Healing Together ~ Guest, Eric Kussin

Healing Together ~ Guest, Eric Kussin

 

Let’s Talk Wellness ~ with Host, Mara James

Do mental health issues really have to separate us from each other?  Mara welcomes Eric Kussin this week, and he says “absolutely not”.  And he is on a mission to inspire people to come together and share their mental health challenges, to help each other heal.

Eric Kussin is an 19-year professional sports executive, who got his start at the NBA League Office. After five years with the League, he went the team business route and rose the ranks with the expansion Chicago Sky, Phoenix Suns. He then switched over to the NHL, working with the New Jersey Devils and Florida Panthers.  However, a debilitating mental health crisis stopped Eric’s career and life in its tracks for over two and a half years.

After many failed treatment modalities, Eric was lucky enough to learn healing practices that enabled him to dig out of his abyss, and found a higher calling, launching a non-profit at the end of 2017 called, We’re All a Little “Crazy,” The Global Mental Health Alliance.

The Alliance is comprised of athletes and celebrities, along with media members, expert practitioners, advocates, and everyday heroes who’ve come together to make talking about mental health a common topic for “5 out of 5” of us. Their #SameHere Movement has swept across college campuses in the US from Cornell to USC, K-12’s, Corporate Offices from CNBC to JP Morgan Chase, and Professional Sports Teams from the LA Clippers to the New York Mets in just over two years.

The Movement has recently begun to expand globally as well, with events in markets outside of the US.  To “keep his foot in sports,” Eric consults for a number of professional sports teams and leagues, guiding their ticket and sponsorship sales and retention efforts.

Learn more about Eric and his work at https://samehereglobal.org/

On Facebook @SameHereGlobal - https://www.facebook.com/SameHereGlobal

Instagram and Twitter @SameHere_Global  

And on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-kussin-5010a37/

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"Let's Talk Wellness" was inspired by the desire to share the HUGS for Life Healing Center with the world! The mission of the HUGS center is to bridge the gap between medical professionals and approved holistic healers. Extraordinary Lives Foundation is excited to share the many amazing healers and practitioners that are part of the HUGS  center as an invitation to change the ideas and conversations around mental health.

To learn more about ELF and the HUGS for Life Healing Center: https://www.elfempowers.org/​​ 

 

**Note - These conversations are for informational purposes and not intended as medical diagnosis or assessment of medical condition. The ideas and experiences discussed by our participants in this show are their own, and are shared to offer information and educational references.

 

So Grateful for the music for this podcast, from Asepirawan20 via Pixabay - https://pixabay.com/users/asepirawan2...​ 

And from Kevin MacLeod via FreePD.com - https://freepd.com/