INTERVIEW: Shanti Das Talks ‘Silence The Shame’ Day, Navigating Grief, The Importance Of Funding Mental Health Initiatives + More
The Breakfast Club
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Today on The Breakfast Club, Shanti Das Talks ‘Silence The Shame’ Day, Navigating Grief, The Importance Of Funding Mental Health Initiatives. Listen For More!
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| 1:11.0 | You're finished or or y'all's done Morning everybody It's DJ NV J's hilarious Sholamine the guy We are the breakfast Club We got a special guest in the building Yes indeed Today is Silence the Shame Day Ladies and gentlemen We have Shant Hey. How are you feeling? I'm feeling good. I got a lot to talk about, though. But first, I just want to say this is my ninth time recording, the Breakfast Club, for Silence to Shame and the 10th time because y'all had me on to talk about my grief guy two years ago. So it's like my 10 year anniversary, too, for being on the breakfast club. So thank y'all. Now, how are you feeling? You kind of studded for a second. So it's like my 10 year anniversary too for being on the breakfast club. So thank y'all. Now how are you feeling you kind of studded for a second? So you know I'm at a |
| 1:16.4 | point especially from a mental health perspective where I keep it real even I saw you at the |
| 1:20.9 | accelerate her conference and congratulations but you know ladies were coming up to me saying how are |
| 1:24.9 | you doing it? I'm like it's tough right now and so what should be celebratory for 10 years of doing this work, being on the front lines, |
| 1:32.9 | we lost $600,000 of funding two weeks ago. Wow. What happened? We lost state funding, and we |
| 1:40.5 | weren't really given a reason. We were just told it was cutbacks, And so we know that some of the state funding comes from federal, but then it trickles down. |
| 1:49.3 | But to do that to us when we were in the middle of programs, we just graduated our third cohort for our Silence to Shame University initiative, which is our college leadership program. |
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