Checking In w/ Joe Barksdale
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Michelle and Joe are keeping it real. Joe discusses being diagnosed with Autism as an adult, leaving the NFL to focus on his music career and the need for folks to be comfortable with telling the truth about how they feel. CHECK IN to this episode if your answer to the question “how are you?” is always “I’m good!”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, a production of IHeart Radio and the Black Effect. |
| 0:10.6 | If you or someone you love is thinking about suicide or you're worried about a friend or a loved one, and you'd like some emotional support. |
| 0:21.7 | I want you to know that the Lifeline Network is available 24-7 across the United States. |
| 0:28.1 | So please call or chat the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. |
| 0:59.6 | Hey, y'all. This conversation is going to be incredible with someone phenomenal. |
| 1:06.0 | His name is Joe Barksdale, former NFL player, who is just now a full-time writer and artist, |
| 1:07.1 | mental health advocate. |
| 1:11.9 | He just was diagnosed with autism literally a couple years ago in his adulthood. |
| 1:21.5 | So get ready. Really, really, really, please zoom in for this conversation with Joe Barksdale. |
| 1:33.2 | Everybody, I am so happy, so thrilled and so honored to have someone who is such a vocal advocate for mental health awareness autism education wonderful singer artist musician and yes he also happened to be |
| 1:42.2 | in the NFL please welcome welcome Joe Barksdale. |
| 1:47.1 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:48.7 | Of course. |
| 1:49.9 | Y'all, we were talking about something about his friends. |
| 1:53.7 | So Nick Nigel and Chris, I just want to give y'all a shout out. |
| 1:58.0 | I actually have an ex by the name of Chris. |
| 2:00.5 | So Chris, I don't know you might |
| 2:02.0 | not be in the running but i wanted to shout y'all out at the top of this episode and maybe we'll |
| 2:12.6 | have to bring the three of y'all back with your friend jo. I want to see three stars like dudes from Detroit. |
| 2:18.8 | Yeah, you do that. |
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