HEADSTRONG: Ted Leonsis on mental health, suicide awareness and the modern athlete
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NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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In this special "Headstrong" edition of Capitals Talk, Ted Leonsis joins Chris Miller for an in-depth interview about the issues of mental health and suicide awareness in light of the current environment we're all living in, particularly with today's athletes and those who play for his teams. For more of NBC Sports Washington's series on men's and mental health, "Headstrong", go to nbcsportswashington.com/headstrong.
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| 0:00.0 | Throughout |
| 0:00.8 | It's |
| 0:04.0 | He's coming to |
| 0:05.0 | Washington |
| 0:19.0 | Throughout the month of Washington |
| 0:20.0 | Throughout the month of January coming to Washington. |
| 0:30.1 | Throughout the month of January, NBC Sports Washington is putting the spotlight on men's mental health in a project called Headstrong. |
| 0:38.7 | Recently, Chris Miller had a long discussion with Caps owner Ted Leonis, who has recently been outspoken about suicide awareness, mental health in the current global environment and what he's observed about his players and athletes everywhere. |
| 0:43.5 | Here's the conversation. |
| 0:44.8 | It's Headstrong, a series on men's health in this edition of Capitals Talk. |
| 0:51.1 | Ted, it's good to see you. |
| 0:53.0 | Under these strange 2020 circumstances. |
| 0:56.0 | I'd love to be face to face with you, but I guess we'll do the virtual thing to close out 2020. |
| 1:02.0 | I want to start with the article that I thought Beres for Luga did a great job with you of really articulating |
| 1:09.0 | how you're feeling these days and just some of the emotions |
| 1:11.9 | you've gone through with friends of yours that have committed suicide. But there was something |
| 1:16.8 | in the piece that really resonated with me about asking people when you see them, like for the |
| 1:23.1 | first time in the day, how are you doing? And I thought your response was very interesting. Can you speak |
| 1:29.2 | on that of just how like a term like that, hey, how you doing? How it doesn't really resonate |
| 1:35.3 | with people? Yeah, I think that we're really not being mindful of our relationships, especially those within our community. |
| 1:48.1 | And we should just assume that no one's doing well. |
| 1:53.1 | It's a degree of how will we get through this. |
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