#096 Getting your voice heard when it matters. With Natalie Torres-Haddad

None Of Your Business with Robert DeLude

you know, I never knew how many privilege I knew. I was always very privileged because I've been really fortunate most of my life. And when I, when I travel when I lived in a different country, that's how also I was reminded how privileged I am to being an American citizen, being, you know, being brought up here. I was pretty much raised here. I was a baby when my parents came to the States. But I think what we recognize that, you know, it's kind of that, oh my gosh, like, how can we do our best to hopefully be more compassionate, hopefully to see ourselves in their place, especially right now a mental health is month of May, right mental health awareness and more and more when I talk about it, it becomes an issue where I think sometimes people think they'll use a phrase So that person is crazy. Like First of all, you don't know what they're going through, you don't know what their past you don't know their if they have any mental illnesses that they're dealing with anything that's tragic life changing. And the fact that I can hopefully do my best to try to one I'll never understand perfectly what they're going through that I know that I can say, you know what, there's resources for you. I'm here if you just need to listen, I'm also learning as I go with you, because there's moments that I've caught myself saying something like I still hate it when people are like, Oh, so and so's bipolar. And I know they're doing it as a joke. And I'm like, first of all, you don't know bipolar people. You don't know what that means. If you don't know what triggers You know, that's another issue, right? And so, a lot of the negative stigma within our cultures need to change our the way we talk about it the way we have these conversations, and I'm still learning and there's still moments where I'm like, Hmm, maybe I could have been more sensitive to that. Or, you know, when you see someone that's homeless, you just said you are homeless. You have a totally different perspective, right. I met people too, that this one lady, hearing her story she was homeless and she never thought she'd be homeless. She was Canadian. And she was in her 50s with a 15 year old daughter and her both her parents at passage had no family here in the States. And she got cancer and during her treatments, obviously she could no longer work because she was so sick, that they lost their place their home and so she said she was going to chemo, radiation, chemo weekly, I believe I forget how often, but the fact that she ended up living in her car with her daughter. And then luckily she found this program, a nonprofit that I'm a big supporter of called the St. Margaret center and changed her life to help her and all this up but she thought she said she used to think homeless people were either sick or drug addicts or something. She said I could never imagine me this, you know, white woman and, and all of a sudden, she can no longer work and afford to pay her bills and you know, living at a car with her daughter. And so those things that really changed her perspective, I think all of us can have some kind of compassion, whether we can you know, xantham what they went through www.Eastcoasttags.com @eastcoasttags.com NOYB or Noneofyourbusiness promo code 10% off @Financiallysavvylatina www.Finaciallysavvyin20minutes.com @robert_delude --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noneofyourbusiness/support