Taking Charge of Your Mental Health w/ Ross Szabo
January 3, 2023
Hosted by Chris Meek
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Episode Description
Thank you for joining Next Steps Forward as we launch into 2023 with a continued commitment to helping improve your wellbeing, become even more empowered and achieve more than you ever thought possible. As always, it's an honor and a pleasure to have you with us again! Our guest this week is Ross Szabo, co-author of the book "Behind Happy Faces: Taking Charge of Your Mental Health" and author of "The Kids Book About Anxiety." As the wellness director at Geffen Academy at UCLA, Ross is working on changing the way students learn about their mental health in grades six through 12. His company, Human Power Project, has developed a curriculum used by more than a quarter-million people of all ages. He is also one of the most sought-after mental health speakers in the country. Host Chris Meek is pleased to welcome Ross Szabo to the program's first installment of 2023 for an important conversation on mental health, wellness, empowerment and so much more!
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Chris Meek
Chris Meek believes in the American spirit of individual empowerment and service to others, especially those who have sacrificed for our freedoms. As someone who lived through the horrors of Ground Zero on 9/11, Chris had no way home but to join others as they put one foot in front of the other to make their way forward. Since that day, Chris has committed himself to empowering and motivating fellow Americans to keep taking steps forward, no matter what life throws their way.
Chris has spent the last decade serving as the co-founder and chairman of the national nonprofit SoldierStrong, which is dedicated to helping military veterans take their next steps forward. SoldierStrong carries out its mission by providing revolutionary medical technology to VA medical centers, including exoskeleton suits to help paralyzed veterans walk again and virtual reality equipment to help treat post-traumatic stress.
He also serves as an advisor on the President’s Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End a National Tragedy of Suicide (PREVENTS) task force. In this role, he shares a responsibility to raise awareness about mental health, facilitate research and define a plan to prevent suicide. In 2020, Chris launched ReachStrong, a nonprofit aimed at empowering all Americans to care for their overall well-being. Chris is also a financial services executive at S and P Global, Inc, in New York City. He and his wife, Christine, have three children.
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