This is The Hilarious Humanitarians podcast with Deanna Silverman, LCSW, creator of the

hilarious humanitarian Instagram page, with her co-host, Aaron Pruitt, intuitive life coach.

Here we will be discussing mental health, navigating difficult discussions, finding our

connection to each other, ourselves, and uncovering

our strength, our voice, and never forgetting to laugh.

The information shared in this podcast is not a substitute for seeking help from the licensed

mental health professional.

Hi, friends.

Welcome back to the hilarious humanitarian podcast.

This week we have a very special guest

billy lee hi hi welcome welcome so before we get into who billy lee is and why we're here

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So I wanted to start off because we haven't done it in a while, our trending topic.

Yesterday I saw something really cool online.

It was sober bars popping up like across the nation.

I think the one that I saw was actually in Austin, Texas, which doesn't surprise me too much because Austin is quite progressive. I freaking love that city. Have you guys ever been? I haven't yet. No, I haven't and I've heard that it's because I do want to like, I'm trying to develop a, well, a few of my friends are, we're trying to develop a town hall meeting in Texas and I haven't been. I'm like, I need to go. Texas,

started up. My best friend lives in Texas, but in a city that's, I think, quite conservative.

Like, I just feel like the surrounding areas of Texas, not to like talk shit about them or anything,

but it's just conservative kind of red state. And then Austin is just

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