Finding Mental Wellness with Tipper Gore

Live Happy Now

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Tipper Gore stepped into the spotlight as wife of Al Gore, who would go on to become vice president and then a presidential candidate. During her time at the White House, Tipper focused much of her energy on bringing awareness to mental health issues. Today, she continues to work on initiatives to help give a voice to those who are affected by anxiety and depression and to help create more understanding about those conditions.

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0:00.0	When it comes to the pursuit of happiness, depression can create an incredible challenge for many people.
0:06.2	Find out why talking about it is the first step.
0:09.1	You can't pray your way out of it.
0:10.7	You can't pull yourself up by the bootstraps.
0:13.3	I mean, you have to realize it's a health issue.
0:16.3	Hello, this is Jeff Sanders, and welcome back to another episode of the Live Happy Now podcast.
0:21.8	Today's podcast is brought to you by IV Audio Branding, a Nashville-based audio consultancy firm
0:28.1	that provides strategic audio branding for a wide range of global agencies and brands.
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0:38.2	As second lady during the Clinton administration, Tipper Gore made it her mission to bring awareness to mental health challenges and to disarm the stigma that goes with them.
0:48.1	Today she has renewed the effort and Live Happy Science Editor Paula Phelps, talk with Tipper about how her own experiences
0:55.0	have made her committed to helping others find the support they need.
0:59.0	Tipper, we are so excited to have you on Live Happy Now, and you're here in Nashville for a visit,
1:06.0	and you're here for Tennessee Voices for Children, which is an organization that you chaired
1:10.0	and helped organize back in the 80s.
1:12.1	And I thought it was really significant that you felt back then that it was so important to
1:16.3	emphasize children's mental health at a time when that wasn't a big focus.
1:19.9	Can you explain what prompted you to organize Tennessee Voices for Children?
1:25.1	Well, thank you. I'm so happy to be here and to be with you today,
1:29.3	Paula, and I will be happy to explain why we founded Tennessee Voices for Children. I've certainly,
1:36.6	like many people, had a lot of challenges in my life, and one of them was when our six-year-old
1:41.7	son was hit by an automobile and was hospitalized for about a month.
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