What's up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls around the world?

I'd like to welcome you back to the Real Talk with Zubi podcast.

On today's episode, we're going to be discussing a very important and heavy topic.

And I'm going to be speaking to a Canadian veteran, an author, and a podcaster.

And this is Kelsey Sherin. Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, man. It's nice

after we met very briefly at Rescue of the Republic. It was nice to be able to connect with you.

No doubt. Well, Kelsey, I've done a very brief intro there, but for my audience who don't know you

and what you're all about, please introduce yourself. So my name is Kelsey Sharon. I am a Canadian

combat veteran, but I served alongside the Americans and the

British in the war in Afghanistan. I was injured in 2009, and I started my more suicide prevention

advocacy type work in 2015 with my company Brassin Unity, which then very quickly exploded into

one of the most globally recognized jewelry brands around spent bullet casings and

recycling and helping our veteran population across the globe in every different nation handle

things like PTSD and traumatic brain injury. After that, I very quickly wrote a book about my life

as there's not a ton of female operations individuals who have done stuff on the front lines at the

time. So I did that and I started my podcast in 2020 called the Kelsey Sharon Perspective

where we've been covering stories of resiliency and then have slowly started to pivot into more of

the subjects that I find deeply alarming towards the globe and subjects that I find,

kind of that are in the dark that people don't want to look at.

And I try to package them into really digestible forms so that people can not only educate themselves,

but not necessarily sensationalize themselves or put themselves into a left-right bracket,

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