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If you've ever attended a training for mental health first aid, suicide prevention, or how to support those who have lost loved ones to suicide, then you’ve most likely met Alice Jordan-Miles. As the Director of Purdue University Fort Wayne’s Behavioral Health and Family Studies Institute, Alice leads out of a passion to help all people understand the importance of standing in the gap for those struggling with mental illness. On this episode of the WIREDx Podcast we get to learn more of Alice’s back story and what motivates her to be a change agent against the stigma of mental health.

Law enforcement is a high stress game. Combine that with providing supportive presence in schools through student resources officers and you have a unique perspective on the front line of teen/adult mental health. For years, Dottie Davis not only served as a female police officer but also led the security needs of Indiana’s largest school district. Clinton had the privilege of interviewing Dottie for this episode of the WIRED Podcast to learn more about her deep passion for mental health stigma reduction.

Leading a church congregation is an amazing feat. Just ask Dave DeSelm, who launched Fellowship Missionary Church in 1982 and saw it grow into the thousands over the decades since. Using 30+ years of leadership experience, Dave has now turned his focus to serving other Pastors to help provide coaching through the struggles, challenges, and mental health needs of these church CEOs. Clinton worked with and for Dave at Fellowship and had the great opportunity to talk to him on the WIRED Podcast about mental health and Pastors today.

When a person’s corporate tile is Chief Culture Officer, you know they’ve been hired to be a change maker. On this episode of the WIRED podcast we learn from “LA”, a beloved leader from 3Rivers Federal Credit Union, as she shares the good and bad about adjusting to working and living amid Covid-19.

Often times we think we know the personalities we see on our television networks. They’re familiar, trusted, and provide us important information to better understand the community we live in. But do we always know what they’re going through when it comes to mental wellness, self care, and how their job as a tv personality affects them? On this episode of the WIRED Podcast, Clinton interviews Heather Herron, a local anchorwoman for many years, and now the Vice President of Corporate Communications at Sweetwater. 

It can be overlooked that leaders need to lead themselves first. Leaders need to be committed to looking inward so that their vulnerability can fuel personal growth and health. On this episode of the WIRED podcast, Donovan Coley, President and CEO of the Fort Wayne Rescue Mission, shares with Clinton how he looked inward to tap into his God given potential.

Have you ever met someone who you immediately connected with? Something they shared with vulnerability created a bridge of friendship that immediately bonded you? Being vulnerable, or transparent, is an amazing way to live a life of freedom from the woes of the world around us. On this episode of the WIRED Podcast Clinton brings one of his closest friends, a transparent and incredibly vulnerable Derek Laliberte, to teach us how to lean into our past to benefit an incredible future.

Teachers have an incredibly stressful job teaching today’s youth. And that stress takes its toll on the overall mental health of this critical group of people. On this episode of the WIRED Podcast, Clinton meets Alan Jones, Principal of Lakeside Middle School, so he could learn more about the overall mental wellness and today’s educators.

Communities are full of leaders making change through their personal stories. They tell us about their past struggles while casting vision for a preferable future. On this episode of the WIRED Podcast, Clinton meets Nick Mehdikhan, President of First Insurance Group, and learns why the topic of mental health is deeply personal to him and how he wants to see change in our world by talking about mental health.

As a leader, Brenda Gerber Vincent, believes she has a responsibility to create, encourage, and be involved in the conversation around mental health. Her gifts and talents as an influencer make her a perfect fit for her role as Vice President of Community and Corporate Impact with Greater Fort Wayne Inc. On the episode of the WIRED Podcast, Clinton has the privilege of hearing how she became so passionate about this topic and what she encourages all of us to do to lower the stigma around mental health.