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6/19/2019

No Restraints with Rudy Caseres Episode 48: Ashley Kirsner

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This week on No Restraints with Rudy Caseres my guest is Ashley Kirsner. Ashley Kirsner is the founder and director of Skip the Small Talk and believes in the efficacy of high-quality person-to-person interaction for improving psychological health. Ashley gained hands-on therapeutic experience as a suicide hotline phone responder and as a peer counselor at Cornell University. Ashley received her B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University and turned down acceptances to doctorate programs in order devote her time to Skip the Small Talk. I had the pleasure of interviewing Ashley in-person inside the halls of Harvard University so that was fun. We even engaged in a modified version of Skip The Small Talk which we both really got in to. These in-person and on-location interviews are always a treat.

For more info on Skip the Small Talk please visit skipthesmalltalk.org

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    ABOUT RUDY

    My name is Rudy Caseres and I am an award-winning public speaker, live-streaming, social media influencer/manager, and storytelling event producer. I am the host of No Restraints with Rudy Caseres where I have live interactive candid discussions with the leading advocates in mental health, human rights, and suicide prevention (currently on hiatus). I also host a monthly panel discussion for The Mighty with the leading mental health advocates in the world. I previously hosted SPSM Chat - Suicide Prevention Social Media where I led lively discussions with various experts in the field of suicidology. I advocate for humane treatment in the mental healthcare system and effective suicide prevention. I have given over 100 presentations in which I have shared my story of living with bipolar, surviving a mental breakdown while serving in the US Army, and fighting against forced psychiatric treatment in front of grad students, doctors, psych ward patients, educators, and youth at junior highs, high schools, and juvenile detention facilities. I have spoken across the country from the California State Capitol at an event headlined by legendary actor Richard Dreyfus to the Shedding Light on Mental Health Conference in Greater Wheeling, West Virginia. My content has been featured in The Mighty, This is My Brave, HealthyPlace, The S Word, OC87 Recovery Diaries, Sweatpants & Coffee, Stigma Fighters, and Schizophrenic NYC. In 2017, I was awarded the NAMI California Outstanding Peer of the Year and I was named one of The Mighty's Mental Health Heroes of 2017. After living in Los Angeles, California most of my life I recently relocated to the Denver, Colorado area.
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