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Chris, thank you very much for being patient and joining the show. Um, it's good to have you. I've really been looking forward to speaking to you. You are a mental health first aider, um, and you've been doing it for a long time, but I've only recently found out about there is such a thing in the last year, year and a half.

So I would love for you to help us understand what it is you do and how you got there. Okay. Actually I'm a mental health first aid trainer, so I actually train mental health first aid and I also train, uh, the Living Works Suicide Awareness Programme as well. Uh, and a variety of other things that I can talk about.

About as we move on. Um, probably best if I tell you my own mental health journey and how I became involved. Um, I'm 64 years old and I come from a generation where in general, men don't talk about the mental health. Uh, and I think my journey, uh, where I, I first became, uh, I problems with my mental health was way back when I was about 30 ish.

Uh, my mom died, uh, when I was 28, quite suddenly. And tragically I didn't cope with it very well. And to be honest, the help I got wasn't spot on, uh, and eventually, uh, went for some counselling myself, uh, and got myself back in an even keel. Uh, as a result of that, I trained to be a counsellor myself, uh, and went on to work as a voluntary counsellor for the following 10 years.

I worked in the airline industry at the time, and because of the skills I'd developed as a counsellor, um, I moved into human factors training, which was... Uh, communication teamwork and, uh, management and it was encouraging pilots and cabin crew how to, uh, work better together so they didn't crash the planes, basically, because 74% of air accidents were due to human error and for people my generation, you'll remember the British Midland crash where the communication was one of the reasons the plane landed on the M1 and not the runway.

Um, anyway, um, I've continued to do practice counselling on and then took voluntary redundancy in 2009. And I started working for some organisations who offered employee assistance programmes. And I was doing some coaching for them, some training for them. And that's when I stumbled across mental health first aid training.

So I thought, oh, this is something I'm interested in and I'm passionate about. So, uh, I then, uh, qualified to train mental health first aid England, uh, which is a licensed product basically. Uh, and they, they tailor it to each country in the world. So that's why we say MFHA England and not just MFHA because they actually have a different one for, um, Scotland and for, um, the Republic of Ireland as well.

So, uh, Started to do that. And then I discovered the, the Living Works, uh, assist program, uh, which, um, focuses on suicide prevention and support for people who have lost people by suicide. Uh, so I, I train that as well. And then I train, uh, mental Health First Aid as a, a, you know, a, an academic subject as well, uh, for two governing bodies.

Uh, also, um, also, I, I work. Uh, on a part time basis for a men's mental health charity where I recruit and train and support the facilitators there. So I'd say the vast...

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Hey you, I'm interviewing Howard Berg, the Guinness World Record for fastest reader. And this guy has got courses on how to read faster, how to memorize stuff better, and increasing your learning capacity dramatically. And you've got to listen to his stuff because he puts out loads of tips.

He shows you a little bit how to do it during the podcast. And he's got some... Great stuff to share apologies in advance for the crap audio on his end at the beginning and at my end for some reason Near the end, but the interview gets better as we go on and we have a good laugh. So check it out Okay, hi words welcome to the podcast thank you for having me You're very welcome.

I was very interested to read your LinkedIn profile Yeah, so you're the Guinness Book of World's record holder as the world's fastest reader. I got it in 1990 and no one ever replaced it. Wow. So you're pretty fast at reading then. I can read 80 pages a minute. At least I did in 1990. I'm getting a little older and I don't think Mark Spitz is going to win any more gold medals.

I still read very fast. I, I know that when, when I read in 1990, I didn't wear any glasses, so I could see the whole page right away. Now I wear glasses, so I would say I'm a little slower, but I've read 30, 000 books. So my understanding is much higher. Alright, 80 pages a minute, that's fast. I read the healthcare bill on Cavuto, which was a, um, Fox station, um, business station show, and I read the 1500 page bill in 50 minutes, and then I did an analysis.

And everything I predicted happened.

That's amazing. I'm just looking through all your achievements. There's quite a lot. Um, you've been featured on over 1100 radio and television programs. That's correct. I just was in Thailand. I was on the national broadcast system, went to about 10 countries in Asia. I've been on in Oslo and Copenhagen.

I've been in London. I was, uh, I was on the home shopping channel in London about 25 years ago. So I've been all over the world, Canada, the U S and, uh, been on lots of shows, lots of newspapers, Forbes, FYI, Redbook, men's health, bottom line. Uh, it's been very exciting, more exciting than these that could help people.

So I use my publicity to get to people to show them I can help them solve the information overload that they're experiencing at work and their kids are having at school. And to me, me doing it is a sideshow. You doing it is a breakthrough and that's much more important to me. And you have a book which is in its 28th reprint, the super reading secrets.

That's correct. That was my Time Warner book. And I did a book for Barons. It was kids, a funny backstory. Barons called me and said, we want you to write a book for students. I said, you didn't, I didn't send you a proposal. I said, we picked you already. We want you to write the book. I said, okay, but now you need to send a proposal.

So I sent a proposal and another editor of the week later says, we can't use you. And I was like, okay. And the next week, the first editor called and said, when can you write the book? And I was like, well, they called me last week. They said they couldn't use me. He says, well, when you sent the proposal, we took your name off it.

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