Sarah Fader The Podcast

In this episode, I interview an extremely special person, my dear friend Norb Aikin. He is the first author we published at Eliezer Tristan Publishing. His book 100 is a collection of poems that documents Norb's journey from heartbreak to insanity and finally ending at healing. Get a copy of 100 on Amazon https://amzn.to/2E2CFex As a Buffalonian who transplanted himself to Cortland, NY, Norb Aikin has been able to up his free-verse game in ways he couldn’t have imagined without a change of scenery. He has since won multiple Writing.com Quill awards for poetry and blogging and is now hoping to win over the people who hold actual books. Read more at norbaikin.com, norbaikin.wordpress.com, and by following him at Writing.com and Twitter under the username Fivesixer.

Rudy Caseres and I hung out, talked about bipolar disorder and This is My Brave, which debuts in Los Angeles tomorrow night! Here's more from Rudy. My name is Rudy Caseres. I am an award-winning public speaker, writer, and vlogger who shares his story of living with bipolar and surviving suicide. I have traveled the country to work with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Mental Health America, Project Semicolon, and the American Association of Suicidology. My content has been featured on The Mighty, This is My Brave, OC87 Recovery Diaries, Wear Your Label, Project UROK, Schizophrenic NYC, The S Word, Mad in America, and HealthyPlace. In August 2017 I was awarded Outstanding Peer of the Year by NAMI California and in December 2017 I was selected by The Mighty as one of their Mental Health Heroes of 2017. I was born in and currently reside in San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA. Represented by This is My Brave Speakers Bureau

How Can You Be a Good Friend, When Your Friend Lives with Mental Illness? We all want to be there for our friends, but when your friend lives with mental illness it can be hard to know what to do, especially if you live far apart. Transatlantic best friends Martin Baker and Fran Houston share what they’ve learned about growing a supportive, mutually rewarding friendship between a “well one” and an “ill one.” “High Tide, Low Tide: The Caring Friend’s Guide to Bipolar Disorder” offers no-nonsense advice from the caring friend’s point of view, original approaches and practical tips, illustrated with real-life conversations and examples. No One Is Too Far Away to Be Cared for, or to Care Support your friend and celebrate each other, whether you live on the same street or oceans apart. Learn the key skills and attitudes you need for a successful caring friendship, and strategies to support your friend through episodes of mania, depression, and suicidal thinking, whilst also taking care of yourself.

Vanessa Jane is an International Creative Film Director. The Sydney based artist is best-known for both helping business owners from L.A. to Copenhagen design careers based on their purpose, and tripling their sales through sharing life and business stories on film. Think Humans of New York soul stories on film. But the 40-year old hasn’t always had such creative influence. Her previous life involved more studies and careers you could throw a stick at. Whilst some qualifications markedly quite impressive. And this journey alone directs her passion to spread creativity in the world. Vanessa Jane boasts a Advanced Diploma of Creative Producing, Diploma of Marketing, Arts and Entertainment, a Diploma of Social Science (Psychology) and a Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming to name a few. Just ask her about the link between creativity with mental health, and you’ll see her face come alive. Throughout 2018 Vanessa Jane has plans to exclusively share the power of her work in the International press,

Kelby Carr is a new media innovator with 15+ years of experience in social media content, design, web development, SEO, marketing, email management and community building. Carr facilitated and coordinated online and live brand promotions for dozens of major corporations including YouTube, Disney Parks, Hasbro, Dodge, Johnson & Johnson, CVS, Best Buy, Hallmark, Little Debbie, HP and many more. She’s been interviewed in major publications including Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, NBC and MSNBC. Carr has been coding since 1982, social networking online since 1984, web publishing since 1992, blogging since 2002 and tweeting since 2007. She is the founder of one of the first conferences and online communities for influencers and digital marketers, Type-A Parent, and author of Pinterest For Dummies and Pinterest Marketing For Dummies.

Caitlyn the Intern is a wonderful 18-year-old who has struggled with self-harm and an eating disorder. She talks about attempting suicide at 14 and finding hope after surviving. She is working for Eliezer Tristan Publishing as an editorial intern.

ADHD is weird and it causes us to interrupt each other a lot.

I am sad that Evan is taking a vacation

Someone asked me something inappropriate online and I answered it!

She is a nurse who almost died and many people didn't believe her. Follow her on Twitter @MitochondrialEve

Steven Ratson is a Canadian mental health advocate who is passionate about suicide prevention, due to the loss of his best friend and soulmate Mike. In this episode we dicuss a variety of mental health-related topics, and one of those is his project entitled Couragegram. Listen and learn more. Follow him @StevenRatson

Can people change? Let's find out!

Hilary L. Jastram is the founder of J. Hill Marketing & Creative Services, an agency specializing in premier copywriting, editing and book editing for Fortune 500 brands and the “one-percent,” superstar entrepreneurs. Hilary is an author, editor at The Good Men Project, and contributor to Influencive, The Huffington Post and The Mighty, among other large-scale publications. Hilary is also the founder of Sick Biz, “An organization dedicated to providing support, resources, hacks, and hope to entrepreneurs affected by chronic illness, pain, disability, and sickness.

Sparklle and I talk about weird things including old ladies who are angry and do unpredictable things, ADHD, and passive aggressiveness. We forgot to sing Fiona Apple, but as soon as she gets to Portland it's on!

We talk about OCD of course, generic cheese crackers, compulsive everything and you know, stuff. Cats.

We didn't know what to call this episode. So we chose words that made no sense. We discuss bottled water, which we've probably talked about before, Doritos, cats, what Irish names are hard to pronounce and other things like not burning pasta.

Evan and I talk about emotional unavailability

Evan and I are distracted by bathrooms, selfies, children and getting reprimanded at work. We are excited about Doc Martens!

Michael Shields and I discuss his online magazine Across the Margin, the expression "let me circle back," getting in line or on line, the writing your truth workshop and "on accident" as opposed to "by accident."

Tristan and I talk about LOL, OMG, LMFAO, "u" versus "you," bipolar disorder and anxiety. He's in Brooklyn and I am jealous. Follow him on Twitter @CharmedChancer. He's a Virgo.