Good Morning Nashville ☀️

IT IS MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH! 🚨

Every month is a month that we try to push hard behind mental health, but in May? We have to make sure that we are next level with every episode, every guest, and any part of what we do for the month. May will debut our season/series titled “My Mental Matters in May.” Like last year, this season is to truly center in on what mental health means to our community by way of inviting guests that aren’t all black men. May is a month where we want to embrace all ethnicities, genders, and cultures in our own way. Expect this month to be filled with diversity, different perspectives, and an overall twist to how we do our week-to-week content. Let’s get into this weeks episode. 🔥

It is never fun to be in the middle of a mental health crisis, and not know who to call, what to do, or where to go. NAMI Davidson County is just one of a few chapters here in Tennessee, but they are an organization that has worked effortlessly to ensure when there is a mental health need, they come first to render service when it’s needed. We take some time to sit down with the Chief Program Officer of NAMI Davidson County, Mr. Don Loiacano ⭐️

Don vents about how he has been dealing with his own mental health struggles for the last 40 years, and truly comes to speak to us about his lived experiences behind managing his mental health throughout his life. We highlight NAMI as a whole, talk about the NAMIWalks Nashville event, and Don talks to our audience more about how NAMI began and what they do. 💫

Don is a proud dad, and talks about how tough it can be at times navigating a mental health crisis while still trying to be a parent. We don’t talk about how hard it is as an adult to manage your own mental health issues, then learn that your child may have a diagnoses, and now have to help them manage theirs too. Don is very vocal in our episode about his diagnosis of OCD, Depression, & Anxiety. Take some time today to listen in to Don’s story and how daily he does the best he can to not be defined by his diagnosis, but using his diagnosis and story to help the next person overcome what he has thus far. 🙏🏽

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Good Morning Nashville ☀️

Another week means another episode from your favorite father and son podcast! Let’s get into today’s episode as we allow another black man to vent today on our platform.

We’ve said this before … but we honor our guests and never allow them to feel less than, or beneath us based on their stories told on the show. Not too many platform lead with this type of intention, which is what makes us who we are as a father and son show.

With that … we are excited to introduce to some, and present to others a very well known face in the media industry. This brother has been in the same rooms as Young Buck, Starlito, Quanie Cash, “Bubbadub” the comedian, even Jay-Z and more! We want to welcome our good friend and brother, Mr. “If You Alive Subscribe” himself, Ricky Robinson to the BMVT platform. ✌🏽

One thing about Ricky is that he has no problem “venting”, and speaking his mind on certain topics and things that occur in our community. In this episode, we open up a lot of dialogue surrounding his imprisonment and the lasting effects that experience had on him at a young age, parenting and how he aims to regain a relationship with his daughter, the black media presence in Nashville, and even pays homage to his grandmother who influenced Ricky in a many of ways. When asked what Ricky wanted to vent about on the show, he took that time to hold himself accountable to a mistake made on his own well-known platform, the “If You Alive Subscribe” Show. One thing about myself and my pops, we don’t “create” questions for any of our guest. Instead, we allow the energy and presence of God to put every piece of the conversation together as best as we can. And today’s episode did just that, talking with Ricky, and allowing him to both vent, and apologize to someone he felt he needed to address publicly. A lot packed into this episode, more of a reason why you should take some time to listen to a black man vent today.

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Good Morning Nashville ☀️

Once again we are beyond excited to bring to you a new episode of the FIRST & ONLY black father and son podcast in the state of Tennessee. Don’t get tired of us yet, because we don’t plan on going anywhere no time soon! Let’s get into today’s episode as we allow another black man to vent today on our platform.

Man, what a story do we have for you today being told by this young man. Our platform truly embraces the concept of a “NO JUDGEMENT ZONE.” Not too many media platforms can say that, but we honor our guests and never allow them to feel less than, or beneath us based on their stories told on the show.

With that … we are excited to introduce to some, and present to others our brother and talented rap artist here in Nashville, Mr. Elton Maupins. ⭐️ Elton, also known by his stage name “Gvoice32”, grew up in Doge City, and his story truly speaks on how God can bring you from “poverty through perseverance.”

Elton vents with us today about being diagnosed at an early age with PTSD schizophrenia, and how hard it was to be told these things at a young age … not knowing what they meant or how it would effect him later in life. He admits to having a troubled life, but tells us that often times, kids have to play the hand that is dealt to them. Elton talks about how all he knew was the streets, because that was all his environment was. Venting with us about what comes with the street life, Elton knew as he got older that if he stayed there … he wouldn’t make it out. 🙏🏽

We want to pay respects to his brother, 🕊️ may he continue to rest well. There is more behind this … as we unpack through conversation the overall success story that is Elton Maupins ⭐️

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