Hey everybody this is Scott Schimmel the co-host of the Dream Big

podcast with Bob Gaffin Friends. Today's episode is a bit different than the tone that we've been consistent with throughout the show.

This week is National Suicide Prevention Week, which is a really important issue for Bob personally, and something we wanted to specifically

address.

On today's episode, Bob speaks with his good friend Jamie Twerkowski, who you'll probably

know is the founder of an organization called Two Right Love on Her Arms, which is a nonprofit

movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression,

addiction, self-injury, and suicide. They exist to encourage and form, inspire, and

also invest directly into treatment and recovery. If you were someone you're close to is

struggling with sustaining belief in their lives,

this episode is really important and make sure you listen until the end where Jamie offers a number

of resources available to anyone who's feeling overwhelmed by the struggle.

Hey Jamie, thank you so much for being on the podcast with us. How you doing today?

I'm good Bob. I'm honored to be here with you so thanks for having me.

For those of you that are following this is National Suicide Prevention Week, World Suicide Prevention Day, no better friend than Jamie to give some input. One of the things that we've been talking about in this section of the

podcast is the idea of sustaining belief the overarching idea of how do you go after

ambitions pursue opportunities take, expect some setbacks.

And when those setbacks happen, how do you sustain belief?

And so what an appropriate day to ask questions when we hit these different walls in our life when there are so many of us that deal with depression and sometimes some self-harm thoughts,

what are the kinds of things

that we can be thinking about.

And so I just wanted to bring an expert on,

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