Asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness even if you feel completely alone.

In Episode 2 of LEVERAGE™: Do the Right Thing, Stephen Martin James Turner records on Christmas Eve with a “weird” voice — and he doesn’t hide why. This is not an AI voice. This is his actual voice… fresh out of an NHS dental filling, stuck on soft food at the worst possible time of year.

And then the camera pulls back.

Alone at Christmas, silence can start to feel like evidence. Not proof of anything — just loud. Your brain offers bargains. Your chest gets heavy. The world feels like it’s watching.

So Stephen reaches for the tool MABLE helped him remember: the circles.

• ​Concern: what hurts, what matters, what’s bigger than you.
• ​Influence: what you can nudge, shape, improve.
• ​Control: the small, boring, life-saving next right thing.

This episode is cinematic, raw, funny, furious — and brutally practical: a torch, a map, and the exact help-lines Stephen used when Christmas loneliness started tipping into danger.

✅ Need urgent help (not a 999 emergency): call NHS 111

🚨 Immediate danger or risk to life: call 999

📱 If speaking is hard: text SHOUT to 85258

☎️ Someone to talk to, 24/7: Samaritans 116 123

By the end, Stephen makes a promise you can borrow:

Pick three controllables. Do them slowly. And if it gets unsafe — call for help. Because pride is not a plan.