This episode includes candid discussions about mental health, social anxiety, and suicide.

Real people, real places, real conversations—no studio, no script.

At the 2024 Podcast Summit in Atlanta, Peuge Benjamin sits down with David Solomon, a certified motivational speaker, youth advocate, and co-founder of a nonprofit focused on reducing the stigma around mental health.

David speaks openly about his own experiences, the importance of recognizing when it is okay to say, “I’m not okay,” and the responsibility to seek support. He also shares the work behind The State of the Black Man’s Mental Health, a space created to help Black men speak honestly about the challenges they carry.

The conversation moves through purpose, faith, social anxiety, mentorship, community, and the decision to keep showing up—even when fear, rejection, or past pain make it difficult. Together, Peuge and David reflect on what it means to turn pain into power and build spaces where people can be heard without judgment.

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Corey Starks grew up in Charlotte in closed off neighborhoods and says expanding his horizons through travel changed the way he sees everything. Now living in Atlanta for nine years, he showed up to the Muddy Dash because his brother sent him a link and said let's do something together. That is how Omegas move. He sits down with Peuge before the race to talk about what it feels like to explore the world with your brothers versus alone, why mental health and physical movement are connected, and how Omega Psi Phi Incorporated shows up for the whole community, not just its members. His bucket list: Tokyo first, then Australia, then a solo backpacking trip through Thailand. Party pace on the course today though.

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Jackson Riggins came to the Muddy Dash outside Atlanta because he needed to get out of the four walls. He had not run since his grandmother passed the day before Valentine's Day. Before that, three years ago, doctors handed him two options: get on a transplant list or try a treatment that may or may not work. He chose to fight. He survived. And he built a podcast called Fueled by Pain to make sure nobody going through something similar feels like they are going through it alone. At 26, done with club life, he rode his motorcycle solo from Georgia to Texas to kick off Men's Mental Health Month, talking to God the whole way. He showed up to this mud run clean, emotional, and ready to start again. That is the whole show right there.

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