astor.

Mark and his company, Drug and Alcohol Attorneys, are also our new sponsors! Their firm helps those that suffer from substance abuse and mental health disorders clean up the wreckage of their past so they can build a better future.

Find out more about them here: https://drugandalcoholattorneys.com/

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Born and raised in the United Kingdom until the age of twenty-one, Mark has been an attorney since 1994. Before entering private practice, Mark began his legal career as a Palm Beach County Assistant State Attorney, a position he held until 1999. During his career as a Government lawyer, Mark served as Chief of two different County Court Divisions and, thereafter, was promoted to a felony trial division. He has handled thousands of cases ranging from first-degree misdemeanors to Capital Murder.

Mark received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Michigan in 1990, his Juris Doctorate from Nova Southeastern University College of Law in 1994, and his Master of Laws Degree (L.L.M.) from American University, Washington College of Law in 2005.

In February 2016, Mark formed Drug and Alcohol Attorneys (http://drugandalcoholattorneys.com) a concierge service dedicated to help families and individuals suffering from substance use and mental health disorders. Together with his experienced team, and using the tools and resources only available to an experienced practitioner, Mark has been witness to many individuals experience the miracle of recovery.

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When he’s not working in his law practice, Mark empowers members of the community by teaching Krav Maga (the Israeli system of hand to hand taught to the military, special forces, and anti-terror units). He also enjoys an early morning work-out believing that a healthy body leads to a healthy mind.

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Tune in on Wednesday, 8/31/22, at 6:30am EST, for a brand new episode of The Broken Road to Mental Health Show featuring Workplace Mental Health Strategist, Michelle Dickinson.

To find out more about Michelle, click here: https://sociatap.com/michelle_ev/

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A︎BOUT OUR GUEST:

Michelle is a very passionate mental health advocate, a TEDx speaker, and a published author of a memoir entitled Breaking Into My Life. Above all, she is a change maker with mental health experience and a deep commitment to fully empowering people around their wellbeing.

After years of playing the role of caregiver to her mother, Michelle embarked on her own healing journey of self-discovery. Her powerful memoir offers a rare glimpse into a young girl’s experience living with—and loving—her bipolar mother.

She then went on to spend years working to eradicate the mental health stigma within her own workplace by elevating compassion, causing more open conversations, and leading real change in how mental health challenges are understood in the workplace.

Michelle also knows first-hand what it feels like to struggle with her own mental health challenges after experiencing her own depression due to challenging life events.

This has provided her with a rich Trifecta lens on Mental Health. Michelle is deeply committed to positively impacting the mental health landscape and to ending the suffering in silence dynamic that prevents so many from getting care.

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Tune in on Wednesday, 8/24/22, at 6:30am EST, for a brand new episode of The Broken Road to Mental Health Show featuring Professional Mental Health Interventionist, Evan Jarschauer, of Behavioral Help Solutions.

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Evan is an internationally recognized expert in providing professional mental health intervention services for complex co-occurring disorder cases. He is a licensed psychotherapist, qualified clinical supervisor, master certified addiction professional with international credentials, and a certified intervention professional. But most of all, he is passionate about his work and the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of all those impacted by mental illness & substance abuse.

From boardrooms in the Big Apple to casino floors in Vegas, all the way to the set of Keeping Up with the Kardashians in Calabasas, Evan has conducted hundreds of successful interventions all over the country for the past 20 years.

Evan specializes in creating comprehensive intervention solutions that effectively break through seemingly impenetrable walls of resistance, denial, manipulation, and even bureaucratic red tape by focusing on the underlying issues impairing a person's ability to function independently.

​Evan began his career working as an outreach counselor in community mental health helping families in crisis successfully comply with drug, family, & criminal court‑mandated counseling & case management orders. As a result, early in his career, Evan recognized the impact of being able to bring both mental health & substance abuse services out of the classical office setting and directly into the homes of all those battling depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, trauma, schizophrenia, and substance abuse.

Evan completed his internship in mental health counseling at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital while receiving his clinical addiction training at the Hazelden School for Addiction Studies. He is a Licensed Psychotherapist, Master Certified Addiction Professional, and Certified Intervention Professional. Evan is also a proud graduate of the Emergency Medical Technician program at Miami Dade College. Evan has appeared as a special guest on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Genuinely GG from The Shahs of Sunset, Crime Time with Dr. Debbie, The Bill Cunningham Show, ABC, NBC & CBS News, and The Huffington Post while lecturing for organizations including, The United Way, The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and Nova Southeastern University. Evan has recently experienced a dramatic surge in his caseload directly related to the impact of the pandemic, prescription medications, marijuana, and social media. He now looks forward to sharing his experience, insight, and message of hope as we all learn to recover together with dignity.

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Tune in on Wednesday, 8/17/22, at 6:30am EST, for a brand new episode of The Broken Road to Mental Health Show Founder and CEO for EmpowHERment, Ambee Stephens.

In this episode, Sharon and Ambee discuss the loneliness of healing and Ambee explains the "wet bandaid" we put over our emotional scars.

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A︎BOUT OUR GUEST:

Ambee Stephens is the Founder and CEO of EmpowHERment, a women's community center committed to helping women rise through support services, support groups, and empowerment workshops. Stephens is passionate about the mission of EmpowHERment, "Wanting to be empowered and around like-minded women is reason enough." Stephens hopes to build a relationship with women that will serve as raw, long-lasting relationships with transparency and resilience at the core.

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Tune in on Wednesday, 8/10/22, at 6:30am EST, for a brand new episode of The Broken Road to Mental Health Show featuring Mindset Coach, Luke Harlan!

Visit Luke's website here: www.lukeharlancoaching.com

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ABOUT LUKE:

For over twenty years across multiple industries and disciplines, Luke Harlan has served his clients and community as a leader, coach, consultant, mentor, speaker, and trainer.

Luke absolutely believes in the untapped potential and greatness that resides in all of us. He is obsessed with helping those ready for more to embrace their true potential with the necessary insights, clarity and key mindset shifts so they can live the life of their dreams.

As a Transformational Speaker, Luke blends his creativity, humor & real world experience with absolute candor and compassion to awaken, inspire and empower his audiences.

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Tune in on Wednesday, 8/3/22 at 6:30am EST, for a brand new episode of The Broken Road to Mental Health Show featuring a solo chat with your host, Sharon Fekete.

Sharon hosts one episode per month of the show completely S-O-L-O.

That's right—NO guests!

THIS upcoming episode is that episode for the month of August. It is titled, "August 11th marks 28 miraculous years of sobriety."

LINK MENTIONED IN SHOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtIZZs-GAOA

We'd like to thank The TMS Advantage and TieTechnology for sponsoring the show.

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Tune in on Wednesday, 7/27/22, at 6:30am EST, for a brand new episode of The Broken Road to Mental Health Show featuring the Founder of ClearPath Mental Health Services, Tamara Glynn, LCSW.

Please join us in welcoming Tamara BACK to the show! In this episode, we focus on all things mental health RESOURCES!

Visit ClearPath Health's website to learn more: clearpathhealthllc.com

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Tamara Glynn is a Cuban native who came to the US at the age of 15 and worked hard to learn English quickly so she could attend college. She was the Valedictorian of her class and won a full paid scholarship to Boston University. She became a social worker because she was determined to help people. Tamara has been a social worker for 29 years and has a master’s in business administration degree. Tamara has been working in many different settings during her career including outpatient clinics, home based services, targeted case managers, crisis mobile team, crisis stabilization units, partial hospitalization program and a residential program.

Tamara founded ClearPath Health in March of 2021. ClearPath provides outpatient mental health services to children and adults. These services are provided in the clients' homes, via teletherapy, and at our locations (Clearwater and Port Saint Lucie). ClearPath Health provides individual, family and group mental health therapy and medications for symptoms of mental illness.

The goal for ClearPath Health is to be the best mental health agency in Florida by providing quality care for their clients while treating their staff well and giving back to the community. Tamara is passionate about community service, especially the under-served minority communities that silently struggles with mental illness. Tamara hopes to grow to many clinics all around Florida and serve as many clients as possible in the quickest most effective ways by training her clinicians in the latest treatments.

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Tune in on Wednesday, 7/20/22, at 6:30am EST, for a brand new episode of The Broken Road to Mental Health Show featuring Dr. Katherine Rizzo of The TMS Advantage.

TMS Advantage offers a program found nowhere else in the area – they combine the most sophisticated technology available with cognitive behavioral therapy and personal care (nutrition, mindfulness, and movement) – to provide you with the best possible treatment so you can finally live your life to its fullest.

Learn more on their website: https://www.thetmsadvantage.com/

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ABOUT OUR GUEST:

Katherine R. Rizzo, DO, has graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in Microbiology and Cell Science and from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Rizzo served as Chief Resident of the University of South Florida Psychiatry Residency Program. She has a particular interest in Integrative Psychiatry (a holistic approach that utilizes both conventional and complementary therapies in the treatment of psychiatric disorders) and completed a distance education program with the University of Arizona on Integrative Medicine in Psychiatry.

At the University of South Florida, Dr. Rizzo served on the following professional committees: USF Psychiatry Resident and Medical Student Education Committee, University Psychiatry Center Benzodiazepine Review Committee, USF Grand Rounds Subcommittee, and the USF Recruitment Committee.

Dr. Rizzo has worked at Gracepoint Wellness Center as well as volunteered at USF Bridge Clinic. Her professional affiliations include the American Psychiatric Association, American Medical Association, and the American Osteopathic Association.

Dr. Rizzo has been certified in NeuroStar Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) since August 2019.

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Tune in on Wednesday, 7/13/22, at 6:30am EST, for a brand new episode of The Broken Road to Mental Health Show featuring TedX speaker, Sybil Stanonis.

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ABOUT OUR GUEST:

Dancing since the age of 5, Sybil's first love was tap. Taking classes and competing with top level recognition in tap, ballet and jazz throughout childhood; she knew dance was a passion. Her competition success brought her by invite across Russia (Leningrad, Minsk, Moscow ) and Denmark (Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen).

Her professional credits include 2 seasons as a NFL Cheerleader for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers which involved promotional work and community events. While pursuing & completing her degree in psychology at State University of New York (SUNY) Old Westbury she continued dance by adding to her professional credits dancing with the Knicks City Dancers summer dance events, coaching high school cheerleading and performing with the Fred Astaire Dance Troupe on Long Island, NY.

Moving to Florida and starting a family has shifted Sybil's dance career to instruction/dance therapy.  The curriculum Sybil developed from her education, dance expertise & life experience offers a creative and therapetic approach that teaches skills to last a lifetime. DTWS is currently offered in studio and public & private schools, virtual and also at your location site for team building experiences.

Dance Therapy with Sybil, Inc. is a patch partner with Girl Scouts of West Central Florida & community partner with numerous organizations.  Sybil & her students students perform for various charity events around the Tampa Bay Area including Wounded Warriors Benefit, Hillsborough County Anti-Drug Alliance, Drug Free America Foundation, Drug Enforcement Administration, Central Florida Behavioral Health Network, & American Lung Association.

Sybil also stays active with the Tampa Bay Buccaneer Cheerleader Alumni & NFL Alumni through performances and community events.

Sybil is an official Tedx speaker sharing her speech "Dancing through the Darkness with Pivots to your Purpose" with inspiration, motivation & movement.

"To Me dancing is a beautiful way of expressing your thoughts, emotions and feelings through movement of our body...There is never any judgement on my dance floor...and it will forever be a part of my journey we call life."

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