Ep 135. Politics, Anxiety and Sci-Fi with State Representative Mike Schlossberg
Not Another Anxiety Show
Kelli Walker
4.8 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Join Kelli and PA State Representative Mike Schlossberg as they talk politics, anxiety and a healthy dose of Sci Fi! Find Mike's upcoming book here: https://www.amazon.com/Redemption-Spades-Trilogy-Book-1-ebook/dp/B07C7M8WT8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526997216&sr=8-1&keywords=mike+schlossberg+redemption
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, guys, welcome to not another anxiety show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and joining me today is guest Mike Schlossberg. Am I saying that right, Mike? |
| 0:19.3 | You got it. Yes, I was watching too. |
| 0:24.0 | Anyway, thanks so much for happening on the show, Mike. My pleasure and thanks for having me. |
| 0:28.4 | Now, do you mind if I share a little bit more about you with the listeners? No, please, of course. Perfect. |
| 0:32.8 | Mike Schlossberg has been a writer since he wrote his first short story in eighth grade, a Star Wars fan |
| 0:38.9 | fiction. While he claims it was terrible, the creative passion followed him into adulthood. |
| 0:44.2 | Serving as a state representative in Pennsylvania, Mike has had the chance to make a difference. |
| 0:48.7 | The problem closest to his heart is mental health, where he strives to break the stigma |
| 0:52.2 | surrounding those who suffer for mental illnesses and give them hope. For Mike, the issue is personal, and he has been treated for depression |
| 0:58.8 | and anxiety-related disorder since he was 18. And you can find more about Mike over at Mike Schlaasberg |
| 1:04.6 | author.com. Is that right? You got it. You got it. Perfect. So, Mike, you are a politician that writes sci-fi. |
| 1:12.9 | I am. |
| 1:13.1 | Don't hold it against me. |
| 1:14.8 | That right sci-fi, though. |
| 1:16.3 | I mean, I thought you had to be a stuffy old man to be a politician. |
| 1:20.6 | One of the pleasant surprises about my job has been, and it's something that I didn't realize until I really got into it, that the vast majority of us are actually nice, normal human beings. There's not quite as many geeks as I wish |
| 1:34.3 | there were, so I'm a little bit of an outlier in that regard. I will admit that much. But most |
| 1:39.3 | of us are normal people who have a wide array of passions that don't involve hurting others. |
| 1:45.5 | Right. That's, you know, kind of branch out to outside of politics, I'm guessing. So you |
| 1:49.7 | are people. Yes. Yeah. And that's a difficult thing to push across to folks sometimes. But we're |
| 1:55.3 | definitely, I don't think most politicians are any different than anybody else. We do our job. |
| 2:04.8 | We want to go home, see our families, and try to make as much positive difference in the world as possible. |
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