Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.

My guest on today's podcast is my longtime friend, Braden Orgo.

Welcome to the podcast, Braden.

Thanks for having me. I'm thrilled to be here.

Just to give you a little background on what we're going to talk about,

we're going to talk about, we're going to talk

about Braden's journey after a wonderful mission to a really dark place where for a couple

years he was thinking pretty consistently about self-harm and suicide. And we'll talk about

kind of what got him there, and then we'll talk about a lunch he had with the dear friend Doug Cartwright. That really changed his narrative and was the key pivot point

for him moving into a much better space, which he is. So if you're suicidal, if you feel like

as you flew home for your mission and then what's become of your life since your mission is not

what you hoped it would be. Or if you're trying to help somebody who's in a dark spot or a

difficult spot, Braden has a story to tell and he's sharing it openly and publicly. And I think it

will help you. I'll just read a tweet. Braden has been with me on Twitter since high school.

He's one of the, when I started my Twitter account, it was to talk,

it was to interact with the Cotwood High School students,

and I used to tweet out the morning weather report.

And that was the focus of my social media a while ago.

But Braden's been with me on Twitter, and I'll read his tweet from

September 25th of 2020. One year ago on this day, I was researching how to make my suicide

look like an accident. Today I woke up next to my wife, played with my daughter, wrote a few chapters in my book, and had a coaching call with

one of my students and launched my new YouTube series. And then I'll talk more about that in this.

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